Water Pollution

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Two months after President Donald Trump took office, U.S. Steel dumped a plume of cancer-causing metal into a Lake Michigan tributary 20 miles away from a Chicago drinking water intake. The company reported another spill of hexavalent chromium six months later, around the same time public…

Here are 10 environmental hotspots around the globe — and ways that you can help. AMAZON Oil drilling, logging and mining threaten the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous peoples, namely those in Brazil. But since 1996, Amazon Watch, with offices in Oakland and Washington, D.C., has worked to protect the…

This article is published in partnership with: I don’t recall where I was on April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day. I was only 12 years old, and demonstrations and teach-ins apparently weren’t on my parents’ list of activities for me. Three years later, however, I was a card-carrying environmentalist…

This article is published in partnership with: I don’t recall where I was on April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day. I was only 12 years old, and demonstrations and teach-ins apparently weren’t on my parents’ list of activities for me. Three years later, however, I was a card-carrying environmentalist…

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day—founded in 1970 to demonstrate against the environmental and health impacts of 150 years of industrial development across the United States—two of New York’s oldest museums are offering a wide variety of virtual programs for families and kids. In this April 21, 2020…

By Ross KerberBOSTON (Reuters) - Top asset manager BlackRock Inc, which has vowed to put more focus on climate issues, said that companies might give a lower priority to sustainability reports as they struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic.In a stewardship document provided by a BlackRock spokesman late on Tuesday, the…

By Ross KerberBOSTON (Reuters) - Top asset manager BlackRock Inc, which has vowed to put more focus on climate issues, said that companies might give a lower priority to sustainability reports as they struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic.In a stewardship document provided by a BlackRock spokesman late on Tuesday, the…

Today marks 50 years of protesting, advocating for change and volunteering for the good of the environment Every year on April 22, people around the world celebrate Earth Day. The day marks the start of the environmental movement in 1970, and for the past 50 years has resulted in policy…

In this Feb. 6, 1969, file photo, state forestry conservation crews gather up oil-soaked straw on a beach in Santa Barbara, Calif. Fifty years after the first Earth Day helped spur activism over air and water pollution and disappearing plants and animals, significant improvements are undeniable but monumental challenges remain.…

BOSTON -- Gina McCarthy remembers the way things used to be: Tar balls clinging to her legs after swimming in Boston Harbor. The Merrimack River colored bright blue and green by textile mill chemicals. Black smoke everywhere. Kim Wasserman worries about what it's like today: Hundreds of diesel trucks rolling…