Pollution

Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have built up in layers over thousands of years. Found miles below the ocean’s surface, these nodules contain valuable metals used in batteries and electronics, but mining them could harm fragile and largely unexplored deep-sea ecosystems.

At a time when countless communities are resisting powerful corporations—from Flint, Michigan, to the Standing Rock Reservation, to Didipio in the…

For the past 30 years, John F. Sheehan has been the voice of the Adirondack Council on radio and television and in local, regional, and national media. He…

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond.Today's panelists are:WAMC’s Alan ChartockJudith Enck - Former EPA Regional…

Veteran New Yorker staff writer Tony Hiss’ new book, "Rescuing the Planet," is out today. The book is an urgent call to protect 50 percent of the earth's…

Advocates are challenging the findings of a 2019 New York State Department of Health assessment of cancer patterns in Warren County.In November 2019, as…

In "The Future We Choose," Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, who led negotiations for the United Nations during the historic Paris Agreement of…

Environmentalists say plastic pollution is being compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.Environmentalists based in Europe are sounding the alarm about…

More than 200 years after Thomas Jefferson proclaimed Lake George to be the most beautiful water he ever saw, the Lake remains one of the clearest,…

The Pittsfield City Council is calling on the Massachusetts State Legislature to take action on a very specific kind of pollution.Back in the throes of…