#environmental-issues

#environmental-issues

On Aug. 7, 1974, French highwire artist Philippe Petit performed an unapproved tightrope walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York, chronicled in the Academy Award-winning documentary Man on Wire.

Energy Transfer LP and its CEO, Kelcy Warren, were the fossil fuel industry's top contributors to a super PAC supporting President Donald Trump during the first half of 2025, contributing $25 million.

Sunaura Taylor, author of Disabled Ecologies, describes modern environmental health as a "mass ecological disablement of the more than human world, a disablement that is utterly entangled with the disablement of human beings."

"It's not in good shape right now," said Bartshé Miller, policy director of the nonprofit Mono Lake Committee. "There is systemic illness in the lake in terms of the health of the ecosystem, and it needs more water to recover to full health and vitality."

The EU has announced it will launch the rollout of its new entry system involving fingerprinting and facial recognition instead of passport wet stamping on 12 October.

Over two million small appliances are thrown away every year, with only a small percentage recycled, leading to significant metal and plastic waste in landfills.

Acqua Alta a Venezia photographs encyclopedias and texts saved from Venice's high tides, depicting a journey through art history from antiquity to the Middle Ages, where books become relics.

"It'd be crazy to try and build a prison out there. Ridiculously expensive, dangerous and also not good for the Bay," Lewis said.

Tesla has not yet paid a $750 fine for spilling 916 gallons of a dyed water solution into Matadero Creek eight months ago. Stanford officials asked the city to remove Stanford from Tesla's citation, but the request was denied because Stanford owns the property.

Santa Clara County Supervisor Margaret Abe-Koga invites Cupertino residents to a community meeting to discuss the current status of the Lehigh/Heidelberg Cement Plant and Permanente Quarry, scheduled for July 31.

There are about half a million objects the size of a cigarette pack in Earth's orbit, moving at speeds averaging 28,000 km/h. This creates a severe risk.

The construction of a massive airport in the Everglades was halted in 1970 due to public outcry over environmental degradation being caused by human development.

The map created by scientists at Columbia University displayed alarming hotspots for arsenic contamination, significantly exceeding the World Health Organization's guideline, with levels posing serious health risks.

"We, the people in the towns surrounding the lakes, have witnessed this process of eutrophication... The lakes have gone from being recreational gems to smelly and unsafe receptacles for our chemicals."

The world is facing a looming crisis of inequality that could see the first trillionaires emerge while nearly half of humanity still languishes in poverty.

Senator Mike Lee's controversial provision aims to open 250 million acres of public lands for privatization, promising to boost housing supply and generate funds.

Wildlife hunters took home nearly 1,800 giraffe body parts trophies in a year including from more than 100 animals specially bred in captivity to be shot.

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Due to an almost complete lack of environmental legislation to regulate the city's host of metallurgic and chemical plants, the residents of Haina suffer from the highest level of lead poisoning on the planet.

"There's been a shift in the United States away from climate action and I think there are a lot of complicated reasons for that. And the city's politics reflect that too," said Pete Sikora, climate and inequality campaigns director at New York Communities for Change.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is attempting to fast-track a controversial $20-billion water tunnel project in California, facing pushback from lawmakers and analysts.

I was 13 the first time I saw a coral reef. The endless blue of the ocean gave way to an explosion of color unlike anything I'd seen before.

"It feels like the tree is still the fall guy in this situation and it is just morally, ethically, environmentally wrong."

The order to the Eddystone plant highlights concerns over power shortfalls as aging plants close and demand rises, showcasing the need for continued operational capacity.