Outside of the larger spectre of climate change, the biggest environmental crisis in the United States is the melting of southern Louisiana into the ocean.* A combination of diking the Mississippi River to prevent flooding and facilitate commerce and petroleum companies challenging through the marshes...
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Before I retire from teaching, I wonder if I'll be able to teach a course called "Lost Environments," where I tell students about what were once coastal ecosystems that are.
This seems like a small sample size to me, but the scientists say it is statistically significant: The recent CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report indicates that eight cities in.
Joe Barton's apology to BP (which he retracted after being told by the GOP leadership that if he didn't he would lose his committee position) indicates the extent to which politicians in states like Texas are in pocket of the oil industry. Someone like Barton...