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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Yes, the new federal climate report (the “Fourth National Climate Assessment”) paints a dire picture of our future—including compromised food safety—if we don’t rein in greenhouse gas emissions. According to the non-profit Stop Foodborne Illness (SFI), climate change is already starting to affect...
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Eric Tegethoff/Alfonso López-Collada Public News Service Seattle, WA – Las minorías étnicas y raciales enfrentan el mayor riesgo por incendios forestales, de acuerdo a un estudio realizado por “The Nature Conservancy” y la Universidad de Washington. Los investigadores esperan que los resultados puedan ser usados para identificar y priorizar a...
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Eric Tegethoff Public News Service SEATTLE, Wash. – Communities of color face the greatest risk from wildfires, according to a new study. Across the country, 29 million people are vulnerable to the fires’ most devastating effects. Researchers at The Nature Conservancy and the University of Washington found socioeconomic factors put...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Last winter’s low snow year and unseasonably warm temperatures across much of the American West meant a bad year for business for ski resorts, and also left many of us wondering whether skiing would even be possible in the warmer world we’re getting...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Time is short in this session of Congress, and conservation and tourism groups are hoping for a vote on a bill to address the massive maintenance backlog in the national parks. The Restore Our Parks Act is a bipartisan proposal to direct up...
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Three Weeks Left for Public Comment Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Monday November 19 was National Public Comment Day – part of a campaign responding to President Donald Trump’s proposal to make it harder for working-class, legal immigrants to get a green card. Only three weeks...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Dear EarthTalk: I drink a lot of coffee and I’m wondering how bad this is for the environment? And how I can make sure I’m feeding my 3-cup-a-day habit in the greenest way possible? About half of Americans over age 18 (some 150...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Hybrid-electric cars have become more and more common on American roads since the Prius launched here in 2001. Now fully electric vehicles (EVs) are finally coming of age thanks to innovations by Tesla, Nissan, BMW, General Motors and others. It is not uncommon...
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Supreme Court Allows Case to Move Forward Suzanne Potter California News Service SAN FRANCISCO – The trial is back on in the lawsuit brought by a group of 21 young people who are suing the federal government over global warming – after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a request from the...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Yes, the new federal climate report (the “Fourth National Climate Assessment”) paints a dire picture of our future—including compromised food safety—if we don’t rein in greenhouse gas emissions. According to the non-profit Stop Foodborne Illness (SFI), climate change is already starting to affect...
Eric Tegethoff/Alfonso López-Collada Public News Service Seattle, WA – Las minorías étnicas y raciales enfrentan el mayor riesgo por incendios forestales, de acuerdo a un estudio realizado por “The Nature Conservancy” y la Universidad de Washington. Los investigadores esperan que los resultados puedan ser usados para identificar y priorizar a...
Eric Tegethoff Public News Service SEATTLE, Wash. – Communities of color face the greatest risk from wildfires, according to a new study. Across the country, 29 million people are vulnerable to the fires’ most devastating effects. Researchers at The Nature Conservancy and the University of Washington found socioeconomic factors put...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Last winter’s low snow year and unseasonably warm temperatures across much of the American West meant a bad year for business for ski resorts, and also left many of us wondering whether skiing would even be possible in the warmer world we’re getting...
Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Time is short in this session of Congress, and conservation and tourism groups are hoping for a vote on a bill to address the massive maintenance backlog in the national parks. The Restore Our Parks Act is a bipartisan proposal to direct up...
Three Weeks Left for Public Comment Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Monday November 19 was National Public Comment Day – part of a campaign responding to President Donald Trump’s proposal to make it harder for working-class, legal immigrants to get a green card. Only three weeks...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Dear EarthTalk: I drink a lot of coffee and I’m wondering how bad this is for the environment? And how I can make sure I’m feeding my 3-cup-a-day habit in the greenest way possible? About half of Americans over age 18 (some 150...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Hybrid-electric cars have become more and more common on American roads since the Prius launched here in 2001. Now fully electric vehicles (EVs) are finally coming of age thanks to innovations by Tesla, Nissan, BMW, General Motors and others. It is not uncommon...
Supreme Court Allows Case to Move Forward Suzanne Potter California News Service SAN FRANCISCO – The trial is back on in the lawsuit brought by a group of 21 young people who are suing the federal government over global warming – after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a request from the...