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Javier Sierra Sierra Club Con un nuevo monstruo amenazando la Costa Este de Estados Unidos y un año después del peor desastre en la historia de Puerto Rico, la isla sigue cubierta por el velo negro del Huracán María. Puerto Rico finalmente anunció el verdadero saldo mortal de la tormenta y...
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Soundbite Services LOS ANGELES — Chances are you or someone you know live near a potentially hazardous chemical facility and may not even know it. A new interactive map and report from the Environmental Justice Health Alliance identifies 12,000 such facilities that it said present health and safety risks. Based on...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Plastic in the ocean is a big problem that first came to widespread public attention in the late 1980s when mariners began sharing reports of what turned out to be a 1.6 million square kilometer garbage patch (that’s about three times the size...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk No one doubts that time spent outdoors in nature is time well-spent, especially in this age of smartphones, tablets and laptops vying for our attention. Research consistently shows links between higher levels of health and well-being when people have access to parks, gardens,...
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Javier Sierra Sierra Club Como país estamos retrocediendo hacia la era de Jim Crow, en los años 1940 y 50, cuando para la gente de color, votar era más una victoria que un derecho constitucional. Hoy, en los Estados Unidos de Donald Trump, a solo tres meses de las cruciales...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Groups fighting to keep California’s health care system on track are calling on Gov. Jerry Brown to sign Senate Bill 910 which would limit short-term insurance plans. The Trump administration finalized new rules in August to allow so-called skinny plans to remain in...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Global warming is certainly a hot subject in the news right now, what with all the oppressive weather we’ve been having, but it doesn’t mean we’ve solved the myriad other environmental problems facing us. That said, ozone depletion, while still problematic at certain...
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Roz Brown Public News Service ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A 50-year-old conservation program that will expire at the end of this month without action from Congress is the focus of a new film released by the Hispanic Access Foundation. The film, “Land, Water, y Comunidad,” explores the importance of the Land...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Ranchers and environmental advocates haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, but the differences between the two aren’t as extreme anymore, as more and more ranchers have come around to the understanding that taking good care of the land supports both economic stability and environmental health....
Javier Sierra Sierra Club Con un nuevo monstruo amenazando la Costa Este de Estados Unidos y un año después del peor desastre en la historia de Puerto Rico, la isla sigue cubierta por el velo negro del Huracán María. Puerto Rico finalmente anunció el verdadero saldo mortal de la tormenta y...
Soundbite Services LOS ANGELES — Chances are you or someone you know live near a potentially hazardous chemical facility and may not even know it. A new interactive map and report from the Environmental Justice Health Alliance identifies 12,000 such facilities that it said present health and safety risks. Based on...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Plastic in the ocean is a big problem that first came to widespread public attention in the late 1980s when mariners began sharing reports of what turned out to be a 1.6 million square kilometer garbage patch (that’s about three times the size...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk No one doubts that time spent outdoors in nature is time well-spent, especially in this age of smartphones, tablets and laptops vying for our attention. Research consistently shows links between higher levels of health and well-being when people have access to parks, gardens,...
Javier Sierra Sierra Club Como país estamos retrocediendo hacia la era de Jim Crow, en los años 1940 y 50, cuando para la gente de color, votar era más una victoria que un derecho constitucional. Hoy, en los Estados Unidos de Donald Trump, a solo tres meses de las cruciales...
Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Groups fighting to keep California’s health care system on track are calling on Gov. Jerry Brown to sign Senate Bill 910 which would limit short-term insurance plans. The Trump administration finalized new rules in August to allow so-called skinny plans to remain in...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Global warming is certainly a hot subject in the news right now, what with all the oppressive weather we’ve been having, but it doesn’t mean we’ve solved the myriad other environmental problems facing us. That said, ozone depletion, while still problematic at certain...
Roz Brown Public News Service ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A 50-year-old conservation program that will expire at the end of this month without action from Congress is the focus of a new film released by the Hispanic Access Foundation. The film, “Land, Water, y Comunidad,” explores the importance of the Land...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Ranchers and environmental advocates haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, but the differences between the two aren’t as extreme anymore, as more and more ranchers have come around to the understanding that taking good care of the land supports both economic stability and environmental health....