Jan 15, 2019

French court cancels Monsanto weedkiller permit on safety grounds-Test2

A French court canceled the license for one of Monsanto's glyphosate-based (Test with pasted image)

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Opening plenary at the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists in Fort Collins, Colo., 2019. (Credit: Colorado State University)

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30 years of being (almost always) right

It's an epic birth story that is, in all probability, also a true one.

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The Wet’suwet’en take another anti-pipeline struggle mainstream

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Originals

Op-ed: Asbestos, ubiquitous and avoidable, is a deadly threat to our kids

In the United States, gun violence kills nearly 40,000 people a year and has killed nearly 40,000 or so children and teenagers since 1999, and yet the nation is still without serious gun control.

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Originals

Source of pride and pollution: Balancing energy needs and community health

"The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed, and apathy. To deal with these we need a cultural and spiritual transformation. And we scientists don't know how to do that." – Gus Speth

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Youth Climate Strike in Santa Rosa, Calif., in March 2019. (Credit: Fabrice Florin/flickr)

Originals

Together, we make mud

The noted philosopher Rodney Dangerfield described his fictional marriage in a way that provides insight into the widening gulf in U.S. environmental politics: "She's a water sign. I'm an Earth sign. Together, we make mud."

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The I-told-you-so heard ‘round the world

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Before Gore, Greta, and the Green New Deal: Part Two

Let's start with an inveterate American treehugger named William O. Douglas.

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Toxics

The end of Australia as we know it

What many of us have witnessed this fire season feels alive and monstrous. With climate change forcing a relaxed country to stumble toward new ways of work, leisure and life, will politics follow?

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South Sudan buries reports on oil pollution, birth defects

Environmental reports obtained by The Associated Press describe alarming birth defects, miscarriages and other health problems among residents of the region and soldiers who have been stationed there.

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French court cancels Monsanto weedkiller permit on safety grounds-Test2

30 years of being (almost always) right

The Wet’suwet’en take another anti-pipeline struggle mainstream

Op-ed: Asbestos, ubiquitous and avoidable, is a deadly threat to our kids

Source of pride and pollution: Balancing energy needs and community health

Together, we make mud

The I-told-you-so heard ‘round the world

Before Gore, Greta, and the Green New Deal: Part Two

The end of Australia as we know it

South Sudan buries reports on oil pollution, birth defects

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French court cancels Monsanto weedkiller permit on safety grounds-Test2

The Trump Administration's policies today reflect a half-century of Republican hostility toward science

EHN is teaming up with The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health to bring you the voices of next generation environmental health leaders

Trump may have lied about many things in the annual speech, but he barely mentioned the environment.

Text "OHIO" to 765-227-2602 to share with our seven-newsroom collaborative.

As temperatures warm, bumble bees can't take the heat.

Coffee drinker that cares about your environmental footprint? Buy shade-grown coffee, brew it by French press, and dispose of the coffee grounds in compost.

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