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Fish ponds and water harvesting: climate-smart farming comes to Kenya

Unable to rely on the catch from Lake Victoria, locals are finding success with new and sustainable agriculture methods.

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Water

Even with DNA detection, Asian carp continue to evade scientists

Traces of genetic material in the environment can help researchers track the invasive species. But a positive detection doesn't always mean live fish.

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Climate

Arctic exploitation would possibly hurt animals huge and small

As sea ice within the Arctic Ocean dwindles with each and every successive 12 months of emerging world temperatures, it has turn into more straightforward and extra commonplace for firms to challenge into the area for fishing, delivery, and oil and gasoline exploration.

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Toxics

Arctic exploitation may harm animals large and small

As the region warms, ignorance about creatures ranging from plankton to whales leaves them vulnerable to human activities.

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Toxics

Tourism in Antarctica: Edging toward the (risky) mainstream

Travel to one of the most remote parts of the planet is booming. What does that mean for the environment and visitor safety?

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Food

Monkeyface prickleback: What a vegetarian fish can teach us about sustainable eating

Unlike the vast majority of fish species, this North American bony fish is a vegetarian, which means it can be farmed more sustainably, say scientists. And it tastes good!

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Toxics

Lead-free program for MN loons gets green light

A Senate committee has cleared the way for Minnesota to receive federal funding to help the state's loons.

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Toxics

EPA to clean up Donna superfund site

Nearly 30 years after carcinogens were first detected, and 12 years after the Environmental Protection Agency officially declared it a superfund site, the Donna Reservoir will soon undergo a massive cleanup effort.

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Justice

The Mekong Delta is in danger as waters dry up

This river has nourished civilizations for millennia. Now it’s drying up, under attack from dam building, overfishing, and sand mining.

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Water

EPA letter criticizes Maryland over Chesapeake lawsuit threat

In a letter to members of Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday maintained its support for Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts while criticizing Maryland, which has threatened to take the agency to court.

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Toxics

Philippine study finds microplastics inside a commonly consumed fish

Microplastics for breakfast? It might be likely as a newly published study shows concentrates of small plastic particles, or microplastics, inside the digestive systems of rabbitfish, a popular catch in the Philippines.

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Toxics

The freshwater giants are dying

Overharvesting and habitat loss endanger most of the world’s freshwater “megafauna.” But many species may yet be saved.

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Water

Conservationists call for three-mile coastal fishing limit in Scotland

Marine conservation campaigners have called for trawlers to be banned from fishing within three miles of Scotland's shoreline to help depleted fish stocks and seabeds to recover.

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Water

Trawlers return to Pacific fishing area in rare environmental success story

With stocks rebounding, regulators have reopened a groundfish habitat off the west coast - with environmentalists' support.

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Toxics

Japan wants to dump nuclear plant's tainted water. Fishermen fear the worst

The water from the Fukushima disaster is more radioactive than the authorities have previously publicized, raising doubts about government assurances that it will be made safe.

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From our Newsroom

Fish ponds and water harvesting: climate-smart farming comes to Kenya

Even with DNA detection, Asian carp continue to evade scientists

Arctic exploitation would possibly hurt animals huge and small

Arctic exploitation may harm animals large and small

Tourism in Antarctica: Edging toward the (risky) mainstream

Monkeyface prickleback: What a vegetarian fish can teach us about sustainable eating

Lead-free program for MN loons gets green light

EPA to clean up Donna superfund site

The Mekong Delta is in danger as waters dry up

EPA letter criticizes Maryland over Chesapeake lawsuit threat

Philippine study finds microplastics inside a commonly consumed fish

The freshwater giants are dying

Conservationists call for three-mile coastal fishing limit in Scotland

Trawlers return to Pacific fishing area in rare environmental success story

Japan wants to dump nuclear plant's tainted water. Fishermen fear the worst

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Paul R. Ehrlich: A pandemic, planetary reckoning, and a path forward

The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing environmental destruction and the deterioration of social and cultural systems into sharp focus. But we can learn from this.

EHN reporter takes second place prize in the Association of Health Care Journalists’ national contest

Pittsburgh reporter Kristina Marusic was honored for her 2019 work covering environmental health in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

Agents of Change: Amplifying neglected voices in environmental health

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

Nate Hagens: Coronavirus exposes economic, cultural, environmental fallacies

Big-picture thinker Nate Hagens on the opportunities and constraints we face confronting coronavirus. His advice: Find your better self and play a role.

Covid-19 has made heroes out of millions of healthcare workers. Here are a few reporters that have earned our thanks, too.

A conversation on COVID-19 with the director of Harvard University's Center of Climate, Health and the Global Environment.

The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing environmental destruction and the deterioration of social and cultural systems into sharp focus. But we can learn from this.

Pittsburgh reporter Kristina Marusic was honored for her 2019 work covering environmental health in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

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

Big-picture thinker Nate Hagens on the opportunities and constraints we face confronting coronavirus. His advice: Find your better self and play a role.

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