"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
A just-published U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and University of Montana study demonstrates how the declining snowpack in the Arizona mountains over a 22-year span has affected songbirds, producing a “classic ecological cascade” according to Thomas Martin, USGS Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit.…
The amount of toxic chemicals released into the environment increased 16 percent in 2010, according to a report from the EPA. That reverses a downward trend from years before and was driven by metal mining and the chemical industry. Releases…
Texas is currently suffering its worst drought in recorded history with much of it in what the U.S. Drought Monitor classifies as D3, Extreme Drought, or D4, Exceptional Drought. Several municipalities are in danger of completely running out of water…
California’s stringent new rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions were scheduled to go into effect on Jan. 1 2012. But on Thursday Dec. 29, U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence O’Neill ruled that California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard violates the Commerce Clause…
As National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) spokesman Christopher Vaccaro put it: In many ways, 2011 rewrote the record books. For the Guardian’s series “2011 In Review”,  John Vidal sums up the past year. The year 2011 was another ecologically tumultuous…