Mar 24 25 years later, scientists still spot traces of oil from Exxon Valdez spill By Ashley Ahearn, KUOW/EarthFix Twenty-five years ago the Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, Calif., ran aground off of the south coast of Alaska. The vessel released 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound, polluting 1,300 miles of coastline. Continue reading
Mar 21 UN: Threatened forests create jobs and fight climate change By Lorna Baldwin 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their livelihoods. Yet they are disappearing at the rate of 32 million acres every single year. Continue reading
Mar 17 Report finds chemical cleanup leaves hazardous 'toxic trail' across U.S. By Allison McCartney In many cases, the original toxic water, which is the byproduct of solvents used by Silicon Valley’s earliest tech companies to degrease computer chips, is almost untreatable. The report estimates it would take 700 years of continuous treatment to make… Continue reading
Mar 12 Ancient tree rings suggest good weather helped Genghis Khan build his empire By Sarah Sheffer New research suggests that Genghis Khan, one of the greatest conquerors in all of history, may have been given an advantage by Mother Nature. Continue reading
Mar 11 Watch Coping with exceptional ice in the Great Lakes By PBS News Hour A brutally cold winter has covered the Great Lakes with more ice than they have seen since 1979. Special correspondent Elizabeth Bracket of WTTW reports on the struggle to keep shipping lanes open to Chicago’s ice-clogged harbor to Lake Michigan. Continue watching
Mar 09 Watch Unlikely partners work to make fracking safer By PBS News Hour In an unlikely alliance, natural gas companies and environmentalists have decided to work together to make fracking safer. Rick Karr travels to Pennsylvania to explore the tensions this has created among environmental groups. Continue watching
Mar 05 Watch Leading coal producer agrees to pay record fine to clean polluted waters across Appalachia By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 03 Obama administration moves ahead with cleaner gas rule By Josh Lederman, Associated Press The Obama administration is moving forward with a dramatic reduction in sulfur in gasoline and tighter emissions standards for cars, arguing the move will eventually save thousands of lives per year. Continue reading
Feb 28 Watch Inside the slow and dangerous clean up of the Fukushima nuclear crisis By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 19 Watch Raising health and air quality concerns in Texas' fracking frontier By PBS News Hour Continue watching