Environment

Environment

LA County has a new tool that's helping trap junk before it flows into the ocean

5:12am April 20, 2023

Los Angeles County is piloting a two-year project to determine if technology such as the Interceptor 007 is successful in capturing waste from major coastal cities, and keeping it from the oceans.

Zhang Meixue, head of a farmer's association in southern Tainan county, walks through one of her former rice paddies. Before the drought, the paddy would normally be filled with enough water to simultaneously raise ducks. Now she's growing flowers in the dried-out paddy to beautify the area and attract tourists.

Epic drought in Taiwan pits farmers against high-tech factories for water

8:07pm April 19, 2023

by Emily Feng

The island is facing one of its worst dry spells in a century, and both the agricultural and high-tech sectors are competing for scarce water resources.

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The Ohio River, which supplies drinking water to millions of people, is endangered

4:10pm April 19, 2023

by Seyma Bayram

Ten rivers across the country make one conservation group's list of most endangered rivers, including the Ohio River.

The planet's massive ice sheets are melting as temperatures rise. Scientists are finding that melt is having surprising and far-reaching effects.

The world's melting ice has surprising impacts. Can you guess them?

5:01am April 19, 2023

Melting glaciers and ice sheets are far from where most people live. But the impacts stretch across the planet. See if you can guess how.

Some of the fastest sea level rise in the world is happening in Galveston, Texas.

Why Texans need to know how quickly Antarctica's ice is melting

5:01am April 19, 2023

Ice in Antarctica is melting rapidly. That's driving sea level rise around the world. But some places are threatened more than others, and Texas is in the crosshairs.

Ang Tenzing Sherpa, 74, has been married to his wife Furdiki for 4 decades. They have 7 children and 9 grandchildren, some of whom live in the same valley. However, Sherpa is concerned about flooding, he says "All summer, I can't sleep. Every sound, I wonder if it's the lake finally releasing its water. I lie down in my clothes every night, in case I need to flee."

Living in the shadow of a dangerous shrinking glacier

5:01am April 19, 2023

Melting glaciers are leaving behind unstable lakes around the world. Millions of people live downstream, in places increasingly threatened by deadly flash floods. What will it take to protect them?

Wildfires are getting bigger. Arctic ice is melting. Now, scientists say they're linked.

The surprising connection between Arctic ice and Western wildfires

5:00am April 19, 2023

The ice that covers the Arctic Ocean is shrinking as the climate gets hotter. Scientists are finding it could be linked to weather that's helping fuel disasters.

Climate change is pushing already imperiled whales to the brink, a sign of deeper shifts in the oceans as the world's ice melts.

The unexpected link between imperiled whales and Greenland's melting ice

5:00am April 19, 2023

Climate change is pushing already endangered right whales to the brink. Scientists say the oceans will fundamentally shift as the world's ice melts.

Melting ice in Greenland could be driving the deaths of an already endangered whale.

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Greenland's melting ice could be changing our oceans. Just ask the whales

10:06am April 18, 2023

by Lauren Sommer

The massive ice sheet on Greenland is shrinking as the climate gets hotter, pouring fresh water into the Atlantic Ocean. That could be setting off a chain reaction that's altering ocean ecosystems.

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Sewage often becomes fertilizer, but the issue is it's tainted with PFAS

5:08am April 18, 2023

by Barbara Moran

A lot of products contain toxic PFAS. Some of these "forever chemicals" are ending up in sewage that is turned into fertilizer.