Environment

Environment

Sprite is ditching its iconic green bottle — but environmentalists say it's not enough

3:24pm July 28, 2022

by Becky Sullivan

For decades, the lemon-lime drink has come in green bottles — but clear plastic is more easily recycled, the company says. Environmentalists say the issue is not the color but the single-use plastic.

Maps of storm surge in Miami, New York City, and Washington, D.C.

These hurricane flood maps reveal the climate future for Miami, NYC and D.C.

12:07pm July 28, 2022

National Hurricane Center data for Miami, Washington, D.C., and New York City show development happening in at-risk areas, even as climate change brings more frequent and intense storms.

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Cleaning a great floating garbage patch the size of Texas

5:44pm July 27, 2022

The Kwai, a 140-foot cargo ship, just made a 45-day round trip from Hawaii and back. It's load? About 96 tons of trash from a floating garbage patch the size of Texas.

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Scientist and inventor James Lovelock poses with one of his early inventions, a homemade gas chromatography device, used for measuring gas and molecules present in the atmosphere, at a science museum in London.

James Lovelock, who theorized that Earth is a living organism, dies at 103

4:30pm July 27, 2022

by The Associated Press

James Lovelock, the British environmental scientist whose influential Gaia theory sees the Earth as a living organism gravely imperiled by human activity, has died on his 103rd birthday.

Hundreds in northern Arizona are facing flooding

5:26pm July 26, 2022

by Michel Marizco

Arizona is experiencing its worst drought in 1,200 years, but in one place there's too much water. Hundreds of homes in Flagstaff are threatened by brief monsoon thunderstorms on wildfire burn scars.

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Firefighters mop up hot spots while battling the Oak Fire in the Jerseydale community of Mariposa County, Calif., on Monday.

Crews are making progress against a destructive forest fire near Yosemite

1:01pm July 26, 2022

by The Associated Press

Crews battling the Oak Fire in California's Mariposa County got a break from increased humidity levels. The blaze, which forced the evacuations of thousands, was 26% contained, Cal Fire said.

Outfitting cows with GPS trackers could be good for ranchers and prairie birds

4:45pm July 25, 2022

by Celia Llopis-Jepsen

In Kansas, some cattle are now wearing GPS trackers. It's part of a plan to see if invisible fences can help ranchers grow healthy grass while also protecting disappearing prairie birds.

I found the prized "Turkish towel" that I had been looking for.

I went seaweed foraging for the first time and hit the mother lode

9:17am July 24, 2022

by chad campbell

Foraging has grown into a movement over the last few years, including from your local ocean where it's now peak seaweed season. I went to see what the excitement was about.

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Environment

Monarch butterflies have been declared endangered. What can we do to save them?

7:59am July 24, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

Ayesha Rascoe speaks with conservation biologist Karen Oberhauser about why the migratory monarch butterfly was just declared endangered, and what can be done in response.

Flames burn up a tree as part of the Windy Fire in the Trail of 100 Giants grove in Sequoia National Forest in California on Sept. 19, 2021.

The U.S. Forest Service is taking emergency action to save sequoias from wildfires

1:17pm July 23, 2022

by The Associated Press

The action would speed up projects to clear underbrush to protect the world's largest trees from the increasing threat of wildfires.