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1 week ago | 
zmescience.com | Grace van Deelen |Tibi Puiu
Pine Hollow Arboretum’s founder, John W. Abbuhl, began planting trees around his Albany, N.Y., home in the 1960s. He planted species native to surrounding ecosystems but also made ambitious choices—bald cypresses, magnolias, pawpaws, sweetgums—that were more climatically suited to the southeastern United States. Now, those very trees are thriving, said Dave Plummer, a horticulturalist at Pine Hollow.
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2 months ago | 
eos.org | Adityarup Chakravorty |Grace van Deelen |Virginia Gewin |Katherine Kornei
President Donald Trump’s EPA is considering a rule that would weaken regulations limiting chemicals harmful to human health in consumer goods, The Guardian reports. Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are a group of chemicals added to consumer products, oftentimes for their water- and stain-resistant properties. Exposure to PFAS is known to raise the risk of certain cancers, kidney and liver disease, and complications surrounding reproductive health.
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2 months ago | 
eos.org | Pragathi Ravi |Rebecca Owen |Nathaniel Scharping |Grace van Deelen
Posted inNews A new study maps and ranks the largest, longest-lasting, and most severe multiyear droughts from 1980 to 2018.
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2 months ago | 
eos.org | Grace van Deelen
Yesterday, news broke that a memo from Lee Zeldin, the new administrator of the EPA, directed the agency to eliminate all offices that focus on environmental justice.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
whowhatwhy.org | Grace van Deelen
Science In the decade since the start of the Flint water crisis, policymakers and communities have made improvements to the lives of residents, but opportunities for progress remain.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
eos.org | Grace van Deelen
When a strong earthquake occurs, the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system triggers organizations to send alerts through phones in California, Oregon, and Washington that are expected to experience strong shaking. The warning may give people valuable seconds to drop, cover, and hold on. In the moments after an earthquake, other audible clues such as the sounds of things falling or the crackle of fire can alert people of lingering danger.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
eos.org | Grace van Deelen
In the spring of 2014, state-appointed emergency managers took control of the local government in Flint, Mich., to cut costs during the city’s financial crisis. One of those cost-cutting measures—switching the city’s drinking water supply from that used by nearby Detroit to the Flint River—resulted in water contaminated with lead and Legionnaires’ disease, and spurred a years-long crisis with effects that reverberate a decade later.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
eos.org | Grace van Deelen
For the 11th year in a row, the Arctic warmed more drastically than the rest of the world, a change that continues to bring cascading consequences to Arctic systems, wildlife, and residents. The authors of this year’s Arctic Report Card said the consistently extreme climate observations in the Arctic indicate a “new regime”—a rapidly and drastically changing climate much different from that seen in the 20th century.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
eos.org | Grace van Deelen
Nature’s most famous ecosystem engineers are moving north as the climate warms—and thawing permafrost in their new locales.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
livescience.com | Grace van Deelen
Few Earth science concepts are as controversial and enticing as the Gaia hypothesis — the idea, first introduced by chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s, that Earth itself behaves like a self-perpetuating organism, with living organisms interacting with the nonliving Earth to maintain and even improve conditions for life.
