ENVIRONMENT

Wind turbines in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Tetra Images / Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. The Biden administration on Tuesday unveiled a new plan to work

It may seem like good conservation practice to bolster threatened and key commercial populations of native fish by breeding them in captivity and releasing them into the wild. In fact, it has been standard practice for natural resource managers and fisheries for 150 years, according to a press release from the University of North Carolina

Storm clouds moving across rural prairie, Orovada, Nevada. Eric Raptosh Photography / Tetra images / Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. Cloud seeding is a geoengineering technique that involves

Flames from a flare stack at an oil refinery at dusk in Texas, U.S. Photographer: Luke Sharrett. Bloomberg Creative / Bloomberg Creative Photos / Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and

On March 6, 2023, the Arctic sea ice pack appeared to reach its maximum extent for this winter. NASA Goddard / YouTube screenshot Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. The Arctic

Pollution from mining companies contaminates the Tagarete River which flows into Uru Uru Lake near Oruro, Bolivia on March 27, 2021. Gaston Brito Miserocchi / Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes,

Albania’s Vjosa river valley. Thomas Roche / Moment / Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. The Vjosa is a more than 400-kilometer (approximately 250 miles) river that flows from

In response to the Biden administration’s approval of the controversial Willow oil project in Alaska’s Western Arctic on March 13, today nonprofit public interest organization Earthjustice filed a lawsuit on behalf of conservation groups the Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, along with the Natural Resources Defense Council,

U.S. grocery shoppers take note, it’s that time of year again. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) released on Wednesday its 2023 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce, with its annual Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists of the conventional fruits and vegetables most and least likely to be contaminated with pesticides, and this year’s lists

Failure to account for climate change means low-income homeowners could see their home values plunge. By Zoya Teirstein American homes in flood zones are overvalued by hundreds of billions of dollars, according to a study published in February in the journal Nature Climate Change. Low-income homeowners in states controlled by Republicans are especially at risk of seeing

Pesticide use on school playing fields varies from state to state. Cavan Images / Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. By Susan Kaplan Your child could go to gym

Recyclable wind turbine blades being transported from a Siemens Gamesa factory in Hull, UK. Siemens Gamesa Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. One of the greatest environmental challenges of the renewable

Climate activists hold a demonstration to urge President Biden to reject the Willow Project at the U.S. Department of Interior in Washington, DC on Nov. 17, 2022. Jemal Countess / Getty Images for Sunrise AU Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to

A coal-fired power plant on the Ohio River. Aaron Yoder / iStock / Getty Images Plus Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. When wastewater from coal-fired plants is released into wider

A coal plant in West Burton, UK. Paul Simpson / Contributor / Getty Images Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. Throughout the winter, the UK’s aging coal-fired plants have been on

A whale swims in the Gulf of Mexico near oil drilling platforms. Nicolette Nye / Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. Environmental groups, including the Sierra