#environmental-protection

#environmental-protection

Over the past decade, the United States has turned technologies into tools that strengthened our economy, delivered good-paying union jobs, cleaned up our air and water, conserved our precious natural resources, and saved families money all across our country. Yet now the country is choosing to cede that leadership, letting China dominate and control the clean-energy market across the world. It's no surprise that people are scratching their heads, wondering what happened.

Antarctica's vast ice sheet stores more than 90% of the planet's surface fresh water, influencing sea levels and the atmosphere's circulation.

The Trust for Public Land purchased the 5,843-acre Coast Dairies property in 1998 for $44.5 million, preserving its rural character for public enjoyment.

"Our peatlands are this country's Amazon rainforest - home to our most precious wildlife, storing carbon and reducing flooding risk," U.K. Nature minister Mary Creagh said.

"We have to respond to the widespread and prolonged dry weather affecting our region. In our case, this means a hosepipe ban for our customers in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, to protect the health of our amazing chalk streams, which as one of the rarest habitats on Earth has been compared to the Amazon rainforest."

California has conserved 26.1% of its lands and 21.9% of its coastal waters, meaning the state has secured roughly 41,000 square miles and 1,150 square miles respectively.

"One of the reasons I moved to Santa Fe from the Midwest was to be closer to the wilderness, to public lands - not only in New Mexico, but Colorado and in Utah. I don't want them destroyed."

Keep Big Sur Wild maintains 'all capacity has already been exhausted' according to the land use plan. It allowed for a maximum of 300 units to be built. By our count, the cap has been exceeded by at least 5 units.'

The BeBot, a remotely operated beach cleaning robot, efficiently removes litter from beaches, aiming to prevent plastic from entering water bodies and affecting wildlife.

"It's about outcomes - not potential or platitudes. It's about what you did to restore the marine environment."

"The Ministry has yet to formally initiate the mandatory review of the Greenbelt Plan, which was supposed to start earlier this year, raising concerns among critics."

Experts warn that the new bill could effectively enable developers to pay to pollute, putting ecosystems at risk, particularly among England's protected natural landscapes.

The reduction not only removes protections-it does so precisely where extractive activity is expanding, potentially causing serious risks and cumulative damage to archaeological heritage.

"We are very pleased to have had the opportunity to collaborate with the previous landowner to have achieved such a positive outcome," said Gordon Clark, president of the Peninsula Open Space Trust.

Those tiny specks are critical materials. They're essential for building new technology, and they're in short supply in the U.S. They could be reused, but there's a problem: Current recycling methods make recovering critical minerals from e-waste too costly or hazardous.

The Ford government is justifying Bill 5 as a measure to expedite infrastructure and resource extraction projects, framing it as a necessary response to economic threats.

This is about a small number of people trying to limit a larger number of people's access to space.

A lot of people drive on Interstate 10 and they see a desolate landscape, and it looks like nothing could survive out there, but this area has been life-sustaining since time immemorial.

The Trump administration is proposing to change the interpretation of "harm" in the Endangered Species Act, potentially allowing for habitat destruction without consequence.

The mayor of London is right to redouble his efforts to tackle the capital's housing crisis, but there is no reason this should come at the expense of protecting nature.

Santa Clara County's rural areas are threatened by builder's remedy proposals that could lead to significant loss of farmland and open spaces.

Defra's five-year contract with BT aims to enhance rural connectivity, enabling real-time reporting of environmental data critical for farming and flood management.

Hundreds of cast-iron boxes, often unnoticed by passers-by, serve as vital water sampling stations in New York City maintained by the Department of Environmental Protection.