"Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are pervasive in streams and rivers downstream of large Wisconsin livestock operations, increasing the risk of superbugs that make people sick and cannot be treated, according to a new study. The water contamination likely stems from high use of antibiotics in animals housed in concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, according to the study."
"Amid the election-year debates, political advertisements and polls, one simple Iowa yard sign sums ups a core issue seen driving voter sentiment. It reads simply: “Fix the damn water.”"
"In the aftermath of the Maui fires, thousands of people across all the major social media platforms shared posts and videos alleging that the fires had a more sinister origin. They posited that the government had used a “direct energy weapon,” or a form of laser, to ignite the area."
"PFAS chemicals are everywhere. Can new technologies get rid of them for good?"
"Canada is relaxing its pesticide laws just as the EU is considering tightening pesticide residue limits on food imports"
"Plans are advancing on the Gulf Coast of Texas for an enormous seawater desalination plant which, if built, would be part of one of the largest water infrastructure developments in the country. Unlike other projects, this one wouldn’t belong to the public, but to a private, foreign water supplier."
"A new report finds health harms from warming outpaced progress after the Paris Agreement and calls for climate change to be declared a global health emergency." "A decade after world leaders signed the legally binding Paris Agreement to combat climate change, the crisis’ health harms are getting worse and progress is lagging, according to a new report from leading international scientists."
"The conditional commitment aims to boost output across 15 reactors in three states, expanding clean power capacity far faster than building new reactors."
"The Trump administration loves coal plants. The rest of us are paying the price in higher electricity bills, poorer health, and worsening climate change." "A new report finds nearly half of U.S. coal plants benefit from federal handouts and pollution exemptions, harming public health, our wallets, and the climate."
"An oil spill from a damaged tanker off the coast of the United Arab Emirates has widened, satellite images showed, triggering more beach closures and raising environmental concerns."
