Recent News
- A Federal Judge Just Hit the Brakes on Trump’s Plan to Fast Track Industrial Fish Farming in the Gulf
- A Deadly Mosquito-borne Illness Rises as the US Cuts All Climate and Health Funding
- Companies Used to Tout Their Climate Plans. Under Trump, They’ve Gone Quiet.
- Yellowstone’s Gateway Town Fears For Its Future Amid Trump Funding Cuts
More Than 1,900 Scientists Write Letter in ‘SOS’ Over Trump’s Attacks on Science
Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warned Americans of ‘real danger in this moment’
Rachel Carson, Cancer, and the NIH
While writing Silent Spring, Rachel Carson was dying of metastasizing breast cancer. Often in agony before she died, Carson asked her friends and colleagues to form an organization, the Rachel Carson Council (RCC), to carry on her work.
Vandy Leads the Way in Music City
Vanderbilt has become a beacon for sustainability and climate action in the South, demonstrating how institutions can drive real change.
The Enduring Legacy of Hazel Johnson
Environmental history is Black history, and environmental justice leaders played a key role in connecting industrial pollutants to health issues caused by pollution in the air, water, and land.
Why Did Cory Booker Spend the Night Speaking on the Senate Floor?
The New Jersey Democrat is speaking in protest of the Trump administration’s policies. He is not delaying the Senate from a vote, so it is not a filibuster.