Gulf of Mexico
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Fertilizer feeds humanity — and it’s destroying the Gulf of Mexico
How can we slow down a pollutant we depend on for survival?
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Hurricane Irma is a monster storm. Here’s where it might be headed.
The storm is “starting to give me that uncomfortable feeling in my gut,” one meteorologist wrote.
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Harvey stirs up a toxic, industrial soup
Here’s what we know about some of the petrochemicals that were likely released into the air or mixed into the floodwaters over southeastern Texas.
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An unlikely resistance surges against Trump’s clean water threats
Legislators set aside partisan politics to protect the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, and other regional cleanup efforts.
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Do we really need to double food production by 2050? Actually … no.
What we need is a new food system that keeps people fed and ecosystems healthy.
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6 years after Deepwater Horizon oil spill, thousands of people are still sick
The disaster took a heavy toll on public health in the Gulf.
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Upsetting photos of oil-slicked turtles from Deepwater Horizon
Back in 2010, Greenpeace filed a Freedom of Information request covering endangered species affected by the Deepwater Horizon spill. They just received a response from NOAA, and it included more than 100 photos. They're disturbing.
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Ew! Eyeless shrimp and deformed fish now routinely caught in the Gulf
Ok, this is gross. The shrimp coming out of the Gulf of Mexico two years after the BP spill have some seriously nasty stuff wrong with them. They are lacking in eyes. Their gills are full of junked up black stuff. (Not normal!) They have lesions. And yet they are making their way into grocery […]
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Critical List: Meat consumption must drop 50 percent; Los Angeles the Energy Star of cities
We going to have to eat half as much meat as we do now in order to curb climate change. After Deepwater Horizon, throughout the Gulf “things are just a little bit out of kilter,” says the head of NOAA’s restoration team. With 659 certified Energy Star buildings, Los Angeles has the most of any […]