HONOLULU – An annual effort to monitor humpback whale migration numbers in Hawaii will proceed as scheduled despite the shutdown of the federal government, a spokesperson for the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation said Tuesday. Each year, the group and its volunteers — along with federally-funded agencies like NOAA — conduct an ocean count at the […]

It is frustrating: you buy a new appliance then just after the warranty runs out, it gives up the ghost. You can’t repair it and can’t find anyone else to at a decent price, so it joins the global mountain of junk. You’re forced to buy a replacement, which fuels climate change from the greenhouse […]

EDF Legal Fellow Lance Bowman co-authored this post Looking for some good news to start the year? Right now, there are new state Attorneys General taking office across the country who have committed to protecting public health, the environment, and the rule of law. Many of them are replacing Attorneys General who lost their elections […]

The scourge of plastic waste has now reached the island furthest removed from human activity. With the expansion of the pollution dire, and information yet to be clarified, experts are calling for urgent international inspections and countermeasures on par with climate change to battle plastic waste. In the South Pacific Ocean 5,000 kilometers west off […]

The city of Albuquerque could soon be a lot greener. Multiple city councilors are sponsoring an ordinance that would ban plastic at restaurants and retail shops in the city. Four councilors decided to come together after the last city council meeting, where students urged the city to make a change on plastic waste. No more plastic straws, plastic […]

Plastic Recycling Amsterdam, a collaboration between Umincorp and Milieu Service Nederland, is constructing a new plastics recycling plant is to be built at the Port of Amsterdam. Plastic Recycling Amsterdam (PRA), a collaboration between Umincorp and Milieu Service Nederland, is constructing a new plastics recycling plant is to be built at the Port of Amsterdam. The […]

Recycling boxes in south Cumbria have been reduced in size to stop bin collectors getting back pain and becoming too tired. South Lakeland District Council is now phasing out 55-litre boxes – used for paper, card and glass – and replacing them with 44-litre containers. The authority wants to cut the risk of musculoskeletal disorders […]

Solar modules no longer need to simply wind up in the landfill once they’re decommissioned. Is a panel cracked? Shattered? At the end of its warranty lifetime? That panel can still serve a purpose, whether run through a recycling process and fed back into the supply chain; or repurposed or reused as a replacement panel […]

BAD NEWS FROM the high seas: the Ocean Cleanup’s 600-meter-long floating tube, which was supposed to catch plastic whilst somehow surviving the relentless forces of the ocean, has done neither. In November, the organization—which has raised $40 million from donors and companies—announced that the thing wasn’t really catching plastic, and last week it said the giant tube […]

LOS ANGELES — A trash collection device deployed to corral plastic litter floating in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii has broken apart and will be hauled back to dry land for repairs. Boyan Slat, who launched the Pacific Ocean cleanup project, told NBC News last week that the 2,000-foot long floating boom will […]