New England harvesters are commercializing invasive European green crabs to combat ecological damage and boost regional fisheries. Originating from ship ballast waters hundreds of years ago, the crabs now number in the tens of millions along the East Coast, outcompeting native species, destroying eelgrass beds, and ravaging shellfish industries. In...
The Environmental Protection Agency approved two new photoacid generators for data center semiconductor manufacturing despite internal warnings indicating exposure risks include sudden death. Earthjustice filed a lawsuit alleging the approvals violate the Toxic Substances Control Act because the agency conceded insufficient data exists to determine safe exposure thresholds or lethal...
PacWave South, a grid-connected wave-energy testing facility off Oregon, opened Wednesday after receiving Energy Department approval under President Donald Trump, creating a new U.S. test bed for marine-power technology. Oregon State University developed the facility, about seven miles offshore near Newport, to let companies test wave-energy converters in open-ocean conditions...
Six months into the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has choked off a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments, forcing governments across Europe and Asia to accelerate renewable energy integration. The International Energy Agency reports that global renewable output is...
French sugar maker Tereos announced that extreme summer heat and drought will reduce its growers sugar beet yields by more than twenty percent compared to last year. The weather crisis contributes to an anticipated thirty eight year low for total European Union sugar output. Tereos expects beet yields to fall...
Arlington, Texas, began targeted mosquito spraying after Tarrant County Public Health reported a mosquito-trap sample positive for West Nile virus Aug. 25. Contractors are scheduled to spray within a half-mile of Park Hill Drive and Mossy Oak Street from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Aug. 25 and 26, weather permitting....
Pennsylvania reported two measles-associated deaths on Aug. 25, the first such deaths in the state in 35 years and the first reported in the United States this year. The Pennsylvania Department of Health said both unvaccinated victims were residents of Lancaster County, but released no identifying information. The state reported...
A peer-reviewed study published in Nature Communications Earth and Environment reveals that the world's largest fossil fuel and cement producers are responsible for nearly half of climate-driven water impacts in the western United States since 1950. Researchers from the Union of Concerned Scientists and the University of California, Merced, quantified...
Nevada filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation over a newly enacted two-year water allocation framework for the Colorado River. Announced on August 24 by Governor Joe Lombardo, the legal action claims the framework disproportionately penalizes lower-basin states while exempting upper-basin states...
The Florida Department of Health confirmed that 23 locally acquired cases of dengue fever have been identified in the state in 2026. Health officials announced the first local transmission case in Citrus County, located about an hour north of Tampa, marking the northernmost infection reported in the state this year....
