by Yimian Wu | Dec 15, 2015 | Environment
At the doorstep of the president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a group of students was in the 44th day of sit-in protesting MIT’s October decision not to divest its interests in fossil fuel companies. The student activists are determined to keep the...
by Traci Badalucco | Nov 24, 2015 | Environment
WASHINGTON- In her disease ecology lab in College Station, Sarah Hamer, peering through a microscope, examines the newest addition to her expansive vector collection — an exotic tick the size of a poppy seed, typically only found in Central and South America. How it...
by Kira Boyd | Aug 25, 2015 | Environment
Washington—Dozens of young people from across the U.S. rallied in front of Secretary of State John Kerry’s Georgetown home Tuesday. They were protesting the Alberta Clipper pipeline expansion. Environmental activists believe the expansion is the result of...
by Ezra Kaplan | Aug 24, 2015 | Environment, National Security
WASHINGTON – Soldiers are being deployed to help fight wildfires in the West for the first time since 2006, the Pentagon announced Thursday. “The Army doesn’t have firefighters,” said spokesman Lt. Col. Joe Buccino. “But the Army has soldiers that can do things in...
by Siyuan Du | Aug 13, 2015 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Administration chief Gina McCarthy on Wednesday defended the Obama administration’s new plan setting carbon dioxide emission rates for power plants for the first time, saying it eventually will save $45 billion a year and help...
by Mallory Hughes | Aug 12, 2015 | Environment
The Congressional Cemetery hosted some unusual visitors Aug. 6 when managers brought in more than 30 Browsing Green Goats. Hailing from Prosperity Acres in Sunderland, Maryland, the herd is helping groundskeepers maintain a 1.6-acre forested area just south of the...
