Federal rule says habitat destruction is no longer harm under the ESA
The Interior Department removed habitat destruction from the Endangered Species Act's definition of harm in July 2026, reversing what courts…
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A Houston couple hasn’t paid an electric bill in more than a year
Their home batteries send power back when the grid runs short, turning a rooftop solar setup into a paid resource…
Most underwater EMF studies found harm to fish and marine life
A 2026 review of subsea power-cable research found repeated effects on aquatic animals across the published literature. The affected species…
Sarasota watering violations tripled after drought rules tightened
Sarasota County moved to a Phase 3 water shortage in April 2026, and reports of watering violations jumped from 200…
One major hurricane can still hit in a below-average season
Forecasts can call for a quiet Atlantic year and still miss the storm that reaches your address. Hurricane Andrew remains…
East Palestine residents showed altered immune markers months after derailment
Blood drawn 5 months after the Norfolk Southern derailment showed changes in immune markers among East Palestine residents. The released…
Wireless radiation in New York City has exploded over the last 50 years
Cellular networks, Wi-Fi, small-cell antennas, and always-connected devices stacked exposure on top of each other for decades. No U.S. agency…
Florida passed a shark-feeding ban even though bites are rare
A Florida Atlantic biologist says the ban targets the wrong animals, because the sharks fed at offshore dive sites aren't…
Palm Beach rejected a $2 billion data center over water and power demands
A hyperscale site can use 1 million to 5 million gallons of water a day, and the rejected proposal also…
The United States runs 3 power grids, and they barely connect
The country doesn't share one national electric system, so a region that runs short often can't pull much power from…
New chemicals reach tap water faster than treatment plants can catch up
Chemical contamination is outpacing the speed at which U.S. treatment plants can be upgraded, leaving drinking water systems years behind…
Heat and laptop radiation may worsen male infertility, but the evidence is contested
The study points to two exposures acting together that many men control directly: device heat and close-range wireless radiation. The…
Indoor heat can turn dangerous even if you’re young and healthy
Researchers put the upper edge of safe indoor comfort at 78 degrees, and sustained exposure above 86 is a serious…
A legal label may decide whether bison can come back across the Plains
Nearly 90% of the 400,000 bison alive today are legally classified as livestock rather than wildlife. That single label shapes…
Fire left lead in Eaton soils, and scientists disagree on how much remains
EPA combined soil from 30 spots on each property into one sample and called most lots safe, but a Purdue…
SpaceX wants up to 1 million satellites, and the metal comes back to Earth
Scientists told NBC News that vaporized spacecraft from re-entry could seed the upper atmosphere with metal particles if the company…
Toxic algae now coats more than half of Lake Okeechobee
More than half the lake is covered in blue-green algae fed by farm runoff, with heat and still water helping…
A single cup of river water can reveal otters, turtles, and human pathogens
Every organism leaves DNA in the water it moves through, and one set of river samples picked up wildlife, humans…
One frozen valve forced 60,000 people from their homes over a chemical threat
A frozen valve pushed a methyl methacrylate tank to the top of its gauge and triggered a mass evacuation around…
A Florida marina must keep 90% of its slips public. Residents say none are
Because the marina sits on public submerged land, most of its slips are supposed to remain available to the public…
Florida regulators knew sloths were dying at Sloth World and kept finding no violations
Florida's wildlife agency got a tip before a single sloth arrived, then kept returning and finding no violations while animals…
Wireless radiation raised activity in autism-related genes in lab models
The work was done in animal and cell models and remains contested, so it stops well short of any claim…
Big Tech underreports what its data centers cost communities
A 2026 analysis found that company disclosures leave out much of what data centers cost the places around them, including…
A crib mattress can give off far more chemicals under a sleeping child
In 25 bedrooms, air sampled inches from a sleeping child contained 31 compounds, more than the room air around it…
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