Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As record-breaking heat waves and floods ravage the continent, members of the Lummi Nation are transporting a 25-foot, hand-carved and painted totem pole from Washington State to Washington D.C., visiting many sacred and historic places along the way under threat from climate change, dams and resource extraction. They are…
Scientists Urge People to Stop Feeding the Birds – “Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.” — Albert Schweitzer By Glynn Wilson – CATOCTIN MOUNTAIN, Md. — In 1962, before President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, he set up a special…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a continuing series of executive actions to reverse damaging anti-environment policies of the Trump administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service under President Joe Biden announced new plans this week to re-strengthen the Endangered Species Act, the law and a series…
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – What a difference a respect for science makes. After four years of being gutted and corrupted by the influence of polluting industry insiders with their heads all stuck up the hole in Donald Trump’s cult of personality backside, the Environmental Protection Agency is back in the Biden administration.…
By Glynn Wilson – SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Va. — How do you tell the difference between a black bear and a grizzly? Don’t try this at home or in a national park. Sneak up on the bear and kick it in the rump, then run and climb a tree. If the bear climbs up the…
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a clean break from the anti-nature politics and policies of the previous administration, the Biden-Harris administration has begun to outline a different vision for how the United States can work collaboratively to conserve and restore public lands, waters and wildlife that in many ways support and sustain the…
By Glynn Wilson – It’s a scene right out of an apocalyptic movie, only no one was awake to see it — and there’s no viral video footage to show. It was midnight, Dec. 21, 2008, when a failure of a dike containing coal ash on the bank of the Emory River at the Tennessee…
Water Pollution Remains the Top Environmental Concern in the U.S. – Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – The American public is not worried enough about the state of the natural environment to save themselves or the world. That’s not the headline on the latest Gallup poll reporting concern for environmental issues in the…
By Walter Simon and Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. — It was supposed to be an open public hearing for public engagement about a plan by Alabama Power to cap and close a giant coal ash storage pond by the Mobile River. But when people showed up at the Hampton Inn in Saraland on Tuesday,…
Glynn Wilson – At a time of so much bad news for humans on planet Earth and in the United States, it might be a good thing to take a moment to consider a little good news from science and nature: The conservation success story of the American bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). Populations of the…
By Glynn Wilson – As a leading agency observing and understanding environmental changes to planet Earth, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Thursday that it officially joined the National Climate Task Force created by President Joe Biden in an executive order issued an Jan. 27, which outlined details of the task force directing all…
Editor’s Note: For the past five years, while the New American Journal has continued to keep up with some major stories related to the natural environment such as the latest news on global warming and climate change, our priorities have tended to focus largely on coverage of national science and public affairs, and some state…
What a difference a day makes Twenty-four little hours Brought the sun and the flowers Where there used to be rain My yesterday was blue, dear My lonely nights are through, dear Since Trump ran to Florida, dear And Biden was sworn in. By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Glory hallelujah. What a difference…
By Glynn Wilson – A coalition of 12 attorneys general around the country have filed friend of the court briefs in support of a federal lawsuit by environmental groups challenging the legality of the Trump administration’s permit for the Keystone XL pipeline transporting Canadian tar sands oil into the United States and across the American…
Scientists are reporting the hottest November on record – By Glynn Wilson – KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — It’s a bit hard to write about the latest news on global warming and climate change when your fingers are just cold enough for the arthritis itch to tingle in your knuckles, the temperature gauge outside says it’s well…
By Glynn Wilson – Beginning around the time of the first Thanksgiving harvest feast in North America in the 1620s, European settlers almost wiped out native wild turkeys on the continent by the early-20th century. Conservation efforts since the 1970s, however, have been successful, and the population has made a comeback to an estimated 7…
By Jimmy Lanier – Special to the New American Journal – PORTLAND, Ore. — The air surrounding Portland is thick with smoke, hanging like a blanket of yellow tinted fog from the Riverside Fire about 20 miles east of the city. The limited visibility created by the smoke requires headlights on to drive in the…
By Glynn Wilson – The Trump administration’s blatant disregard for protecting the environment has landed in court again. Attorneys general for Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, asserting the executive branch federal agency neglected to enforce a decade-old agreement to reduce water pollution…
By Glynn Wilson – Maryland Attorney has joined a multi-state lawsuit including 27 state and municipal plaintiffs challenging the Trump administration’s final rule curtailing requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that say federal agencies must review and assess the impact of their actions on the environment. The Trump administration’s “final rule” also limits…
But is data missing from computer models on ocean temperatures due to the coronavirus? – By Glynn Wilson – As if the world were not under assault from enough disasters, scientists recently released the projections for hurricane season 2020 and the forecast is not reassuring, in spite of global cooling due to reduced carbon emissions…
