Josh Goldman

Black Americans make up just 6 percent of the life sciences workforce, and slightly under half (48 percent) of those professionals are women. Although higher education institutions have begun granting more science, technology, engineering, and math degrees, the number of women or people of color in the marine science industry lags still behind other groups. … Continued

The Earth Commission, a group of 51 scientists among the world’s leading research institutions, published a study in Nature that found the planet is failing seven out of eight “planetary boundaries,” or safety limits for environmental and human well-being. These metrics include climate and aerosol pollution, but also access to freshwater and measures of justice, … Continued

Hundreds of Amazon workers told executives to “strive harder” as they walked out in protest over the company’s failure to achieve its climate goals, an inequitable return to working in an office policy, and recent layoffs of around 27,000 people. After announcing a climate pledge in 2019, the massive company’s emissions profile rose 40 percent, … Continued

The Biden administration announced a 20-year pause on oil or gas exploration on federal lands surrounding the Chaco Culture National Park...

Three major chemical companies, Dupont, Chemours and Corteva, reached a $1.18 billion deal to avoid having a judge decide whether they contaminated US drinking water systems with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a family of more than 12,000 chemicals used in firefighting forms and non-stick products. PFAS can be found in thousands of public drinking … Continued

The Supreme Court has refused to grant an oil industry plea to review a lower court decision that prevents fracking in the federal waters off the California coast. A 2014 lawsuit brought by the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) resulted in a federal court ruling that prevents the federal government from issuing fracking permits in the … Continued

An unusually warm winter and subsequent late spring freeze caused Georgia to lose more than 90 percent of its peach crop this year. In 2021, the 130 million pounds of peaches produced in the Peach State were valued at around $85 million. Lawton Pearson of Pearson Farm in Fort Valley, Georgia told CNN the peach … Continued

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Scripps) has found that the levels of carbon pollution in Earth’s atmosphere reached another record high last month, as it continues “a steady climb further into territory not seen for millions of years,” according to NOAA. Carbon dioxide levels measured 424 parts … Continued

Driven by a combination of an El Niño weather pattern, an intense heat dome, and the changing climate, much of Puerto Rico faced a heat index of over 100 degrees this week, with parts of the island dealing with a heat index as high as 125 degrees. Temperatures this high are especially dangerous when combined … Continued

Separating carbon dioxide from air, while technically straightforward, is outrageously expensive.