Duke Riley started out making maritime crafts, like sailor’s valentines and scrimshaws, entirely out of shells, bones and other natural materials that washed ashore on the beaches of Cape Cod, Massachusetts and
On a recent spring afternoon, journalist Alden Wicker was examining a neon orange purse at H&M. The price tag read $14.99, but instead of listing materials, it simply said “vegan.” She raised
Thirteen coal companies owned by the family of West Virginia Governor Jim Justice are being sued for not paying the penalties owed for previously violating mining laws. The US Office of Surface
The US Forestry Service was expected to issue an environmental impact statement for the transfer of a 2,422-acre piece of land known as Oak Flat to Resolution Copper Mining LLC, but decided
The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has proposed opening leasing of federal land to conservationists, giving them the chance to compete with the oil, mining, and grazing interests who are already
A proposal from U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) would not only expedite the approval of fossil fuel projects but also accelerate construction of new power transmission lines needed to plug renewables into
The U.S. Forest Service and other agencies will expedite the review of a $1.7 billion underground mine that will process manganese and zinc, two minerals that have recently been deemed by the
New proposals from Sens. Moore Capito and Barrasso would shorten the time it takes to approve and permit an infrastructure or mining project, and would speed up domestic oil and gas projects
Last week, Tero Mustonen won a Goldman Environmental Prize for his work with the Snowcharge Cooperative to restore peatlands in Finland in partnership with the Sámi Indigenous and Finnish rural communities. Peatlands,
Six activists from around the world were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize, often known as the "Green Nobel Prize," on Monday. Alessandra Korap Munduruku, a leader of the Munduruku Indigenous people in
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are buying Russian oil products, the Wall Street Journal reports. The countries are using the deeply-discounted Russian oil for domestic consumption and refining, thus boosting
When Winter Storm Uri froze power plants across Texas in February of 2021, approximately 700 people died, and millions more paid outrageous prices for power, despite the outages. Part of those sky-high
Coal and methane gas power plants across 23 states are now covered by the final rule set by EPA, which is aimed at cutting air pollution in downwind communities that suffer from
►
In the mid-2000s, the United States unearthed a huge amount of methane – the main ingredient in natural gas. To ship it overseas, companies built factories to compact it into a liquid.
Diplomats representing more than 190 countries reached a landmark agreement on marine biodiversity protection Saturday night. The deal, 20 years in the making and which must still be ratified by the UN,
The extraction and combustion of fossil fuels pollute the air we breathe, while the impacts of climate change could actually deprive us of something at least as elemental to life as we
At least one person was killed by, and several others were rescued from, flash floods in Kentucky last week. The deluge, which dropped more than three inches of rain in some places,
Fossil fuel industries are failing to cut methane pollution and in doing so undermining efforts to limit global warming, the International Energy Agency said in its annual Global Methane Tracker report, released
The EPA invoked its rarely-used authority under the Clean Water Act to block the proposed Pebble Mine near the headwaters of Alaska's remote Bristol Bay watershed on Tuesday. The agency's final determination
The Biden administration on Thursday took action effectively blocking a proposed copper mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota. The order signed by Interior Sec. Deb Haaland blocks
When you paste this story into your backend, you will find a snippet of javascript at the bottom that looks like the code below. This is the tracking pixel. It is a commonly used tool that will allow us to measure the reach of our work. If you prefer to copy the tracking pixel separately, here it is:
<script type="application/javascript">
window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', (event) => {
var img = document.createElement('img');
var src = 'https://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1';
src += '&tid=UA-172916447-1';
src += '&cid=1';
src += '&t=pageview';
src += '&dl=' + encodeURIComponent('https://nexusmedianews.com/can-art-help-us-grasp-the-plastics-crisis/');
src += '&dt=' + encodeURIComponent('Can Art Help Us Grasp the Plastics Crisis?');
src += '&dr=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
img.src = src;
img.width = 1;
img.height = 1;
img.setAttribute('style', 'display: none;');
img.setAttribute('aria', 'hidden');
img.setAttribute('role', 'presentation');
img.alt = '';
document.body.appendChild(img);
});
</script>