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The massive redwood trees that dot the landscape of Northern California have survived through countless earthquakes and natural disasters. Yet the climate crisis may threaten their livelihood as the latest California wildfires have encroached upon the ancient trees, as NPR reported. —Norm Holy The Earth has lost thirty-one trillion tons of ice in just twenty-three years, and the climate crisis …

Text in this post was edited for clarity on August 24th. I spoke with founder of Yellowwood Youth, Josie Sparks, who will be a high school senior this year and has spent the past year working endlessly to get to this point.  Yellowwood Youth was a result of the work that Sparks did for Project Green Challenge, which is an …

For the last decade, the DNR has allowed logging during the summer because they had been given the OK from the U.S. Forest Service, or USFS, that there were no bats roosting in the area to be logged. This was the ruling even when bats were caught in mist nets in the area. —Norm Holy  Several members of the House …

Did hurricane Isaias impact turtle nesting? Sea turtles nest on beaches from Florida to North Carolina. The nesting season starts in April in Florida and in May farther north and ends in October. — Norm Holy Greenland is known for its glaciers, but in the past month, the island has shed ice. Scientists didn’t expect to see Greenland melt at …

A report from Indiana Environmental Reporter’s Enrique Saenz regarding plans to dispose of toxic coal ash waiting in a sensitive landfill in Northern Indiana.

The Muncie Indiana Star Press reports that AquaBounty Technologies, a land-based salmon farming pioneer, has successfully commenced the commercial-scale harvest of conventional Atlantic salmon raised at its first farm in the United States. According to Alexis Baden-Mayer, of the Organic Consumers Association, in testimony presented to the Food and Drug Administration during hearings on the salmon, AquAdvantage salmon shouldn’t be …

An Indiana Environmental Reporter feature from correspondent Enrique Saenz on attempts to regulate the 5000+ PFAS chemicals as a group, rather than individually.

As reported in the Los Angeles Times, the Trump administration has lifted a major hurdle for development of the Pebble Mine, a massive gold and copper mine in the wilds of Alaska despite fears that it will poison the world’s largest sockeye salmon run. Even after the world’s largest economies adopted the landmark Paris Agreement to tackle the climate crisis …

A report by Indiana Environmental Reporter’s Enrique Saenz about a dispute about air pollution in Huntington, IN.

Morton Solar held a ribbon cutting July 15 after donating two solar energy systems to Community Action Program of Evansville for two homes located near downtown Evansville. Three Indiana environmental organizations—the Hoosier Environmental Council, Friends of Lake Monroe and Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter—collaborated to demand that the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, or DNR, review its policies after the July …