It’s a jewel of the Connecticut shoreline. After decades of erosion from rising seas that have eaten away at the coastline of Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison, a plan is underway to restore dozens of acres of salt marsh that provide critical habitat for thousands of native species. Audubon Connecticut, the local chapter of…
I made a Frank Costanza reference in a meeting this week and my 20-something social media manager said, “Sorry, who is that?” All I can say is … SERENITY NOW! And according to one indicator, that might be a good slogan right now. Here are five things to know this week: Black Friday: It’s a…
The City of New Castle learned this week any federal environmental grants to clean up the former Shenango China property can only be received if the city owns the property outright. Council members and the administration met with officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency about brownfield environmental grants that could help clean the property….
The Trump administration said Thursday it is rescinding federal rules that were aimed at protecting from future oil and gas leasing vast swaths of a petroleum reserve in Alaska that provide key habitat for migrating birds, caribou and other wildlife. What You Need To Know The Trump administration said Thursday it is rescinding federal rules that were aimed at…
Tornado flattens homes in Rio Bonito do Iguana, with one official describing the destruction as akin to a ‘war zone’. At least six people have been killed and 750 others injured in Brazil after a tornado ripped through the southern state of Parana, with powerful winds of up to 250km/hour (155 mph). Local authorities said…
Beijing imposed a two-year ban over the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the tsunami-hit Fukushima plant Published On 7 Nov 20257 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Japan has restarted seafood exports to China after Beijing lifted a two-year ban, which was implemented over the contentious release of treated…
RIO DE JANEIRO – When summer heat comes to the Arara neighborhood in northern Rio, it lingers, baking the red brick and concrete that make up many of the buildings long after the sun has gone down. Luis Cassiano, who’s lived here more than 30 years, says he’s getting worried as heat waves become more…
Sustainability has had a pretty rough go of it these last few years. Despite major strides in the right direction, the push for a greener future has been dealt several devastating blows from a fraught supply chain, economic headwinds and political setbacks. Fashion, a notoriously unfriendly industry for the environment, is no exception. Last week,…
If the stock market were a Halloween movie, we could call it The Bubble that Ate Wall Street. Or perhaps The Bubble that Ate Wall Street 2, because it is a sequel – the second time in the past generation that we have seen technological euphoria cloud minds and drive U.S. stocks to absurdly high…
China’s factory activity slump worsened in October, reaching its longest decline in more than nine years as a deepening economic slowdown sets in during the final quarter. The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index was 49, versus 49.8 in September, the National Bureau of Statistics said Friday. The median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg was…