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The latest research reported that artificial rocks or plastiglomerates pose a serious environmental risk to beaches and coastal areas due to harmful pollutants. Read here for more about plastic pollution.

NEW YORK — New Jersey sued the Biden administration Friday to stop New York’s congestion pricing plan, the latest escalation over the effort to charge drivers entering Manhattan. The suit, filed in federal court in New Jersey, claims the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration failed to conduct a “comprehensive” and “complete” environmental review of the Empire ...

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As mining companies look to the ocean floor to extract rare earths and metals that are in huge demand but short supply, a look at how this will work and the many environmental risks associated with it.

June 2021 | TNRC Blog Post This post captures insights from a TNRC virtual panel on June 14, 2021 in which speakers from Kenya and India discussed an understudied, yet environmentally devastating trend: the unsustainable mining of river sand, facilitated by corruption, that feeds the global construction boom while destroying habitats and livelihoods and fueling conflict. Insights were contributed by Mohamed Daghar, Regional Coordinator for Eastern Africa, ENACT programme, Institute for Secur...

Mar 12, 2021 Dr. Chris Balaschak, associate professor of Visual Arts, recently had his book, “The Image of Environmental Harm in American Social Documentary Photography” published by Routledge. In it, he explores new perspectives on the history of American social documentary photography, and how politically-engaged photography can serve as models for the representation of impending environmental injustices. “The project started in 2013 when I was on a research trip to the Museum of Moder...