All’s well that builds wells A village in Ghana’s cocoa belt is one of many reaping the rewards of cleaning up the climate. Tropical forests like Ghana’s are vital to the climate fight — they lock down carbon […]
For the first time in years, mercury pollution is on the rise in the U.S. According to EPA data, emissions of this devastating neurotoxin from coal-fired power plants rose by 9% last year compared to […]
Air pollution cuts short the lives of more than 8 million people every year. It kills more people than smoking or an unhealthy diet. Plus, many sources of air pollution are also driving climate change. […]
For more than two months, GroundTruth has been on a virtual road trip through the crisis in local news across America. We’ve been from Pittsfield, Massachusetts to Chicago and Montana down to Austin, Texas. But […]
He’s the hero we need, and the hero we deserve. Meet Mr. Trash Wheel, the googly-eyed, spinning trash trap who patrols the Baltimore Harbor, devouring hundreds of tons of litter and debris each year. Keeping litter […]
When Jim Resh retired from the USDA’s conservation department in 2017, he moved with his wife to a 4,000 square-foot Victorian home in the heart of Indiana, Pennsylvania, a town of 14,000. The beautiful old […]
Americans are paying more for energy. Last year, power bills rose in nearly every state, with households in 12 states paying at least 10% more for electricity, according to an analysis by the U.S. Congress Joint Economic […]
Space phenomena that defy the laws of physics Physics works and we know this because it has been tested to extraordinary precision across every scale from subatomic particles to galaxy clusters, and it holds. Which […]
More than 80 percent of the world’s oceans remain unmapped and unobserved, according to NOAA. Since the 1990s, a network of hydrophones originally built to monitor nuclear weapons testing has picked up recordings that have […]
D.C. news outlets are expanding into the void left by the Post’s layoffs Editor’s note: Charles Sennott was out of the office when we wrote this. In his stead, we asked GroundTruth Media’s Alana Campbell […]