Residents of Chesapeake Bay’s Tangier Island could be among the first “climate change” refugees in the continental U.S. as rising sea levels swallow their historic fishing village. A report recently published in the Scientific Reports says . This news does not come as a surprise to the locals, who have seen their island and others recede over the past decades. "I think it'll be less than 50 years," Carol Pruitt-Moore, a seventh generation resident, told The Associated Press. "We are...

A power plant on Missouri side of Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois. (Denise Panyik-Dale/Getty Images) At a Glance Factories that produce air pollution, along with soot and heavy metals, tend to be built near downwind borders.Local and state politics play a role.In choosing a site, corporations want to find locations where they will get less political blowback, study notes. Toxic, air-polluting factories have been systematically builtat state borders so neighboring downwind states receive the brunt of the pollution, a recent...

At a Glance The EPA reportedly plans to offer early retirement and buyout incentives to up to 1,228 employees.Nine members of the Board of Scientific Counselors were notified of their termination in an email. Dozens of esteemed scientists will reportedly lose their jobs at the Environmental Protection Agency by August as the agency continuesto downsize amidsteep budget cuts. According to an email obtained by the Washington Post, among the dozens that will no longer work for the agency are, which...