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By members of the New Jersey Sierra Club Student Action Committee - Content featured in The Jersey Sierran Despite little public attention, droughts have occurred in New Jersey for over half a century. To learn more, the NJ Sierra Student Action Committee launched a project to determine how these droughts are affecting the productivity of local farms. By discussing this issue with farmers and collecting data, we found that droughts do threaten farm yields and the future of ag

By Sandro Boujaoude, EnviroHealthExplorer | February 2026 Introduction: A Historic Rollback with Global Consequences On February 12, 2026, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under the Trump administration, formally repealed the 2009 “Endangerment Finding” — a landmark scientific determination that greenhouse gases (GHGs) like carbon dioxide and methane endanger public health and welfare. This repeal, spearheaded by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, is being hailed by

By EnviroHealthExplorer | Based on reporting by Seth Borenstein, Associated Press (October 15, 2025) The planet just hit another climate milestone — and not the kind we celebrate. According to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) , atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels surged by the largest annual increase ever recorded between 2023 and 2024. The concentration of CO₂ in our atmosphere has now reached levels not seen in more than 800,000 years. As S