Wealthy countries have left developing countries with an ugly choice: to forgo carbon, the cheapest fuel, and then forgo social development for their populations; or to continue to use carbon and threaten the planet. In ...
A Bill Gates’ backed renewable energy project has made a solar energy breakthrough that could lead to replacing the use of fossil fuels in industrial settings. Clean energy startup Heliogen is using artificial intelligence and ...
According to a new climate report, rising sea levels will make extreme flooding that used to happen in Venice once every 100 years occur every six years by 2050. Venice’s famed historic sites are at ...
The 11,000 scientist-endorsed letter offers several long-term policy prescriptions to climate change. More than 11,000 scientists joined to warn of “untold suffering” from the climate emergency in a report published on Tuesday, a day after ...
When Indigenous people fight to defend and enforce their land rights, they are protecting their future—and ours. This summer, a court in Ecuador issued a ruling with profound implications for the urgent fight to save ...
Mike Pompeo, the so-called “congressman from Koch,” announced the U.S.’ formal withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement on Monday. The Trump Administration notified the United Nations on Monday that it plans to formally withdraw from ...
The controversial Keystone Pipeline leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil on Thursday, making it already the eighth largest spill of the decade. The Keystone Pipeline leaked approximately 383,000 gallons of crude oil in ...
Rex Tillerson testified Tuesday in a New York lawsuit that could be a turning point for prosecuting powerful actors who knowingly deceived others about climate change. Rex Tillerson, who served as CEO of ExxonMobil from ...
“Agricultural choices must be made by these inescapable standards: the ecological health of the farm and the economic health of the farmer.” —Wendell Berry For almost five decades, organic farming associations like the Northeast Organic ...
The future of renewable energy could lie in offshore wind power and may soon become cheaper than natural gas in Europe. The global transition to clean energy could be led by offshore wind power according ...
The world’s largest oil company says climate change is real, yet continues to finance climate denier groups. ExxonMobil says it believes “the risk of climate change is real,” and it is “committed to being part ...
World leaders continue to fiddle as the world burns. The world is burning. Record or near-record temperatures, combined with drought in many areas, are contributing to yet another record-setting summer for wildfires. California has been ...
“We’re hardly alone among companies that contribute to organizations while strongly disagreeing with them on climate policy” – Google spokesperson.
“We’re hardly alone among companies that contribute to organizations while strongly disagreeing with them on climate policy” – Google spokesperson. The Guardian’s new “Polluters” series, dedicated to uncovering the structures driving the climate crisis, revealed ...
Environmentalists and other proponents of utility reform argue the forced outage is a sign that California should replace PG&E and invest in safer, renewable infrastructure. Pacific Gas & Electric cut power to around 800,000 California ...
Extinction Rebellion activists of all ages are continuing to press for action on climate during a planned two-week-long protest in several major European cities. In 48 hours, the London metropolitan police arrested more than 500 ...
“When the financial system shifts its capital away from resource-hungry, brown investments to those that back nature as solution, everybody wins in the long-term.” On the eve of the United Nations climate summit in New ...
“I see a new momentum. I believe in these last few months [there has been] a turning point.” World leaders gathered at the UN climate summit in New York City on Monday in the wake ...
The fate of the planet is in the balance. But so is the fate of humanity. The United Nations General Assembly gathers this week at the UN headquarters in New York City. This is the ...
“We’re here to reclaim our right to live, our right to breathe, our right to exist.” (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Kicking off what organizers say will be the largest mass climate demonstration in history, ...
Chubb’s new anti-coal policy demonstrates how the insurance industry can help mitigate the climate crisis. It seems like every day there is a new story of a pipeline spilling crude oil or an oil refinery ...
There’s growing frustration, particularly among the world’s youth, with how adults have so horribly mismanaged the climate crisis. The Global Climate Strike on Friday, September 20, is expected to draw millions of people across 150 ...
With the US “locked and loaded” on Iran, the Amazon on fire and India and Pakistan feuding over Kashmir, the upcoming UN General Assembly will be a check-in for where countries stand on several important ...
As the world burns — and as kids sound the alarm — the original environmental scientist is worth revisiting. Alexander von Humboldt was born on September 14, 1769. In his day, he was a globetrotting, ...
“As hundreds of thousands of Bahamians seek refuge or start to rebuild after Hurricane Dorian, we cannot have the kind of confusion that occurred last night in Freeport.” Hundreds of Hurricane Dorian survivors were told ...
“Throughout his time at Interior, Joe Balash spearheaded efforts to suppress science, ignore indigenous rights and sell off the Arctic Refuge for drilling at all costs.” Top Interior Department official Joe Balash is leaving his ...
“If EPA moves forward with this reckless and sinister proposal, we will see them in court.” The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Thursday that it plans to soften Obama-era restrictions on methane, a potent greenhouse ...
“I feel the U.S. has tremendous wealth… I’m not going to lose that wealth on dreams, on windmills – which, frankly, aren’t working too well… I think I know more about the environment than most.” ...
“The scale of new production forecast from the US is staggering, no other country comes even close.” The United States is on track to produce 61 percent of the world’s new fossil fuel production over ...
As forests around the world continue to shrink, reforestation efforts have begun gaining momentum. “In a record-breaking day this week, at the Gulele Botanical Garden in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia launched an [sic] historic tree planting campaign. Over 350 million trees ...
“The extraordinary heat was accompanied by dramatic ice melt in Greenland, in the Arctic and on European glaciers. Unprecedented wildfires raged in the Arctic for the second consecutive month, devastating once pristine forests. This is ...
“The EIB’s proposal to end financing for fossil fuels by 2020 is a massive step forward in climate leadership. With this move, the world’s largest multilateral lender is now poised to leave oil, gas and ...
“For a fraction of the cost of the Trump tax cuts, we could pay for a trillion new trees and offset 2/3rd of all emissions to date.” New research from the journal Science shows that ...
“What is happening in coastal Alaska is what is coming in one sense for everybody else. Changes are happening, and changes will be magnified.” Anchorage, Alaska, reached 90 degrees on Thursday, shattering all-time temperature records ...
“Heat waves will become more intense, they will become more drawn out, they will become more extreme, they will start earlier, and they will finish later.” Monthly and all-time temperature records have been breaking across ...
“We need an honest debate on this, where people can actually show what they intend to do rather than offer bromides and bumper-sticker comments in 60 seconds.” The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is facing outrage ...
“This is like assembling a panel of ‘gravity skeptics’ who insist it’s safe to jump off tall buildings, except in this case they want to take us all with them.” The White House tried to ...
Monday’s rally in D.C. gave Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and the Sunrise Movement a platform to promote the Green New Deal. “I’ll be damned,” Ocasio-Cortez said at the Green New Deal rally, “if the same politicians who ...
A MapLight analysis of Federal Election Campaign data found that 65 House members who opposed the measure received $268,965 from the 10 largest oil and gas companies in the U.S. since the beginning of the ...
“All of a sudden, the speech today shifted everyone’s attention to, ‘Are we looking at next conflict in Arctic?'” Secretary of State Pompeo spoke to diplomats at a meeting of the Arctic Council in Finland ...
“More than 40% of amphibian species, almost 33% of reef-forming corals and more than a third of all marine mammals are threatened.” One million animal species are currently threatened with extinction, according to a landmark ...
“This is the spirited commitment to bold climate action that young people are looking for in our next president.” Last Wednesday, Beto O’Rourke pledged to refuse campaign contributions of over $200 from fossil fuel companies, ...
According to the study, Brazil lost 25% of per capita GDP, Nigeria lost 29%, and India lost 31% because of climate change. The first of two new climate studies finds that climate change intensifies the ...
The song doesn’t just talk about nature—it also touches on different ethnicities and nationalities, urging for peace and harmony. Released on April 19 in anticipation for Earth Day, rapper Lil Dicky’s music video about saving ...
The fracking revolution has led to private equity’s highest allocation of investment in fossil fuels in 20 years, but is it basically a Ponzi scheme? United States natural gas consumption increased 10% in 2018. The ...
Beira “will go down in history as having been the first city to be completely devastated by climate change,” said Mozambique’s former first lady on the devastation from Cyclone Idai. Despite the UN describing Cyclone ...
The results found that 74 percent of existing national coal capacity “was at risk from local wind or solar that could provide the same amount of electricity more cheaply.” According to a new study from ...
On Friday, March 15, around 10,000 students in several countries skipped school to raise concerns about climate change. Tens of thousands of students walked out of school and held rallies in countries across the globe ...
The oil giant claims to be a leader on tackling methane emissions but successfully lobbied against two major regulations tackling the problem. (By Lawrence Carter, Unearthed) British oil major BP successfully lobbied the Trump administration ...
“We’re here to warn him and all senators: if you refuse to back the Green New Deal, young people will remember next time you ask for our votes.” (By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Hundreds of ...
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