Wednesday, October 21, 2026
A female polar bear with cubs along the Beaufort Sea coast. Photo: Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (public domain)

Fish and Wildlife Service finalizes five-year Arctic oil rule covering polar bear and walrus...

The industry's own estimate counts 123 polar bear harassments and no deaths over the period, while the agency's rule lists how deaths could still occur.
Granite rocks on the coast of Curieuse Island, Seychelles. Photo: NorbertNagel / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

From Small Islands to Antalya: COP31 Must Move Climate Promises from Paper to People

The former president of Seychelles writes that the climate summit in Antalya, Turkey must turn promises into delivery for small island states.
Downtown Ruidoso, New Mexico. Photo: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

“The River Can’t Be Trusted”

After wildfires scarred the Sacramento Mountains above Ruidoso, New Mexico, the community was under heightened threat of catastrophic flooding. Officials were aware but continued to promote the town to tourists who were oblivious to the danger.

Texas report projects data center growth would push air pollution back toward 2000s levels

The governor's September permit freeze runs until the state grid operator finishes an audit, as groups sue over generators at two San Antonio sites
Fossil remains of Neovenator, another predatory dinosaur from the Isle of Wight. Photo: Conty / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

New long-clawed British dinosaur is the first of its kind in Europe

A skull stored at the Natural History Museum for more than a century turns out to be a new species of predator
Solar cells and wind turbines at the Technical University of Łódź. Photo: Zorro2212 / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Clean energy finance passes fossil fuels for the first time, but little reaches low-income...

Oil Change International and Friends of the Earth U.S. report G20 and development bank clean energy finance averaged $52.7 billion a year from 2023 to 2025
Aerial view of forest cleared for oil palm in Borneo. Photo: T. R. Shankar Raman / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

World Lost More Than 7 Million Hectares of Forest in 2025

The world lost more than 7m hectares of forest to deforestation in 2025, a modest improvement but still far from what is needed.

I work for a major insurer. My industry is fudging the numbers in the...

Our refusal to confront reality could prove catastrophic for homes, communities … and the entire economy
Rain forest in Papua, Indonesia. Photo: WidodoMargotomo / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Indonesia says it no longer needs forests for rice. What happens to projects underway?

Officials say rice self-sufficiency arrived three years early, but food and biofuel projects already underway have not been explained
A natural gas flare at a petroleum well site in New Mexico. Photo: James St. John / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

EPA plans to rescind methane Super Emitter Program, citing estimated $45 billion in savings

Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the plan to oil and gas executives in Santa Fe, and the agency's release gives no method for its savings figure.