Chicago becomes largest US city to power all municipal buildings with renewable energy
Chicago powers 411 city buildings with 100 percent renewable energy, setting a major climate milestone.
Trump EPA abandons climate working group report in endangerment finding repeal
Emails from the hand-picked, secretive group of climate crisis deniers revealed flaws in their methods and “animus” toward leading scientists.
Algae growing under Arctic Sea ice found contaminated by microplastics
“Arctic biota are already under serious pressure from global heating, which progresses four times faster in the Arctic compared with the globe."
A warming planet makes nor’easters & other storms more intense: Climate scientist Michael Mann
With its defunding of scientific infrastructure across the country, “the Trump administration is truly putting Americans in harm’s way.”
How a bird flu outbreak wiped out a generation of seals in Patagonia—and what...
An unprecedented avian flu outbreak in Argentine Patagonia devastated a stable elephant seal colony, highlighting the rising threat of infectious disease to wildlife in a warming world.
World’s richest launch $1 billion fund to fight climate change, invest in clean tech
This week, a group of top tech executives from Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and more will reportedly meet with the president-elect.
Agriculture’s emissions from fertilizing ‘continuous corn’ crops fueling climate crisis
The new report, which focused on four Corn Belt states, found corn to be "the most nitrogen-fertilizer-intensive crop in the U.S. and accounts for more than two-thirds of all nitrogen fertilizer use nationwide."
DRC to open bids for oil and gas drilling putting pristine forest and endangered...
Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) government opened another round of auctioning for 52 oil blocks, which threatens 64 percent of the country’s pristine forest.
‘A fraudulent scheme’: New Mexico sues Texas oil companies for walking away from their...
New Mexico’s lawsuit accuses three Texas oil executives of pocketing revenue from oil and gas wells and offloading cleanup costs to the public.
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