Saturday, November 14, 2026
Rows of equipment at a data center

The data center fight is going global

Communities around the world are converging on a shared target, the AI data center, and giving the climate movement a local fight it can win.

Tell Home Depot and Lowe’s to stop selling Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicides

Tell Home Deport and Lowe's to remove Roundup from store shelves and help protect both human and pollinators' health.
A courtroom in Brampton, Ontario. Photo: Nicholas Moreau / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Climate change rarely goes on trial. This one could be a landmark.

Fifteen young Canadians say their government’s failure to curb emissions violates their constitutional right to life, liberty, and security.

The hidden costs of light pollution: Protecting the night for people and planet

Communities can balance safety, cultural life, and ecological health by designing nighttime lighting that protects both people and the natural world.
Old-growth forest in the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. Photo: Forest Service Alaska Region, USDA (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Forest Service files proposal to rescind the roadless rule on more than 44 million...

The rule's own text puts the 2001 protections at 58.5 million acres, and comments close at midnight on September 21.
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.
A pumpjack in the Glenn Pool oil field, Oklahoma. Photo: roy.luck / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

This Oil Company Is Linked to 1,000 Pollution Incidents and Other Violations. Oklahoma Never...

Staff at an Oklahoma regulatory agency spent over a year building a case against Citation Oil & Gas, a company notorious for oil field pollution. Instead of disciplining the company, agency leaders chose to let it resume operations.

Tigers and leopards to get new national park in China, 60% bigger than Yellowstone

A monitoring and rescue center for wild tigers and leopards will be set up, along with scientific and research facilities to complement the national park.

Only 10 vaquita porpoises remain in the world, scientists announce

Despite the marine mammal's alarming decline, the international committee emphasized that the vaquita is not extinct and that recovery remains possible.
A Mojave desert tortoise, a species opponents said the data center project threatened. Photo: Pacific Southwest Region USFWS (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Federal panel halts first data center planned for US public land

The board found regulators reused a three-year-old environmental review written for a solar plant, never studying the data center's own effect on water, power or a threatened desert tortoise.