Thursday, March 28, 2024

‘A deeply dangerous order’: Trump-appointed judge blocks Biden from pausing new oil drilling leases

"This is a deeply dangerous order that heightens the imperative for bold, urgent climate action on our public lands and ocean."

44% of ocean plastics are linked to takeout food

Researchers are turning their attention to takeout containers and convenience food as the worst offender in plastics polluting the ocean.

Takeout food the main contributor to plastic pollution in our oceans

This information will make it easier for policymakers to actually take action to try to turn off the tap of marine litter flowing into the ocean, rather than just clean it up.”

Ice shelf holding Pine Island Glacier could collapse within a decade

“The recent changes in speed are not due to melt-driven thinning; instead they’re due to the loss of the outer part of the ice shelf.”

Exxon is telling investors its Permian fracking projects are ‘world class’. The data says...

A new report finds that the productivity of ExxonMobil’s wells in the Permian basin declined in 2019, raising “troubling questions about the quality” of its assets.

We don’t need another oil pipeline

Will the fight over a northern Minnesota pipeline project have global repercussions?

Why plastic pollution is even worse than you think

When it comes to plastic our efforts seem to be much more focused on what happens after we use it than before we use it.

Oil drilling in the ‘land of water’: ExxonMobil hunts for more fossil fuels in...

ExxonMobil says a 9 billion barrel oilfield off the low-lying South American nation’s coast could soon outpace Permian production.

Forests are crucial to combating climate change—will Biden rise to the challenge?

Unsustainable logging by the forest products industry is driving massive carbon emissions.

Hundreds arrested at Line 3 ‘treaty people gathering.’ Water protectors vow to continue until...

Even after the mass arrests on Monday, the Anishinaabe and their allies camped out at the site and plan to continue their direct action.