USDA announces proposal to reinstate protections for Tongass National Forest
While the Trump administration tried to open 9.2 million acres of the forest to logging and roadbuilding, the USDA's proposal will effectively reinstate the protections for Tongass National Forest.
More US residents than ever before understand climate crisis is real and dangerous
There is a growing awareness that the extreme weather events of recent years are caused by the climate crisis, with an all-time high of 70 percent of people believing that global warming is impacting U.S. weather right now.
Cheap wind and solar should prompt ‘rethink’ on role of CCS, paper argues
“Now that renewable electricity is so cheap, this should cause us to seriously rethink the role of CCS.”
China’s governmental policies have helped save the nearly extinct Amur tigers
“There is still a long way to go to build a viable future for tigers in northeast China, but the situation looks good.”
Fossil fuel companies pay $192 million to extract fossil fuels from the Gulf of...
“It’s basically a giveaway to industry of millions of acres of the Gulf of Mexico so they can lock in production for years, at a time when we need to be shifting away from fossil fuel development.”
This city in Oregon is making moves to ban natural gas in new homes...
The Eugene city council has broken off negotiations with a major gas utility that has resisted greenhouse gas reduction targets, and has instead opted to go the route of banning new gas hookups.
The ocean is essential to tackling climate change. So why has it been neglected...
How can oceans help us tackle the climate crisis? And what progress has been made in international negotiations?
COP26: Climate pledges don’t match up with policies—or consumer behavior
The Glasgow Climate Pact kicks the climate can down the road.
If you think vaccine mandate pushback is bad…
At some point, governments will start using more sticks than carrots to break our deadly dependence on fossil fuels. How will humanity respond?
To govern the globe
Washington’s world order and catastrophic climate change...