California’s fracking ban fails in the Senate
While California is a major U.S. oil producer, urban democratic senators were hoping to change the state's course and take a lead on the climate crisis.
Federal court ends Trump effort to open 128 million acres of Atlantic, Arctic oceans...
“As the Biden administration considers its next steps, it should build on these foundations, end fossil fuel leasing on public lands and waters, and embrace a clean energy future.”
Living near a toxic waste site could lower life expectancy by a year, study...
“The long-term effect of the flooding and repetitive exposure has an effect that can transcend generations.”
Japan to release Fukushima wastewater into the Pacific
"The government has taken the wholly unjustified decision to deliberately contaminate the Pacific Ocean with radioactive wastes."
‘Only the beginning’: Citing climate and investment risks, NY State pension fund to ditch...
“Kudos to Tom DiNapoli for making it clear that you can‘t build your retirement on tar sands.”
Remembering LaDonna Brave Bull Allard: Standing Rock Elder helped lead 2016 anti-DAPL uprising
“I don’t understand why America doesn’t understand how important water is. So we have no choice. We have to stand.”
How did the pandemic affect ocean conservation?
Clickbait stories of happy animals returning to suddenly quiet habitats paint an overly rosy picture of COVID-19’s impact on the marine environment.
France moves to ban short-haul flights
This is not the first time that climate measures and aviation bailouts have coincided in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Climate change is a security threat the government keeps ignoring. We’ll show up empty...
Unlike traditional national security threats, climate threats have no respect for national or sector borders and cannot be solved with missiles.
Marine life is fleeing the equator to cooler waters—this could trigger a mass extinction...
We now have evidence that climate change is impacting the best-known and strongest global pattern in ecology.