220+ medical journals unite to demand urgent action on climate emergency
“The greatest threat to global public health is the continued failure of world leaders to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5°C and to restore nature,” warn journals in unprecedented joint editorial.
“9/11’s unsettled dust”: Bush’s EPA hid health risks from toxic dust at ground zero...
“My only mistake was believing that it would take 20 years for people to get sick.”
Cat 4 and 5 hurricanes, tornados where they haven’t been, and rising temps ahead...
Climate crisis chronicle #1...
‘Canaries in the coal mine’: Protesters rally against Cumbria mine as public inquiry launches
Campaigners are urging ministers to “keep the coal in the ground” as a four-week inquiry into the Whitehaven opencast mine begins.
Complacency rules: Consumerism and the environment
Complacency and the refusal to change individual behavior and collective ways of living are stoking the underlying cause of the crisis—consumerism.
Tropical cyclone causes miles-long oil slick
Oil spills have become an "unfortunate byproduct" of building large oil rigs in hurricane-prone areas.
Oil industry launches lobbying blitz as Congress targets fossil fuel subsidies
A lobbying group representing large fracking companies is pressing Democrats to keep in place billions of dollars of subsidies that drillers receive.
‘A wake-up call’: Study finds extinction risk for 30% of tree species
“Strengthened action is urgently required to prevent further species extinctions and restore damaged and degraded ecosystems.”
Indigenous resistance disrupts billions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually
“Indigenous communities resisting oil, gas, and coal projects across their territory are demonstrating true climate leadership.”
COP26 hires law firm that defended fossil fuel giants over environmental disasters
DLA Piper, whose clients have included Shell, ExxonMobil, and BP, will provide legal services to the UN climate change summit.