Don’t let youth climate activists like me burn out
To all the COP26 delegates and others with power over what happens at this conference: Please show us that you’ve heard us.
Despite climate crisis, politicians will double the production of energy from fossil fuels
“Fossil-fuel-producing nations must recognize their role and responsibility in closing the production gap and steering us towards a safe climate future.”
Greta Thunberg on climate promises versus actions
Thunberg sat down in her Stockholm kitchen to talk about what she expects—and hopes—will come from the global event.
Microplastics are in the air we breathe and in Earth’s atmosphere, and they affect...
We highlight just how widespread microplastic pollution is and the potential it has to influence climate on a global scale.
French oil company Total ‘knew about global warming impact in 1971’, study finds
“Total is fully aware of the fact that each of its activities can generate pollution that may affect the equilibrium of nature.”
Climate change could turn a carbon sink into a carbon bomb
There is some debate as to whether this thawing of permafrost in peatland ecosystems is “a long freight train moving slowly as it unloads its greenhouse gases" or a carbon bomb about to blow as the train careens off the tracks.
We need immediate and drastic climate action
We must very rapidly stop the extraction and use of fossil fuels.
99.9% of scientists agree on human-caused climate change
“Our study helps confirm that there is no remaining scientific uncertainty about the urgency and gravity of this task.”
California cop under investigation after punching teen on video
“This incident, like any use of force incident involving a Hemet Police Officer is taken seriously and will be thoroughly investigated.”
What it’s like to watch a harpooned whale die right before your eyes
Author Paul Watson has no problem with critics calling him and his marine-life-defending colleagues pirates—it’s far better than helplessly standing by and doing nothing in the face of the violence against animals they have witnessed.