Sunday, April 19, 2026

Here’s how the climate crisis is impacting the water cycle

The current extreme fluctuation in precipitation across the globe is due in large part to climate change.

‘Gathering storm’: How ‘rogue’ companies are buying up North Sea oil and gas

As oil majors exit the North Sea, the region’s new players bring a track record of lobbying against climate policy, polluting the environment, and committing alleged labor violations.

Bayer to pull glyphosate products, including Roundup, from US home and garden market

Bayer's decision comes in response to the many lawsuits related to glyphosate that it inherited when it acquired Monsanto in 2018.

Bayer announces plan to end glyphosate-based herbicide sales to US consumers by 2023

The company will replace glyphosate in the consumer lawn and garden segment with other "known and well-established active ingredients."

Eliminating emissions by 2050 could save 74 million lives

“One key takeaway is that there are a significant number of lives that can be saved by reducing emissions.”

Planet’s vital signs are reaching dangerous ‘tipping points’ amid climate crisis, scientists warn

“We need to stop treating the climate emergency as a stand-alone issue—global heating is not the sole symptom of our stressed Earth system.”

17 states under heat alerts as fifth summer heat wave in the U.S. begins

The latest heat wave is now the fifth distinct extreme heat event the U.S. has experienced this summer, and follows the country's hottest June on record.

Here’s what climate change will mean for bats

"A commitment by world governments to significantly reduce carbon emissions should be urgently sought in order to avoid further deterioration of bat communities and the important ecosystem services that they provide.”

Wastewater pollution: EPA moves to undo Trump’s weakening of coal plant requirements

Despite the change, the Biden administration said it does not plan to immediately reinstate the stricter requirements that were in effect before the rollback.

Scientists who issued ‘climate emergency’ declaration in 2019 now say Earth’s vital signs are...

A rapid and urgent phaseout of fossil fuels is needed, scientists warn, in order to avoid crossing dangerous climate tipping points.