Friday, July 10, 2026

Youth demand action on nature, following IUCN’s first-ever global youth summit

“So we linked our demands to our own actions through our ‘Your Promise, Our Future’ campaign and are showing world leaders what we are doing for the world and then asking them what they are going to do for us and our future.”

Scientists develop truly biodegradable plastics

While biodegradable plastics have been touted as a solution to plastic pollution, in practice they don't work as advertised.

Where does all the radioactive fracking waste go?

A year-long investigation finds a major West Texas disposal site with a patchy record is also importing radioactive oilfield waste from abroad.

Biden vows to cut emissions, but US continues to subsidize fossil fuels amid climate...

President Joe Biden said the U.S. would cut its emissions by at least 50% below 2005 levels by the end of the decade.

Achieving net-zero climate targets will depend on public lands

Aligning ambition with action will require a new era of federal leadership.

US Interior Secretary provokes Trump administration’s climate related orders

“I believe we have a unique opportunity to make our communities more resilient to climate change and to help lead the transition to a clean energy economy.”

The PR industry aims to demobilize environmental movements — here’s what organizers can do...

Public relations poses distinct threats to environmental movements, but activists are becoming more savvy and developing new forms of resistance.

Afghanistan’s green future?

Can Afghanistan's mineral wealth finance a transition to a carbon-neutral future?

Biden plans to cut U.S. climate pollution in half by 2030

“We cannot preach temperance from a barstool and not pay our fair share when approximately 40% of all the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is red, white and blue.”

The GOP ​climate push that mostly leaves out climate

House Republicans introduced a new climate agenda that promotes fossil fuels and speculative technologies, while leaving out real emissions reduction targets.