Want to fight climate change? Start by protecting these endangered species
Giant forest elephants and blue whales play an enormous role in climate sequestration. Can putting a financial value on that role help conserve them—and us?
World’s banks have given $2.7 trillion to fossil fuels since Paris Agreement begun, study...
In this new decade, the climate emergency is clearer than ever, with emissions cuts of almost 5 percent necessary by 2030.
EU bans neonicotinoid insecticides everywhere except greenhouses
The risk neonicotinoid insecticides poses on both honeybees and wild bees as well as concerns for food production and the environment brought the EU to its announcement on Friday.
Huge Hydropower Plant to Harness Seawater and Solar Power in South America’s Driest Desert
A 300-megawatt solar and hydropower plant, found in the Atacama Desert in Chile, will use solar power to move seawater up a tunnel to the top of a mountain for water storage and will release the water back down to generate power.
Climate change and the deportation machine: A match forged in hell, Hurricane Harvey edition
Undocumented Texans in Hurricane Harvey’s path face a horrifying choice: deportation or risk of death.
The great pivot: why Dem green energy IRA will steamroll fossil fuels and help...
A new world is dawning, one in which humanity dodges the huge hail of bullets of the climate emergency.
Another Flint? Newark, NJ, faces public health crisis over lead contamination in city’s water...
Thousands of residents in Newark, New Jersey, remain unable to drink their tap water in an enduring public health nightmare. Lead contamination...
Plastic pollution raises beach temperatures, threatening marine life, study finds
The problem is only likely to get worse unless something is done to stem the plastic tide.
Fossil fuel companies are promoting ‘lower carbon,’ ‘responsibly sourced’ oil and gas
The oil and gas industry is looking to capitalize off an increasingly-popular socially responsible investing wave that emphasizes the environment.
With 15 other children, Greta Thunberg has filed a UN complaint against 5 countries....
Yesterday, climate activist Greta Thunberg joined 15 other children from around the world to submit a complaint – or “communication” – to...