Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Bearing the burden of climate change and extinction

Knowing what we’re going through weighs heavily on us, but there are ways to express and alleviate that pain.

Is wastewater an answer for adapting to climate change?

Water pressures like droughts are intensifying due to global warming and population growth. Treating wastewater is a powerful solution, finally gaining more public support.

Biden administration unveils nation’s first Ocean Climate Action Plan

“This Ocean Climate Action Plan is the first comprehensive approach that the U.S. has taken to leveraging the power of the ocean in the fight against climate change.”

Protesters Lock Their Bodies to Machines to Stop Dakota Access Pipeline

Native Americans from across the U.S. and Canada continue to arrive at the resistance camps to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. Some of them locked themselves to the heavy machinery.

Sempra Energy plans to export fracked gas on the West Coast – via Mexico

“It has everything to do with corporations degrading the environmental quality of communities and the communities themselves."

Biden administration invests in ports to strengthen American supply chains

U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration announced an investment of more than $653 million to fund 41 port improvement projects under the Port Infrastructure Development Program.

How storied artist Mel Chin’s ‘constant revolution’ is tackling humanity’s environmental challenges

For this MacArthur fellow, art is a powerful tool for addressing complex environmental issues.

Ditching fossil fuels will have immediate health benefits for millions – world leaders must...

The same fossil fuels producing the greenhouse gases warming the Earth’s atmosphere also form large quantities of air pollutants.

‘Species extinction is a choice’: Groups urge strong global pact to save life on...

"Please make 2022 the year in which the world chooses to stop extinction and commits the resources to do so," says a letter ahead of an international summit next week. "Life on Earth depends on it."