Monday, August 18, 2025

NYC public schools to excuse climate strikers

The New York City public schools will allow their 1.1 million students to skip school for Friday's global climate strike, The New York Times...

New bill to prevent Wall Street from continuing to finance fossil fuel industry

“For too long, our federal government has looked the other way while our nation’s largest banks bankroll the dirtiest fossil fuel projects.”

Oil industry inflates job impact from Biden’s new pause on drilling on federal lands

“I welcome an end to federal fossil fuel leasing and the necessary transitions to more sustainable economies for the Navajo Nation.”

‘Disappointing’ decision from Norway’s Supreme Court in climate lawsuit challenging Arctic offshore oil licenses

“The Court has let the government off the hook at this time, but leaves the door open for an assessment on climate impacts, including emissions after export, at the later production stage."

Climate crisis putting a billion children at ‘extremely high risk,’ warns new UN report

Almost half of the world’s children are seriously threatened by the rapidly deteriorating global climate.

Because ‘another world is possible,’ tens of thousands of activists stage climate mobilizations in...

With anti-coal Ende Gelände action in one city and Fridays for Future rally in another, activists demand urgent climate action.

Taxpayers still shelling out billions annually in fossil fuel subsidies

The U.S. spent $26 billion a year supporting fossil fuels and scored the worst in ending support for coal mining, a pet project of President Trump.

How Australia’s ‘fever swamp’ of climate science denial is pushing a non-scandal about temperatures

Australia’s network of climate science deniers continue to grasp at straws.

NOAA reports record highs in greenhouse gas emissions and global sea levels

“It is clear that without swift action, we can, unfortunately, expect to set new records like these every year.”