Thursday, April 18, 2024

We’re just starting to learn how fracking harms wildlife

In January 2015 North Dakota experienced one of the worst environmental disasters in its history: A pipeline burst, spilling nearly 3 million gallons...

Here’s our best opportunity to save the oceans — and ourselves

It’s been said we should thank the ocean for every second breath of oxygen we take. In fact, we owe it far more than...

Whistle-blower reveals flawed construction at North Dakota gas plants where massive spill was downplayed

Two North Dakota gas processing plants in the heart of the Bakken oil fields have shown signs of an eroded safety culture...

Trump admin: There’s no ‘climate crisis,’ so drill baby drill

The Trump administration has asserted that "there is not a climate crisis" as justification for expanding drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Ireland to plant 440 million trees to combat climate change

“The climate action plan commits to delivering an expansion of forestry planting and soil management to ensure that carbon abatement from land-use is delivered over the period 2021 to 2030 and in the years beyond.”

67 arrested at New Hampshire power plant protests

“This is a global issue. As we walk, sing your songs, chant your chants, and allow yourself to grieve. And as you walk, allow yourself to feel hope.”

Oil industry set agenda during climate summit meeting with big greens

The meeting was condemned by grassroots environmental activists.

Drought and border wall endanger Arizona’s wildlife

The public has long supported a state program to provide water for wildlife, but now human threats, including border-wall construction and climate change, are making a bad situation worse.

Misogyny, male rage and the words men use to describe Greta Thunberg

Detractors have dismissed Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg - a Nobel Prize nominee - as mentally ill, hysterical and a millennial weirdo after she pleaded with world officials last week to address the climate crisis.

“This economic system is killing this planet”: Chicago residents demand the state halt the...

"The most direct way to address climate change is to keep fossil fuels in the ground."