Friday, April 26, 2024

By 2030, poor nations will need $2.4 trillion per year to fight climate crisis:...

"Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish. It is either a climate solidarity pact—or a collective suicide pact."

Unprecedented new map unveils illegal mining destroying Amazon

"The scope of illegal mining in the Amazon, especially in indigenous territories and protected natural areas, has grown exponentially in recent years, with the rise in the price of gold."

Leaked Zinke memo urges Trump to shrink national monuments, allow drilling

Zinke also proposed opening these publicly held national monuments up to drilling, logging, commercial fishing and other activities for private profit.

The Mediterranean is a hot spot for plastic pollution despite efforts to reduce

“The concentration [of plastic pollution] in the Med is pretty bad. If we don’t act on it, it will [become] much worse.”

Decades of lobbying weakened Americans’ gas mileage and turbocharged pain at the pump

The oil and automotive industries, as well as the Koch network, undercut efforts to make today’s fleet of vehicles more efficient and less reliant on fossil fuels.

‘Damning’ probe finds 80% of top carbon Offset schemes are ‘likely junk or worthless’

"We cannot afford to waste any more time on false solutions."

‘Long overdue’: EPA bans all food uses of neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos

“Finally, our fields are made safer for farmworkers and our fruits and vegetables are safer for our children.”

America’s biggest public pension fund is slow-walking corporate climate action, report charges

CalPERS says it needs to hold onto billions in fossil fuel shares in order to push polluters in the right direction – but a new report details a pattern of voting against climate proposals.

COP26: Will humanity’s ‘last and best chance’ to save earth’s climate succeed?

here is a chance we can prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis, but world leaders must hold businesses accountable and listen to Indigenous communities.

Nicaragua to sign Paris agreement, leaving Trump alone with Syria

Ortega's move leaves Trump in a two-member club with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, one of the world's most brutal dictators.