Report confirms ozone layer on track to recover completely by 2040
The report, which is published every four years on the progress of the Montreal Protocol, "reaffirms the positive impact that the treaty has had on the climate."
Sri Lanka Is First Country in the World to Apologize for Its Role in...
"Those elephants were victimized by the cruelty of certain people. But all of human society is responsible. We destroyed those innocent lives to take those tusks. We have to ask for pardon from them.”
Emails show Iraq war PR alums led attempt to discredit Dakota Access water protectors
Emails show that extent to which Energy Transfer Partners went to hire firms to discredit the Standing Rock water protectors.
‘One of the most remarkable conservation success stories of all time:’ The bald eagle...
“The recovery of the bald eagle is one of the most well-known conservation success stories of all time."
Massive Victory for 7 Kids in Climate Change Lawsuit in Washington State
Related cases brought by youth to protect the atmosphere are pending before other U.S. courts in the federal district court in Oregon and in the state courts of North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Massachusetts and Oregon.
Oil and gas inundated Facebook with election season ads after Biden released climate plan
ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute were top spenders in a $9.6 million election-year fossil fuel marketing blitz targeting U.S. Facebook users.
Louisiana law turning pipeline protests into felonies violates constitution, new lawsuit alleges
“By turning so much of the land in this state into critical infrastructure, the average person can find themselves facing five years in prison for literally just being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
A Toxic Threat Is Killing Off Europe’s Killer Whales and Dolphins
Researchers find high exposure to PCBs could drive some marine mammal to extinction.
New study finds underestimation of microplastics in ocean—concentration far greater
A new study estimated the concentration of microplastics in the ocean to be far greater than previously determined.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, August 20, 2018
U.S. prisoners organize massive prison strike, Catholic leaders do damage control, ICE detains a man driving his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth, and more.