Thursday, March 28, 2024

93% of the Great Barrier Reef is Now Bleached

Coral bleaching events in 1998 led to a death of 16 percent of the world’s coral. This time it may be worse.

Taxpayers charged $7 billion a year to subsidize fossil fuels on public lands

"This report makes it clear as day that the Trump agenda is the fossil fuel billionaire agenda."

Big Pharma’s pollution is creating deadly superbugs while the world looks the other way

Environmental standards do not feature in international regulations governing drug production.

Amy Coney Barrett’s remarks on climate change raise alarm that a climate denier is...

“It’s a really big deal — and a sign of a complete failure of our democracy — to be confirming a climate denier to a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court during a moment when urgent climate action is an existential priority.”

Video: Naomi Klein Extended Interview on Role of Obama, Trudeau & Austerity at U.N....

Best-selling author Naomi Klein examines how the 2008 economic crisis and bank bailouts continue to shape political momentum to tackle climate change; Obama’s attempt to be a climate leader at the COP 21 meeting in Paris; and the potential for new Canada’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

A growing movement to reclaim water rights for Indigenous people

Native tribes are reliant on their local water sources, which have been continuously exploited and contaminated by the U.S. government and non-Native people. Indigenous groups are finding new ways to demand justice.

CNN and Fox News use the same climate change denier to talk science

It seems to be a media rule: If you’re “not a scientist,” pick the wrong one you like as your go-to authority.

Climate Activist Who Chained Herself to Shell Vessel Argues Necessity Defense

Chiara D'Angelo, who spent three days chained to a Shell vessel last year to protest Arctic oil drilling, says her actions were necessary to prevent climate catastrophe

U.S. government reports: ‘It is raining plastic’

After analyzing rainwater samples collected from the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, the U.S. Interior Department recently released a study concluding that microscopic...

These unsigned comments supporting a gas exports rule are recycled industry copy-pastes

Roughly two dozen of of the 89 comments were directly copy-pasted from either industry itself or else pro-industry materials written by the DOE or Congress.