Monday, May 6, 2024

Facing their failure to meet 2020 biodiversity targets, world leaders pledge action & funds

Amid calls from the U.N. Chief to stop treating the earth ‘as if we have a spare one,’ French President Emmanuel Macron led world leaders in commitments to protect ecosystems at the One Planet Summit

ExxonMobil is still bankrolling climate science deniers

The world’s largest oil company says climate change is real, yet continues to finance climate denier groups.

Why is the political establishment so afraid of Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal?

For the vast majority of Americans who want real solutions to the crisis, today’s Green New Deal resolution marks a clear escape path from the stale politics of the past.

US Court of Appeals overturns EPA’s decision that glyphosate is safe for humans and...

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto-Bayer’s pesticide, is the most widely used pesticide in the world.

Stories from the youth climate movement in the Global South

Young people who had mobilized for the climate across the world in 2019 were right: Much environmental damage is the result of human action, and as such, can also be reversed through human initiative.

How to contact the people who sent militarized police to Standing Rock

Have a question about the militarization of policing near Dakota Access pipeline construction? Here’s who to call, starting with Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier.

87 elephants found dead in Botswana sanctuary, poaching to blame

"We have the world's largest elephant population, and it's open season for poachers."

BREAKING: Trump signs executive orders to advance Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines

Trump claims that pipelines will create more energy security for Americans, but will the oil even be used domestically?

The race to build solar power in the desert—and protect rare plants and animals

As development of large solar projects speeds up, researchers race against the clock to study the ecosystem implications.

Bernie Sanders to Trump: “We will fight you every step of the way” on...

“Mr. Trump, you cannot run a government by rejecting science.”