Environment

Let me start 2022 by heading back — way, way back — for a moment. It’s easy to forget...

The evidence is clear that people are changing the climate dramatically. But human actions can also affect the climate for the better.

“If global warming reaches 3 degrees Celsius by 2100, as has been predicted, drought losses could be five times higher than they are today, with the largest increase in drought losses projected in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic regions of Europe.”

To save the long-term future for our children and grandchildren, and for all the other creatures with which we share the gift of life, we must overcome the inertia of our institutions and our culture.

Other environmental organizations warn that continued funding for carbon capture not only offers false hope that coal can be “clean,” but it also undermines progress toward more realistic goals.

Our response to climate change should not be separated from those who work the land, and the soil.

Maryland is poised to become the first state to ban a popular pesticide for consumer use.

“Universities have a very large energy footprint and we wanted to tackle that and reduce that expense.”

The Committee to Protect Journalists has said that the warrant is "a transparent attempt to intimidate reporters from covering protests of significant public interest."

Titled "No Clean-Up, No Justice," the new report explains that for "more than five decades, the people of Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta, have struggled against oil pollution, destruction of the environment and human rights violations."