Historic court ruling says countries legally bound to prevent climate harm
This obligation, the UN’s International Court of Justice said on July 23, is grounded in existing environmental and human rights treaties.
Asia warms faster than rest of world, impacts continent
The report said that the warming trend between 1991–2024 was almost double that during the 1961–1990 period.
Historic verdict: Right to defense against climate change enshrined in Indian Constitution
This ruling signifies a pivotal advancement in India's climate change jurisprudence, intertwining the essence of environmental sustainability with fundamental human rights.
World’s richest 10% responsible for two-thirds of global heating since 1990: Study
They discovered that emissions from the richest 10 percent of people in China and the United States alone each resulted in an increase of two to three times the heat extremes in vulnerable regions.
Report: Plastics, oil industry deceived public on recycling use for more than 50 years
Industries knew plastics could not be recycled, yet they promoted it to boost disposability profits, echoing Big Tobacco’s campaigns of deception.
Indigenous youths keep ancient forestry traditions alive in the Philippines
In the southern Philippines’ Misamis Oriental province, Indigenous Higaonon practice a forest management tradition known as panlaoy.
$28 trillion in climate damage traced to 111 top polluters, study shows
New research links fossil fuel giants to trillions in heat-driven economic losses, offering fresh momentum for climate liability lawsuits worldwide.
Wildfire smoke could kill 71,000 people per year in the US by 2050, study...
A study published this week in Nature projects that wildfire smoke will cause approximately 71,000 excess deaths each year by 2050 under current emissions trends—an increase of roughly 30,000 deaths over today’s levels.
Dirty-Energy Supporters Cower before Hurricane Francis Strikes
As Pope Francis takes on global warming in 2015, dirty-energy supporters are cowering as their flimsy ideological castles are being threatened. Yet it's about time humans admit that climate change is not only a matter of science, but also of moral duty.
Too harmful: The march of salt and plastics on world soils
Unsustainable human activities are exacerbating soil salinity.