Wednesday, August 20, 2025

How USDA climate change denial threatens the South

Simply put, the South cannot afford for the USDA to ignore climate change.

Anti-pipeline activists across the country unite to #StopETP

“If we wait for our next generation to fight this battle, it might be too late.”

A future with little to no snow? What that means for the West

A new study hopes to inspire water managers — and the rest of us — to begin planning for how climate change will dramatically reduce snowpack.

Oregon County sues fossil fuel entities and enablers for contributing to deadly 2021 heatwave

“Multnomah County is utilizing irrefutable climate science to hold corporate polluters accountable for their role in causing a discreet and disastrous event, as well as recent wildfires.”

Ocean warming study so distressing, some scientists didn’t even want to talk about it

Researchers examining the ocean off the east coast of North America found that the water's surface was 13.8°C, or 14.8°F, hotter than the average temperature between 1981 and 2011.

Fossil fueled foreign policy: Why COP26 flopped

Western observers want to blame India for the failure of the U.N. climate talks. Not so fast.

Trump admin argues no constitutional right to a safe climate two years after ditching...

The outcome of the case could have implications for a range of climate change litigation around the nation.

Protesters Lock Their Bodies to Machines to Stop Dakota Access Pipeline

Native Americans from across the U.S. and Canada continue to arrive at the resistance camps to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. Some of them locked themselves to the heavy machinery.

Climate change forced over 1 million Africans from their homes in 2015

Disasters triggered by rapid-onset natural hazards affected 33 African countries last year.

West Virginia’s natural gas industry keeps pushing to whittle away payments to residents

Companies are deducting “post-production” costs or creating shell companies to reduce royalty payments. The firms say they have done nothing wrong.