Should harming mother Earth be a crime? The case for ecocide
The destruction of nature might one day become a criminal offense adjudicated by the International Criminal Court.
‘A pretty ugly history’: How Exxon exported climate denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
Koch academic influence returns to Massachusetts with new Tufts University think tank
A network of free-market think tanks around the country tied to Koch funding that tend to oppose climate action and clean energy.
Investigation: How pesticide companies are marketing themselves as a solution to climate change
“The current food system is responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions; it’s also fully dependent on oil both for transport and because pesticides and fertilizers are petrochemically-derived.”
Current investigation of ExxonMobil could spur broader climate action
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a state-led investigation into ExxonMobil’s climate change deception.
How Bolsonaro’s climate change denial & anti-indigenous policies led to massive fires in the...
In Brazil, fires continue to rage in the Amazon, and new drone footage shows the smoke and flames gathering strength. A vast...
How a ‘pro-climate’ charity channeled cash to a Koch-funded think tank
Opaque funds are masking donations to political causes.
Effort to give oil companies $97 million tax break in Louisiana halted
The original version of the bill introduced by Rep. Phillip DeVillier this spring would have cost the state $97 million over the next five years.
Endangered sea turtle populations on the rise worldwide, new study finds
Of the 48 populations studied, the sea turtle population in the Atlantic Ocean are recovering better than those in the Pacific Ocean, while leatherback turtles are showing the slowest recovery.
Earthquakes. Drought. Geysers. Permian oilfield water woes pile up in west Texas
At 8:00 a.m. Eastern on January 21, a magnitude 3.4 earthquake shook Culberson County in West Texas midway between Odessa and El...