Environment

n January, the Yurok Tribe in California bought a 40-acre farm. Located next to an elementary school and the tribe’s Head Start program,...

Scientists analyzed samples from meltwater rivers and fjords and found concentrations of dissolved mercury among the highest ever recorded.

"I'm grateful that my fellow plaintiffs and I can have our voices heard, and that climate science can have its day in court."

Unless we include addressing this dysfunctional individual and collective psychological state in our strategy to avert human extinction, we will ultimately fail and extinction will indeed be our fate.

Critics say the North Yorkshire power station is likely to continue burning wood pellets for electricity, and that the amounts granted to new projects are too low to result in any significant technological breakthroughs.

As delegates prepare for COP27 and fossil fuel companies report record profits, the environmental emergency couldn’t be more pressing; the need for action by governments, corporations and populations more urgent, and the stench of complacency more pungent.

"Unaffordable costs of energy and other necessities will push vulnerable populations into energy poverty and even extreme poverty.”

"Sánchez came out in support of the U.S. Green New Deal – sometimes translated as 'El New Deal Verde' or 'El Green New Deal de España' – in January and has campaigned on it throughout the election."

"Justice demands real money moving from the global North to the global South to compensate for the damage we’ve done."

The weekly demonstration coincided with a global youth-led climate strike that aimed to put pressure on governments attending COP 25.