Oceans have absorbed 60% more heat than scientists thought
It means that policy makers now have even less leeway when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions if they want to keep warming to 1.5 or even 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
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.
50% of US lakes and rivers are too polluted for swimming, fishing, drinking
A new report from the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) finds the country has fallen far short of the Clean Water Act's goal.
REVEALED: Now there’s proof that the fossil fuel industry uses cultural sponsorships to block...
Campaigners have warned cultural institutions against accepting oil money, arguing that sponsorships are a key weapon in the public relations arsenal the industry deploys to thwart climate action.
Senate bans shark fin trade and addresses forced labor and illegal fishing
The Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act makes it illegal to possess, buy, sell or transport shark fins or any product containing shark fins, except for certain dogfish fins.
Wait, what? BP CEO argues for more oil and gas spending to solve climate...
“Climate crisis is a plague, Bernard Looney to the Hague.”
Fracking’s ‘new religion’ offers false hope
U.S. oil fracking industry is asking investors to have faith that ‘bigger is better’ to try to lure them back into risky shale investments.
Trump’s indecision on trophy hunting reignites heated debate
Trump’s very public reversal – or potential one – left animal rights advocates, conservationists, big game hunters and safari businesses renewing heated attacks on, and vehement defenses of, trophy hunting.
Methane emissions from food waste alarmingly accelerate climate crisis
As EPA reports highlight the staggering methane emissions from food waste, the U.S. grapples with an overlooked environmental hazard.
‘An unstoppable force’: wind and solar to produce more than a third of global...
“The benefit of rapid renewable deployment is greater energy security and independence, plus long-term energy price deflation because this is a manufactured technology — the more you install the cheaper it gets.”