Friday, August 15, 2025

The global People’s Climate Marches were massive. Here’s what organizers have planned next.

Pipeline fights, legal challenges and elections are driving the next phase of the climate resistance.

Texas zoo makes history with repeated breeding success of critically endangered gharial crocodile

The Forth Worth Zoo is the only institution in North America to have breeding success of this critically endangered species.

Climate activists bring insurgent message to Exxon shareholder meeting: #ExxonKnew, it’s time to #MakeThemPay

“It’s time Exxon pay for its destruction. For years, I've seen the rise of extreme oil and gas extraction – fracking and tar sands – and increasingly extreme weather events of the climate crisis.

Two pipelines shut down after 43 barrels of crude leak into Missouri soil

"We were very fortunate in the fact that there's a natural containment the oil resides."

For Africa’s great apes, even ‘best-case’ climate change will decimate habitat

“African great apes are one of the most vulnerable mammal groups in the world.”

At first House climate hearing in nearly a decade, 16-Year-old activist tells Congress time...

"You should put the interests of your future generations first – not just because it is the right thing to do, but because many of us have the right to vote in just a couple of years."

Fish and Wildlife Service publish final rule on African elephant imports

The amendment to the 4(d) rule for African elephants is said to protect and conserve African elephants both in the wild and in captivity.

European Environment Committee Votes Against Glyphosate Renewal

"So long as serious concerns remain about the carcinogenicity and endocrine disruptive properties of the herbicide glyphosate, the EU Commission should not renew its authorization."

Tribes and environmental groups sue Trump administration to preserve clean water protections

The administration’s latest attempt to undermine the Clean Water Act would jeopardize tribal and state rights to protect their water quality

Pushing Carbon Tax and Fracking Ban, Sanders Lays Down Gauntlet on Climate

"I hope that Secretary Clinton would join me if we are serious about climate change, about imposing a tax on carbon on the fossil fuel industry and making massive investments in energy efficiency and sustainable energy. And by the way... I hope you’ll join me in ending fracking in the United States of America."