Environment

"Instead of hitting the brakes on the decarbonization of the global economy" amid Russia's war on Ukraine, "now is the time to put the pedal to the metal towards a renewable energy future," said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres.

“It has everything to do with corporations degrading the environmental quality of communities and the communities themselves."

General investors are finally catching up to the bad deal that fracking represents, but the question is: What took them so long?

“Exxon chose profit over people. It’s time they’re held accountable.”

The challenge from here on is to avoid water wars while preemptively, cooperatively and aggressively addressing a growing global population’s water security. It can be done, but we must do it now.

If we do not rapidly, systematically and substantially reduce our consumption in several key areas and radically alter our parenting model, while resisting elite violence strategically on several fronts, homo sapiens will enter Earth’s fossil record within a few years.

The trick is to use patience, tolerance, an optimistic tone – and last, but not least, a keen understanding of your audience – to nudge your climate-skeptic sister or father-in-law.

“It’s very positive, but we continue to have very high levels of deforestation.”

This is just the latest in a long list of examples of the Trump administration working with corporate polluters before reversing public safeguards

In Norway, a high-tech seed vault flooded from melting permafrost. In Montana, locals keep their seeds in the library.