Seeking justice against palm oil firms, victims call out banks behind them
Individuals from Indonesia and Liberia embroiled in land disputes with oil palm plantations have visited the Netherlands to call on the Dutch...
Greta Thunberg: New IPCC Report is a wake-up call for all about the escalating...
“The climate crisis is not going away. It’s only escalating, and it’s only growing more intense by the hour.”
Enough commercial fishing gear lost in ocean each year to stretch to moon and...
The amount of gear lost annually includes more than 25 million traps and pots and almost 14 billion longline hooks.
Welcome to 2020: 8 important environmental stories to follow this year
From the extinction crisis to plastic pollution and the 2020 election, these are some of the stories we expect to dominate headlines in the year ahead.
U.S. continues to ship illegal plastic waste to developing countries
“You’re starting to see an outcry in countries being flooded with waste. And we are already seeing more countries starting to put their foot down.”
AI energy demand drives Google’s emissions up 48% in five years
The report said its 2023 emissions had reached 14.3 metric tons.
Trump Would Be a Climate Killer
Environmentalists may debate over whether Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders would be better on climate. But what is indisputable is that both accept climate science and propose policies based on science that would cut carbon pollution.
People act where US fails on climate
If we are to have a livable future, we must act rapidly.
Plastic bottle made from plants degrades in just one year
“This plastic has very attractive sustainability credentials because it uses no fossil fuels, and can be recycled – but would also degrade in nature much faster than normal plastics do.”
Why plastic pollution is even worse than you think
When it comes to plastic our efforts seem to be much more focused on what happens after we use it than before we use it.