Environment

The destruction of nature might one day become a criminal offense adjudicated by the International Criminal Court.

A pioneering fieldwork study of mountain heights and boulders in West Antarctica supports computer predictions that global sea levels could rise steeply by 2080.

"The project is “drastically out of step with the Biden administration’s goals to slash climate pollution and transition to clean energy,” but that “it’s not too late for him to step up and pull the plug on this carbon bomb."

While Indigenous communities will be able to attend the U.N. conference as observers, they are not recognized as parties to the biodiversity talks and cannot vote on the outcome.

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.

There is some good news on the emissions front, and new renewable energy installations are key to it.

Help us tell the EPA to keep the Renewable Fuel Standard and keep the United States moving away from dependence on foreign oil.

“They wanted this one to happen quietly and under the radar.”

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently approved a permit to lay a tar sands crude pipeline from Illinois to Indiana. Environmental groups are doing all they can to stop it by requesting a full National Environmental Policy Act review for Enbridge's proposal.

It will take nearly four years to complete the process for withdrawal, meaning that the final decision will not happen until after the 2020 presidential election.