Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Pruitt is removing science advisers who have received EPA funding, but he’s OK with...

The EPA administrator called for scientific independence while drowning in fossil fuel money.

Washington activists launch ‘Climate Countdown’ to push lawmakers for urgent action

“We, as a society and as a whole, have to respond to the climate crisis.”

The strategy of maximal extraction

This is how Donald Trump plans to enlist fossil fuels in the struggle for global dominance.

Big oil may face some consequences: New York sues Exxon for deceiving investors on...

"Exxon built a facade to deceive investors into believing that the company was managing the risks of climate change regulation to its business when, in fact, it was intentionally and systematically underestimating or ignoring them."

Human prehistory—why new discoveries about human origins open up revolutionary possibilities

It is one thing to analyze a given set of stone tools made by long-extinct hominin cousins and quite another to ask what their transposed significance to contemporary society might be.

500,000 bees killed by Texas arsonist

"It's bad enough to think in today's world this would happen, but dumping them over and then setting fire to them is beyond comprehension."

‘No plastic chemical can be classified as safe’: study finds hundreds of toxins in...

Hidden hazards: uncovering the toxic reality of recycled plastics.

Faced With a Fracking Giant, This Small Town Just Legalized Civil Disobedience

A new first-in-the-nation law will shield residents from arrest as they use direct action to stop fracking-wastewater injection wells.

Trump’s EPA rolls back regulation of chemical linked to brain damage in infants that...

“Is this what the Environmental Protection Agency has come to?”

Pandemic lockdowns caused ‘just a tiny blip’ in climate-polluting emissions, WMO finds

The news comes as it's more critical than ever to seriously tackle rising global emissions.