Environment

Rich countries have exported climate breakdown through extractive industries, creating a “carbon colonialism.”

Cities affected included New York, Cleveland and Chicago.

Indigenous leaders call climate change an urgent threat that requires a global response (an idea that was trashed by the Trump administration).

EPA chief announced 31 deregulation actions that will roll back Biden-era environmental rules, including those concerning climate change, electric vehicles (EVs) and pollution limits for coal-fired power plants.

The monarch butterfly population is shrinking because of climate change, environmentalists said, so the federal protection will not only create a comprehensive recovery plan, but also provide ongoing funding to restore their habitat.

Wetlands can help remove nutrient pollution causing low-oxygen “dead zones.” But how much benefit we reap depends a lot on placement, a new study finds.

150 years of grazing, fire suppression, and other land-use changes have transformed these forests.

“This is just a continuation of at least six years of fraudulent and defiant behavior by Exxon, which has slanted its accounting policies and skewed its impairment calculations to avoid necessary write downs of its oil & gas properties since at least 2014.”

While the toxicity of some of the detected compounds has been shown through studies, the potential adverse effects of others on humans is unknown.

The administration’s attack on scientific institutions in the United States has included cancellations of federal grants to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions; the firing of NASA, NOAA and other government employees; investigations and threats to private universities; resignations; and censorship.