Right-wing populist parties are bad for climate action, study finds
The researchers, from the Universities of Sussex and Warwick in the UK, found that the influence of a right-wing populist party can reduce a country’s climate policy score by nearly 25 percent.
Four ways Alaska’s unending warming impacts everyone
As remote Alaska warms and melts, it kicks off changes that will affect global systems and worsen climate change.
Must watch: Bernie Sanders and Bill Nye discuss climate change
“Instead of accepting that the climate is changing, deniers are denying the evidence and dismissing the authorities.”
New report predicts abandoned coal mines turned into solar farms could add 300 GW...
These solar projects could equal 15 percent of the solar that's already been built globally and help triple renewables before the end of the decade.
Millions of tons of invisible nanoplastics found polluting North Atlantic Ocean
New research finds an estimated 27 million tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic, raising concerns for marine ecosystems and human health.
Map shows chemical-related incidents happen every two days in US
In the wake of the train derailment in Ohio, a new analysis shows chemical accidents are more common in the United States...
Inside the Trump administration’s chaotic dismantling of the federal land agency
Internal records from the Bureau of Land Management contradict what its chief told Congress about a plan to ship 200 D.C.-based career staff out West. The plan would weaken the agency, which stands between federal lands and oil, gas and mineral companies.
Water waste must stop
The whole wastewater system is contributing to climate change.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 6, 2018
Scott Pruitt resigns from the EPA, grassroots groups demand tech companies cut ties with ICE, a 20-foot-tall Trump blimp gets the okay in London, and more.
Governments are sending oil executives to COP26 despite climate pledges. Here’s a look at...
A DeSmog analysis found that the delegations from multiple countries are heavily drawn from their oil ministries and even large oil companies. Shell and other publicly traded oil giants are also attending the climate proceedings under the cover of trade groups.