Tuesday, May 26, 2026

How wars ravage the environment—and what international law is doing about it

For global climate governance to succeed in averting disaster, wartime emissions must be brought into full view.

California greenlights ‘Orwellian’ solar-powered fracking scheme

“It’s time the state put our lives first, not the interests of the oil and gas industry.”

Oceans have absorbed 60% more heat than scientists thought

It means that policy makers now have even less leeway when it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions if they want to keep warming to 1.5 or even 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels.

Trump administration to build ‘road to nowhere’ through Alaska wildlife refuge

“The Trump administration has approved an unprecedented and illegal proposal to sell out Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.”

10 ways that the climate crisis and militarism are intertwined

The environmental justice movement that is surging globally is intentionally intersectional, showing how global warming is connected to issues such as race,...

Protesters blockade White House correspondents dinner over Biden’s broken climate promises

This past weekend, the newly formed Climate Defiance group made it a bit harder to get in.
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NC Lagoons hold billions of gallons of hog feces. The hurricane may blast that...

Even if the storm weakens, experts warn Hurricane Florence could kill thousands of farm animals and trigger catastrophic waste spills from sewage treatment plants, hog waste lagoons and chicken farms.

Trump proposes cutting Great Lakes funding by 97%

Every Senator needs to do the right thing for those living by the Great Lakes and reject these dangerous cuts.

PennEast Pipeline cancelation could signal ‘end of an era’ for unnecessary fossil fuel projects

The pipeline would have crossed more than 88 waterways, 44 wetlands, 30 parks, and 33 conservation easements. Experts say the cancelation demonstrates that federal regulators must stop approving gas pipelines that fail to show they are needed in the first place.

Trump plans to decimate Bears Ears National Monument this Monday

Trump plans to shrink Bears Ears monument from more than one million acres to 200,000 acres, with similar cuts to the Grand Staircase-Escalante.