Saturday, November 14, 2026

VIDEO: The President Should Not Only Veto the Keystone XL Pipeline, but Stop it...

President Obama has the authority to end the environmentally damaging Keystone XL pipeline project altogether. It's time we pressure the White House to go through with it.
The interior of a hog confinement barn. Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Revealed: factory farm pollution is costing the UK £130m a year

Ammonia from farms drives lung conditions, heart disease and chronic illness – and we have been able to put a figure on the cost
A corridor between rows of dark equipment cabinets inside a data center

Data Center Health Worries Animate Midterm Campaigns

Opposition to the rapid emergence of data centers in states such as Ohio and Arizona has ginned up activism and unified voters. A range of public health issues have played into the resistance.
A great hornbill in Goa, India. Photo: Rajan Hatiskar / CC BY-SA 4.0

Bangladesh’s hornbills face hunting risk during breeding season

Most of the 26 birds rescued from nests since 2023 were chicks, and cases cluster from May to August, when females stay in the nest.
Flooded houses in Chertsey, England. Photo: Alan Hunt / CC BY-SA 2.0

Insurance firms help flooding victims mop up. They also make flooding worse

Major insurers are fuelling the climate crisis while benefiting from a scheme that helps cover their flood losses
A military aircraft drops fire retardant over a wildfire.

US wildfire damage is on pace to triple by mid-century, but there are affordable...

Dry land and little snow helped fuel a destructive 2026 fire season. New research shows active fire seasons are becoming the norm, and communities need to prepare.
A courtroom in Brampton, Ontario. Photo: Nicholas Moreau / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Climate change rarely goes on trial. This one could be a landmark.

Fifteen young Canadians say their government’s failure to curb emissions violates their constitutional right to life, liberty, and security.
Solar panel installation in Ghana. Photo: SAgbley / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Earthshot and the science of positive tipping points: how environmental progress can become unstoppable

Change happens rapidly when we know where to look: these solutions could tip the world towards a better future.
Satellite imagery of forest loss near Kisangani, in DR Congo's Tshopo province, home to the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve. Photo: NASA Earth Observatory, public domain

What conservation rumors reveal about climate projects in the Congo Basin

Researchers spent years listening to villagers' rumors about a Congo Basin science station before realizing the rumors were making an argument of their own.
Fossil remains of Neovenator, another predatory dinosaur from the Isle of Wight. Photo: Conty / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

New long-clawed British dinosaur is the first of its kind in Europe

A skull stored at the Natural History Museum for more than a century turns out to be a new species of predator