Thursday, October 1, 2026

America’s biggest public pension fund is slow-walking corporate climate action, report charges

CalPERS says it needs to hold onto billions in fossil fuel shares in order to push polluters in the right direction – but a new report details a pattern of voting against climate proposals.

2017 was the hottest year on record for oceans

"Plastic is one of the biggest threats in the ocean at the moment, I would say, apart from climate change,"

Trump appoints pair of climate science deniers to NOAA while climate-fueled fires and storms...

It is therefore worth taking a closer look at the backgrounds of these two individuals questioning mainstream climate science.
Cracked mud on the bed of a dried-out reservoir at Bouhanifia, Algeria. Photo: Hydrosami / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

GEF Proposes $140 Million Program to Strengthen Drought Resilience

The Drylands and Drought Management Integrated Program would run from 2026 to 2030, and answers requests from parties to the UN desertification convention for the fund to give drought financing greater priority.

Seattle becomes first city to cut ties with Wells Fargo over DAPL, just hours...

“When big cities such as this do the right thing, it sparks hope in the world.”

Norwegian Arctic oil drilling targeted by campaigners in new legal action

“But our application to the European Court of Human Rights is for me the manifestation of action and hope in the face of this crisis.”

Seymour Hersh report alleges US was behind Nord Stream pipeline sabotage

"Biden's decision to sabotage the pipelines came after more than nine months of highly secret back and forth debate inside Washington's national security community about how to best achieve that goal."
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“Duh, of course I would”: Bernie Sanders vows to take legal action against fossil...

"How do you hold fossil fuel executives who knew that they were destroying the planet but kept on doing it?"

A growing presence of ‘forever chemicals’ in California produce, new study

According to Environmental Working Group, 37 percent of California-grown produce samples contained at least one of 17 different PFAS pesticide residues.