Tag: climate change
Amazon deforestation falls to eight-year low as scientists warn gains remain...
Researchers credit stronger enforcement and environmental protections in Brazil while warning that fires, illegal logging, and political threats continue to endanger the rainforest.
The environmental and social impacts of fish farming and industrial aquaculture
Often promoted as sustainable, fish farming can increase pressure on wild fisheries, deepen global food inequities, and damage marine ecosystems.
Mark Carney pledges $1B in taxpayer money for a ‘carbon bomb’...
It’s a massive subsidy to Equinor, the Norwegian oil company behind the Bay du Nord offshore oil project.
Why capitalism relies on nature and care work it does not...
Modern economies depend on unpriced ecosystem functions and undervalued care and reproductive labor—essential inputs that are difficult to commodify. This tension helps explain environmental degradation, social strain, and the limits of market systems.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Big Tech accused of AI ‘greenwashing’
A new report has found that “the promises of planet-saving tech remain hollow.”
Supreme Court will hear Exxon’s effort to crush climate lawsuits
Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from considering the petition, despite significant financial conflicts of interest in implicated cases.
A warming planet makes nor’easters & other storms more intense: Climate...
With its defunding of scientific infrastructure across the country, “the Trump administration is truly putting Americans in harm’s way.”
Activists are racking up wins against a false climate solution
Across North America and Europe, a movement is taking on the biomass industry and saving some of the world’s last intact forests.
Top US oil lobby API targets landmark EU climate law, policy...
The declaration coincides with U.S. fossil fuel companies’ use of Trump’s trade tensions and international discord to undermine EU climate laws.
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New study finds CT scans to account for 5 percent of cancer diagnoses
While some experts caution against CT scans, many believe the modeling used in this study left much uncertainty.
Raw milk cheese recalled after E. coli outbreak sickens 13 people in nine states
Eight people were hospitalized and three developed a serious kidney complication, and more than half of those sick are age 5 or younger, the CDC says.
White House cancels $810 million in congressional spending days before fiscal year ends
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, a Republican, called the pocket rescission unlawful, and the House is out of session until after the November election.
Tennessee lawmakers demand answers after report that private youth prisons hid abuse
One company runs all three of the state's highest-security youth prisons, and Tennessee plans to spend more than $400 million on additional facilities.
Mo. Senator Eric Schmitt’s asinine SHIELD Act would classify blowing whistles as ‘Obstruction of...
Meanwhile Schmitt ignores blatant obstruction by Bondi’s DOJ.