Tag: climate crisis
17 states under heat alerts as fifth summer heat wave in...
The latest heat wave is now the fifth distinct extreme heat event the U.S. has experienced this summer, and follows the country's hottest June on record.
Scientists who issued ‘climate emergency’ declaration in 2019 now say Earth’s...
A rapid and urgent phaseout of fossil fuels is needed, scientists warn, in order to avoid crossing dangerous climate tipping points.
Why you should be concerned about climate change
By preserving a healthy environment, fighting climate change offers us an opportunity to put people’s welfare first.
Maine becomes first state to make corporations pay for recycling
“While we’re first in the U.S., we’re not going to be the last.”
Solar generated 25% of US electricity in April: What this means...
Continued growth in the solar sector is essential to climate change prevention.
The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate crisis...
Experts’ discoveries lie at the heart of two dozen lawsuits that hope to hold the industry accountable for devastating damage.
Nearly half a billion people at risk from sea level rise...
“There’s a lot of scientists looking at long-term scenarios. But it’s happening now in parts of the world.”
Global LNG industry reeling as its image as a climate solution...
Nearly two dozen major LNG projects around the world are struggling to move forward, a new report reveals, as investors grow skittish from poor economics and increasing scrutiny on the industry’s large carbon footprint.
Ice shelf holding Pine Island Glacier could collapse within a decade
“The recent changes in speed are not due to melt-driven thinning; instead they’re due to the loss of the outer part of the ice shelf.”
Humanity’s #1 environmental problem is consumption—climate change is just one of...
By focusing the climate fight on what we emit, not what we consume, we are destined to fail—net-zero emissions policies aren’t enough to prevent catastrophe.
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As GOP megabill’s SNAP cuts take effect, millions lose food aid and states face...
New tracking finds SNAP enrollment has fallen by more than 4.5 million people since July 2025, and analysts warn states could soon owe roughly $9 billion a year.
42-year study traces how ‘forever chemicals’ climb the Great Lakes food web into people
A synthesis of more than four decades of data maps how PFAS move up the region's aquatic food web and into the fish people eat.
Kept in the dark: How Louisiana weakened community air monitoring as industry pushed back
That stretch of roughly 85 miles, widely known as "Cancer Alley," is home to dozens of refineries and chemical plants and to many predominantly Black communities.
GOP tucks $10 billion for voting restrictions into party-line Pentagon funding bill
The measure advanced on a near party-line vote just before lawmakers left Washington for a lengthy summer recess.
Israel and the United States are merging their military. Here’s why.
"From aid to partnership," the U.S. and Israel are set to become even more united in genocide.