Tag: environment
UNESCO proposes to downgrade Great Barrier Reef’s World Heritage status; Australian...
If added to the List of World Heritage in Danger, the Great Barrier Reef would become the first on it because of climate change reasons.
Legal experts define ecocide, take step toward international criminal law
The draft defines ecocide as, "unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts."
How to get rid of throwaway culture
Individual actions empower us to demand more from corporations and governments and change social norms. So let's get started.
To save planet, solve twin crises of climate change and species...
Some climate solutions can actually harm biodiversity. But there are synergistic solutions that can tackle both issues.
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.
Chile passes single-use plastic regulation that will reduce 23,000 tons of...
"This law is ambitious, but at the same time it's realistic for where Chile stands regarding waste generation and its technical capabilities to make these changes possible."
SEC finds fracking sand company misled investors with claims of ‘game...
The fracking industry’s over-the-top claims to investors have been the norm, but even when proven to be fraudulent, companies suffer almost no consequences.
If we don’t protect 30% of the natural world by 2030,...
We are to blame for the biggest extinction event in human history. But there is a solution if we take urgent action now.
A leaking oil refinery on St. Croix gives Biden his first...
Nearly 100,000 people have signed a petition calling for the closure of a controversial oil and gas facility that has sickened residents of the U.S. Virgin Island.
Government defends praising tar sands industry figures as COP26 ‘climate champions’
Five of the individuals praised at COP26 event hold senior roles at fossil fuel companies and investors, including the Royal Bank of Canada and Suncor.
POPULAR
Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low crime
President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.
Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...
Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.
Community organizer slams ‘fascist ICE agents’ after arrest of US citizen documenting raids
ICE has faced widespread backlash over the arrest of community advocates swept up while documenting raids across the country, many of them U.S. citizens.
The FDA let substandard factories ship these medications to the US
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013.
Israel accused of assassinating five Gaza journalists in targeted airstrike
Al Jazeera calls deadly strike on press tent “blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom” as press freedom groups warn of pattern of killings and smear campaigns against reporters in Gaza.