Tag: environment
Should humans try to modify the amount of sunlight the Earth...
Managing solar radiation through technology is possible, but there are ethical and political concerns.
COP26: Will humanity’s ‘last and best chance’ to save earth’s climate...
here is a chance we can prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis, but world leaders must hold businesses accountable and listen to Indigenous communities.
Plastic pollution in waterways likely to more than double by 2030,...
"This assessment provides the strongest scientific argument to date for the urgency to act, and for collective action to protect and restore our oceans from source to sea."
Smoke from wildfires in the West harms more people in the...
The research underlines the widespread harms caused by wildfires, which are made worse by human-caused climate change, despite their localized acute destruction.
Microplastics are in the air we breathe and in Earth’s atmosphere,...
We highlight just how widespread microplastic pollution is and the potential it has to influence climate on a global scale.
What it’s like to watch a harpooned whale die right before...
Author Paul Watson has no problem with critics calling him and his marine-life-defending colleagues pirates—it’s far better than helplessly standing by and doing nothing in the face of the violence against animals they have witnessed.
To find out if ExxonMobil really supports a carbon tax, just...
Despite claiming to endorse a carbon tax, ExxonMobil has funneled millions of dollars to lawmakers who oppose the idea.
Seven in ten major UK pension funds yet to make ‘robust’...
They are calling on the government to “catalyze” change by setting mandatory science-based net zero targets.
Turning away from fossil fuels: Lessons from the anti-apartheid movement
The rhetorical battle over turning away from investments in companies contributing to climate change, it seems, has been won.
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Apathy in the American Medical Association
It is well past time that they break their silence.
A mulish fool, a farce-spoiled pool and more swill from staggering misrule
No matter the mayhem, great or small,/ Dredge up “vandals did it” protocol.
Native American tribes came together to secure their rights to Colorado River water. Four...
If passed into law, the Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act would resolve the largest outstanding claim on the Colorado River while providing about $5 billion in federal funding to build infrastructure to transport the water across the reservations.
How Russia and China learned to love their border
Once one of the world’s most militarized frontiers, the Russia-China border along the Amur River Basin shows how a long-running territorial dispute can evolve from confrontation to integration.
Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ regulatory rollbacks fuel surge in protective climate lawsuits
With President Trump’s intensified attacks on climate policy during his second term, lawsuits challenging U.S. federal actions drove global climate litigation, a new analysis shows.