Tag: environment

My plea to the government and to my fellow Australians: Don’t let politics thwart science. Don’t fight the diagnosis. Fight the threats. The world is watching and the clock is ticking.

Since the identification of the disease off Virginia Key in 2014, it has spread to the Caribbean, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Saint Maarten and Mexico.

“We are one step closer to protecting the health of Americans from these toxic forever chemicals.”

Together, the country’s 2 million dams block access to more than 600,000 miles of river for fish.

The natural gas pipeline already has hundreds of water quality violations. Opponents are hopeful the EPA’s warning brings the project’s cancelation closer.

“And you have an ecosystem like the Amazon biome that is so vulnerable to climate change and so biodiverse, the argument is there to just not be involved in oil and gas extraction in the region at all.”

Credit-rating agencies say they can discipline companies that behave badly, and they have in some cases, but research reveals negligible progress.

In Italy, fossil fuel companies met over a hundred times with ministers and civil servants, helping to quadruple financial support for the sector, a new report claims.

"The West has never seen a drought like this, especially so early in the dry season."

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.