Sunday, December 22, 2024

Saving our planet requires systemic and behavioral change

For the environmental emergency to be faced with the intensity needed, and healing to occur, a dramatic shift is required.

Russian Green Deal: Light at the end of the tunnel?

Russia is a leading carbon emitter and exporter. But change is afoot inside the country.

Trump’s offshore drilling plan puts 68 national parks at risk

All of these parks would be in danger if Trump and Zinke's drilling proposal goes ahead.

Canadian government declares oil trains safe and plans to get into the oil train...

Here's why that's bad news for the communities in both Canada and the U.S. where this influx of oil train traffic will pass.

Northwest climate activists fight a new front in the movement to stop fossil fuels

Climate groups and Indigenous nations are working to add the GTN Xpress pipeline expansion to a long list of defeated fossil fuel transportation projects in the Northwest.

Black residents of Cancer Alley sue local government for discrimination in siting chemical facilities

“We’re being ignored and we have to do whatever we have to do to stop it.”

New corals in the Great Barrier Reef on the decline after back-to-back bleaching

"We've gotten to the point now where local solutions for the reef are almost pointless – the only thing that matters is action on climate change."

Warming climate is the ‘decisive driver’ in spike of record-setting California wildfires

2018 brought several new records for disastrous and deadly wildfires in California.

Hillary Clinton Brings Back Al Gore and Talks Green, but She Still Opposes the...

Clinton has already rejected the idea of a carbon tax, and some think it is because her hedge fund backers have big investments in gas and oil.

Citigroup announces ban on financing Arctic drilling

Citigroup now joins Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo, along with several global banks to end funding oil and gas exploration in the Arctic.