Thursday, September 19, 2024

Plastic overload: China bans overseas plastic scraps from US and around world

Now there is an overload of America's waste inside storage facilities nationwide.

Plastics industry on track to burn through 14% of world’s remaining carbon budget: New...

“Really the surest solution to dealing with the problem of plastics and climate is to reduce plastic production, to keep the fossil fuels in the ground, to move towards eliminating the use of single-use plastics and non-essential plastics.”

Climate trial against Oil Giant Eni opens in Italy

The lawsuit “aims to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030.”

World’s glaciers at serious risk from climate crisis

“Significant loss of glaciers means that we are not only witnessing a change in landscape or a loss of natural resources, it means that we are actively complicit in robbing the future from our children.”

Wall Street Journal and Senator Barrasso still peddling Koch’s electric car myths

Senator John Barrasso and the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) editorial board are once again attacking the federal electric vehicle tax credit, and are once...

VICTORY: Ohio Supreme Court overturns the ban on cities that prevented them from voting...

This is a great step in the right direction, but it isn't perfect.

The Maldives is building a floating city

More than 80% of the country's land area lies at less than one meter above sea level – meaning rising sea levels and coastal erosion pose a threat to its very existence.

The climate crisis and Korea

By setting aside their myriad differences, North and South Korea can show the rest of the world that addressing the climate emergency must take precedence over all other disagreements.

Climate change: All talk no action

Man-made climate change observes no borders, it is a global catastrophe, and, as has been repeatedly said but consistently ignored.

A mix of unusual forces is fueling Southern California’s fires

Scientists have tied California's fires to rising temperatures and years of epic drought.