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Analysis Warns Climate Crisis Threatens US Nuclear Reactors
The nation's nuclear reactors may be at risk due to the climate emergency, according to a report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office on Tuesday.The report claims the Nuclear...
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Report Outlines Which Companies Are Most Responsible for Climate Crisis
A report released by Carbon Majors on Thursday says that 57 companies were responsible for 80% of the world's CO2 emissions from fossil fuel and cement production between 2016 to 2022.Saudi Aramco,...
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2023 Was '2 Steps Forward, 2 Steps Back' for Tropical Forest Loss
An annual accounting of global deforestation, released Thursday, shows that political will can make a significant difference when it comes to protecting vital ecosystems and the Indigenous and local...
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Fed Chair Under Fire for Blocking Climate Risk Financial Rules
The chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, is facing scrutiny this week for pushing back against efforts incorporate climate risk in global financial rules."European central bankers have been...
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Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Hit New Record Levels
The three most critical heat-trapping gases in Earth's atmosphere again reached record levels last year, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Friday, underscoring the...
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In 'Landmark' Ruling, Top EU Court Rules Swiss Climate Inaction Violates...
A decision handed down by one of the European Union's top courts on Tuesday should signal to governments across the bloc and beyond that their time may soon be up when it comes to delaying climate...
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'Victory for Cleaner Air' as Federal Court Upholds California Vehicle...
Three judges serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the Biden administration's 2022 decision to preserve California's strict emissions...
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'Huge—and Long Overdue—Victory': Biden EPA Finalizes Limits on PFAS in...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday finalized the country's first-ever national limits on "forever chemicals" in drinking water, a move that advocates welcomed as a critical step...
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Chevron CEO Pay Jumped to $26.5 Million During Hottest Year on Record
The chief executive of the U.S. oil giant Chevron saw his pay jump by more than 12% in 2023 as continued emissions from fossil fuel corporations helped push global temperatures to record heights....
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'Progress Almost Invisible': World Set to Produce 220 Million Tonnes of...
A report released Thursday estimates that countries worldwide are on pace to generate 220 million tonnes of total plastic waste this year, a finding that comes as governments are set to convene in...
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'Worst I Have Seen': 75% of Great Barrier Reef Suffers Coral Bleaching
Marine conservationists warned Thursday that Australia's Great Barrier Reef may be suffering its worst-ever coral bleaching event amid record ocean heat fueled by the worsening climate emergency. The...
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Youth Coalition Presses Biden to Declare Climate Emergency Ahead of Earth Day
Ahead of Earth Day on April 22, youth organizers across the United States are planning protests in hundreds of communities to demand that President Joe Biden declare a climate emergency and take other...
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Sierra Club Urges Dem Senators to Uphold Biden Clean Vehicle Standards
The Sierra Club on Wednesday launched a multistate digital ad campaign aimed at persuading seven U.S. senators—six of them Democrats—to back the Biden administration's already weakened tailpipe...
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UK Youth, Experts Occupy Coal-Sponsored Science Museum Gallery
A few dozen protesters from Youth Action for Climate Justice and Scientists for Extinction Rebellion this weekend occupied a new climate gallery at the Science Museum in London that is sponsored by...
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'Catastrophic': Biden Admin Approves Largest Offshore Oil Export Terminal
Climate action groups are vehemently rejecting the Biden administration's claim that the approval of a new offshore oil terminal—planned to be the largest in the U.S.—is in the "national interest,"...
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Sunrise Protesters Arrested at VP's House Demanding Biden Declare a Climate...
Six young activists were arrested outside Vice President Kamala Harris' Los Angeles home on Monday while calling on the White House to declare a climate emergency, according to the youth-led Sunrise...
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'Should Be a Global Wake-Up Call': Coral Reefs Suffer Fourth Mass Bleaching...
Scientists said Monday that the world's coral reefs are facing a fourth global bleaching event as the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency pushes ocean temperatures to record highs, imperiling the...
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Open Letter Demands Global Finance Overhaul to Fight Climate and Debt Crises
Quoting the economist John Maynard Keynes at the time of the founding of the modern global finance system in 1944, more than 100 signatories on Tuesday called on the world's largest economies to allow...
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Climate Crisis to Cost Global Economy $38 Trillion a Year by 2050
The climate crisis will shrink the average global income 19% in the next 26 years compared to what it would have been without global heating caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels, a study...
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'The Pressure Is Working': Biden Weighs Climate Emergency Declaration
The youth-led Sunrise Movement on Thursday celebrated Bloomberg reporting that "White House officials have renewed discussions about potentially declaring a national climate emergency."The Wednesday...
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Ahead of Plastics Treaty Summit, Studies Make Case for Stopping Pollution at...
As worldwide government officials, civil society groups, and activists prepare to head to Ottawa, Canada for the fourth session of Global Plastics Treaty negotiations, climate advocates urged...
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Youth Lead Global Strike Demanding 'Climate Justice Now'
Ahead of Earth Day, young people around the world are participating in a global strike on Friday to demand "climate justice now."In Sweden, Greta Thunberg joined hundreds of other demonstrators for a...
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Ahead of Treaty Negotiations, Hundreds March to 'End the Plastic Era'
Days before national delegates gather for the fourth and penultimate negotiations to develop a Global Plastics Treaty in Ottawa, Canada, around 500 Indigenous and community representatives, members of...
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Green Groups Cheer $7 Billion in 'Solar for All' Grants
Climate action advocates on Monday celebrated the Biden administration's Earth Day announcement that it is distributing $7 billion in Solar for All grants "to develop long-lasting solar programs that...
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South Korean Court Hears First Asian Youth Climate Case
One of South Korea's two highest courts on Tuesday began hearing Asia's first-ever youth-led climate lawsuit, which accuses the country's government of failing to protect citizens from the effects of...
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Plastics Summit 'Die-In' Highlights Need to Cut Production
As the fourth round of talks for a global plastics treaty kicked off in the Canadian capital on Tuesday, campaigners with the corporate accountability group Ekō staged a die-in at Ottawa's Shaw Centre...
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Critics Blast 'Reckless and Impossible' Bid to Start Operating Mountain...
Environmental defenders on Tuesday ripped the company behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline for asking the federal government—on Earth Day—for permission to start sending methane gas through the...
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'We Don't Have Time for This': New Biden Power Sector Rules Spare Existing...
President Joe Biden's Environmental Protection Agency announced a final quartet of rules on Thursday to limit climate-warming emissions from existing coal and new gas-powered plants, as well as reduce...
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'Just the Beginning': 50+ Arrested for Blockading Citigroup Bank Over Climate...
Twenty more demonstrators were arrested Thursday, the second day of Earth Week protests targeting Citigroup's Manhattan headquarters in what organizers called "the beginning of a wave of direct...
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Alabama House Passes Bill That Could Be 'Used to Arrest Librarians'
The Alabama House of Representatives voted 72-28 on Thursday in favor of a bill that would apply the state's criminal obscenity laws to public libraries, public school libraries, and the people who...
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