Big Oil Tax Could Boost Global Loss and Damage Fund by...
A modest tax on the world's seven largest oil and gas companies could generate hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the...
Campaigners Demand ‘Biden Make a Final Stand’ for Climate Before Trump...
With the clock winding down on President Joe Biden's tenure and the dark cloud of Republican President-elect Donald Trump's imminent administration looming, activists rallied...
At COP29, Democrat Senators Vow to ‘Rise Up’ for Climate During...
A pair of Democratic U.S. senators pledged Saturday at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to keep fighting for climate action during Republican President-elect...
Thousands March in London to Demand End of Fossil Fuels and...
Thousands of climate justice advocates took to the streets of London on Saturday to demand the U.K. government "end its reliance on fossil fuels,...
‘We Need a Shift’: Climate Leaders Demand End of COP Dominated...
The crushing influence of petrostates and fossil fuel industry lobbyists has rendered the annual United Nations climate conference unfit to deliver the kinds of...
Trump Picks Big Oil Ally and Drilling Enthusiast Doug Burgum for...
President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has chosen billionaire North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a close ally of the fossil fuel industry and...
US Plastics Industry Dumps Almost Half a Billion Gallons of Wastewater...
Amid fears over President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a government watchdog on Thursday called out the EPA for letting...
As Planet Heads Toward 2.7°C Rise, Tracker Warns Global Climate Action...
Existing policies and actions taken by world governments put the world on track for a median estimate of 2.7°C of warming by the end...
Newly Unearthed Docs Show Big Oil Knew of Climate Dangers as...
Documents uncovered from several academic and news archives shed light on what one climate disinformation expert on Tuesday called "one of the earliest and...
Critics Warn Trump EPA Pick Zeldin ‘Will Make Our Air and...
As U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet
continued to take shape on Tuesday, climate and environmental campaigners expressed deep concerns about his pick to lead...
UN Climate Chief Warns Inaction on Emissions Will Deliver ‘Inflation on...
As he addressed world leaders at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan on Tuesday, U.N. climate chief Simon Stiell made the...
‘We Don’t Give Up’: Climate Groups Resolute as Shell Wins Appeal...
Climate campaigners didn't sugarcoat their reactions to a Dutch court decision on Tuesday that overturned a landmark 2021 ruling ordering the oil behemoth Shell...
As Biden Adviser Speaks at COP29, Green Groups Say Act Before...
As the U.S. senior adviser to the president for international climate policy addressed the United Nations summit in Azerbaijan on Monday, green groups urged...
Climate Campaigners Demand COP29 Free of ‘False’ Finance Solutions
The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference has been called the "climate finance" conference, with participants expected to establish a new annual target for...
‘Ready to Fight’ for Climate, Students Walk Out Over Trump
Students with the youth-led Sunrise Movement walked out of over 30 high schools and universities across the United States on Friday to stand against...
Advocates Urge Biden to ‘Secure His Climate Legacy’ by Acting on...
With just 75 days left before climate-denying Republican President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House to pursue his "Drill, Baby, Drill" energy agenda,...
2024 ‘Virtually Certain’ to Be Hottest Year on Record: EU Climate...
A day after U.S. voters elected climate-denying Republican Donald Trump in the presidential race, soon ushering in an administration that is sure to expand...
Greta Thunberg Won’t Attend UN Climate Talks in ‘Yet Another Authoritarian...
When national delegates and civil society representatives gather in Baku, Azerbaijan next week for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, one prominent climate voice...
Who Should Pay for Climate Damage? Majority of the World Agrees:...
A multinational survey commissioned by Greenpeace International and published Monday revealed that a majority of respondents favor making fossil fuel companies pay for...
‘Unacceptable,’ Advocates Say as COP16 Ends Without Biodiversity Fund Deal
Officials at the international biodiversity conference that began in October were forced on Saturday to suspend talks without reaching an agreement on a key...
Company That Tracks Methane Leaks Says Crisis Worse ‘Than Ever Before’
The number of methane "super-emitters" detected by a satellite company has surged by approximately one-third over the past year, despite pledges from fossil fuel...
‘The Window Is Closing’: Fears Grow That World Leaders Will Fail...
As a major international biodiversity summit approaches its Friday conclusion, environmental advocates fear that world leaders will not make the conservation and financial commitments...
Report Details Record-Breaking Health Threats of Climate Crisis, Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Over $1 trillion spent each year on subsidizing fossil fuel production must be redirected to public health efforts, said the experts behind a new...
‘This Is Climate Change’: Devastating Flooding Kills More Than 70 in...
Spain's deadliest flooding in 30 years killed at least 72 people as torrential rain slammed the eastern region of Valencia on Tuesday, with some...
140 Groups Urge Biodiversity Summit Attendees to Halt New Oil and...
With just a few more days of the United Nations biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, 140 organizations collectively
called on government representatives to pursue...
‘Frightening’: Over 1 in 3 of World’s Tree Species Face Extinction
More than one-third of Earth's tree species are at risk of extinction, with logging, forest destruction for agriculture and urban development, and human-caused global...
‘Words Fail’: WMO Report Finds CO2 Accumulating at Record Levels
Climate-heating carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere more rapidly than at any time since humans evolved.
That's just one of the alarming findings from...
Billionaires Spew More CO2 Pollution in 90 Minutes Than Average Person...
With the world
on track for 3.1°C of warming this century, Oxfam International on Monday blamed global billionaires who—with their superyachts, private jets, and...
Climate Groups Warn Third-Party Vote ‘Could Hand Our Planet’s Future Over...
A coalition of leading U.S. environmental groups warned Thursday that a third-party vote in next month's election could help usher in climate disaster by...
‘We’re Playing With Fire’: World on Track for ‘Catastrophic’ 3.1°C of...
The world's nations must commit to dramatically slashing greenhouse gas emissions in the near future or risk a "catastrophic" rise in global average temperatures,...
COP29 Host’s State Oil Company ‘Aggressively’ Ramping Up Fossil Fuel Production:...
In less than a month, Azerbaijan will host the United Nations' 29th Climate Change Conference, or COP29. But a new report on its state...
World Bank Leads Development Giants in Investing $2.27 Billion in Factory...
The Green Climate Fund and 11 of the 15 multilateral development banks together invested at least $2.27 billion in factory farming in 2023, undercutting...
‘Terrifying’: Leak Shows Industry Plot to Worsen Methane Emissions—If Trump Wins
A key oil and gas industry group has devised a plan to dismantle Biden-era climate regulations, including on methane emissions, according to an investigation...
‘The Law Is Clear’: NY Officials Back Memo Outlining Criminal Charges...
Several New York City and state elected officials endorsed a memo published Thursday outlining how New York City prosecutors could charge major fossil fuel...
‘Sigh of Relief’ as Supreme Court Gives EPA Another Temporary Win
The climate movement on Wednesday welcomed a victory at the U.S. Supreme Court, the third temporary win for the Biden administration's environmental policies this...
IEA Report Underscores Urgency of Fossil Fuel Phaseout as Electricity Demand...
The International Energy Agency on Wednesday released a major report showing that the world's nations are not on track to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
‘Stop Funding Environmental Racism’: Groups Demand Banks Divest From Petrochemicals
Environmental and policy groups on Tuesday called for financial institutions to stop funding the U.S. petrochemical industry.
Break Free from Plastic, Friends of the Earth,...
‘This Is BS’: Green Critics Slam Google’s Bid for Nuclear-Powered AI...
Google announced on Monday that it had signed a deal to purchase energy from a set of yet-to-be-built small nuclear energy plants in order...
10 XR Protesters Blockade UK Site to Stop ‘Blatantly Unlawful Oil...
Ten Extinction Rebellion protesters blockaded an English oil and gas field on Monday in support of a landmark U.K. Supreme Court ruling that was...
Climate Crisis Made Hurricane Milton ‘Wetter, Windier, and More Destructive’
With rescue and cleanup efforts underway in Florida following back-to-back disasters wrought by hurricanes Helene and Milton, scientists on Friday released an analysis highlighting...
Probe Demanded as Second Houston-Area Petrochemical Disaster in a Month Kills...
For the second time in less than four weeks on Thursday, residents of the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the United States were notified of...
Green Groups Blast ‘Reckless, Unscientific’ EU Carbon Capture Plans
As attendees gathered in the south of France Thursday for the start of a European Union-hosted summit on carbon capture and storage, an international...
COP29 Host Deal Revealed Amid Azerbaijan’s ‘Vicious Crackdown’ on Critics
Human Rights Watch on Thursday revealed the host country agreement between the United Nations and Azerbaijan for next month's climate summit, on the heels...
Climate Advocates Demand Hurricane Town Hall With Harris and Trump
As families mourned the deaths of hundreds of people from Hurricane Helene and Floridians began to take stock of the damage done by Hurricane...
Fossil-Fueled Hurricane Milton Hammers Florida With Violent Winds, Massive Flooding
Hurricane Milton made landfall south of Tampa, Florida late Wednesday as a Category 3 storm after rapidly intensifying in the Gulf of Mexico, bringing...
Study Warns of ‘Irreversible Impacts’ From Overshooting 1.5°C, Even Temporarily
Just over a month away from the next United Nations climate summit, a study out Wednesday warns that heating the planet beyond a key...
‘Laggards’: Top 6 Wall Street Banks Failing on Net-Zero Climate Pledges
Sierra Club on Wednesday issued a report showing that the United States' six largest banks lag behind in efforts to meet 2030 and 2050...
‘Big Oil’s Reckless Conduct’ Caused Milton—And Now They Should Pay, Say...
As Hurricane Milton's 145 mile-per-hour winds began closing in on Southwest Florida on Wednesday and people crowded into makeshift shelters across the state, climate...
US Supreme Court Seeks Biden Admin Opinion on Climate Suits Against...
In yet another recent
display of what's at stake in this year's U.S. presidential race, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday requested that the...
Oregon County Files First-Ever Climate Deception Lawsuit Against Gas Utility
Multnomah County in Oregon on Monday added NW Natural to the list of defendants in its climate deception lawsuit, making the company the first-ever...
Airlines and Hotels Price Gouge Floridians Fleeing Milton
U.S. President Joe Biden called on Floridians in evacuation zones to leave their homes "now, now, now" on Tuesday, and the mayor of Tampa...
‘Very Fabric of Life’ at Risk Without Urgent Action to End...
As Hurricane Milton barreled toward Florida's Gulf Coast,
demonstrating the dangers of global warming, international scientists on Tuesday published a terrifying annual analysis that...
Ocean Heat Fueling Hurricane Milton Was Made Up to 800 Times...
As Floridians raced to prepare for and escape the path of Hurricane Milton, an
analysis published Monday showed that high sea-surface temperatures fueling the...
On Heels of Helene, Milton Explodes Into Category 5 Hurricane
"This is not normal," said climate advocates Monday as they expressed the same shock as weather experts who were reporting on the rapid strengthening...
Global Water Woes the ‘Canary in the Coal Mine’ for Climate...
The climate crisis is destabilizing the world's water cycle, depriving millions of people of the freshwater resources they need while inundating others with deadly...
Concerns Raised About Toxic Exposure in Aftermath of Helene Floodwaters
Local officials, academic researchers, and volunteer responders have raised concerns about chemical and biological contamination brought by the floodwaters of Hurricane Helene in the...
Supreme Court Issues Rare—Temporary—Wins for EPA With Methane, Mercury Rulings
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected two industry-backed petitions to issue injunctions on new Biden administration rules for methane and mercury in a...
Cornell Study Shows LNG Worse for Climate Than Coal
On the heels of Hurricane Helene
devastating the U.S. Southeast and sparking fresh calls for action on the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency, a long-awaited...
Scientists, Experts Demand ‘Immediate End’ to EU Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Warning that policymakers in the European Union are undermining the bloc's own climate goals by continuing to subsidize fossil fuel extraction, climate scientists and...
Walz Applauded for ‘Calling Out Trump’s Allegiance to Big Oil’ in...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz used the climate portion of Tuesday night's vice presidential debate with Republican Sen. JD Vance to lambast GOP nominee...
21 Private Equity Firms Fund Over a Gigaton of Annual Climate...
The energy portfolios of over 20 top U.S. private equity firms are responsible for an estimated combined 1.17 gigatons of annual greenhouse gas emissions—more...
Youth Arrested Demanding VP Debate Question on Climate Emergency
Just hours away from the U.S. vice presidential debate on Tuesday, six members of the youth-led Sunrise Movement were arrested for blocking the...
Endless Stream of Climate Disasters Bolsters Demand to ‘Make Polluters Pay’
In the wake of one of the hottest summers ever recorded in the United States and the deadly destruction wrought by Hurricane Helene, climate...
From Chimney Rock to Kathmandu, Floodwaters Bring Death and Devastation
Floodwaters brought mass death and destruction to the United States and Nepal over the weekend due to storms likely intensified by climate breakdown, following...
Climate Movement Says ‘Hurricane Helene Must Be a Wake-Up Call’
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As emergency crews have worked through the weekend to rescue people and restore essential...
Exclusive: Khanna Proposes End to ‘Unconscionable’ Taxpayer Subsidies for Big Oil
As fossil fuel giants continue to rake in billions of dollars in profits, U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna on Thursday is reintroducing legislation to end...
‘Unfortunately,’ Say Critics, Biden’s Climate Claim at United Nations ‘Not True’
President Joe Biden claimed in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that the U.S. was on track to halve greenhouse...
‘Billionaires Own Trump’: Sunrise Organizers Occupy Republican’s Phoenix Office
As part of its engagement effort to reach 1.5 million young voters in swing states, the climate justice group Sunrise Movement on Monday organized...
California Sues Exxon Over Decades of Plastics Deception in First-of-Its-Kind Lawsuit
In a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday sued oil giant ExxonMobil for allegedly deceiving the public about the recyclability of...
Jane Fonda on US Election: ‘The Future of the Planet Is...
Actor and activist Jane Fonda took aim at Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump and his climate-wrecking plans in comments published Monday from her...
100+ Global Lawmakers Urge Biden to Reject New LNG Exports
With Climate Week underway in New York City, 106 lawmakers from the United States and around the world on Monday urged the Biden administration...
Green Groups Applaud 1 Million Public Comments Urging Biden to Protect...
Green groups on Friday pointed to the more than 1 million public comments urging the U.S. Forest Service to protect old-growth forests from logging...
Norwegian Deep-Sea Mining Threatens Arctic Biodiversity With ‘Irreversible Harm’
Norway's plans to move forward with deep-sea mining could do irreparable damage to unique Arctic ecosystems and even drive unobserved species to extinction.That's the...
Student Researchers Expose Fossil Fuel Ties at US Universities
Students at universities and colleges across the U.S. have long demanded that their schools cut ties with the fossil fuel industry as planetary heating...