Saudi Aramco Leads Fossil Fuel Firms in ‘Sportswashing’ Sponsorships: Analysis
Aramco, the state-owned Saudi firm, has the most sports sponsorships of any fossil fuel company in the world, with $1.3 billion in active deals,...
Big Oil to Benefit From Biden’s Carbon Capture Tax Credits: Report
As the U.S. moves to invest in climate solutions, is the money going toward projects that will meaningfully reduce emissions and transition the nation's...
EU Crisis Official Warns of ‘Climate Breakdown’ Amid Deadly Wildfires and...
With the Portuguese government declaring a "state of calamity" over wildfires that have killed at least seven people, and the daily lives of ...
New Report Lays Out How US Can Address Its ‘Fair Share’...
A coalition of climate campaigners on Tuesday published a proposal "for how the U.S. can play a bigger role in tackling the global climate...
‘This Is Historic’: Electric Vehicles Now Outnumber Petrol-Powered Cars in Norway
In what's believed to be a global milestone, electric vehicles now outnumber gasoline-fueled automobiles on Norway's roads, as the overwhelming bulk of new cars...
Honduran Environment and Anti-Corruption Activist Juan López Killed
Environment and anti-corruption activist Juan López was killed in Tocoa, Honduras on Saturday in the latest attack on environmental defenders in the country. López,...
LNG Pipeline Explosion and Fire Force Evacuations in Texas Town
Note: This is a developing story. Please check back for possible updates...Fire damage to a playground, an evacuation order for at least 350 homes,...
Leak at First CO2 Injection Site in US Exposes Dangerous Folly...
Environmental groups said Friday that a newly reported leak at the first CO2 injection site in the United States highlights the threat—and false promise—of...
Democrats Introduce Federal Bill to Make Climate Polluters Pay
United States Sen. Chris Van Hollen and Rep. Jerry Nadler on Thursday announced the introduction of legislation that would require Big Oil firms to...
Biden Urged to ‘Follow the Facts’ as Study Shows LNG Emissions...
More than 125 climate, environmental, and health scientists and researchers on Thursday implored the Biden administration to "follow legitimate science and reject the expansion...
Report Details Wave of Lawsuits Targeting Climate Crimes of Big Oil
An increasing number of climate lawsuits filed against fossil fuel companies in the last decade could put a dent in the business model of...
Juliana Plaintiffs Urge Supreme Court to Reverse Trump Judges’ Dismissal of...
Demanding that the U.S. Supreme Court correct "an egregious error" by the Trump-appointed judges who dismissed their landmark case in May, the 21 plaintiffs...
Groups Say Trump Threat Is Dire, But Harris Must Prove She...
Up until the very last question of the debate between U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump Tuesday night, American voters...
Rich Countries Crack Down on Climate Protests While Lecturing on Rights...
Rich Western countries have cracked down on non-violent climate protests with harsh laws and lengthy prison sentences, in violation of international law and the...
‘Simply Unacceptable’: Nearly 200 Environmental Defenders Killed in 2023
Almost 200 people were killed in 2023 for attempting to protect their lands and communities from ecological devastation, Global Witness
revealed Tuesday.
This raises the...
Pacific Islands Push ICC to Recognize Ecocide as International Crime
Campaigners against ecocide, the destruction of nature, applauded what one leader called a "key moment" in the fight to protect the natural world and...
Most US Voters Want Plastics Industry Held Accountable for Recycling Deception:...
Most U.S. voters would support officials in their state taking legal action against the plastics and fossil fuel industries for creating plastic pollution, based...
Massive Climate Coalition Demands Biden Kill LNG Export Licenses
A coalition of more than 250 climate, environmental, and frontline community organizations on Monday urged U.S. President Joe Biden and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm...
‘Astonishing’ Study Shows Infant Deaths Rise in US When Bat Populations...
Bat die-offs in the U.S. led to increased use of insecticides, which in turn led to greater infant mortality, according to a "seminal" study...
In Rich Nations, 72% Say Climate Damage Should Be ‘Criminal Offense’
Nearly two-thirds of people living in the world's largest economies believe it should be "a criminal offense" for decision-makers in government or big businesses...
‘Time for Urgent Action Is Right Now’: Summer 2024 Was Hottest...
Scientists with the European Union's climate service said Friday that Earth experienced its hottest summer on record for the second consecutive year in 2024...
50 Arrested in Final ‘Historic’ Summer of Heat Protest at Citibank
Closing out a "historic" summer of civil disobedience—but with no plans to back off their demands that Wall Street divest from planet-heating fossil fuels—the...
Big Oil Wields Influence on Universities, Delaying Green Transition: Study
The fossil fuel industry seeks to obstruct climate action by using money to influence research and establish ties at Western universities, raising concerns about...
After 100 Days of 100°F, Sanders Says ‘Climate Emergency Demands a...
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday evening issued yet another call for a major mobilization to take on the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis in...
Study Ties Climate Crisis to Spread of Valley Fever-Causing Fungus in...
Scientists at the University of California noticed that cases of Valley fever, a respiratory infection that is spread only through the inhalation of fungal...
US DOE Approves New Fortress Energy LNG Export Despite Climate Risks
Despite the strong links between liquefied natural gas and harms to public health and the planet, the U.S. Department of Energy has approved the...
‘You Cannot In Fact Do Both’: Biden Slammed for Bragging About...
Climate campaigners this week rebuked recent claims by U.S. President Joe Biden—and Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee—that the United...
Tribes Celebrate as Dam Removals Set Klamath River ‘Free’ for First...
Crews breached the final of four dams on a key stretch of the Klamath River on Wednesday, letting salmon run freely there for the...
‘Big Win’: UK Won’t Defend Fossil Fuel Projects in North Sea
Climate campaigners celebrated Thursday after the United Kingdom's new Labour government announced it will not legally defend decisions to allow controversial offshore drilling in...
‘Colossal Waste’: US Leads Way in Public Spending on False Climate...
Among the world's wealthiest countries, the U.S. leads the way in spending public money on so-called climate "solutions" that have been proven to "consistently...
Beyond Plastics Offers Next President Agenda to Protect Public Health and...
The group Beyond Plastics on Wednesday expressed hope that the next U.S. president "is up for the challenge" of reversing course on the annual...
Republican AGs Urge Supreme Court to Halt Biden Methane Rule
Two dozen Republican-led states on Tuesday asked the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court to pause the Biden administration's rule intended to slash methane emissions by...
‘Historic Victory’ as Biden BLM Restores Protections for 28 Million Acres...
Indigenous tribes and conservation groups applauded the Biden administration on Tuesday for listening to the demands of Alaska Natives, who have called on the...
To Defeat Trump, Sunrise Mobilizes to Reach 1.5M Young Voters in...
The Sunrise Movement on Tuesday launched a campaign program in support of Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, aiming to reach 1.5 million...
‘What Real Eldership Looks Like’: 29 Senior Climate Protesters Arrested at...
The "Summer of Heat on Wall Street" protests continued Tuesday with at least 29 elders arrested while blocking Citibank's New York City headquarters to...
Amid Soaring Temps, Heat-Related Deaths Have More Than Doubled Since 1999
As 55 million people in the U.S. Midwest faced heat alerts on Monday, research published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association...
Pacific Islands Summit Highlights Disproportionate Climate Impacts
As more than 1,500 delegates from over 40 nations gathered in Tonga for the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting, climate defenders on Monday...
US-Trained Military in Uganda Targets Oil Pipeline Protesters
Police and soldiers from Uganda's U.S.-trained army cracked down on demonstrators at two Monday protests against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, continuing the...
Shut Out of Treaty Summit, Campaigners Call for Elimination of Plastic...
Amid concerns over the exclusion of Indigenous leaders, environmental advocates, and scientists from a four-day summit beginning Saturday in Bangkok to help advance a...
In Samoa, UN Chief Says Low-Lying Island Nations Face ‘Annihilation’ by...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned in Samoa on Thursday that low-lying Pacific island nations face the threat of "annihilation" from rising sea levels,...
Disrupting Punchbowl News Event, Climate Advocates Say Exxon ‘Should Have No...
Climate campaigners on Wednesday called out and even disrupted a Punchbowl News event on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago because...
Gulf Coast Advocates: 2024 Election Is ‘Inflection Point’ for Climate Justice
A second Trump presidency would be a "complete disaster" for the global climate and for Gulf Coast communities bearing the brunt of the buildout...
Arctic Warming Threatens to Set Off Toxic ‘Mercury Bomb,’ Study Warns
A study published Thursday in Environmental Research Letters warns that Arctic warming could unleash toxic mercury currently contained in rapidly thawing permafrost, potentially threatening...
Over 1,000 Disaster Survivors Demand DOJ Probe Into Big Oil Climate...
Over 1,000 survivors of extreme weather events on Thursday demanded a federal investigation into Big Oil's role in perpetuating the climate crisis, adding to...
Climate Experts Rebuke Musk Over ‘Dumbest’ Interview With Trump
Elon Musk thinks he knows more about climate issues than the entire staff of a major international newspaper, but on Wednesday, experts on the...
‘Major Power Milestone’: US Green Groups Cheer Wind, Solar Overtaking Coal
U.S. climate advocates this week are celebrating new federal data that show wind and solar have generated more power than coal during the first...
Citibank Staffer Punches Climate Activist During Protest
A climate protester was taken to a hospital bleeding on Wednesday, according to organizers, after a security guard at Citibank's global headquarters in New...
Project 2025 Would Add 2.7 Billion Tons of CO2, Subtract 1.7...
The California-based think tank Energy Innovation on Wednesday published a report showing that the right-wing Project 2025 manifesto, if implemented by a Republican administration,...
UN ‘Pact for the Future’ Decried for Not Even Including the...
A group of 77 former world leaders, Nobel laureates, and scientists on Tuesday called on United Nations member countries to reintroduce into an upcoming...
Ecuador Fails to Eliminate Gas Flaring Despite Court Order: Amnesty
More than three years after a court ruling that left a group of young women hopeful that their legal action had helped "restore nature"...
Climate Crisis Fueled Surge in UK Property Insurance Payouts, Says Industry...
A trade group for the British insurance industry said Monday that extreme weather helped drive property insurance payouts to a record quarterly high over...
Fossil Fuel Industry Propaganda Blamed as Record Heat Scorches Planet
As scientists around the world on Thursday released new data about recent record-smashing heat, one United Nations adviser placed blame for the lack of...
Biden Urged to Make Export-Import Bank Stop Fueling Climate Crisis
Climate advocates on Wednesday formally urged the Biden administration to instruct the United States' export credit agency to stop financially supporting activities that...
Climate Movement Says Tim Walz for VP an ‘Encouraging Sign’
The U.S. climate movement on Tuesday celebrated Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris' choice of Tim Walz as her running mate, despite concerns about the...
Shell Slammed for ‘Planet-Wrecking’ Profits as Temperatures Soar to New Heights
A little more than a week after Earth endured its four hottest days on record, fossil fuel giant Shell announced higher second-quarter profits than...
Outrage as Senate Panel Advances Manchin-Barrasso Permitting Bill
A bipartisan energy permitting reform bill introduced last week in the U.S. Senate—and described by one campaigner as "the biggest giveaway in decades to...
7 Green Groups That Didn’t Back Biden Just Endorsed Harris as...
Progressive climate and environmental advocacy groups on Wednesday stressed the threat posed by the Republican presidential ticket and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, the...
Faith Leaders Chain Themselves to Citi HQ to Protest Fossil Fuel...
Two dozen faith leaders and their supporters were arrested on Tuesday after chaining themselves to the doors of Citigroup's New York City headquarters to...
‘Worrisome’: Global Methane Spike Imperils Climate Goals, Study Warns
Methane emissions are rising faster than expected, a new study has warned, and the surge is putting global climate goals at risk.
The study,
published...
BP Condemned Over ‘Mammoth Profits’ as Fossil Fuels Wreak Havoc on...
The London-based oil giant BP announced Tuesday that it hauled in $2.8 billion in profit during the second quarter of the year as the...
Working-Class Climate Protesters Arrested at JD Vance’s Senate Office
Eight of about 150 climate campaigners with the youth-led Sunrise Movement were arrested at a Monday protest at the U.S. Capitol office of Sen....
‘Where Have All the Butterflies Gone?’ Low Count Portends Sad Future...
A U.K. conservation charity sounded the alarm on Monday after a yearly butterfly count turned up a record low number of butterflies so far.
Participants...
Moms and Kids Protest Fossil Fuel Expansion at Citigroup CEO’s Home
Hundreds of activists, largely mothers and their kids, protested outside Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser's luxury apartment building in New York City on Saturday, calling...
Critics of East African Crude Oil Pipeline Target AIG in NYC
The "Summer of Heat" continues—both in terms of record-breaking temperatures driven by fossil fuels and a series of nonviolent direct actions targeting Wall Street...
UN Chief Says Rich Countries ‘Signing Away Our Future’ With Fossil...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday criticized the world's wealthiest countries for expanding fossil fuel production, one day after an analysis in The...
Harris Campaign Says ‘Oil Barons Are Salivating’ Over Second Trump Term
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday seized on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's close ties to oil executives, taking aim at the promises...
US Leads Global Surge in Oil and Gas Expansion, Analysis Finds
Five wealthy countries including the United States have led a global surge in oil and gas development in 2024, threatening international climate goals, according...
Green Groups Endorse Kamala Harris, Say She’ll ‘Raise Climate Ambition’
Four environmental groups on Monday evening endorsed the presidential run of U.S. vice president and presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, whom many campaigners view...
Sunday Was Earth’s Hottest Day on Record
July 21 was Earth's hottest day on record, overtaking the record set last July during the
hottest year in millennia.
The European Copernicus Climate Change...
New EPA Funding Boosts Clean Energy Projects Across US
More than $4 billion in new funding for the Inflation Reduction Act's anti-pollution grants will help to "deliver a better, cleaner future for America,"...
‘Groundbreaking’ Study Stresses Need to Protect Global Forest Carbon Sink
In what one researcher's group on Thursday hailed as a "groundbreaking" study, scientists from 11 countries highlighted "the critical role of forests in...
Sunrise Warns Trump-Vance Would Cause ‘Irreversible Damage’ to Climate
The Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate organization, warned on Thursday that former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance, who take their place on...
UK Climate Campaigners Get ‘Utterly Disproportionate’ Sentences
In a decision that one United Nations official
called "beyond comprehension," a U.K. judge on Thursday sentenced five Just Stop Oil activists to a...
Oil Giant Ran 1977 Article Linking Climate Change to ‘Widespread Starvation’
A Marathon Oil Company magazine from 1977 predicted that rising temperatures caused by industrial activity could one day lead to "widespread starvation and other...