Global pledges intended to spur investment in developing countries for climate solutions and resilience fell short of their target this week, prompting criticism from nongovernmental groups about the powerful countries most responsible
Wyoming will pass up the chance to apply for roughly $5 million in federal money to plug certain kinds of oil and gas wells. The Inflation Reduction Act gives states around $350
Extreme weather led to the displacement of millions of children between 2016 and 2021, the United Nations said this week, and climate change is likely to displace millions more in the coming
Pope Francis has once again weighed in on climate change—this time condemning climate deniers and lambasting “irresponsible” Western lifestyles that contribute to carbon emissions. In a 7,000-word letter issued Wednesday—a format known
The Environmental Protection Agency will open an investigation into whether or not the state of Alabama violated Black residents’ civil rights when it distributed funds to improve sewer systems, the agency said
Two in every five amphibian species in the world, or around 40% of 8,000 species, are categorized as threatened—a much higher percentage than other classes of animals, a new assessment has found.
The carcasses of 120 Amazon river dolphins have been found floating in a tributary of the river over the past week, prompting widespread alarm from scientists about the high temperature of the
Most Americans are just fine with living near renewable energy projects, a new poll finds. A Washington Post-University of Maryland poll released Tuesday finds that 75% of Americans would be comfortable living
The state of Arizona will no longer allow a farm owned by a Saudi Arabian company to freely pump groundwater from beneath state land, Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs announced Tuesday. Fondomonte Arizona,
It’s getting harder and harder to avoid plastics. In a study published in Environmental Chemistry Letters last month, scientists in Japan documented how they collected water from clouds at the top of
The heat just won’t stop. Parts of the U.S. are set to experience unseasonably warm temperatures this week as parts of Europe are reeling from scorching September heat. In the U.S., millions
New York City’s composting program is set to significantly expand this week, as 2.6 million people in Brooklyn now have a way to dispose of food scraps and yard waste after city
California Senator Dianne Feinstein died on Friday, at the age of 90. Long regarded as an environmental champion, though no radical progressive, Feinstein’s thirty-year career in the Senate began with a significant
As drought lowers fresh water levels on the Mississippi River, a flood of salt water is slowly traveling up from the Gulf of Mexico to take its place, threatening the city of
New York City came to a standstill last week after intense rainfall caused flash flooding across much of the city. Almost 8 inches of rain fell on JFK Airport on Friday, the
Auto industry workers are preparing to walk off the job Friday if an agreement between the United Auto Workers and the ‘Big Three’ U.S. automakers is not reached by midnight Thursday. UAW
States and the federal government have long provided aid to help people afford heat in their homes. But as climate change increases the number of extreme heat days and heat waves in
Human-driven activities have pushed Earth into the “danger zone” for planetary health, according to research that seeks to understand how far people can stress the limits of the world’s ability to handle
As if the fear of rampaging gunmen or fights to ban books about people of color, LGBTQ+ families, or basic human functions aren’t enough of a distraction for U.S. children as they return to schools this
One hundred seventy seven environmental defenders were murdered in 2022, according to an accounting by Global Witness, amounting to one killing every two days on average. Of those, 60 were killed in
The United States regained the dubious distinction as the world’s top exporter of liquified methane gas (LNG) in the first half of 2023, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced Tuesday. It shows
Extreme weather disasters across the U.S. so far this year have already caused more than $57.6 billion in damage and killed at least 253 people — more than any other year —
More than 3,000 people are feared dead and 10,000 are missing in Libya after torrential rains from Storm Daniel destroyed two dams, unleashing monstrous torrents of water, into, over, and through the
Native tribes in what are now Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin are calling on federal officials to deny a loan gas-fired power plant on the shore of Lake Superior. The Chippewa Tribes —
Nearly every person on planet Earth experienced hotter temperatures this summer because of climate change, a new peer-reviewed report from Climate Central finds. Almost 8 billion people across 180 countries and 22
The world's governments are failing to phase out fossil fuels fast enough to meet the goals they set out eight years ago in the Paris Agreement, a major UN report shows. The
The Consumer Energy Alliance is a fossil fuel-backed front group that has been repeatedly caught submitting fake public comments in support of fossil fuel projects. Now, a batch of suspect submissions has
The Texas grid was, again, stretched to emergency levels on Thursday, not seen since Winter Storm Uri in 2021. The high, heat-fueled demand and unexpected fossil fuel power plant failures forced the
Hurricane Lee exploded into an extremely powerful Category 5 hurricane on Thursday and is expected to strengthen into one of the strongest Atlantic Hurricanes on record — if not the strongest ever.
Climate change is a major factor driving soaring federal farm insurance payouts over the last two decades, with the vast majority of those payouts going to the country's biggest farms using fuel-
When June 2023, July 2023, and August 2023 all break records for the hottest of those months on record, you don't have to be a climate scientist to figure out that the
The Biden Administration canceled seven oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and strengthened safeguards against oil drilling across more than 10 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
Texas families were once again asked to reduce their electricity use to keep the state's electrical grid from failing on Wednesday. The state, which boasts a GDP larger than Italy, has pleaded
The lingering, insidious impacts of the catastrophic, the climate-fueled flooding that submerged one-third of Pakistan in the summer of 2022, illustrate the degree to which countries worldwide are unprepared for the multifaceted
Leaders at the inaugural Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi issued a unanimous call Wednesday for world leaders to support a global carbon tax on fossil fuels, aviation, and shipping, as well as
More than 60 million people across the U.S. from Dallas to Burlington, Vermont, are under heat alerts as more extreme heat stifles the country. “Simply put, the next several days will be
Federal regulators shelved a Trump-era plan to allow transporting LNG by rail. More time is required to assess the safety concerns raised by transporting such flammable cargo, the Pipelines and Hazardous Materials
Climate change has — already — increased the risk of explosive wildfire growth in California by 25%, a study published in Nature finds. That climate change, mainly caused by the extraction and
As African leaders meet in Nairobi to discuss how the continent and its 1.3 billion people should engage on a climate crisis of which they are bearing disproportionate harm but did little
The Texas electricity grid has kept running this summer through an unrelenting heatwave, but it's largely thanks to families and businesses curtailing their electricity usage, and no thanks to the unusual and
The CEO of a startup claiming to assess and certify less-climate-damaging oil and gas extraction is stepping down. Denver-based Project Canary claims to monitor the climate-heating pollution released by methane gas operations
Emirati officials are concerned the country's image could be tarnished by criticisms raised around the UN climate conference taking place there in December, and they are creating public relations strategies to limit
The 1,600 people incarcerated at the Pelican Bay State Prison in northern California were forced to breathe heavily polluted air as wildfire smoke in the region infiltrated their living quarters, the AP
Hurricane Idalia could cause or exacerbate major problems in the Florida insurance market. With predicted insured losses ranging from $4.05 to more than $25 billion, the storm could end up forcing Citizens,
The first ever lease sale for offshore wind production in the Gulf of Mexico was met with modest interest on Tuesday, but could nevertheless be an inflection point for the clean energy
Simply breathing polluted air is more harmful to global human health than using tobacco, according to new data released by the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) of the University of Chicago’s Energy
Hurricane Idalia intensified overnight into Category 4 hurricane before making landfall as a major Category 3 storm in Florida's Big Bend region just north of Steinhatchee at 7:45 this morning, with sustained
Less than a year after Hurricane Ian hammered Florida's Gulf Coast, the region is bracing for another potentially major hurricane. Hurricane Idalia (pronounced ee-DAL-ya) was off the western tip of Cuba with
Exxon Mobil predicts average global temperatures will increase 2°C above preindustrial levels by 2050, the oil major with a well-documented history of accurately predicting and publicly denying the science of climate change
Unionized workers at Chevron's two major Australian LNG plants will begin progressively disruptive work stoppages on September 7, their unions said Monday. The Gorgon and Wheatstone export plants account for 5% to
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