Indigenous peoples’ traditional food systems are among the most sustainable in the world, but are coming under threat from climate change, biodiversity collapse, and economic pressures, a new report from the UN
The beleaguered Mountain Valley Pipeline suffered yet another setback Friday when the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board denied a key permit for a proposed compressor station it ruled failed to meet environmental
Native communities across North America face heart-wrenching choices over whether to relocate in the face of mounting climate-driven risks, or remain in locations to which their families have been tied for hundreds
More than 300 businesses, including major tech, retail, and food brands are calling on the Biden administration to commit to cutting U.S. greenhouse gas pollution to at least half of 2005 levels
Lakes and reservoirs are drying up as 85% of Mexico is in drought, with Mexico City in its worst drought in 30 years. Major reservoirs that supply the capital's 9 million residents
President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Rep. Deb Haaland to serve as the head of the Department of the Interior. If confirmed, Haaland, a "35th-generation New Mexican," and a member of Pueblo of
Category 5 Cyclone Yasa laid waste to Vanua Levu, Fiji's second-largest island, killing two and forcing thousands to seek shelter. Though Yasa moved relatively quickly, causing less immediate damage than had been
Medical students at Emory University pushed for climate change to be added to their curriculum — and won. After studying the health impacts and realizing the correlation was not being taught, students
The expected price of electricity on Friday is already surging ahead of the expected winter storm. The predicted demand spike will be the biggest test for the state's notoriously independent grid since
Climate change, activities that contribute to it, and dams pose grave threats to America's rivers, according to American Rivers. The annual report ranks the county's 10 rivers most endangered by human activity
Fallout from the Russian war in Ukraine roiling global energy markets and a cold front across large swaths of the U.S. pushed gas prices to a 13-year high, with futures breaking above
New York City is set to phase out gas in new construction with the city council reportedly planning to vote next week on the measure. The legislation, which is expected to pass,
Texans with disabilities and chronic illnesses were hit especially hard by the massive grid failure that caused widespread blackouts across Texas, The Verge reports. Failure to account for the needs of those
The Biden administration knew it was not required to hold a record-breaking auction for new oil and gas drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico last month (just four days after COP26)
Fikile Ntshangase, a South African environmental activist at the forefront of an effort to stop the expansion of a massive open pit coal mine, was shot dead in her home last week.
President Biden on Thursday ordered agencies across the federal government to prepare for risks to the American economy posed by climate change. The harms inflicted by human-caused global warming are already being
Climate change poses significant dangers to global food supplies as rising temperatures make storage more difficult, the AP reports. Food around the world is stored outside after harvest, before processing, but rising
The neighborhoods hit hardest by the novel coronavirus pandemic are virtually the same neighborhoods hit hardest by extreme heat, Politico reports. The overlap is a striking illustration of the compounding harms of
Hunger strikers in Chicago are fighting the relocation of a metal shredding facility from a white North Side neighborhood to a predominantly Black and Latinx community on the Southeast Side already plagued
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has subpoenaed ExxonMobil, seeking information into the oil giant's efforts to deceive the public into believing the "myth that recycling can solve the plastics crisis." The investigation
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