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Britain's Labour government prepares major North Sea drilling expansion despite climate pledges, as Trump becomes first US president in 30 years to skip UN climate talks. Meanwhile, 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists successfully derailed COP30 progress in Brazil. Read the full article
When drought strikes California, it’s not just crops and lawns that suffer—wild animals are driven from their natural habitats in search of water and food, leading…
Britain's Labour government prepares major North Sea drilling expansion despite climate pledges, as Trump becomes first US president in 30 years to skip UN climate talks. Meanwhile, 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists successfully derailed COP30 progress in Brazil.
The devastating human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka reached a tragic crescendo in Hambantota district this year, where two heartbreaking incidents just kilometers apart highlight the desperate…
A new study reveals a troubling paradox in conservation science: reptile species living exclusively on islands face extinction rates more than double those of their mainland…
Australia’s long-awaited overhaul of federal environmental protection laws faces a critical deadline as Parliament prepares for its final sitting day of the year on Thursday. Prime…
In 2006, botanist Ismail Ebrahim made a heartbreaking discovery in South Africa’s shrinking renosterveld shrublands near Cape Town. His team found just 27 surviving plants of…
Renowned political cartoonist Fiona Katauskas has released a new piece examining the intersection of political leadership and climate activism, focusing on the shared concern over timing…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) concluded a chaotic 2025 with the departure of acting director David Richardson, marking the third leadership change in a single…
Actress Cate Blanchett may have put it best when she declared that leaf blowers “need to be eradicated from the face of the Earth,” calling them…
The UK’s Labour government is preparing to announce increased oil and gas drilling operations in the North Sea as part of a new energy strategy, according…
More than 56,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries converged in Belém, Brazil, from November 10-21 for COP30, the second-largest climate summit in history. The timing couldn’t…
Ten years after world leaders signed the Paris Climate Agreement, major banks and investment firms are actually increasing their financial support for companies that destroy forests,…
Despite Brazil’s ambitious promises to lead the world toward a fossil fuel-free future, COP30 in Belém ended without the concrete action plan many had hoped for.…
Deep beneath the ocean’s surface swims one of nature’s most remarkable survivors—the orange roughy, a fish that can live for an extraordinary 250 years, making it…
A groundbreaking legal initiative led by Filipino lawyer Nonette Royo is transforming how Indigenous and local communities around the world secure their ancestral land rights. As…
