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Philippines Typhoon Survivors Sue Shell in UK While Mysterious Disease Pushes Sea Urchins to Extinction — Today’s Environmental Briefing for Thu, Dec 11 2025

Typhoon survivors file groundbreaking climate lawsuit against oil giant Shell in United Kingdom. Meanwhile, devastating marine pandemic decimates Atlantic sea urchin populations, threatening complete extinction. Plus: Montana youth activists petition state supreme court to enforce constitutional climate victory. Read the full article

November 26, 2025

UK Labour Expands North Sea Oil Drilling While Trump Skips UN Climate Summit — Today’s Environmental Briefing for Wed, Nov 26 2025

Oil drilling platform in North Sea waters under cloudy sky

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.

November 26, 2025

Labour Government Set to Expand North Sea Oil and Gas Drilling Despite Climate Commitments

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…

November 26, 2025

Sri Lanka’s Elephant Relocation Program Sparks Scientific Concerns as Human-Wildlife Conflict Intensifies

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…

November 26, 2025

The Leaf Blower Battle: Why America’s Most Hated Garden Tool Proves So Hard to Eliminate

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…

November 26, 2025

Political Cartoonist Highlights the Critical Timing of Climate Action and Political Responses

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…

November 26, 2025

Australia’s Critical Environmental Protection Laws Hang in Balance as Parliament Session Nears End

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…

November 26, 2025

Tiger Trafficking Reaches Crisis Point as Criminal Networks Outpace Conservation Efforts

The illegal tiger trade has reached alarming new heights, with authorities seizing an average of nine big cats every month over the past five years, according…

November 26, 2025

Climate Pessimism Grows Among Older Australians as Public Confidence in Human Action Wavers

A troubling generational divide has emerged in Australia regarding climate change action, with new polling revealing that older Australians are significantly more pessimistic about the world’s…

November 26, 2025

Race Against Time: How Scientists Are Saving South Africa’s “Ugly Duckling Daisy” From Extinction

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…

November 25, 2025

Arctic Shipping Noise Forces Narwhals Into Dangerous Silence During Critical Migration

In the pristine waters of Eclipse Sound, where narwhals have navigated for millennia using their sophisticated acoustic communication system, a troubling phenomenon is unfolding. These iconic…

November 25, 2025

Brazil’s Ambitious $125 Billion Forest Conservation Fund Falls Short of Launch Goals at COP30

Brazil’s groundbreaking Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) secured only $6.7 billion in initial funding at COP30 in Belém—far below the $25 billion needed to launch the…

November 25, 2025

Norway Pledges $3 Billion to Help Save the Congo Basin Rainforest as New Global Funding Initiatives Launch

The world’s second-largest tropical rainforest may finally be getting the financial lifeline it desperately needs. At recent climate talks in Belém, Brazil, two groundbreaking funding initiatives…

November 25, 2025

Thousands of Wales Species Face Extinction While COP30 Climate Summit Leaves Critical Issues Unresolved — Today’s Environmental Briefing for Tue, Nov 25 2025

Welsh countryside landscape showing diverse native wildlife habitats threatened by extinction risk

A groundbreaking Wales conservation report identifies thousands of species at extinction risk due to geographic restrictions, while the COP30 climate summit in Brazil concludes without concrete fossil fuel phase-out plans or essential climate breakthroughs scientists demand.

November 25, 2025

Food Insecurity Persists in Native American Communities Despite Cultural Traditions of Sharing

A simple childhood memory reveals a deeper truth about hunger in America’s Indigenous communities. When Dr. Angie Morrill asked her sister why they sang “Patty Cake”…

November 25, 2025

COP30 Climate Summit Rescued From Collapse as Saudi Arabia Agrees to Landmark Deal Targeting Fossil Fuel Industry

The 30th UN Climate Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil narrowly avoided complete failure after Saudi Arabia made a surprise last-minute decision to support a groundbreaking agreement…

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