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Over 100 European glaciers will vanish within eight years as climate crisis accelerates, while Ford retreats from electric vehicle production with massive financial writedown. Meanwhile, 3M's international factory exposed workers to toxic PFAS chemicals for decades.
US Magnesium, once America’s biggest producer of the critical mineral magnesium, has declared bankruptcy and left behind a catastrophic environmental mess at Utah’s Great Salt Lake that could cost over $100 million to clean up. The company’s Rowley plant, which…
South Africa’s state electricity company Eskom is reconsidering two previously rejected locations for the country’s third nuclear power plant, including a controversial site near one of the world’s most important African penguin colonies. The two potential sites under review are…
In a significant shift for corporate climate commitments, Morrisons has become the first major UK supermarket chain to delay its net zero carbon emissions targets, pushing back its original deadline by 15 years to align with the UK’s national 2050…
A summer electrical fire in Loudoun County, Virginia exposed the environmental impact of data centers’ backup power systems when diesel generators kicked in, filling nearby air with fumes and noise that caught the attention of shoppers at a local Walmart.…
Britain's Conservative Party promises to scrap the 2030 petrol and diesel vehicle ban if elected, while Spain's renewable energy transition faces political headwinds as the governing coalition struggles with parliamentary pressure and weakened environmental policies.
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a Colorado-based research institute that has driven major breakthroughs in solar, wind, and energy storage technologies for over five decades, will be renamed the “National Laboratory of the Rockies” under the Trump administration’s latest…
Bill McKibben, the renowned climate activist and author who first warned the world about global warming in his groundbreaking 1989 New Yorker article “The End of Nature,” is experiencing something unexpected: optimism. In a recent interview on Living on Earth,…
Washington communities recover from 5 trillion gallons of flooding as another massive storm approaches. Meanwhile, California faces credibility questions after 168 gallons of crude oil contaminated Monterey County farmland, and Interior Department conflicts emerge over Nevada lithium mining.
In the small town of Cokeville, Wyoming, two cattle ranchers are fighting for their economic survival against sky-high electricity costs and what they see as outdated state energy policies. Tim Teichert and Jason Thornock believe solar power could be their…
