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Protesters breach security at Brazil's crucial climate summit as world leaders gather. Meanwhile, Senegal experiments with intensive cattle grazing to combat drought, and Australia's Coalition faces internal warfare over abandoning its 2050 net zero emissions commitment.
The incoming Trump administration is moving forward with plans to open California’s offshore waters to oil and gas drilling for the first time in decades, setting the stage for a major environmental and political showdown with the Golden State. According…
Hundreds demand clean air in India's capital as pollution reaches dangerous levels, while Nigeria officially pardons executed environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight colleagues. Plus: Brazil's Lula targets climate misinformation at UN summit and Latin American communities resist water-hungry AI data centers.
Nearly three decades after their controversial execution, Nigeria has officially pardoned Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight fellow environmental activists known as the “Ogoni Nine.” The pardons, granted earlier this year, vindicate men who were executed on November 10, 1995, for crimes…
Electric vehicles capture nearly 10% of Australian new car sales as gas vehicles drop below 70% market share. Meanwhile, UK ministers hold dozens of meetings with developers on planning reforms while shutting out ecologists. Climate fears also drive 40% of childless Australian women to delay parenthood.
A massive spill of plastic biobeads has transformed Camber Sands, one of England's most popular beaches, into what local officials are calling a potenti...
Today's top environmental stories: climate action, wildlife conservation, renewable energy, and sustainability news from around the world. Updated Nov 8, 2025.
A shocking new investigation reveals that more than 5,000 fossil fuel industry lobbyists gained access to United Nations climate summits between 2021 and 2024—the same four-year period that saw devastating extreme weather events intensify worldwide and global oil and gas…
Today's top environmental stories: climate action, wildlife conservation, renewable energy, and sustainability news from around the world. Updated Nov 6, 2025.
Indigenous and local communities living in the Congo Basin—the world’s second-largest rainforest—are bearing the devastating costs of industrial expansion as governments and investors race to extract minerals, timber, and oil to fuel economic growth and the green energy transition. A…
