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While ignorance of the law offers no legal defense, willful ignorance of environmental consequences has become a dangerous shield for those responsible for our planet’s future. This troubling dynamic is playing out most dramatically in Brazil’s approach to the Amazon…
In a stunning victory for grassroots environmental activism, ExxonMobil recently announced it would delay construction of a massive $10 billion plastics manufacturing facility along the Texas Gulf Coast. While the oil giant cited “market conditions” as the reason, the decision…
A desperate seal escaped an orca pod by jumping onto a photographer's boat in Washington's Salish Sea, as European Union climate leadership erodes amid rising right-wing politics. Australia's climate scientist Tim Flannery warns against coalition compromises on environmental reform.
Italy's proposed Messina Bridge could end centuries-old train ferry crossings between Sicily and mainland. Meanwhile, Vietnam's cave conservation efforts have transformed former hunters into wildlife protectors, helping species like slow lorises recover from near-extinction in ancient karst limestone regions.
A startling new investigation has revealed that one in four people worldwide—more than 2 billion individuals—live within just three miles of active fossil fuel operations, putting their health and surrounding ecosystems at serious risk. The comprehensive report by Amnesty International…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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...
