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As political leaders increasingly dismiss climate science, a sobering new United Nations report underscores the urgent environmental crises facing our planet. The Global Environment Outlook 7 (GEO-7), released this week in Nairobi by 287 scientists from 82 countries, reveals that…
The conservation world mourns pioneering researcher Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who transformed wildlife protection over decades. Meanwhile, a federal judge struck down Trump's wind energy ban, while Australia plans massive grid expansion requiring fivefold renewable capacity increases by 2050.
Devastating floods and landslides claim nearly 200 lives in Sri Lanka as a powerful cyclone strikes. Meanwhile, activists successfully disrupted coal exports at Australia's Port of Newcastle, and the Trump administration withdrew billions in promised clean energy investments from Appalachian coal communities.
Three major climate disasters unfold simultaneously: Hurricane Melissa triggers humanitarian crisis in Jamaica prompting UK emergency aid calls, Cyclone Ditwah claims 123 lives in Sri Lanka with 130 missing, while catastrophic monsoon floods across Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia kill over 350 people.
A scenic 84-acre artificial lake in Nepal’s Sarlahi district has become an unexpected tourism hotspot, attracting visitors from both Nepal and neighboring India since opening in 2021. Bagmati Lake, locally known as Bharat Taal after the municipal mayor who commissioned…
Brazil's COP30 climate summit concluded after 18-hour extensions without new fossil fuel phase-out agreements, while environmental journalists across Africa face increasing harassment for reporting on ecological damage from China's Belt and Road infrastructure projects.
Communities in Lesotho are pushing back against one of Africa’s largest water infrastructure projects, filing a formal complaint with the African Development Bank over what they describe as environmental “greenwashing” that has brought poverty instead of promised development. The Lesotho…
Bipartisan opposition emerges to massive coastal drilling plans as governors from both coasts push back. Meanwhile, COP30's revolutionary forest fund will directly pay communities for tree protection, and California's environmental justice disputes highlight carbon market tensions.
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.
In Quebec’s Gaspésie region, Indigenous river guardians are fighting an urgent battle against time and rising temperatures to protect Atlantic salmon populations that have sustained their communities for millennia. The Mi’gmaq Wolastoqey Indigenous Fisheries Management Association, representing three First Nations,…
