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Australia’s Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen is preparing to take an unprecedented diplomatic approach as the world’s chief climate negotiator for COP31, focusing his efforts on directly engaging oil-rich nations that have consistently blocked progress on fossil fuel…
Australia is confronting a devastating double blow from extreme weather events, as deadly bushfires rage across Victoria while Tropical Cyclone Koji unleashes dangerous flooding conditions in Queensland. The bushfire crisis has claimed at least one life and caused extensive destruction,…
Oil industry executives offered polite praise but delivered a cold reception to President Donald Trump’s push for massive investment in Venezuela’s struggling petroleum sector during a recent White House meeting. Despite Trump’s direct appeals, major US oil companies showed little…
A contaminated landfill that once posed an environmental threat to Waukegan, Illinois, has been transformed into a powerful symbol of clean energy justice. The new 9.1-megawatt Yeoman Solar Project, built on a former Superfund site, now provides affordable renewable energy…
Arizona has secured a landmark agreement with Riverview LLP, a major dairy operation whose intensive groundwater pumping has left residents in the desert town of Willcox without water and caused their homes to sink into the subsiding earth. The settlement…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ proposal to dredge the Cape Fear River in North Carolina is drawing fierce opposition from environmental groups worried about disturbing dangerous PFAS chemicals already contaminating the waterway. This latest development represents another chapter in…
The United States government has announced plans to withdraw from more than 60 international organizations, many of them United Nations-affiliated bodies, in a move that political scientists warn will severely damage America’s global influence and hamper critical environmental cooperation efforts.…
Bob Weir, the legendary guitarist and founding member of the Grateful Dead who passed away on January 10th, devoted decades of his life to environmental activism that went far beyond typical celebrity endorsements. Rather than treating environmental issues as abstract…
A remarkable New Year’s surprise has emerged from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park: the birth of twin mountain gorillas, an extraordinarily rare event that conservationists are celebrating as a beacon of hope for one of the world’s…
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation that could significantly weaken energy efficiency requirements for manufactured homes, potentially increasing utility costs for some of America’s most vulnerable residents. The bill would strip the Department of Energy (DOE) of its…
