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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.…
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…
Australia is grappling with one of its most severe bushfire crises in years, as extreme heatwave conditions have sparked devastating blazes across the country’s southeast. The fires have claimed one life and destroyed approximately 300 structures while scorching over 350,000…
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,…
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…
The American prairie, once a vast sea of grass stretching across the continent, remains home to an incredible diversity of wildlife—from iconic shaggy buffalo to the critically endangered rusty patched bumblebee. But decades of agricultural expansion and development have dramatically…
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…
A shocking new analysis from Oxfam has revealed the staggering environmental inequality between the world’s wealthiest individuals and everyone else. According to the study, the richest 1% of people globally have already consumed their fair share of carbon emissions for…
A ambitious proposal for an international mining treaty encountered significant diplomatic hurdles at the seventh United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) in Nairobi, Kenya, this December. Colombia and Oman spearheaded the initiative seeking binding measures to address the environmental and social…
Two prominent climate policy experts are pushing back against efforts to ban geoengineering research, arguing that humanity has already been inadvertently geoengineering the planet for centuries through fossil fuel emissions—and now needs to study deliberate interventions to address the crisis.…
