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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…
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…
The assassination of Virgilio Trujillo Arana in June 2022 highlights the deadly consequences of Venezuela’s illegal mining crisis. The Indigenous Uwottüja leader was shot three times in the head in Venezuela’s Amazonas state capital after years of defending the Amazon…
In a heartfelt birthday message marking her 44th year, Catherine, Princess of Wales, has opened up about nature’s profound role in her healing journey following her cancer treatment and remission announcement. The royal’s latest video reflection, released as the final…
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…
At the recent COP30 climate conference in Brazil, dubbed “The People’s COP,” over 50,000 Indigenous leaders, diplomats, and environmental activists gathered to address one of conservation’s most pressing questions: How can artificial intelligence serve environmental protection while respecting Indigenous rights…
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.…
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…
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…
Britain’s gardens are becoming increasingly homogenized, with more than half of the plant varieties once commonly grown in the UK no longer available for purchase. This dramatic loss of botanical diversity stems from shifting gardening trends and changing consumer preferences…
