When he talks about the Trump administration, David Doniger likes to say: "Imagine where we'd be if they knew what they were doing." The climate lawyer and senior advisor to the NRDC Action Fund…
Time flies, we've turned 6 years today!!...it seems like yesterday when we celebrated the day we decided to follow our vision, We are yet again celebrating our 6th anniversary today. We have…
A more stable ocean sounds idyllic, but it creates a dangerous feedback loop for our warming planet.
Humans have made the oceans more stable, and the result will be more extreme weather and the…
Global warming is deepening blankets of warmer water that alter ocean currents, hinder absorption of carbon, intensify storms and disrupt biological cycles.
Near the surface of the ocean, global…
An Unearthed and HuffPost investigation identified at least eight trade associations the companies failed to disclose in transparency reports.
Earlier this year, oil giants BP and Royal Dutch Shell…
London — The UK has announced it will launch an Energy Transition Council in a bid to speed up a shift from coal to renewable energy in developing countries.
The announcement came at the start of…
When hurricanes and other extreme storms unleash downpours like Tropical Storm Beta has been doing in the South, the floodwater doesn’t always stay within the government’s flood risk zones.
New…
Chemical headaches, plant sirens – these were the constant background to my home and school life. My community is on the climate frontline.
My teacher first taught me about global warming in the…
In this autumn of horrific fires and deadly floods, it's easy to overlook one bit of promising news on the climate front: Some major U.S. media coverage of the crisis is finally getting better.
In another win for climate campaigners, leaders of 12 major cities around the world — collectively home to about 36 million people — committed Tuesday to divesting from fossil fuel companies and…
US must take the lead to avert eco-disaster.
Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week…
A coalition of 44 low-lying nations has sounded alarm bells saying they are sinking not just because of climate change impacts but are also neck-deep in debt.
Ahead of the 75th United Nations…
Facebook blames mistake in system for restrictions on groups including Greenpeace USA.
Facebook has suspended the accounts of several environmental organizations less than a week after launching an…
Unexpectedly forthright pledge will boost UN efforts to galvanise action on climate crisis.
China will reach carbon neutrality before 2060 and ensure its greenhouse gas emissions peak in the next…
If all the glaciers and ice caps on the planet melted, global sea level would rise by about 230 feet. That amount of water would flood nearly every coastal city around the world [source: U.S.…
Extreme weather, locust invasions and violence have forced people to flee their homes.
Millions of people were uprooted from their homes by conflict, violence and natural disasters in the first six…