In the months after California struck the deal with the automakers, the administration and Justice Department pushed an unusual series of legal and policy moves against California and the auto companies that backed the state’s climate change plan.
The Trump administration on Thursday finalized plans to allow mining and energy drilling on nearly a million acres of land in southern Utah that had once been protected as part of a major national monument.
The airline is the first American carrier planning to purchase “offsets” for carbon emissions from all domestic flights, a move some activists denounce as a stunt.
They are mainly designed to protect fossil fuels. There is a convenient story about Republicans and climate policy circulating in Washington, DC, right now.
This “abrupt thaw” affects 5 percent of Arctic permafrost, but it could double the amount of warming it contributes.
It was not long ago that, if you wanted to reduce the impact of your consumer choices on the environment, your only option was to use your own shopping bag.
At the same time, many of those lands have great capacity to generate renewable energy.
South Dakota is finally on track to dip its toe in the utility-scale solar power waters for the very first time, with a 110-megawatt plant slated for construction on federal trust land in Oglala Lakota County, in the southwestern corner of the state.
The forests of Europe have been shaped and reshaped by human hands over centuries.
Later that month, Offill and I did a bit of moongazing, at the Met Breuer museum.
Hundreds of millions of the insects have swept over the Horn of Africa in the worst outbreak in a quarter of a century, says the United Nations
Climate change has caused record-breaking ocean temperatures, and that means more dangerous storms, trouble for coral reefs and big changes for our marine ecosystems.
Using satellite data, scientists are documenting the inexorable melting of South America’s glaciers and ice fields, with Andean glaciers thinning by nearly three feet a year since 2000.
Olivia Colman, Benedict Cumberbatch and Malala Yousafzai are among 2,000 leading activists, campaigners and public figures who have backed an open letter demanding urgent action to end extreme poverty, conquer inequality and fix the climate crisis.
Six conservation groups and eight states have already sued to block the underlying legal opinion.
The Guardian is owned by a charity, the Scott Trust, which has already shifted its investments away from fossil fuel investments.
Conservationists say fears of an insect apocalypse, Armageddon and absolute extinction are overblown, but acting now could save populations that are plummeting.
As cities are shaped by rising seas and extreme weather events, the way we work will be irrevocably altered.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to announce the package Wednesday morning after meeting with the House Democratic caucus.
It may be hard to remember these days, but the nation that led the world on to the stage of modern environmental protection was the United States.
Harvard says its direct investments amounted to $394 million as of May 2019, or roughly 1 percent of the endowment total.
Sediment sweeps past the camera as Icefin, a bright yellow remotely operated robot submarine, moves tentatively forward under the ice
This working apartment in Singapore shows how much things will stay the same once the climate changes—and also how much we’ll have to adapt.
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