President Mokgweetsi Masisi has bridled at calls by Germany and Britain to ban trophy hunting, suggesting that these countries try to live with the enormous animals themselves., Read MoreContinue Reading
In honor of the 2024 solar event, here’s a playlist of our favorite sun, moon and eclipse songs across genres to help enhance your viewing experience., Read MoreContinue Reading
Since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, a small number of fossil fuel entities — just 57 corporate and state producers — have been responsible for 80 percent of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. And a majority of those actors have only expanded production in the intervening years. That’sContinue Reading
For the past year and a half an industry group called the Pathways Alliance has been running national ads claiming oil sands producers are climate leaders “on the road to net zero.” But federal records newly reviewed by DeSmog reveal that the group’s co-founder has personally donated to the ConservativeContinue Reading
Jeffrey Rissman’s book explains how to get heavy industry to near-zero emissions. By Dan Gearino The Biden administration’s announcement last week of $6 billion in funding for factory decarbonization reminded me of a book.Continue Reading
Animal rights activists are promoting a ballot initiative that would ban factory farming in Sonoma County. Large farming interests are not happy.Continue Reading
The April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse is almost here. This guide has tips about the path of totality, eclipse glasses, what to watch, travel, traffic and more., Read MoreContinue Reading
The Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $20 billion to nonprofit organizations to help finance projects that boost clean energy and reduce emissions., Read MoreContinue Reading
A new study finds that universities scoring strongly on measures of sustainability are associated with innovation and economic growth in their surrounding communities. However, the study did not find similar connections between university sustainability performance and environmental sustainability in their home communities., Read MoreContinue Reading
A year after America’s withdrawal from the country following 20 years of war, Billing spent weeks on the ground interviewing Afghan villagers whose air and water were poisoned by massive U.S. military installations. By ICN Editors Lynzy Billing, a freelance journalist writing for Inside Climate News and New Lines Magazine,Continue Reading
This article, a joint reporting project of Floodlight and NPR, is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. Open flames shot upward from four smokestacks at the Chevron refinery on the western edge of Richmond, Calif. Soon, black smoke blanketed the sky. News spread quicklyContinue Reading
A new Vermont bill would create a “climate superfund.”Continue Reading
As governments impose limits on plastic food packaging, climate-friendlier alternatives are in the works. Here are some that might be coming to a grocery store near you.Continue Reading