The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has proposed new revisions and additions to critical habitats for West Indian manatees near Florida and Puerto Rico. The proposal includes a revised 1,904,191 acres for Florida manatees plus new habitat protections spanning 78,121 acres for Puerto Rico manatees. “The Service is dedicated to the recovery and protection […]
A new report by Earth Track has found that the world is spending a minimum of $2.6 trillion annually on subsidies that destroy the environment and fuel global heating. One of the biggest achievements of the 2022 COP15 Convention on Biodiversity was the passage of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), which has a target […]
Earth’s ozone layer — damaged in the 1970s and 1980s by ozone-depleting substances — is continuing to recover well, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)’s newest Ozone and UV Bulletin, released to coincide with World Ozone Day. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres noted that the planet’s ozone layer over Antarctica was on track for […]
In an effort to tackle the air emissions from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) “forever chemicals,” the environmental agencies of New Mexico, North Carolina and New Jersey have petitioned the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to expand the Clean Air Act’s list of Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) to include four specific PFAS compounds. PFAS […]
The government of Zimbabwe has ordered a cull of 200 elephants amid an ongoing drought and food shortages in the country. The order will be the first elephant cull since 1988. Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority (ZimParks) has been tasked with the cull. Fulton Mangwanya, director general of ZimParks, said that the culling will be […]
UK High Court Justice David Holgate ruled on Friday against a controversial coal plant project, which would have been the country’s first new coal plant in 30 years. At the end of 2022, the UK government had approved the West Cumbria Mining coal plant, planned for Whitehaven, Cumbria, despite the government’s climate advisors warning against […]
Democratic governments have been using “increasingly harsh, overly broad, and vague” laws against climate activists and protesters, according to a new report and video by nonprofit human rights group Climate Rights International (CRI). Countries are imposing long prison sentences, bringing criminal charges against climate activists for trivial offenses and engaging in preventative detention, a press […]
Colombia — host of the 2024 United Nations COP16 biodiversity conference — was the deadliest country in the world for environmentalists and defenders of land rights last year, with Global Witness, an advocacy group based in the United Kingdom, reporting a record 79 killed. It was the highest death toll that Global Witness ever recorded […]
A majority of voters in America — including more than half of Republicans — support holding the plastics and fossil fuel industries accountable for allegedly deceiving the public about the feasibility of recycling, according to a new poll by Data for Progress and the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI). Over the past decade, dozens of […]
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