Syndication: Newstex

After bringing a “once-in-a-generation” snowfall to the California mountains, an extreme weather system moved eastward late last week and into the weekend, bringing high winds to the Southeast and more snow to the Midwest and Northeast.  The storm system knocked out power for nearly half a million people and led to at least 13 deaths, […]

After more than a decade of talks, the 193 United Nations (UN) member states have reached a landmark international agreement for a new Treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas of the ocean outside national jurisdiction, known as the “high seas.” In New York late Saturday night, President of […]

In 2019, an archipelago in the Russian Arctic Ocean declared a state of emergency when an aurora of polar bears muscled their way into a settlement and began nosing through the garbage.  At the time, experts said that the climate crisis likely caused the polar bear invasion, as dwindling sea ice forced them to seek […]

SUVs are often seen as the symbol of excessive fossil fuel consumption, but how bad are they really for the climate?  Very, it turns out. New data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) released last week found that the carbon dioxide emissions from SUVs rose by nearly 70 million tonnes in 2022 to reach a […]

The U.S. filed a complaint last week against two companies behind a highly polluting petrochemical plant in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.”  The Pontchartrain Works facility makes neoprene, a synthetic rubber used for everything from laptop covers to wetsuits. But to do this, it releases chloroprene, a likely carcinogen that is the main reason that the majority […]