The United Nations wants to stop the sixth mass extinction. In a draft proposal released Monday, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity proposed protecting 30 percent of the planet by 2030, CNN reported. “If adopted, this target could achieve what our children have been calling on governments to do – listen to the science,” explorer-in-residence […]
By Timothy Graham, Tobias R. Keller In the first week of 2020, hashtag #ArsonEmergency became the focal point of a new online narrative surrounding the bushfire crisis. The message: the cause is arson, not climate change. Police and bushfire services (and some journalists) have contradicted this claim. We studied about 300 Twitter accounts driving the […]
Signs added to Glacier National Park more than a decade ago predicting that the glaciers would be gone by 2020 are being taken down and replaced, as CNN reported. The signs were first put up over a decade ago when climate models predicted the glaciers would melt. By 2017, the projections had been revised, but […]
One of the more positive environmental developments in the U.S. in recent years has been the shutdown of deadly, high-emitting coal-fired plants. But now, a study has found that new oil and gas infrastructure could counteract much of that progress. The report, released by the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) Wednesday, found that the oil and […]
House Democrats on Wednesday introduced a sweeping plan intended to spur the U.S. to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. An outline of the draft bill, entitled the CLEAN Future Act, shows the plan would not impose a tax on carbon, but rather create a national clean energy standard for power suppliers, strengthen vehicle emissions standards […]
Shareholders of one of Europe’s biggest banks are pushing for it to stop investing in fossil fuels, in the first shareholder action of its kind targeting a European bank. Eleven of Barclays institutional investors representing £130 billion in assets have filed a resolution to be voted on at the bank’s annual general meeting in May. […]
The union representing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) workers began negotiating a new contract with the agency Tuesday. But the workers are not just fighting for a fair contract or better working conditions. They are also fighting for the ability to do their jobs in an administration hostile to science and environmental regulations. The […]
Twenty-five people and more than one billion animals are dead in historic Australian wildfires that are now expected to burn for months. Conditions improved over the weekend, but hot, windy weather is expected to return at the end of the week, NPR reported Monday. “There is no room for complacency,” New South Wales (NSW) state […]
A city in Southern California has found a unique and adorable way to help prevent the next big wildfire: goats! The city of Anaheim near Los Angeles has renewed a contract with the company Environmental Land Management to keep goats munching on fire-fuel year round, NPR reported. Goats are ideal fire-preventers for two reasons: They can […]
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