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The iconic Doomsday Clock, symbolizing the gravest perils facing humankind, is now closer to midnight than at any point since its creation in nineteen forty-seven.
Madagascar has embarked on its most ambitious tree-planting drive yet, aiming to plant sixty million trees in the coming months.
The mounting climate emergency may spur the next global financial crisis, and the world’s central banks are not equipped to handle the consequences, according to a new report by the Bank for International Settlements.
The world is using up more and more resources, and global recycling is falling. That’s the conclusion of a new report by the Circle Economy think tank.
Climate models published since nineteen seventy-three have generally been quite skillful in projecting future warming. While some were too low and some too high, they all show outcomes reasonably close to what has actually occurred.
The Trump administration will finalize its replacement for the Obama-era Waters of the United States rule in a move that will strip protections from more than half of the nation’s wetlands and allow landowners to dump pesticides into waterways or build over wetlands for the first time in decades.
Supporters of the Endangered Species Act are calling on Congress to vote to remove William Pendley as acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, or BLM. As acting director, Pendley has a long history of opposing federal land protections and conservation laws. He’s called the Endangered Species Act unconstitutional and a joke.
The earth has seen a gigantic spike in HFC-23, one of the world’s most potent greenhouse gases. In fact, levels of the gas, which is more than twelve thousand times more harmful than carbon dioxide, are higher than ever before.
