Deaths from record temperatures in Mali reportedly led to full morgues turning away bodies this monthThe deadly protracted heatwave that filled hospitals and mortuaries in the Sahel region of Africa earlier this month would have been impossible without human-caused climate disruption, a new analysis has revealed.Mali registered the hottest day in its history on 3 April as temperatures hit 48.5C in the south-western city of Kayes. Intense heat continued across a wide area of the country for more...
Sluggish production and falling fossil fuel prices have slashed revenues at Australia’s largest oil and gas producer Woodside by almost a third. The Perth-based company’s revenue for the first quarter fell 31 per cent compared to the previous year to $US2.97 billion ($A4.66 million), it announced on Friday. Over the same period, production dropped by […]
Governments and public financial institutions must own up to their co-responsibility for fossil fuel projects and their impacts, and be consistent with their avowed commitments to combat climate change
It's a tough case to sell that higher interest rates today are having a substantially negative impact on the course of the economy.
The Lansing Board of Water and Light continues to push for more clean energy. Officials say it will help attract high tech businesses like battery and micro-chip manufacturing.
"My house gets flooded every single year,” 16-year old Diana Ramirez told City Limits, one of many New York City youth who took to the streets in the lead up to Earth Day to demand people in power stop funding fossil fuels.
The Natural Resources Research Institute is partnering with the University of Minnesota and Tufts University on the U.S. Department of Energy-funded projects.
The Natural Resources Research Institute is partnering with the University of Minnesota and Tufts University on the U.S. Department of Energy-funded projects.
Organizers at Columbia, Tulane and the University of Virginia write to attorneys general arguing schools’ investments are illegalCampus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that their schools’ investments in planet-heating fossil fuels are illegal, the Guardian has learned.The students from Columbia University, Tulane University and the University of Virginia each wrote to the attorneys general of their respective states calling on them to scrutinize their...
Around 20 members from the student environmental group Sunrise NYU gathered in Washington Square Park on Sunday, calling on the university to implement stronger environmental initiatives on campus. The protest comes months after NYU said it “commits to avoid” future fossil fuel investments, reiterating past assurances from the university. The group — alongside Sunrise NYC This story Students urge NYU to ‘implement stronger initiatives’ against fossil fuel industry appeared first on Washington...
Amy Westervelt and Kyle Pope have covered climate disinformation for a combined 20-plus years – here’s their guide on how to decode itIncreasingly sophisticated and better-funded disinformation is making climate coverage trickier both for journalists to produce and for the public to fully understand and trust.But telling the story, and understanding it, has never been more urgent with half of Earth’s population eligible to vote in elections that could decisively impact the world’s ability to act...
The divestment movement has a long history among US student activists, including in the overlapping movements of todayCameron Jones first learned about fossil fuel divestment as a 15-year-old climate organizer. When he enrolled at Columbia University in 2022, he joined the campus’s chapter of the youth-led climate justice group the Sunrise Movement and began pushing the school in New York to sever financial ties with coal, oil and gas companies.“The time for institutions like Columbia to be in...