Climate Change Is Pushing Animals Closer to Humans, With Potentially Catastrophic Consequences All around the world, the climate crisis has species on the move. This widespread shuffling can push animals closer to humans, with potentially disastrous consequences. Overall, a growing body of... 7 hours ago Inside Climate News By Kiley Price A Town Board in Colorado Considers a Rights of Nature Repeal The ink is barely dry on a Colorado town’s first rights of nature resolutions, yet a motion to repeal them is scheduled for a vote Tuesday night. The resolutions, adopted... 9 hours ago Inside Climate News By Katie Surma Andrew Coyne Helped Run Charity That Gave $6.4M to Climate Crisis Denial Groups One of Canada’s top political journalists and pundits served on the board of a foundation that gave $6.4 million to national groups denying climate change is a crisis, according to... 10 hours ago DeSmog Geoff Dembicki A Rare Dose of Hope for the Colorado River as New Study Says Future May Be Wetter Good news on the Colorado River is rare. Its reservoirs, the two largest in the country, have shrunk to record lows. The policymakers who will decide its future are stuck... 10 hours ago Inside Climate News By Alex Hager, KUNC Offset Schemes Failing to Benefit Forest Communities, Report Finds Increasingly, businesses are writing off their carbon emissions by funding the conservation of forests. A new report finds that while such schemes have made “limited” progress in curbing deforestation, they... 13 hours ago Yale E360 Ofcom Refuses to Investigate GB News Over Climate Conspiracy Theories The broadcasting regulator Ofcom will not be opening an investigation into GB News after one of its guests spread misinformation about climate action, DeSmog can reveal. Appearing on the Neil... 16 hours ago DeSmog Sam Bright EV Sales Are Taking Off. Why Is Oil Demand Still Climbing? This year is likely to bring two seemingly incongruous milestones. Sales of electric vehicles will hit an all-time high, and so will global oil consumption. It is as if the... 18 hours ago Inside Climate News By Nicholas Kusnetz Energy Developers Want Reforms to Virginia’s Process for Connecting Renewables to the Grid, Hoping to Control Costs As Virginia solar developers and Dominion Energy continue to clash over requirements for tying new small and mid-sized renewables into the electric grid, some environmental groups and grid experts say... 18 hours ago Inside Climate News By Sarah Vogelsong Climate Justice Groups Confront Chevron on San Francisco Bay A generation of Richmond’s children, now grown, took to San Francisco Bay in nearly five dozen kayaks Sunday morning, in the shadow of Chevron’s massive refinery, headed for tankers controlled... 1 day ago Inside Climate News By Liza Gross Canada’s Bitumen Boosters Want Us to Forget About Norway Why can’t Alberta have nice things, like the $2.23 trillion Norwegian sovereign wealth fund? Alberta bills itself as an energy superpower and produces about 70 percent more petroleum in total... 1 day ago DeSmog Mitch Anderson Canceled Canadian CCS Project Deemed “Not Economically Feasible” Capital Power Generation canceled a $2.4 billion carbon capture and storage project at their Genesee Generating Station, claiming it is “technically viable but not economically feasible.” The post Canceled Canadian... 1 day ago DeSmog Taylor Noakes Chorus of Whale Song Signals Antarctic Blue Whales May Be Making a Comeback A nearly two-decade study of whale songs recorded in the Southern Ocean suggests that blue whales, the largest creatures ever to have roamed the Earth, may be recovering in Antarctica... 1 day ago Yale E360 Landmark Study Reveals Gas Stove Emissions Boost Childhood Asthma Rates, Adult Deaths A new Harvard-Stanford study shows gas stove emissions boost childhood asthma rates and could cause thousands of adult deaths. The study arrives at the same time as the launch of... 1 day ago DeSmog Diane Bernard Mining ‘Critical Minerals’ in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Rife With Rights Abuses As high-consuming economies like the United States and Europe move to supplant fossil fuels with low-carbon technologies, a race is on to extract and process critical minerals for use in... 1 day ago Inside Climate News By Katie Surma Investor Nuns’ Shareholder Resolutions Aim to Stop Wall Street Financing of Fossil Fuel Development on Indigenous Lands Sister Susan Francois didn’t expect to get emotional discussing her congregation’s shareholder resolution at Citibank last week, but as she spoke to a room full of supporters about the role... 1 day ago Inside Climate News By Keerti Gopal ‘Build Green’ Bill Seeks a Clean Shift in Transportation Spending Although the nation has seen record federal investment in infrastructure under President Joe Biden, the majority of the funds are flowing to roads and bridges—not to projects that will clean... 1 day ago Inside Climate News By Marianne Lavelle Behind the Scenes: How a Plastics Plant Has Plagued a Pennsylvania County In 2022, the oil and gas company Shell began operations at its new plastics plant in Monaca, Pennsylvania, a town in Beaver County, about 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. The... 2 days ago Inside Climate News By Kiley Price Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands Is the Biggest Conservation Opportunity Left in the West. If Congress Won’t Protect it, Should Biden Step in? OWYHEE CANYONLANDS, Ore.—Drive 50 miles from Boise, Idaho, past the suburbs, exurbs and farms into Oregon, and you’ll find yourself in the largest conservation opportunity left in the continental U.S.... 2 days ago Inside Climate News By Wyatt Myskow Academics and Lawmakers Slam an Industry-Funded Report by a Former Energy Secretary Promoting Natural Gas and LNG With a pair of fossil-fuel friendly senators at his side, former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on Tuesday released a favorable report on U.S. natural gas and liquified natural gas... 2 days ago Inside Climate News By Phil McKenna Loss and Damage Meeting Shows Signs of Giving Developing Countries a Bigger Voice and Easier Access to Aid If the new United Nations loss and damage fund lives up to the promise of its first full board meeting, it could be a game-changer for climate finance by speeding... 3 days ago Inside Climate News By Bob Berwyn Q&A: What’s the Deal with Bill Gates’s Wyoming Nuclear Plant? From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Host Steve Curwood with Jacopo Buongiorno, a professor of nuclear science and engineering at the... 3 days ago Inside Climate News Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth Appeals Court Ordered the Dismissal of a Landmark Youth Climate Court Case Earlier this week, a landmark youth climate court case may have been dealt a fatal blow. Originally filed in 2015, Juliana v. United States was brought before a district court... 4 days ago Inside Climate News By Kiley Price BP Was Warned Gas-Driven Climate Change Could Cause ‘Unprecedented Famine’ BP was warned by Princeton University researchers in 2016 that climate change accelerated in part by new global supplies of shale gas could lead to catastrophic events such as “mass... 4 days ago DeSmog Geoff Dembicki Attacks on Environmental Journalists Growing Worldwide, UN Report Finds A new U.N. report warns that environmental journalists across the globe are facing growing violence and intimidation.Read more on E360 →... 4 days ago Yale E360 Battle to Prioritize Public Health over Oil Company Profits Heats Up On a dreary afternoon in January, a geyser of oily water shot over the fence of an oil and gas company in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington, splattering the... 4 days ago Inside Climate News By Liza Gross Biden Administration Awards Wyoming $30 Million From New ‘Solar for All’ Grant On Earth Day, President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced $7 billion in federal funds to help low- and middle-income residents and communities in all 50 states gain... 4 days ago Inside Climate News By Jake Bolster Pro-Trump Platform Promotes Climate Science Denial Ads to Millions Across Europe The pro-Trump Epoch Times has run hundreds of anti-climate social media adverts in Europe since the beginning of 2024 that have been seen millions of times, DeSmog can reveal. Epoch... 4 days ago DeSmog Joey Grostern Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago Editor’s note: This article, originally published on September 16, 2015, was the first installment of a nine-part investigation called Exxon: The Road Not Taken, now more commonly known as #ExxonKnew,... 5 days ago Inside Climate News By Neela Banerjee, Lisa Song and David Hasemyer Orbán-backed Think Tank Courts Farmers Linked to Far Right Ahead of EU Poll An oil-funded think tank backed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is involved in organising widespread farmer protests in the run-up to the EU elections, DeSmog can reveal. Hardline farming... 5 days ago DeSmog Marta Kasztelan, Clare Carlile and Joey Grostern A Major Technology for Long-Duration Energy Storage Is Approaching Its Moment of Truth The need for long-duration energy storage, which helps to fill the longest gaps when wind and solar are not producing enough electricity to meet demand, is as clear as ever.... 5 days ago Inside Climate News By Dan Gearino Older posts