Trudeau-era climate minister says Alberta energy deal betrays “environmental issues.” OTTAWA — A prominent member of Mark Carney’s Cabinet quit Thursday in protest of the Liberal government’s decision to roll back Canada’s environmental policies and clear the way for a new oil pipeline. Steven Guilbeault, a Trudeau-era climate minister, resigned in a statement on social … Read more
Trudeau-era climate minister says Alberta energy deal betrays “environmental issues.” OTTAWA — A prominent member of Mark Carney’s Cabinet quit Thursday in protest of the Liberal government’s decision to roll back Canada’s environmental policies and clear the way for a new oil pipeline. Steven Guilbeault, a Trudeau-era climate minister, resigned in a statement on social … Read more
Data centers’ hunger for electricity is prompting some states to keep their coal-burning power plants from closing — while DC relaxes air pollution limits. The Trump administration is allowing coal plants to release more pollution at a time when utilities across the country are opting to save their aging coal facilities from retirement so they … Read more
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up. Janos Pasztor was conflicted. Sitting in his home office in a village just outside Geneva, he stared into the screen of his … Read more
Study estimates 53,000 females have died on South Georgia since 2023, with ‘dramatic impact’ on future of the species Bird flu has wiped out half of South Georgia’s breeding elephant seals, according to a study that warns of “serious implications” for the future of the species. The remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean is … Read more
Local people describe devastating impact of millions of toxic beads from Southern Water site near Camber Sands The massive spill of plastic beads at Camber Sands is devastating for local people, wildlife and tourism and the beads are dispersing along the coast, residents heard at an emotional public meeting on Thursday. Millions of tiny, toxic … Read more
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty It began in the small Catalan town of Taradell as a plan to provide local people with allotments where they could grow their own food. Four activists came together with the aim of promoting good environmental practices in … Read more
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out More than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém, significantly outnumbering every single country’s delegation apart from the host Brazil, new analysis has found. One in … Read more
‘If you wouldn’t mind,’ the instructor says, handing out legal documents to all those who enter, ‘signing your life away’ In the backblocks of the Lockyer Valley, more than an hour’s drive west of Brisbane, is a dead end track thick with scrubby eucalypt regrowth. It is a Saturday morning in late spring and, in … Read more
A years-long standoff over who should host the 2026 climate summit leaves Brazilian hosts, and other states, frustrated Delegates turning up in the Amazonian city of Belém for the Cop30 climate conference were greeted by what some interpreted as a less than subtle dig by the Brazilian hosts. The pavilions for Australia and Turkey – … Read more