Climate, Energy & Conservation
This essay is adapted from the Frankly episode posted on March 6th, 2026 titled, “A Guide to Staying Human (Part 1): Desperately Seeking Agency.”
Luxury yacht manufacturer Sunseeker has pleaded guilty to violating a U.S. environmental law by using illegally sourced teak from Myanmar on two of its yachts imported into the U.S. The U.K.-based Sun...
At a time when other public officials and the media are talking less about climate change, Sheldon Whitehouse remains fiercely outspoken. He delivered his 307th climate speech on the Senate floor this...
https://www.eenews.net/articles/climate-change-alarms-are-flashing-washington-isnt-paying-attention/ By Zack Colman Key excerpt: The shift in Washington has been driven by President Donald Trump, who ...
* Ocean “acidification” is a somewhat unique branch of the overarching climate scare. It differs from other branches of the big scare in that it does not depend on atmospheric heating as t...
This presentation (media release|audio presentation) will be made at the May 27, 2026 annual meeting of Meta shareholders.
TANJUNG BUNGAH, Malaysia — When Yap Jo Leen was tracking dusky langurs in the forests of Penang for her master’s degree in 2016, she watched a langur they called Towkay Soh — Hokkien for “lady boss” —...
https://www.eenews.net/articles/climate-change-alarms-are-flashing-washington-isnt-paying-attention/ By Zack Colman Excerpt: The Trump administration has swept away climate change policies, Democrats ...
Australia is one of 17 “megadiverse” countries that account for 70% of Earth’s biodiversity. However, Australia is unique in having the highest mammalian extinction rate in the world. That makes conse...
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2026/05/26/the-sound-of-climate-silence-00936026 BY ARIANNA SKIBELL Excerpt: Call it the great “climate hushing.” At least, that’s how Anthony Leisero...
Fewer than 1,000 leatherback sea turtles remain in the Eastern Pacific, nesting along the coastline that runs from Mexico to Ecuador. Scientists have previously fitted tracking devices to leatherbacks...
A copper mine in southern Peru that took decades to complete environmental assessments has been contaminating local watersheds with harmful metals, critics say. In its first few years of operation, th...
About a year ago, Kenya announced plans for its first nuclear power plant to be built in Siaya County, on the shores of Lake Victoria. However, following local protests, Kenya’s state-run Nuclear Powe...
PARIS (AP) — Europe is baking under unseasonal heat that is shattering temperature records, including in the United Kingdom on Monday, and prompting government warnings after deaths were reported at a...
JAKARTA — Authorities at Indonesia’s largest port seized hundreds of kilograms of the toxic heavy metal mercury in late April. The bust reflects the vast scale of illegal mining underway in forests ac...
Uganda was home to around 300 Northern white rhinos, but after years of intense poaching, the population disappeared, with the last wild rhino killed in 1983. But now, they are back. In 2005, a breedi...
In a little more than 50 years, the population of wild North Atlantic salmon has plummeted by 75%. Today, it is estimated that fewer than 60,000 exist in and around Iceland. Unless we do something soo...
Interesting tidbit from the infamous 2024 election postmortem: “Climate change and green energy transition messaging created anxiety among workers in traditional industries worried about job losses.” ...
https://www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-15848473/Scientists-predict-global-population-crash-2064.html By XANTHA LEATHAM, UK Daily Mail Excerpt: Earth’s population currently sits at 8.3 billion p...
UN CLIMATE MODELS UNDER FIRE@ClimateDepot says the UN is stepping back from an extreme climate model used in past projections, arguing the shift reinforces long-standing criticism of earlier predictio...