UN High Seas Treaty Looks Set to Founder
Stage three of UN negotiations on a conservation treaty for the high seas would up last week without “a serious commitment”; prospects for a final agreement remain weak.
Read more...Stage three of UN negotiations on a conservation treaty for the high seas would up last week without “a serious commitment”; prospects for a final agreement remain weak.
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Read more...While fires rage in the Amazon and Anchorage, Alaska, registers record high temperatures, the Trump administration makes plans to open the world’s largest intact temperate rain forest for exploitation.
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Read more...Sanders presents an ambitious plan.
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Read more...California is leading a trend of climate-change-induced insurance redlining.
Read more...Combatting rising seas is a big ticket item, and one beyond the meane even of prosperous cities.
Read more...New York City has set out to protect people — and the planet — from heat.
Read more...New study published by Current Biology reveals that warming waters are an even bigger threat to coral reefs than experts previously realized.
Read more...This Real News Network interview with Diana Ruiz of Greenpeace covers yet another dangerous effect of global warming: soil degradation and its knock-on effects.
Read more...Nickel supplies are a new electronic vehice maker worry.
Read more...Some California farmers are shifting their “crops” to reduce water use. But is it too little, too late?
Read more...The fatal combination of the national security state’s mentality and oil industry lobbying threatens to destroy the planet’s climate.
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