The move has triggered sharp criticism by environmental activists ahead of the COP30 UN climate talks in Brazil next month. The Equatorial Margin deposit off Brazil's coast is believed to be rich in oil and gas. The company was granted the license to drill in the area after a five-year battle. The country's environmental agency IBAMA said the approval came after a "rigorous environmental licensing process."
Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, has died at the age of 91, the institute she founded said on Wednesday. In 2003, she was appointed a Dame of the British Empire and, in 2025, she received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Big banks across the world are substantially increasing their financing of the fossil fuel industry, including for the industry's expansion during a time of intensifying climate crisis, all while pulling back from previously stated climate commitments. These are among the key highlights of the most recent Banking on Climate Chaos report, which found that the 65 biggest banks globally committed a whopping $869 billion to companies conducting business in fossil fuels in 2024, representing a huge $162 billion increase from 2023.
Friends of the Everglades stated their satisfaction with the ruling, highlighting expert testimony regarding the harm caused by industrial lighting and significant land impacts in Big Cypress National Preserve.
"On a clear day, the trails winding through West Coyote Hills near Fullerton, California, offer a sweeping view of the mountains rising over Orange County's suburban sprawl."
The Niger Delta, which produces the crude that earned Nigeria 80 percent of its foreign revenues, teemed with gun-carrying soldiers from the military dictatorship of the feared General Sani Abacha.
Macy synthesized principles of Buddhism, systems theory, and deep ecology philosophy to empower collective action toward environmental sustainability, inspiring ordinary people to heal the planet.
The Murphy Company's devastation of the landscape slaps you in the face. Here on land owned by the state's Department of Natural Resources (DNR), a beautiful mature forest has been logged for hardwood, plywood, and other wood products. Hacked-off stumps are visible in all directions, a few trees left to stand. The former forest floor, once rich with organisms, now stands heaped into huge slash piles to be burned.
"At the world's first Swimmable Cities summit in Rotterdam, more than 200 representatives from over 20 countries gathered and plunged into the water. The summit aims to build a global network of swimmable urban waterways."
