Environment

Environment

"You're always taught to be extra, extra quiet and careful because they're so sensitive. This is our means of staying healthy and connected to the land and our culture."

The cost to build a new combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) power plant has risen from less than $1,500 per kilowatt of generating capacity in 2023 to $2,157 last year, according to a new report from BloombergNEF.

Joel Jackson described the Tongass as 'the most beautiful cathedral you will ever walk into,' emphasizing its importance to the Kake community and their ancestral ties to the land.

The U.S. Department of the Interior has signed separate agreements totaling $885 million with Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind to voluntarily end their offshore wind leases.

For generations, Indigenous peoples have protected the world's most intact ecosystems without satellites, without algorithms or technologies. AI can become a powerful ally to that stewardship, if it is used on our terms in a culturally appropriate way.

The mudslide in Petropolis in February 2022 killed 233 people, and displaced many more. Over the past decade, climate-related disasters have displaced 250 million people globally, equivalent to 70,000 people forced from their homes every day.

Roughly 20 million barrels per day of oil moved through Hormuz in 2024, equivalent to about one-fifth of global petroleum liquids consumption. When that waterway closed, oil prices spiked to $126 per barrel in what the U.S. Energy Information Administration has described as the largest supply disruption in global oil market history.

Compostable packaging is a type of biodegradable packaging designed to break down alongside natural waste. It's usually made of plant-based materials, like corn syrup, cellulose, or paper, that decompose without leaving toxins behind.

Inoke Tora, a traditional landowner, expressed strong opposition to the incinerator plan, stating, 'There are hundreds of people living in villages in this place and they fish each day, eat fresh crabs. They call that beach paradise.'

The planet's most powerful landscapes rarely announce themselves with trumpet blasts and celeb-drenched opening ceremonies. They are places shaped slowly, by water, wind and ice, and are best understood through patience rather than spectacle.

While Natural England dithers and reviews processes, irreplaceable wildlife sites are being trashed, damaged, and even built over. That is not a technical failure, it's a dereliction of duty.

"The absolute increase of solar PV generation in 2025 is the largest ever observed for any source, excluding years marked by rebounds from global economic shocks such as COVID-19."