Critics say there is a stark contrast between PM Mark Carney's international reputation as a climate champion and his domestic drive to expand oil and gas production.
Dead livestock, poisoned land, and a government agency accused of looking the other way. We've been revealing how sewage sludge contaminated with PFAS chemicals
Nearly two decades after winning a landmark court case against their forced removal from ancestral lands in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Indigenous San communities may finally be closer to securing broader, legally protected rights to the land they have called home for generations. The Central Kalahari Game Reserve was established in 1961 both to protect wildlife and to provide a sanctuary where San communities could continue their traditional way of life. But beginning in the 1990s, the government relocated residents to settlements outside the reserve. The United Nations . . .
Pollution from smoke emitted by months of wildfires across Indonesia caused an estimated 3,560 deaths in the vast Southeast Asian archipelago in September, according to a new study.
The weedkiller Roundup has been accused of being carcinogenic to humans despite no warning on its label. Bayer is seeking to settle tens of thousands of further cases.
A group of U.S. lawmakers is urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio not to support Colombia's plans to restart aerial spraying of coca crops in the Amazon, warning of risks to human health and the environment.
The proposed state constitutional amendment, on the ballot in November, is meant to cut property taxes. For the state's water management districts, it would mean another financial hit. By Amy Green A proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution on the ballot this November is aimed at cutting property taxes. But the amendment would also affect funding for local governments and the state agencies responsible for flood control and water supply and conservation across this vulnerable, low-lying peninsula.
With electricity costs rising, Democrats think they can win seats on Arizona's utility commission. By Wyatt Myskow PHOENIX- Koral Casillas' American Dream was simple: Leave her corporate job to start a local business serving her community.
For 34 years, Rep. Greg Vitali was an unflinching advocate for the environment in a fossil-fuel powered state. Then he was ousted in a primary. By Kyle Bagenstose In what might have been his last hearing as chair of Pennsylvania's House Environmental and Natural Resource Protection committee, long-time Democratic state Rep. Greg Vitali seemed to have little interest in soaking it all in.
Nearly a decade ago, a helicopter pilot flying in Canada's Northwest Territories noticed something peculiar: A landslide so immense, it had blocked a river and created a lake. But that damming power wasn't what made this slide so strange. What he saw wasn't just new to the landscape, it was new to science, what researchers have dubbed a "permafrost detachment slide." In a recent paper, a team of scientists describes two of these events in the region, one stretching for three-quarters of a mile and the other for 2 miles. Combined, they'd moved 30 million cubic yards of earth. . . .
A government bus outfitted with oxygen tanks. Fire fighters collapsing to the ground in relief at the first sign of rain. Dozens of orangutans rescued. And hundreds of Indonesian students marching through the haze, some wearing gas masks, others carrying signs that read, "If we burn, you burn with us."These are recent scenes from Indonesia's worst wildfire season in a decade. More than 4.6 million acres have burned across the country since August, blanketing its large island regions, like Kalimantan and Sumatra, in a thick smoke that has spread to neighboring countries. Millions are . . .