Six women win 2026 Goldman prize, world’s top environmental award First all-women cohort of winners hails from Colombia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, South Korea, the UK and the US.

“While we continue to fight uphill to protect the environment and implement lifesaving climate policies – in the US and globally – it is clear that true leaders can be found all around us”

Change Starts Where You Stand It’s Earth Day, and this "should" be a post that ends with a hopeful message. But take a look around. The world is in dire straits, and it happened long before the ‘other’ strait came front and center...

Every day should be #earthday. Someday we might get to the concept of honoring earth each day. Until then, we all need to do what we can to create positive change.

"Giving up isn’t an option."

World food systems ‘pushed to the brink’ by extreme heat, UN warns Severe heatwaves in commonly hot regions could leave farmers unable to work outside, with livestock mortality rates expected to rise

Experts said food supply in some areas was being “pushed to the brink” by increasingly common and severe heatwaves, on land and at sea - "The acceleration of climate uncertainties poses dire challenges for food growers worldwide”

Kenyan women defy fishing taboos as climate change threatens Lake Victoria In a lakeside village in Kisumu County, women were forbidden from fishing. Until Rhoda Ongoche Akech defied the stigma.

“This is all because of economic hardships that the community is facing; it is pushing women to break the taboo”. Good for these women to take charge of their lives.

US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

“Where the industry was previously outspoken in its support for clean energy and emissions reductions, many firms have since fallen silent. Instead, they appear to be prioritising the rapid build-out of datacentre infrastructure globally over supporting clean energy and rapid emissions reductions.”

Wildfires used to 'go to sleep' at night. Climate change has them burning overtime Wildfires used to die down and even stop at night with cooler temperatures and increased humidity. But a study released Friday says climate change is making burning weather more around the clock in No...

“Fires normally slow down during the night, or they just stop,” said study co-author Xianli Wang, a fire scientist with the Canadian Forest Service. “But under extreme fire hazard conditions, fire actually burns through the night or later into the night.”

The Great Green Wall's one of the world's most ambitious eco-projects. Is it working? It's a global effort with a multibillion dollar price tag. Among its aims: re-greening nearly 250 million acres, planting 4,000 miles of trees, helping farmers, creating jobs, sequestering carbon.

Sounded great on paper, but extremely difficult to put into action - 'What began as one of the world's most ambitious ecological undertakings has in many ways devolved into a cautionary tale of poorly planned projects, lacking in local participation and entangled in a labyrinth of opaque financing.'

The myrrh tree that's key to luxury perfumes and African incomes is threatened by drought Myrrh, a key ingredient in some luxury perfumes, is becoming harder to harvest in Ethiopia because of a historic drought.

“Unfortunately, many seedlings are uprooted by children who graze their livestock nearby, and the animals often eat the buds of the young trees,” said a local elder, Mohamed Osman Miyir, adding: “We are deeply worried about the declining population of myrrh trees.”

Great White Sharks Are Overheating - Inside Climate News The ocean’s fastest and most formidable predators might also be the most physiologically vulnerable to warming waters, researchers warn.

“These animals are already operating on a tight energy budget, and climate change is narrowing their options even further.”

Most endangered marine mammals face highest plastic risk Three quarters of marine mammals in the highest-risk category for plastic ingestion and entanglement are already classified as threatened

The five marine mammals most at risk from population decline due to macroplastics include Hawaiian monk seals, African manatees, Australian sea lions, vaquita porpoises, and Mediterranean monk seals.

Record number of homes in Great Britain turn to green energy as fuel prices soar Iran war drives demand for solar panels, heat pumps and EVs, with energy bills expected to rise 18% from July

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Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

“This is an important and very concerning result. It shows that the ‘pessimistic’ models, which show a strong weakening of the Amoc by 2100, are, unfortunately, the realistic ones, in that they agree better with observational data.”

Hungary's New PM Just Showed Us What Courage Looks Like. Where's Ours? Hypothetically, if I was elected President, here are the opening salvos of restoration

Hungary just elected a new PM who wasted zero time — he shut down state propaganda, called out the corrupt officials by name, and started the reckoning on day one. It made me want to write down exactly what that should look like here. So I did.
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Scientists finally know where the Colorado River’s missing water is going For years, water managers have been puzzled as the Colorado River kept delivering less water than expected—even when snowpack levels looked promising. New research reveals the missing piece: spring ra...

"The period of time when we were wondering, 'Oh no, where's our water going?' started around the same time when we saw this drop in spring precipitation -- the beginning of the 'Millennium drought,' which started in 2000 and has been ongoing to the current day"

Hurricanes are slowing down - and dumping far more rain than before Warming oceans are making hurricanes wetter and slower, increasing rainfall intensity and flood risks across the North Atlantic.

“The findings show that global warming is increasing both the intensity and area of rainfall from tropical cyclones, especially in warm, low-latitude regions”

New miniature marsupial frog found in Peru carries eggs in a back pouch Scientists have discovered a new species of miniature marsupial frog in the Peruvian Amazon that carries its young in a natural pouch on its back, a research institute reported Wednesday.

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Actually the Earth’s natural habitat is space, which we long ago determined is not made of water

Butterflies, birds and plants heading for extinction from climate and land-use change Butterfly, bird and plant species in Great Britain are heading for extinction as a result of climate and land-use change, a new study predicts.Up to seven species of butterfly, 31 birds and 196 plants...

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Golden eagles could be reintroduced to England after more than 150 years Study identified eight areas that can sustain a population and government has given £1m for recovery programme

Let's hope they do it - “This government is committed to protecting and restoring our most threatened native wildlife – and that includes bringing back iconic species like the golden eagle."

“We see a strong link between warming coastal waters and clustered hot, humid extreme events, especially in the tropics, where oceans supply more moisture to the atmosphere, which is then transported to the land, amplifying the heat"

Elizabeth Kolbert, journalist: ‘It’s possible AI will allow us to communicate with whales, and the first thing I would like to say is that I’m sorry’ The 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winner describes US course reversal on climate change as ‘tragic’

"So, I think the news is unfortunately that the sixth extension proceeds apace, that it’s very much unfolding as you would expect when you continue to keep up so much pressure on so many different fronts on the natural world."

“We’ve just done 24 [species],” Horton told Inside Climate News, “and that is a drop in the ocean, literally, of how many more we have to describe.”

"Seabirds are in trouble,” said Hallvard Strøm, Head of Section and Senior Scientist at the Norwegian Polar Institute. “Of almost 11,000 species, seabirds are the most threatened bird species on the planet.”

US had hottest March on record as nation faced ‘unprecedented’ heat The continental US registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to Noaa data

Six of the nation’s top 10 most abnormally hot months have been in the last 10 years.

“January through March period was the driest on record for the contiguous US. So not only was it hot, it was record dry as well"

UK opening new oil and gas fields would imperil global climate goals, experts say Climate diplomacy figures warn North Sea drilling would encourage fossil fuel exploitation by developing countries

There's been a push to make this happen due to the Iran conflict but this would be a huge mistake: UK opening new oil and gas fields would imperil global climate goals, experts say www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ICYMI: “.. Almost half of the US data centers planned for this year are expected to be delayed or canceled. One big reason is the shortage of electrical equipment, such as transformers, switchgear and batteries.”

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Traded mammals are about 1.5 times as likely to be sources of human diseases than non-traded animals, the researchers report in Science.

‘Non-survivable’: heatwaves are already breaching human limits, with worse to come, study finds Analysis of six extreme heatwaves found when temperature and humidity were accounted for, all were potentially deadly for older people

“If it’s already happening now, then what does a future that is two or three degrees warmer hold?”

Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice is having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers

So much for March of the Penguins. 😔 “With the shocking decline in Antarctic sea ice we are currently witnessing, these icons on ice may well be heading down the slippery slope towards extinction by the end of this century – unless we act now. The fate of these magnificent birds is in our hands.”

Record high ocean temperatures off southern California raise fears of prolonged marine heatwave Researchers warn the high-pressure conditions could disrupt marine life and ecosystems if it continues

“Everything we think of related to the health of the ecosystems of the west coast could be forever altered.”