The study by the United Nations University, produced by more than 200 experts from 25 countries, suggests climate change is making creeping deserts “the greatest environmental challenge of our times”.
One-third the Earth’s population – about two billion people – are potential victims. Overexploitation of land and unsustainable irrigation practices are making matters worse, it says, while climate change is also a major factor degrading the soil.
Oil companies are once again asking the high court to intervene in climate deception lawsuits across the U.S. — part of an all-hands-on-deck effort by Big Oil and the Trump administration to shut the cases down.
The educational materials distort how fossil fuel pollution has caused the climate emergency, new report finds.
U.S. fossil fuel majors led efforts to ensure corporations would not have to introduce climate action plans.
By tying the project’s fate to Indigenous “equity,” Carney saddles groups with the blame, and potentially the bill, if they move to stop a pipeline they oppose.
