TotalEnergies Has no Place in African Football 

The African Cup of Nations (AFCON) — Africa’s landmark football tournament — is heading into the quarter finals in Cote D’Ivoire.  As promised, the tournament has celebrated the diversity of African football and cultures. The atmospheres have been electric, and fans have travelled from every corner of the continent to celebrate its most popular sport. […]

Norway Farmed Salmon Industry Accused of ‘Food Colonialism’ in New Report

This story was updated February 7, 2024 to include comments from the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries and RAMPAO. Producers in Norway, the world’s top supplier of farmed salmon, are pushing up to four million people in West Africa into food insecurity and depriving them of critical nutrients, according to a new report.  […]

Jane Fonda Joins Land and Water Defenders at Americas Energy Summit

Fossil fuel executives attending the Americas Energy Summit at the Ernest Morial Convention Center in New Orleans this month were greeted with door hangers on their hotel rooms January 19. Instead of “do not disturb,” the message on the hanger read, “LNGS: Do not destroy our coast.” The door hangers were one of several actions […]

At Mann’s Defamation Trial, Defendants Are Doubling Down on Climate Denial

On Monday, conservative blogger Mark Steyn wrapped up his confrontational cross-examination of Michael Mann, the climate scientist who is suing him and another climate denier for defamation in Washington, D.C. Superior Court.  Steyn appeared determined to portray Mann, currently the Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, as untrustworthy and […]

New Evidence Reveals Fossil Fuel Industry Sponsored Climate Science in 1954

In 1955 in the wilds of Big Sur, a young Caltech researcher named Charles David Keeling gathered carbon dioxide samples among Northern California’s towering redwoods. Crawling out of his sleeping bag several times a night on research trips conducted over the course of 18 months, from January 1955 to June 1956, Keeling measured background levels […]

1963 Conference Put Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change in the Spotlight

At 9:30 am on March 12, 1963, in Room 1-B of Manhattan’s Rockefeller Institute, six experts gathered to discuss the implications of a newly identified atmospheric phenomenon: the rising level of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by the burning of fossil fuels.  Hosted by the Conservation Foundation, a philanthropic organization, this small but vitally important symposium would […]

Revealed: A U.S. President Was First Informed of CO2’s Impact 59 Years Ago This Month 

A “Memorandum for the President” lists “the effects of carbon dioxide on climate” among the most pressing environmental problems of the day. It sounds like a message meant for U.S. President Joe Biden. But the memo is dated January 13, 1965, and the president is the 36th of the United States of America, Lyndon B. Johnson. This newly […]

Reform Mayor Candidate Attends Anti-ULEZ Protest Run by ‘Climate Lockdown’ Conspiracy Theory Group

The Reform UK candidate for London mayor has been accused of ignoring science after joining a rally organised by conspiracy theorists who say green policies are a plot to impose “climate lockdowns”.   Howard Cox, director of the FairFuelUK lobby group against charges on motorists, attended Saturday’s protest in Trafalgar Square against London’s ultra-low emission zone […]

This NGO Won a Climate Case Against Shell. Its Next Target? Dutch Bank ING

When Royal Dutch Shell lost a landmark climate lawsuit in The Netherlands, climate advocates said the Dutch court’s ruling put polluters and their financiers on notice. Now, the Dutch NGO that successfully sued Shell over its climate plans is taking those financial backers to court in a case that could help reverse the global banking […]

LNG Canada May Detonate World’s 6th Largest ‘Carbon Bomb,’ Expert Warns

Canada is on the path to detonating the world’s sixth largest “carbon bomb” thanks to new and planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities on the northwest coast of British Columbia, an international climate researcher is warning.  Those projects include LNG Canada, a $40 billion export facility led by the oil and gas company Shell […]