By Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News At a Bonn conference on climate, some participants say there’s a chance to make progress with the world’s biggest economy, America, no longer in the room. Delegates gather at the World Conference Center for a U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting. For the …
The world’s largest emitter just delivered some good climate news
By Umair Irfan, Vox China may have met an important climate goal — ahead of schedule. Panda Solar Station in Datong, Shanxi Province of China. The first Panda Solar Station began operations on August 10, 2017. The station’s installed capacity is 100MW, which is estimated to generate 3.2 billion kWh …
This land is their land: Trump is selling out the US’s beloved wilderness
By Nate Schweber, The Guardian During the McCarthy era’s darkest days, public lands came under attack. History now repeats itself – and this may be the last chance to defend what’s ours. In 1913, on a remote, windswept stretch of buffalo-grass prairie in western North Dakota, Roald Peterson was born …
Scientists just found a way to break through climate apathy
By Kate Yoder, Grist In a field of muddy results, it’s among the clearest findings that one cognitive scientist has seen in his career. AP Photo / Mel Evans For much of the 20th century, winter brought an annual ritual to Princeton, New Jersey. Lake Carnegie froze solid, and skaters …
Sand groomers v turtles: how wildlife is falling foul of the demand for Insta-perfect beaches
Vittoria Torsello in Lecce, Sarah Collins in Athens, and Eliza Amouret in Marseille, The Guardian Workers prepare an Italian beach for the holiday season. Tractors can crush or displace turtle eggs – and even prevent nesting. Photograph: Konstantin Malkov/Alamy From the turtle-nesting beaches of Italy to Greek island bird havens, across …
Who Has the Right to Decide What Happens on Indigenous Lands?
By Katie Surma, Inside Climate News Silvana Nihua, a member of the Kiwaro community and former OWAP president, sits near a sacred waterfall in a Waorani community’s territory, Pastaza, Ecuadorian Amazon. Credit: Nico Kingman/Amazon Frontlines In Ecuador, Indigenous communities are fighting for stronger safeguards to protect their sovereignty as more …
Trump signs executive order boosting deep-sea mining industry
By Ernest Scheyder and Jarret Renshaw, Reuters April 24 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at boosting the deep-sea mining industry, marking his latest attempt to boost U.S. access to nickel, copper and other critical minerals used widely across the economy. The order, opens new tab, …
Your guide to the 2025 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
By Anita Hofschneider, Grist The Trump administration’s border policies are expected to have a big impact on this year’s largest gathering of Indigenous leaders, activists, and policymakers. Grist / Ines Belchior / Ronja Porho / UN DESA DISD; Angela Weiss / AFP / Getty Images Last Thursday, Hanieh Moghani, a …
About 15% of world’s cropland polluted with toxic metals, say researchers
By Sinead Campbell, The Guardian Scientists sound the alarm over substances such as arsenic and lead contaminating soils and entering food systems. Farmers divert a stream contaminated by waste water discharged from nearby mining industries into farm fields in Dongchuan, China. Photograph: Reuters About one sixth of global cropland is contaminated …
Why the shipping industry’s new carbon tax is a big deal — and still not enough
By Joseph Winters, Grist Modeling suggests it will only reduce emissions up to 10 percent by 2030. A container ship in Cuxhaven, Germany, in 2023. Sena Gallup / Getty Images Each year, all the cargo ships that crisscross the oceans carrying cars, building materials, food, and other goods emit about 3 percent of …