Environment - Page 18

A Tesla electric vehicle caught fire while parked inside a garage that was flooded with saltwater from Hurricane Helene in Florida, prompting officials to issue warnings to EV owners in storm-affected areas.

Britain’s final coal power station and its penultimate steel plant shut today, a consequence of the govt’s hard push for decarbonisation.

Poorer populations are “woefully unprepared” for the climate crisis, asserts a new report from the International Labor Organization (ILO).

Georgia residents were told to evacuate or shelter in place after a chemical lab outside of Atlanta, Georgia, caught fire.

Gen-Z is the least likely to do their recycling, suggesting gap between happiness to virtue signal and willingness to change their own lives. 

Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) said Friday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that the changing climate is causing hurricanes to become more sever when discussing the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill this week to ban one-pound, single-use propane cylinders, meaning that only more expensive reusable cylinders will be available in the state.

President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa abruptly canceled his address to the United Nations General Assembly, scheduled for Wednesday, to return home in response to raging forest fires in the capital city of Quito.

Newsom: “They’ve been gouging. They’ve been taking advantage of you. … They’re lying to you. … They’re the polluted heart of this climate crisis.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill into law on Sunday that bans the use of plastic bags at grocery stores — after the state’s ten-year-old ban on single-use plastic bags was shown to have made plastic pollution even worse.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres complains that growing distrust between major powers is getting in the way of climate cooperation.

Hollywood star Jane Fonda is hitting the campaign trail for Kamala Harris on the belief that the Harris-Walz ticket will  slash fossil fuels by half in order to address what the actress called the “climate emergency.”

Microsoft has partnered with Constellation Energy to revive the dormant Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, aiming to feed its power-hungry AI data centers with energy from the site of America’s most infamous nuclear accident.

A new car safety study has proven that electric vehicles (EVs) are too heavy to be restrained by guardrails that line roads in case of accidents, researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln said.

Britain’s top diplomat has claimed that climate change represents a greater threat than terrorism or Russia to the national security of the United Kingdom.

Danish climate change expert Bjorn Lomborg observed Sunday that global warming has saved the lives of more than 282,000 babies between 2001 and 2019, citing a 2024 study by Nature magazine.

An upcoming Netflix docuseries from Bill Gates is pushing many of the billionaire’s pet causes, including climate doomsaying, with Gates lecturing viewers at one point that “we have to give up hydrocarbons almost entirely.”

President Donald Trump told reporters Friday at a press briefing in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, that he would make sure the state had access to more water if he was elected.

Environmentalists in Venezuela denounced that several marine animals were found dead and covered in oil in Lake Maracaibo.

The federal government has run out of firefighting leadership teams to deploy as wildfires rage across the western United States.

LOS ANGELES, California — An earthquake measuring 5.1 magnitude rocked Los Angeles on Thursday morning just before 7:30 a.m., with the epicenter in the coastal community of Malibu, north of the city, famed for its surfing.

A group of Catholic sisters at the Green Mountain Monastery in Vermont have prioritized care for the planet as the most important “pro-life issue” facing the Church and society.

Germany attempted to defend its disastrous energy policies in a fact-check-style response to former President Donald Trump who held up Berlin as a warning to the American public in Tuesday’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.

A bombshell report has found that Germany could have been more effective at reducing its carbon footprint while saving hundreds of billions of euros if it had invested in nuclear power rather than green energy projects.

California residents are once again struggling to keep the lights on after as many as 50,000 people lost electricity in a heat wave this past weekend that caused the famed Hollywood Bowl to cancel a concert due to the power outage.

A “smoke screen” caused by the out-of-control fires in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil hit southern neighbors Argentina and Uruguay this week, local Argentine and Uruguayan media reported.

The conservative government of Giorgia Meloni in Italy has called on the EU to scrap its green agenda scheme to ban the sale of new combustion engine vehicles by 2035.

A new climate doomsday report warns that New Orleans and Miami may not exist by 2050 because of rising sea levels caused by global warming.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a large floating accumulation of debris in the Pacific Ocean, can be cleaned up within 10 years at a cost of $7.5 billion — or within five years with a more aggressive strategy costing $4 billion.

California public schools are set to begin a mandatory curriculum about climate change, reportedly designed to indoctrinate children in the state, as a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year, AB 285, takes effect.

Pope Francis has signed a joint declaration together with Indonesia’s Grand Imam Nasaruddin Umar, in which they denounce the “crisis” of climate change.

Campaign staffers say presidential candidate Kamala Harris has reversed her 2019 pledge to ban plastic straws for climate change.

French ship navigating past NYC to harbor laden with Champagne, Cognac and jam under sail might recall a long-forgotten age of navigation.

Hundreds of homes in the coastal Los Angeles suburb of Rancho Palos Verdes have lost power due to a slow landslide that has resulted in several houses being deemed unsafe for occupancy.

A U.S.-based residential solar panel company, part of whose goal is to “help the planet,” has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

The “neurological burden of climate change is becoming increasingly difficult to avoid,” writes Clayton Page Aldern, a former neuroscientist turned environmental journalist.