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A school in the UK has decided to ban all meat options from its lunch menu over fears surrounding climate change.

The U.S. Army published a report earlier this week on how it will deal with “global disruptions” from so-called climate change.

Tax incentives put in place by the UK Conservative party to push people towards green motoring is expected to burn an £8bn-shaped hole in the public finances should new charges not be introduced, according to a new report.

Several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and others have called on Poland to stop the building of its anti-illegal immigration border barrier along the border with Belarus, claiming it could harm the local environment. A group of 150 NGOs from 25 countries

Some Democratic senators are calling for suspending the federal gas tax for the remainder of the year to help consumers struggling with rising fuel prices.

In the Build Back Better effort to radically transform the UK’s energy system, millions of Britons will be paid to ration their energy usage.

Boris Johnson’s allies have suggested that criticism of Carrie’s involvement in government should be “off limits”.

Climate protesters have been accused of endangering human lives after they once again blocked motorways in Germany.

A historic steel bridge in the Netherlands is to be partly dismantled in order to allow Jeff Bezos’ new superyacht to pass.

Hollywood star Cate Blanchett is reportedly joining forces with mega-polluter Amazon to launch a podcast devoted to discussing climate change. The series, which has received a two-season order on Audible, will also feature climate activist Danny Kennedy as co-host. Amazon ranks among

Despite the pressure from climate change activists in the federal government and the private sector to cut back on drilling for oil, the price for fossil fuels is the highest since 2014.

The Biden administration is pushing back on the United States Postal Service’s plan for a new fleet of gasoline-powered delivery trucks.

Boris Johnson has conceded to the European Union and dropped his post-Brexit regulation cutting plan in favour of a ‘Net Zero’ agenda.

The World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) warned Tuesday the very personal protection equipment it pushed people to wear during the coronavirus pandemic, such as surgical masks and gowns, is having an unexpected impact on the environment.

Parts of Nantucket, a small island off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, saw intense flooding as Winter Storm Keenan wreaked havoc on the northeast on Friday night and through Saturday, bringing heavy snowfall and high-speed winds, which resulted in power outages.

Joe Biden is reviving Barack Obama’s “pen and phone” strategy to bypass Congress and advance the Party of Davos “Great Reset.”

Left-wing Hollywood star Ron Perlman has thrown a temper tantrum at movie critics who dared to give negative reviews to Netflix’s climate change satire “Don’t Look Up,” in which he co-stars alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, and Meryl Streep.

A proposed ballot measure to require the State of California to spend 2% of its annual budget on expanding water infrastructure has been dropped after failing to raise enough money or gather enough signatures.

A snowstorm hit Jerusalem overnight Wednesday, prompting revellers and schoolchildren to take to the streets and dance it out in a holy winter wonderland.

Rihanna is backing her belief that climate change is a social-justice issue by pledging $15 million to the movement through her Clara Lionel Foundation.

Shocking video shows the moment a Florida man fought off a black bear on his porch, saving his dachshunds.

Chinese Communist Party officials in China’s Henan province “either concealed or delayed” the documentation of 139 deaths from floods that devastated the east-central region in July 2021, Bloomberg reported Sunday.

A wildfire known as the Colorado Fire continued to burn in the scenic Big Sur area of California, jumping over Highway 1 and threatening the area near the iconic Bixby Bridge.

Farmers, cattle-breeders, and hunters descended Sunday on the Spanish capital of Madrid to protest the government’s green agenda.

Hedge fund CEO Josh Young is forthright about how he profited on climate change activists’ hate for fossil fuels by investing in oil and gas.

Actor and podcast host Dax Shepard called out the enviro radicals on the left this week for spending an inordinate amount of emotional energy on shaming people who drive gas-powered vehicles.

A bizarre article from Inverse online magazine asserts that “in early 2021, temperatures slumped to an unprecedented minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit” in Tajikistan, which was somehow caused by climate change.

A Tongan journalist said the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano on Saturday was so powerful that many residents were deafened and had to use hand gestures to communicate while evacuating.

Actor and superyacht enthusiast Leonardo DiCaprio told Deadline planet Earth has “literally” nine years left on its “ticking clock,” and that “we should not have any elected leaders, on a state level, on a city level, or a national level that don’t listen to science.”

The introduction of “novel entities,” especially plastics, into the environment has now exceeded earth’s “planetary boundary,” EcoWatch reported Tuesday.

A Peruvian oil tanker spilled much of its contents into the waters of the Pacific Ocean on Saturday affecting at least two miles of Peru’s central coast after waves sparked by Tonga’s volcanic eruption and tsunami that day in the South Pacific rocked the actively discharging ship, Peruvian government officials said Monday.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan plans to implement a new daily charge as well as a ‘pay per pile’ fee on the vast majority of vehicles in London.

Actor and carbon dioxide-pumping yacht enthusiast Leonardo DiCaprio falsely claimed in a recent interview with Deadline that the United States is “per capita the largest polluters in the world.” This statement is false, according to data from Worldometer, which lists China as the number one emitter of CO2 in the world, per capita.

Earth’s sixth mass extinction has most certainly begun, asserts an article Tuesday in Science Alert, despite the objections of “deniers.”

A volcanic eruption and tsunami in the South Pacific island kingdom of Tonga on Saturday caused massive waves which radiated throughout the greater Pacific Ocean in subsequent hours, reaching the coasts of Peru — where two people died after a tsunami engulfed a beach in the country’s north — and Chile.

A project headed up by two government bodies has forecasted that climate change may result in the emergence of ‘militias’ and a ‘feudal’ Scotland.