Environment

The Catholic bishops of California released a pastoral statement on the environment Tuesday, calling on citizens to confront “the risks of a warming climate.”

Hundreds of divers broke a world record this weekend by doing their part to make the Earth a little bit cleaner.

TOKYO (AP) — A powerful earthquake has jolted northwestern Japan, and officials are warning of a tsunami of up to three feet high along parts of the coast.

DOI Secretary David Bernhardt announced a plan to ditch 7,500 regulations to give Americans access to 1.4 million acres of federal land.

A number of the world’s biggest oil producers have pledged to support “economically meaningful” carbon pricing policies in response to a call by Pope Francis for some form of carbon tax to fight climate change.

The Green party in Germany said it will ban industrial farming to reduce global warming if it comes to power in the country.

Desperate to leave a ‘legacy’ for her disastrous premiership, Theresa May has decided to bring in a legally binding Net Zero climate target, which forces the UK to eliminate all emissions of carbon dioxide by 2050.

Senate and Congressional Western Caucuses are praising the revision of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to help prevent wildfires.

Pope Francis warned of disastrous consequences if humanity does not immediately react to the threat of climate change, since the world has reached a “critical moment” and there is no time to waste.

One man is dead and three others have been taken to a local hospital in New Jersey after a suspected bout of carbon monoxide poisoning.

A black bear remains on the loose early Wednesday morning in Philadelphia, roaming around the train tracks near a rail line and weaving in and out of the woods.

A Canadian driver was charged with a hefty fine after a police chief caught him tossing a cigarette out the window last Saturday.

Stubborn, thick, petulant Theresa May has decided what her legacy is going to be: she’s going to poison the wells, salt the earth, and make damn sure that her name lives on through all eternity as the stroppy cow who cost the UK economy £1 trillion.

Former vice president Joe Biden is proposing to restore California’s now-defunct high-speed rail project — just months after Gov. Gavin Newsom pulled the plug, and President Donald Trump pulled the funding.

An animal welfare organization rescued nearly 200 dogs from a hoarder in New Jersey on Tuesday, with many animals lacking basic care needs.

Democrat frontrunner Joe Biden told supporters in Iowa on Tuesday he supports having a primary debate focused solely on climate change.

Radiohead Lead Singer Thom Yorke was reportedly “hacked,” last week. Now the band will release the stolen music in the name of climate change.

Every credulous pillock in the world is jumping on the Extinction Rebellion bandwagon, the latest being Labour’s Marxist shadow chancellor John McDonnell and, unfortunately, my favourite band Radiohead.

Kenya’s Daily Nation on Tuesday accused China of forcing the Kenyan government into a “lopsided multibillion-shilling deal for the operation of the Standard Gauge Railway” and using similar strongarm tactics to push Kenya into a “debt trap” coal deal worth $9 billion in U.S. dollars.

A severe thunderstorm rolled through Dallas Sunday afternoon, bringing a crane down onto the Elan City Lights building.

A police officer in Minnesota performed a welfare check on an elderly woman Thursday and then mowed her overgrown lawn.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.0 hit the greater Cleveland area in Ohio on Monday morning.

In its new crusade for veganism, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has rushed to the defense of oysters and other bivalves, insisting they should be respected and never eaten.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has denounced fishing as a cruel sport, insisting that fish feel pain and urging all anglers to become vegans.

Michael Bloomberg is giving away more of his personal fortune to advance his radical environmental agenda, this time pledging $500 million to shutter every coal mine in the United States and slow the production of cheap, clean, and plentiful natural gas.

The director of a think tank dedicated to monitoring the South China Sea said on Friday that overfishing in the body of water, exacerbated by China’s attempted colonization, could damage industries and food security in all of Southeast Asia.

In a Wednesday interview at the Council on Foreign Relations, Washington governor and longshot 2020 Democrat candidate Jay Inslee told NBC News’ Cynthia McFadden that President Trump’s stance on global warming is “treason.”  

Green New Deal advocate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said any considerable climate change program must come with a minimum $10 trillion price tag in order to have a real “shot.”

Thursday on MSNBC, policy director for left-wing New Consensus Rhiana Gunn-Wright argued the threat of climate change was worthy of more attention than it was getting given the potential number of deaths that could stem from an increase in global

“Iron Man” and “Avenger: Endgame” star Robert Downey Jr. revealed a plan this week to launch a massive new technology initiate he says will significantly clean up the planet.