Environment - Page 17

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

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.

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.

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.

Tim Walz argued for using algae to power the United States Navy as part of his efforts to fight climate change.

A study published this week found that Canada’s devastating 2023 wildfire season – which covered some of America’s largest cities with toxic plumes and affected 100 million Americans – resulted in Canada being responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country on earth except China, India, and the United States.

An op-ed in the Wall Street Journal published Thursday scolds United Nations chief António Guterres for spreading climate alarmism based on phony data.

CNN’s Dana Bash took presidential candidate Kamala Harris to task on her past calls to ban fracking during a much-anticipated televised interview on Thursday.

The South Korean Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that many of the government’s climate change goals are unconstitutional.

A group of business leaders is suing Texas officials for prohibiting the government from contracting firms that boycott energy companies.

The Pentagon said on Tuesday that the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion, abandoned in the Red Sea after a pirate attack by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen last week, appears to be leaking oil — possibly the prelude to a much-feared environmental catastrophe.

ExxonMobil produced a report on Monday that anticipated oil demand reaching a “plateau” in 2030 and remaining fairly stable for the next 20 years – a prediction far out of line with political narratives of a “transition to green energy.”

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned Tuesday that the “climate crisis” threatens the lives of humans all over the world.

Nobody panic (yet) but U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sent out another global climate “SOS” at a Pacific islands summit on Tuesday, delivering his second warning in under a week that rising seas are set to deliver humanity a fatal blow in the region.

Sao Paulo, the largest city in Brazil, awoke shrouded in wildfire smoke on Monday as a record number of fires blazed in the greater Sao Paulo state and the greater Amazon, killing at least three and threatening to engulf one of the world’s largest ecosystems.

“The climate movement rushes to embrace Kamala Harris,” reads a recent headline underscoring the support for the Democratic ticket among those most worried about global warming.

Multiple electric trucks were damaged on Saturday night when flames erupted at electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian’s plant in Normal, Illinois, authorities said. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

The United Nations alarmist-in-chief António Guterres warned Thursday that some Pacific territories face “annihilation” from rising sea levels.

The Amazonian regions of Brazil have spent much of August hidden under a plume of toxic smoke, suffering the highest number of documented forest fires in nearly two decades.

A massive oil spill near Venezuela’s El Palito refinery has grown to the size of 37,000 soccer fields, Venezuelan marine biologist Eduardo Klein told Radio France Internationale (RFI) on Wednesday.

Biden claimed credit at the Democratic National Convention for 500,000 EV stations, when only 8 were built as of May.

Pope Francis received Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his partner Lauren Sanchez in a private audience in the Vatican Thursday, underscoring his views on climate change.

California’s 2014 ban on thin plastic grocery bags caused more plastic bag waste, not less, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Climate activists staged protests at several German airports on Thursday, forcing a temporary halt to flights.

Wildfire raged across the northern suburbs of Athens on Monday, leaving at least one person dead and triggering multiple evacuations.

A police crackdown on unauthorized air conditioning units in the seaside Italian resort town of Portofino has ignited local “vendettas” as neighbors spy and report on one another for the infraction, local media report.