Tag: climate and environment
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It’s ‘do or die’ for electric vehicle maker Rivian as it breaks ground on a $5 billion plant
Rivian Automotive is starting to build a long-delayed electric vehicle plant in Georgia, despite tough challenges in the U.S. market
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What Native-held lands in California can teach about resilience and the future of wildfire
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nina Fontana, University of California, Davis and Beth Rose Middleton Manning, University of California, Davis (THE CONVERSATION) It took decades, stacks of legal paperwork and countless phone calls, but, in the spring of 2025, a California Chuckchansi Native American…
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Spain sweltered under hottest summer on record in 2025, weather agency says
Spain says that this summer was the hottest on record for the country
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Endangered pink river dolphins face a rising mercury threat in the Amazon
Scientists in Colombia’s Amazon are capturing and testing endangered pink river dolphins to monitor mercury contamination from illegal gold mining and deforestation
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Groundbreaking New Sensor Transforms How Europe Tracks Pollution, Smoke and Cloud From Space
DARMSTADT, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep 16, 2025– The first images from the Multi-Viewing, Multi-Channel, Multi-Polarisation Imager, presented at the 2025 EUMETSAT Conference, reveal the brand-new instrument’s exceptional ability to monitor the Earth’s atmosphere from multiple perspectives, to support improved forecasts and air pollution and climate monitoring. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250915322837/en/…
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A poisoned region: Takeaways from AP’s report on a boom in mercury mining in central Mexico
The soaring price of gold is fueling a mercury boom in central Mexico
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Long-wrought WTO agreement aimed at reducing overfishing takes effect
A World Trade Organization agreement aimed at reducing overfishing has taken effect
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Eastern Orthodox leader is on a US visit to meet with Trump and receive award for environmental work
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians, is making his first visit in four years to the United States
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Shipping companies support a first-ever global fee on greenhouse gases, opposed by Trump officials
Nearly 200 shipping companies said Monday they want the world’s largest maritime nations to adopt regulations that include the first-ever global fee on greenhouse gases to reduce their sector’s emissions
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Young activists won a landmark state climate trial. Now they’re challenging Trump’s orders
Young climate activists and their attorneys who won a landmark global warming trial against the state of Montana are challenging President Donald Trump’s energy agenda