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The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere. By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News, and Mark Olalde, ProPublica…
An estimated 7,000 Indigenous people live in voluntary isolation in the country’s Amazon forests, but they face increased threats from logging, mining, oil and gas drilling and drug trafficking. By Nicholas Kusnetz This week, Peruvian officials are set to consider…
Construction in Arizona’s San Rafael Valley grasslands will prevent cross-border movement of endangered jaguars and other animals. By Anita Snow, National Catholic Reporter This story was originally published by National Catholic Reporter.
The rats scurried into the shed. Flinching at the sound of a horde of tiny claws scratching at the ground, Migdalia Mass Llorens kept vigil over her sleeping family huddled together under a single blanket. The 35-year-old mother of three…
In early August, in the village of Utulei on the eastern shore of Tatuila, the largest of seven islands that make up American Samoa, more than two dozen local residents gathered in an auditorium. They were there to learn about…
The first person to hoist a sail predates recorded history; humans have been harnessing the wind for thousands of years. Nevertheless, when the first windmill was first used to produce electricity 1887, it was immediately rejected as the work of…
Oil firm, which paused project in 2024, will not restart work because facility deemed ‘insufficiently competitive’ Shell has axed the construction of its biofuels plant in the Netherlands, ending what would have been one of the biggest converters of waste…
The hole – about 100 metres deep – was not visible from the surface – and there could be thousands more like it Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or…
A future of extreme heatwaves, drought and collapsing habitats awaits if we continue to ignore the danger signs What does British summertime mean to you? Blackberries? Picnics? Festivals? Ticks? This summer has been the hottest on record in the UK.…
Francis’s gorgeous sapphire — a new-to-science species of butterfly — has just been described in the high-altitude evergreen forests of western Angola. The identification of Iolaus francisi, with its shimmering blue upper wings bordered with black, and silvery underwings patterned…