Tories to scrap petrol car ban if they win next election
The Conservative Party leader says the policy is “destructive” and “economic self-harm”.
Environment & Sustainability
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Why New York Has Backed Off on Addressing Climate Change
With affordability and energy costs looming large as political issues, Gov. Kathy Hochul is less focused on going green.
‘I consider him my first son’: how living with a baby monkey taught me I’m ready to be a dad
I went from selling flats in Paris to being alone in a cabin in Guinea looking after primates. It changed my life, but one relationship marked me like no other In 2022, I had a job at an estate agents…
Virginia Regulators Weigh Expanded Use of Data Center’s Polluting Generators
The state’s Department of Environmental Quality would expand permissible uses during emergencies to include “planned outages” by grid operators, presumably for power line upgrades. Environmentalists say that with expanded use of diesel generators comes more harmful air pollutants and more…
One Big, Shining Beacon for Climate Hope
“Here Comes the Sun” author and activist Bill McKibben on his newfound optimism, harnessing energy from heaven vs. energy from hell and how there are no (good) songs written about fracking. Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth From our…
What your cheap clothes cost the planet
The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the most beautiful and forbidding places on Earth, so dry that it’s sometimes used by scientists to test run Mars missions. Most years the area sees less than half a centimeter of…
How the planet fared in 2025 — the good, the bad, and the ugly
If we’re being honest, 2025 did not start out great. For basically the whole month of January, a series of wildfires raged across Los Angeles, killing hundreds (more on that number below). On the other side of the country, an…
Under Trump, the National Renewable Energy Lab is losing ‘renewable’ from its name
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado is getting a name change. The groundbreaking research institute will no longer have the word “renewable” in its title, the U.S. Department of Energy announced earlier this month, and will instead be called…
Cyclone Ditwah takes heavy toll on Sri Lanka’s biodiversity-rich Central Highlands
COLOMBO — Two weeks after Cyclone Ditwah struck Sri Lanka, the actual environmental cost of the disaster remains largely unknown, as immediate priorities were human safety, relief and recovery. The worst impact of the cyclone’s downfall is borne by the…
Rogue Worlds 2
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