Since Friday, more than 80 people, including dozens of young summer camp attendees, have died in Central Texas from flooding intensified by…
Climate scientists warned Friday that worsening atmospheric and marine heatwaves threaten food security around the world. Large swaths of the Northern Hemisphere have been pummeled in…
More than 140 economists and policy experts on Monday published anĀ open letterĀ calling on the leaders of rich countries to combat the life-threatening…
Progressives descended upon the White House on Thursday to demand that U.S. President Joe Biden use his executive authority to cancel the Mountain Valley…
One of the world’s largest fossil fuel corporations has been able to read emails to and from the United Nations climate summit…
Amazon on Friday fired Jennifer Bates, a warehouse worker and lead spokesperson of the unionization campaign in Bessemer, Alabama, without cause. The…
President Joe Biden claims that the United States is leading “democracies” in a fight against “autocracies” to establish a peaceful international order,…
Whether Turkey’s authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan, maintains power remains an open question as officials continue to count votes following Sunday’s presidential…
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest decreased by 68% this April compared with last year, according to preliminary government data published Friday. The finding reflects…
More than three dozen progressive advocacy groups implored East African leaders this week to stop funding fossil fuel projects and instead ramp…
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