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The meat industry blocked the IPCC’s attempt to recommend a plant-based dietA leaked draft revealed how the meat industry is obstructing efforts to curb climate change
Updated March 24, 20232 min read
A leaked draft revealed how the meat industry is obstructing efforts to curb climate change
Saudi Arabia, Norway, the US, and other companies will spend $214 billion on new offshore oil projects over the next two years
Countries spent a record-breaking $1 trillion on fossil fuel subsidies in 2022
Record precipitation has filled California's reservoirs and built up a buffer of snow pack, but 36% of the state is still in drought
The administration wants to quadruple the stock buyback tax to disincentivize what Biden has called "war profiteering"
Retirement investments are now a battleground over what Republicans deride as "woke capitalism"
Thanks to stiff sanctions, Russian carriers are forced to cannibalize planes and manufacture knock-off parts
The oil company paid out 7 times more in dividends and buybacks to its shareholders in 2022 than it invested in renewables
A port in Northern Africa is keeping Russian oil flowing as the US and EU try to cut off oil revenue to the war effort.
An energy crisis and weather are also driving renewable power generation
China's pattern of obscuring data has made it difficult to keep an accurate picture of its changing economy
305,000 pounds of grass seedlings grew into the World Cup's eight stadium pitches and 81 practice fields
An experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory could lead to a source of carbon-free energy
The £165 million plan drew harsh criticism from economists, environmentalists, politicians, and academics
The UN has started a series of negotiations for a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution
A flurry of unnamed buyers bought aging oil tankers, with as many as 100 ships joining the ranks of a Russian shadow fleet
At COP27, world leaders will officially debate "loss and damage" for the first time
The funeral for Shinzo Abe, the assassinated former prime minister of Japan, cost $12 million
The British taxpayer will bear the expense of Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral.
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, was pronounced dead today after being shot during a campaign speech with a shotgun believed to be homemade. Abe, 67, was rushed to the hospital and declared dead within hours. A 41-year-old male suspect was apprehended immediately after the shooting.
Shell said it’s constructing the largest green hydrogen plant in Europe, which will generate 200 megawatts (MW) of power without emitting any carbon. The plant, to be completed in 2025, will even draw electricity from an offshore wind farm that Shell is also building.
A December 2021 decision from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow mailing abortion pills and the fallout from the US Supreme Court’s decision on June 24 to overturn Roe vs Wade are making the US Postal Service (USPS) a battleground for abortion access.
On June 21, the US will begin enforcing a ban on goods from Xinjiang, a major manufacturing hub and the site of extensive alleged human rights violations against the region’s Uyghur minority.
A gunman opened fire at a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hospital complex on Wednesday (June 1), killing four people before shooting himself. The shooting puts Saint Francis Hospital at the intersection of two tragic trends in the US: the relentless run of mass shootings, and rising violence at hospitals.