Environmental groups are warning that Italy’s lack of investment in climate mitigation is leaving communities dangerously exposed, after a cyclone forced more than 1,500 people from their homes in southern Sicily.
In 2025, more than 200 climate-related disasters affected more than 87.8 million people worldwide, according to preliminary figures from the International Disaster Database.
A new report argues that English-only climate science and disaster alerts are excluding most of the world, and putting Indigenous communities at greater risk.
Farmers around Indonesia’s Lake Towuti say plans to expand nickel mining for electric vehicle batteries threaten their ancestral lands, livelihoods and some of Sulawesi’s richest biodiversity.
A Permian Basin landowner alleges in a lawsuit that saltwater injection wells contributed to well blow-outs that caused extensive pollution on his property.
An investigation found over 150 incidents where oilfield wastewater had gushed from the earth, releasing toxic chemicals — including some that cause cancer — near homes and farms and into drinking water sources.
Houston has its own Climate Action Plan to meet Paris Agreement targets, set in motion when Trump announced his first withdrawal from the UN treaty in 2017.
