New research finds that few of the millions of planted trees in Africa's Great Green Wall survive due to limited rainfall, grazing livestock, and slow disbursement of pledged funds.
30,000 Chinese workers travel thousands of miles to remote islands in Eastern Indonesia to process nickel — and put their lives at risk on the frontier of the green energy transition.
Food group Nestlé says it has withdrawn from a global alliance for cutting methane emissions that aims to reduce the impact of dairy farming on global warming.
Sprawling AI data centers, hungry for land, water and power, are coming. Plans for the world’s largest, called Wonder Valley, are underway in a drought-stricken region in Alberta.
Recycling doesn’t address any of plastic’s human and environmental impacts. It’s essentially another form of plastic production, one that usually hurts low-income communities.
Already plagued by industrial pollution and health care access issues, experts say climate change is making things even more difficult for people with asthma in Detroit.
Months after a fatal methane explosion destroyed a home and killed a resident above the Oak Grove coal mine, Alabama regulators have indefinitely suspended plans to require methane monitoring at expanding mines—a move experts call “astonishing and reckless.”
