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‘Everybody loses’ if production is supercharged in a country with the largest known oil reserves, critics say.

Environmental justice advocates warn that refining Venezuelan oil will concentrate more pollution and cancer risk in majority-Black communities along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast.

Research reveals microplastics may impair the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide, weakening a natural buffer against climate change.
Farmers blame a food additive required by the Danish government to cut methane emissions, but the source is unclear.

Several of Brazil’s largest grain traders are withdrawing from a nearly two-decade-old agreement that restricts soy purchases linked to Amazon deforestation.

Most of the reserves in the country are extra-heavy oil that’s tough to extract and generates more greenhouse gases.

Pipeline safety regulators have imposed their largest fine ever on the company responsible for leaking 1.1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast in 2023.
Rich nations built their wealth on coal, oil and gas. Now the world is asking poorer countries like Mozambique to chart a different course.

Twenty-five years after I revealed the practices of the industrial food giants, the profits – and dangers – of mass producing meat and milk have only grown.

The developers of Revolution Wind off Rhode Island and Empire Wind off New York are the latest to sue the Trump administration.

Defenders say AI can do good to fight the climate crisis. But spiraling energy and water costs leave experts worried.

Fermi America wants to build a massive private nuclear-powered energy grid for artificial intelligence. Can the brassy avatar of Trump’s risk-taking tech economy survive?

The story of the world’s tropical forests in 2025 was not one of dramatic reversal, but one shaped by accumulated pressure.

Greenhouse gas and particulate emissions from fires around the world may be 70 percent higher than once believed.
Republican worries about energy affordability didn’t deter the administration from halting five major projects that had already begun construction.

This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry.

The country’s enormous energy and mineral resources are consolidating as a key factor in the geopolitical dispute and in Venezuela’s institutional collapse.

Construction will be paused for 90 days as Trump's Department of War and Interior Department coordinate to evaluate supposed "national security" risks.
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