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BLOOMBERG CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY
Ireland proposed that European Union member states delay by a year methane rules for oil and natural gas importers to safeguard energy security and allay concerns over rising prices.
Around 500 people recently invaded Indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon, home to an uncontacted Indigenous group. But this was no spontaneous land grab. Behind the occupation was a carefully coordinated political campaign. The territory…
Jennifer Balcarras and Selah Reed went missing on a hiking trail minutes from their Bella Coola home before a suspected grizzly bear attack.
Four weeks of flooding washed out roads and sent thousands fleeing their homes on the Navajo Reservation. But many worked hard to get to polling places and voting day became part of the recovery process.
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS ENVIRONMENT
This story was produced in partnership by Inside Climate News and the Texas Newsroom, the state’s network of public radio stations. Amid a spate of historic political upsets across Texas, voters in the industrial port city of Corpus…
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH HUMAN RIGHTS
Click to expand Image A girl in her fishing boat off the coast of Malaita Province, Solomon Islands. © 2025 NowHere Media/Human Rights Watch (Istanbul) – Governments participating in the 31st annual United Nations climate change conference…
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH HUMAN RIGHTS
Click to expand Image A girl in her fishing boat off the coast of Malaita Province, Solomon Islands. © 2025 NowHere Media/Human Rights Watch (Istanbul) – Governments participating in the 31st annual United Nations climate change conference…
THE GUARDIAN — WORLD INTERNATIONAL
Conservation officers say the women reported missing over the weekend, were found near a trail near their home Search teams in Canada have discovered the body of a 20-year-old woman and confirmed that both she and her mother were killed in…
THE NEW YORK TIMES — POLITICS POLITICS
The war in Iran, efforts to promote fossil fuels and attacks on renewable energy contributed to higher prices for gas and electricity that drove voter discontent.
An American congressional delegation will travel to Turkey for the annual UN climate summit, a Democratic lawmaker said Wednesday, a day after his party's landslide midterm victory. The United States is not taking part in the negotiations…
RECIFE, Brazil — In Ibura de Baixo, a neighborhood tucked into the South Zone region of Recife, Northeast Brazil, 27-year-old Jeyne Araújo’s day begins well before dawn. At 4 a.m., while the Pernambuco state capital sleeps, she scrapes…
The lines on the map resemble the gossamer threads of dense spiders’ webs. Conservationists in South Sudan call them the “lines of life.” The map was made by joining up millions of points of data recorded by GPS collars attached to 262…
Environmental advocates point out voters are angry at Big Oil, which is making record profits while families struggle.
Even tripled by 2035, adaptation finance would reach $85-120bn a year against $420bn in needs – and rich nations’ real contribution could barely grow The post COP30 adaptation pledge would meet under a third of poorer nations’ needs, UN…
Pedro Sánchez says Americans voted against hate and climate denial as European leaders react to the Democratic Party's 2026 midterm victories.
New research from Oxfam shows the wealthiest 0.1% are making money from the climate crisis their pollution has caused, while buying protection for themselves The post The great disaster divide: How the super-rich are profiting from global…
THE INTERCEPT NATIONAL SECURITY
Left-aligned candidate Will Lawrence declared victory over a Republican incumbent after battling new AI infrastructure in his purple Michigan district. The post Lesson From Lansing: To Win in Swing Districts, Fight Data Centers appeared…
Ed Markey signaled plans to subpoena Big Tech executives after Democrats captured the Senate and House, promising "forests" of new subpoenas.
Without real progress in Antalya on finance for adaptation and energy transition, next year's Africa-hosted COP will inherit the same unmet promises The post COP31 must deliver finance for Africa or there will be no implementation appeared…
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BLOOMBERG CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY
Expect investigations of Trump officials and companies, and a complicated path on permitting reform.
THE GUARDIAN — WORLD INTERNATIONAL
Tadpoles collected from puddles in East Gippsland were transported to Melbourne zoo, where they were raised to metamorphosis and successfully bred in captivity for the first time After the 2019-20 black summer bushfires, scientists in…
