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Public Health Watch chronicles a fossil fuel infrastructure boom that could worsen air pollution in some areas and exacerbate climate change.
But nobody knows quite what that means yet.
Was this extra warming a blip, or a sign that climate change is veering off predictable tracks?
The debate over deep-sea mining exposes a contradiction between the country’s proud culture of environmental stewardship and its dependence on the extraction of the ocean’s riches.
At COP, the requirement that countries find consensus before taking action has stalled climate progress for decades. Experts say there's a better way.
Minneapolis became the third U.S. city to endorse a carbon neutrality goal for shipping last week, joining the California cities of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
The city, where Target is headquartered, is pressuring big brands to “abandon fossil-fueled ships.”
European legislators have agreed to regulate emissions from the shipping industry as part of the European Union’s emission trading system, one of the world’s largest carbon markets.
A U.N. plan to avoid a spill four times larger than the Exxon Valdez is "only half a solution, but it’s better than nothing.”