A renowned Everglades scientist whose work has helped steer one of the most ambitious attempts at ecological restoration in human history has been sentenced by a state judge to spend 10 days in jail in a bitter legal dispute with his former employer.
A hatchery in Cape Town, South Africa, breeds birds for release in a newly established sanctuary for penguins 146 miles east, where a few early signs suggest the penguins may have found a new home.
“Many of us have called for the world to largely phase out fossil fuels, and that starts with a critical reduction this decade,” U.S. Special Climate Envoy John Kerry said. “This is a war for survival.”
The Biden administration and many states are racing to develop clean hydrogen as a climate-friendly fuel. One Indigenous Nation says it is being sacrificed along the way.
An open letter to the International Criminal Court calls on the court’s prosecutor to begin gathering evidence on the way climate-amplified extreme weather, heat, drought and flooding are driving armed conflict and war crimes.
In a mass act of civil disobedience, activists blocked the entrance to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to urge financial regulators to take action on the climate crisis.