‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks
The United States has been added to the Civicus Monitor Watchlist, which identifies countries that the global civil rights watchdog believes are currently experiencing a rapid decline in civic freedoms
Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked in 2018
"...our analysis suggests that the corresponding resource-limited production peak will occur soon, between perhaps 2022 to 2025. If then we add tar sands and Orinoco oil, the expected resource-limited total peak occurs around 2030, although there is a major question over whether significantly increased production rates of the latter two classes of oil is possible. Finally, the resource-limited production peak of global ‘all-liquids’ is expected about 2040 or a bit after if the latter liquids are also produced at the maximal rate"
The six biggest banks in the US have all quit the global banking industry’s net zero target-setting group, with the imminent inauguration of Donald Trump as president expected to bring political backlash against climate action
Climate crisis deepens with 2024 ‘certain’ to be hottest year on record
Average global temperature in November was 1.62C above preindustrial levels, bringing average for the year to 1.60C
studies calculating the role of the climate crisis in what are now unnatural disasters show 550 heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts and wildfires have been made significantly more severe or more frequent by global heating
Gambling poses huge global threat to public health, experts warn
Global leaders are meeting to address the threat posed by antimicrobial resistance – millions will die unless solutions are found
Entire Earth vibrated for nine days after climate-triggered mega-tsunami
Landslide in Greenland caused unprecedented seismic event that shows impact of global heating, say scientists
Global methane emissions rising at fastest rate in decades, scientists warn
CrowdStrike global outage to cost US Fortune 500 companies $5.4bn
Marathon Petroleum, explained in a company periodical nearly 50 years ago that global temperature rise potentially linked to “industrial expansion” could one day cause “widespread starvation and other social and economic calamities”
Global spending on nuclear weapons is estimated to have increased by 13% to a record $91.4bn during 2023
‘Godfathers of climate chaos’: UN chief urges global fossil-fuel advertising ban
Migratory freshwater fish populations ‘down by more than 80% since 1970’