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“Earthday.org is honored that the Biden Administration has decided to convene a global climate summit on Earth Day 2021, said Earthday.org President Kathleen Rogers. “Many important environmental events have happened on Earth Day since it began in the United States in 1970, including the recent signing of the Paris Agreement.”

“Earth Day continues to be a momentous and unifying day each and

Environmental concerns, especially about the consequences of climate change, are on the minds of U.S. President Joe Biden and the European leaders he has met with over the past two days.

On Monday, after attending the G7 meeting in the UK, President Biden met with the United States’ NATO allies in Brussels.

Many firsts marked the meeting. This is President Biden’s first international trip since he took office in January. This is NATO’s first summit since 2018

In Minnesota’s largest ever anti-pipeline mobilization, water protectors Monday morning halted construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands crude oil pipeline. Over 1,000 people marched with Indigenous leaders to the headwaters of the Mississippi River for a treaty ceremony at the site where the pipeline is proposed to cross.

Further south, over 500 Indigenous people, allies, and celebrities shut down an active Line 3 pump station in a direct action in solidarity with the G

For the first time in history, a judge has held a corporation liable for causing climate change. Today, as a result of legal action brought by Friends of the Earth Netherlands, Milieudefensie, together with 17,000 co-plaintiffs and six other organizations, the Hague District Court ruled that Royal Dutch Shell must reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 45 percent within 10 years.

Roger Cox, lawyer for Friends of the Earth Netherlands, is delighted with the ruling. “This is

Glacial melting due to climate change is likely the cause of a shift in the movement of the poles that occurred in the 1990s, new research from China shows.

Melting glaciers redistributed enough water to cause “the direction of polar wander” to turn and accelerate eastward during the mid-1990s, according to a new study in the peer-reviewed scientific journal “Geophysical Research Letters,” the American Geophysical Union’s publication for high-impact repor

Climate change concerns are driving a growing number of states, utilities, and corporations to set the goal of zeroing out heat-trapping carbon emissions from the power sector.

To date, 17 states plus Washington, DC and Puerto Rico have adopted laws or executive orders to achieve 100 percent carbon-free electricity in the next two to three decades. Additionally, 46 U.S. utilities have pledged to go carbon-free no later than 2050. Together, these goals cover about half of the U.S. popu

The Obama Administration is proposing standards for heavy and medium-duty trucks and buses that are expected to improve fuel efficiency by one-third and cut carbon emissions to fight climate change, while fortifying U.S. energy security and inspiring innovative technologies.

The standards proposed Friday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, NHTSA, would cover model years 2021-2027, a

 “The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all,” declares Pope Francis in his first major teaching on the environment, an encyclical letter released today.

Pope Francis urges all human beings to change their behavior to protect the good resources we all hold in common – the climate, the oceans, biodiversity – “the planet, our common home.”

“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have i

Three-quarters of the world’s annual emissions of greenhouse gases are now limited by national targets, finds a new study published by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at London School of Economics and Political Science.

The 2015 Global Climate Legislation Study, covering 98 countries plus the European Union which are together responsible for 93 per cent of global emissions, was presented to delegates in Bonn, where the latest round of United