Estimates calculated of greenhouse gas emissions produced solely within Scotland have seen a drop in the period 1998 – 2022 of 49.8%. But that’s only part of the picture. Consumption Emissions. Scotland’s greenhouse gas emissions went up after a decrease during the 2020 pandemic. Between 2021 and 2022, Scotland’s carbon footprint (emissions from all greenhouse […]
MANILA, Philippines — At the opening of the Asian Development Bank’s Asia Clean Energy Forum 2026, civil society groups and environmental justice advocates called on the Bank to stop financing waste-to-energy (WTE) incineration, refuse-derived fuel, co-processing, chemical recycling, and other false solutions that…
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BROOKHAVEN, N.Y.—The crowd grew restless at Brookhaven Town Hall on Long Island as residents voiced their concerns about groundwater contamination from a nearby landfill that has spread beneath parts of their community. At the meeting in late March, speakers criticizing the landfill’s operations were met with applause and shouts of support from the audience. Monique […]
La qualité de l'air reste dégradée ce dimanche 7 juin dans Lyon et sa métropole. Le rayonnement solaire plus important depuis hier et l'absence de vent favorise la formation d'ozone et de dioxyde d'azote. Atmo, l'observatoire de la qualité de l'air en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes classe ainsi la qualité de l'air à Lyon comme moyenne à dégradée […]
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On respire mal à Lyon et dans la métropole de Lyon ce samedi 6 juin. Sous l'effet d'un rayonnement solaire plus important que ces derniers jours, la formation d'ozone devrait s'intensifier. Atmo, l'observatoire de la qualité de l'air en Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes classe ainsi la qualité de l'air à Lyon comme dégradée ce samedi. C'est notamment autour […]
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Eastern oysters (_Crassostrea virginica_) cement their shells together to form reefs along Atlantic coasts. Credit: Johnny Andrews/UNC-Chapel Hill
After years of fighting to curb toxic pollution in communities of color, Illinois activists are celebrating a step forward. A bill expanding the state’s regulatory obligations over industrial air polluters in environmental justice communities passed the state legislature last week and is expected to go into effect at the start of next year. The bill […]
Wildfire smoke does more than hurt your lungs. New study suggests it may also raise risk of violence.
Léon XIV a dénoncé «l’impunité» dont jouit la criminalité en Italie, en visitant la ville d’Acerra, près de Naples, le 23 mai 2026. Depuis cette zone gravement polluée à cause de collusions entre mafia et pouvoirs publics, il a souhaité voir se lever «une armée de paix».
Environmental justice is far from the first policy to harm the people it claims to help. Pulling the plug on as much of this as possible may well be the most important part of Trump’s community development agenda.
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A huge study found that climate change is making rivers warmer, dirtier, and more toxic
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Every year, The Earth Prize asks teenagers across the world the same question: what environmental problem would you solve, and how? Every year, the answers come from young people who live closest to the problem. After five years and more than 21,000 students across 169 countries, that’s less a […]
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A massive experiment with fire tornadoes helped researchers learn more about a potential new method for oil spill cleanup. Credit: Wuquan Cui/Michael Gollner
Albania has greenlighted construction of a luxury island resort by a company linked to Donald Trump’s son-in-law - but under the azure waters lie tonnes of unexploded WWII ordnance.
I wish this were hyperbole. It's not. The Cult of Claude has reached a new low.
Industrial chemicals, such as flame retardants and plasticizers, have been detected in areas of the ocean once considered pristine, such as the Mergui Archipelago off Myanmar, new research reports. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Landsat 5
In "Blossoms on a Poisoned Sea," Mariko Tatsumoto's historical novel, a family afflicted with disease from mercury poisoning meets the public's mostly unsympathic gaze.
À en croire les médias, la guillotine d’Alliance Ouvrière aurait fait l’unanimité contre elle au Québec. Mais sur le terrain, le portrait semble moins simple. Pour raconter cet envers du…
The NAACP has asked a Mississippi federal court to shut down the xAI gas turbines in Southaven, Mississippi, used to power the company’s Colossus 2 data center across the border in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Michael Wysession writes about why 2025 ended up being a hotter year than expected.
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Les eaux d’une plage de Aïn Benian, sur la côte ouest d’Alger, ont subitement changé de couleur. Des vidéos largement partagées sur les réseaux sociaux ces derniers jours, montrant l’eau de la mer virer à une couleur rougeâtre, ont suscité l’inquiétude et l’incompréhension. Les autorités ont communiqué sur le phénomène. L’eau a retrouvé sa couleur […]
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'Congress must not let Big Tech block oversight and hide data centers’ real harms from the public, including their immense energy and water use, dangerous pollution, and rising local costs,' said one campaigner.
Blue Heron, Ky., is an abandoned coal mining town in which the Stearns Coal and Lumber Company operated from 1937 to 1962. The decline of the coal mining industry has brought a mix of health benefits and harms to Appalachian communities. Credit: Don Sniegowski/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
This story was originally published by Next City, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on solutions for equitable and just cities. Get Next City’s stories in your inbox: nextcity.org/newsletter. This story is part of In the Shadow of the Server, a Next City series on the fight over urban technology infrastructure — who builds...
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From toxic smoke and oil spills to rising emissions, poisoned soil, and damaged ecosystems, war can reshape the environment long after the fighting stops.
Residents of Lorneville and Saint John, New Brunswick, are pushing back against the building of a new AI data centre but have been coming across obstacles, including from their local…
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Showing on Earth Day, Wednesday 22 April, at the Phoenix Cinema, Kirkwall is a powerful new film. It uncovers a shocking blind spot in the climate conversation: the U.S. military. Exempt from international climate agreements and rarely scrutinised in mainstream reporting, the Pentagon is revealed here as the world’s single largest institutional polluter – spewing […]
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