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Olivia RosaneCommon Dreams |
As negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty enter their final stretch in Busan, South Korea, environmental and human rights advocates warned Friday...
Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders issued a strong warning against a second Trump administration on Sunday, portraying him as an authoritarian...
Israel could kill everyone left in Northern Gaza if its assault on the enclave continues, a United Nations relief official warned on Saturday. U.N....
Leading development banks invested at least $2.27 billion in “a leading driver of greenhouse gas emissions” in 2023.
Over 25,000 workers may walk off the job Tuesday, shutting down ports across the East Coast if a deal isn’t reached.
Following their historic vote to join the United Auto Workers in April, workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee held a rally on Sunday...
Thousands of people took to the streets in 30 French cities and Brussels on Saturday to protest rape and sexist violence and to support Gisèle...
“Is this a joke?” Rep. Rashida Tlaib replied to the secretary of state on X as the US continues to send arms to Israel.
Methane is the second-leading greenhouse gas heating the atmosphere and contributing to the climate crisis.
July 21 was Earth’s hottest day on record, overtaking the record set last July during the hottest year in millennia. The European Copernicus Climate...
Reformist legislator Masoud Pezeshkian and conservative former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili will face off in a second round of voting after neither...
More than 1,000 people participating in the Hajj to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, have died as of Thursday as temperatures in the holy city reached 125°F at...
There is also an 86 percent chance that one of the next five years will surpass 2023 as the hottest year on record.
Wait times have increased at 30% of the abortion clinics in the states closest to Florida its draconian six-week abortion ban went into effect on May...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may appeal an extradition order to the U.S., the U.K. High Court ruled on Monday. The 52-year-old Assange faces 17...
The severe floods came on the heels of an extreme drought in one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations.
Egypt is the third country to request to join South Africa's case, and its request is especially significant for Israel.
As Israel escalated its assault on Gaza over the weekend, Sanders said Israel shouldn’t receive any more military aid.
"The technical political science term for this is 'lying,'" said Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin.
Israeli airstrikes killed between 20 and 30 people in Rafah Sunday night, including at least five children. Among the slain children was a...
The Alabama House of Representatives voted 72-28 on Thursday in favor of a bill that would apply the state’s criminal obscenity laws to public...
President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency announced a final quartet of rules on Thursday to limit climate-warming emissions from...
Palestinian civil defense discovered hundreds of bodies buried by Israeli forces in a mass grave inside the complex of Khan Younis’ Nasser Medical...
Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, became the first Southern autoworkers not employed by one of the Big Three car manufacturers...
The climate crisis will shrink the average global income 19% in the next 26 years compared to what it would have been without global heating caused...
In a decision that the largest U.S. Muslim civil rights organization called “cowardly,” the University of Southern California announced Monday...
Campaigners have issued a “red alert” over language included in the 2024 Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act that could pave the...
Israel will no longer permit the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East to drive convoys bearing food aid into...
The latest edition of an annual consumer's guide published Wednesday reveals that almost three-fourths of non-organic fruits and vegetables sampled...
“Earth is issuing a distress call,” UN Secretary General António Guterres said in response to the new climate report.
Climate activists in six North Sea countries came together on Saturday to carry out acts of civil disobedience in protest of their governments’...
In a move that pensioners rights group Avivo called “a historic victory for retirees,” Swiss voters on Sunday voted to boost their pension by...
The Internal Revenue Service announced on Thursday that it was going after high-income earners who had dodged taxes by failing to file tax returns...
The Israeli navy fired on a United Nations convoy bringing much-needed aid to northern Gaza after Israel approved the route it would take. The...
The UN says that world leaders must curb emissions by 42 percent by 2030 to abide by the Paris climate agreement.
U.S. oil companies ExxonMobil and Chevron announced their second-highest profits in a decade on Friday, with both companies paying out a record amount...
Twenty-five Republican governors have lent their support to GOP Gov. Greg Abbott as he doubles down on his defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court order to...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams vetoed a New York City Council bill on Friday that would have banned the practice of solitary confinement in city...
U.S. Lawmakers, mostly Republicans, have inserted a record number of anti-wildlife measures into the appropriations bills for fiscal year 2024, the...
Azerbaijan, the country slated to host the next United Nations Climate Change Conference, has plans to increase its gas production by a third during...
More than 1,600 institutions like universities, pension funds, and governments that hold more than $40.6 trillion in assets have now divested from...
The last time that levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide were as high as they are today, Greenland was free of ice and the savanna and grassland...
More than 1,000 union members with Workers for a Free Palestine blockaded four weapons factories in the United Kingdom Thursday that make components...