climate crisis

Plants Are Losing Their Ability To Absorb Carbon Dioxide

March 4, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! Carbon emissions, Carbon sequestration, climate crisis, Environment

Our planet’s plants and soils reached the peak of their ability to absorb carbon dioxide in 2008, and their sequestration rate has been falling ever since, according to a new analysis by a father-and-son team in the United Kingdom. At first, the added carbon led to warmer temperatures, vegetation growth and a longer growing season. Once a tipping point was reached, however, the combination of heat stress, wildfires, drought, flooding, storms and the spread of new diseases and pests led to a reduction in the amount of carbon plants can soak up. “The rate of natural sequestration of CO2 from the atmosphere by the terrestrial biosphere peaked in 2008.

UN Talks End With Countries Backing Biodiversity Conservation Plan

March 1, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! Biodiversity, climate crisis, Climate finance, United Nations

The COP16 UN Biodiversity Conference in Rome has ended with a plan for nations to contribute $200 billion a year for the protection of the planet’s biodiversity by 2030, but critics say it’s not enough. The countries came to an agreement on how to contribute the funds. The accord also includes a plan for raising $20 billion annually to finance conservation in developing nations starting this year, with the amount rising to $30 billion a year by 2030, reported The Associated Press. Following hours of tense discussions, delegates at the conference applauded when the deal was finally reached.

Trump’s Attack On Science Is An Attack On The Public

February 28, 2025 Basav Sen, In These Times. Educate! Censorship, climate crisis, Donald Trump, Science, Trump Administration

Among the flurry of actions by the Trump administration, it could be easy to miss one that poses a grave danger to public health and our planet: a no-holds-barred attack on science. In a series of disturbing moves, the administration has censored scientific research, slashed resources for public health and the environment, and advanced fossil fuel industry propaganda. These moves only serve corporate interests — at the expense of ordinary people and the planet. Already, the administration has scrubbed government websites providing information on climate change and environmental justice.

Energy East Pipeline Revival: Why Canada Shouldn’t Waste Billions

February 25, 2025 Mitch Anderson, DeSmog. Educate! Canada, climate crisis, Donald Trump, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Pipelines, Trade Wars

Like zombies rising from the grave, many long-rejected oil pipeline projects like Energy East are suddenly being promoted as national necessities in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s musings about annexing Canada. To be clear, most Canadians agree that Canada needs to take Trump’s threats seriously and accelerate long-overdue efforts to make our country less economically dependent on our newly menacing neighbour. Previous political impediments to building interprovincial infrastructure are melting away as Canadians realize protecting our national sovereignty is more important than the priorities of any given region or industry. But before the country considers writing another blank cheque for an oil industry mega-project that may take a decade to complete, let’s make sure to “skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been.”

Action On Climate Change May Look Different Than You Expect

February 23, 2025 Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan, Counter Punch. Strategize! California, climate crisis, Local Economy, Sustainability

Talk a walk through the Los Angeles’ Arts District, and you’ll learn that there’s nothing contradictory about trying to save the world and living a luxury lifestyle. Start your tour with the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI), which proudly displays a banner stating: “the future begins here.” LACI is “a non- profit organization creating an inclusive green economy” and run “by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs.” They are also supported by a “community” that includes not only the City of Los Angeles but also BMW, Wells Fargo, United Airlines, and JPMorgan Chase.

Join Groups In Houston Fighting Against Oil And Gas Billionaires!

February 22, 2025 People Vs Fossil Fuels, Popular Resistance. Resist! Big Oil and Gas, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Houston

Every year in Houston, the CEOs of the world’s most polluting oil and gas companies gather for a massive industry conference called CERA Week, where they conspire on new ways to increase their profits while continuing to harm our communities with their toxic products. We are witnessing in real time the results of unchecked corporate greed from oil and gas CEOs. We are seeing the destruction of raging wildfires, powerful hurricanes, and extreme flooding impacting communities across our country and the globe, caused by the continued burning of fossil fuels.

US Energy Secretary Backs Coal And Attacks ‘Sinister’ Climate Targets

February 18, 2025 Adam Barnett, DeSmog. Educate! climate crisis, Donald Trump, Energy, Politics and Policy, Science Denial, Secretary of Energy

Donald Trump’s new energy secretary has today vowed to “get out of the way” of coal, oil and gas, and called the UK’s 2050 net zero target “a sinister goal” that would “impoverish” people. Chris Wright, an oil and gas industry executive appointed by U.S. President Trump, was speaking via video link at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London, a right-wing forum run by fierce opponents of climate policies. He also downplayed the threat from extreme weather, and suggested that climate action is part of a plot to “grow government power” and “shrink human freedom”.

Chaos In London As McKinsey & Co Targeted By Extinction Rebellion

February 18, 2025 The Canary. Resist! climate crisis, Extinction Rebellion, Fossil Fuels, London, United Kingdom (UK)

On Monday 17 February, Extinction Rebellion climate activists occupied McKinsey & Co and its London headquarters to demand it cuts all ties to its fossil fuel industry clients and starts putting planet before profit. Dozens of police arrived on the scene and arrested four campaigners, including two who were stood outside the building holding a banner. The protest began at midday when activists sprayed fake crude oil over the building’s glass and steel exterior. A group of climbers scaled the entrance portico, lighting up smoke flares and unfurling a massive banner reading, “McKinsey & Company: Cut the Ties to Fossil Fuels”.

Renewable Energy Is Less Costly, More Efficient Than Carbon Capture

February 18, 2025 Paige Bennett, EcoWatch. Educate! Carbon Capture, climate crisis, Energy, Renewable Energy, renewables

The benefits of investing in clean energy, including solar, wind, geothermal and hydropower, make renewables a more cost-effective option compared to carbon capture technology, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, examined two scenarios across 149 countries through 2050: one in which the countries transition 100% of their business-as-usual energies into renewables, or wind-water-solar (WWS) sources, and another scenario in which policies invest in carbon capture (CC) and synthetic direct air carbon capture (SDACC).

Public Banking In A Time Of Climate Crisis

February 15, 2025 Trinity Tran, Consortium News. Create! climate crisis, Disaster Recovery, Public Banks, Wildfires

On the night of Jan. 7, as the Palisades Fire surged to 2,000 acres to the west and the Eaton Fire exploded to 1,000 to the east, I joined thousands fleeing hurricane-force winds that hurled embers for miles. I evacuated out of precaution, but across Los Angeles, many Angelenos were not as fortunate. Like so many here, I spent those first sleepless nights glued to wall-to-wall news coverage, tracking the fires’ paths. But while flames dominated headlines, a slower crisis burns, one that Los Angeles has yet to confront. Caught in a cycle of destruction and recovery that grows more urgent every year, fire season is no longer a season — it’s a year-round threat.

Activists Burned Former BP Boss At An Annual Climate Lecture

February 13, 2025 Hannah Sharland, The Canary. Resist! BP, climate crisis, Climate Justice, Direct Action

Climate activists have held a former BP CEO and House of Lords peer’s feet to the fire at a key lecture on the climate crisis. As the climate-wrecking corporation announced another year of killer profits, lord John Browne didn’t quite get the welcome reception he had bargained for at the 10-year anniversary event. However, Fossil Free London made sure he got the one he deserved. To draw attention to more than a decade of him fronting the fossil fuel major branded ‘Blair Petroleum’ after the then Labour Party prime minister’s invasion of Iraq under false pretences, activists called on Browne to “pay up” for the warmongering company’s imperialistic past – and present.

Ad Giant Has Broken International Guidelines On Climate, Human Rights

February 11, 2025 Ellen Ormesher, DeSmog. Resist! Advertising, climate crisis, Human Rights, OECD

Climate campaigners have filed a complaint against WPP, the London-based advertising giant, with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), stating that it has violated key corporate guidelines on climate and human rights. Adfree Cities and the New Weather Institute filed the complaint today with the UK branch of the OECD. They charge that WPP’s work for major fossil fuel polluters like BP, Saudi Aramco and Shell, along with its work for other heavily polluting industries such as carmakers, airlines, and plastics, makes the company accountable for enabling pollution as well as human rights violations.

Canada OKs ‘Massive’ $20 Billion Loan For Trans-Mountain Pipeline

February 10, 2025 Taylor Noakes, DeSmog. Educate! Canada, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, TransMountain Pipeline

The Canadian government quietly approved a staggering $20 billion loan to support the Trans-Mountain Expansion (TMX) pipeline. According to Canadian environmental advocacy organization Environmental Defence, this raises the Canadian government’s total financial commitment to the pipeline to $50 billion, drawing sharp criticism from environmentalists and economists. “At a time when Canada should be accelerating its clean energy transition, providing $20 billion in public financing for the TMX pipeline is a step in the wrong direction,” Laura Cameron, a policy advisor with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) who specializes in fossil fuel subsidies, told DeSmog in an email.

To Build Just And Sustainable Cities, We Need Community Banking

February 10, 2025 Oscar Perry Abello, Next City. Create! Banking, climate crisis, Community Banks, Economic crisis, Money

Hardly anyone these days talks about how banks have the power to create new money. Most bankers would say something along the lines of “We’re in the business of taking deposits and making loans.” That’s technically correct, but the precise relationship isn’t obvious. In 2023, a working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia stated: “Private money creation by banks enables lending to not be constrained by the supply of cash deposits. During the 2001–2020 period, 92 percent of bank deposits were due to funding liquidity creation, and during 2011–2020 funding liquidity creation averaged $10.7 trillion per year, or 57 percent of [gross domestic product].”

Why Climate Defiance Is Doubling Down On Disruption

February 6, 2025 Davin Faris, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! climate crisis, Direct Action, MAGA, Washington DC

On a brutally cold morning last December, shortly before I was arrested for the first time, a hundred of us gathered beside the National Mall in Washington, D.C. I came from campus in the dark with a couple of friends. As others congregated on the grass, we made awkward introductions. It was an eclectic bunch: teachers, tech workers, lawyers, tradespeople, students and full-time activists, some of whom I recognized from past demonstrations. When we reached a critical mass, Maxwell Downing, an organizer with Climate Defiance, split us up by risk level.

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