climate crisis

America Builds To Resist Disasters; The Global South Builds To Recover

July 6, 2025 Mohamed Ismail, Next City. Strategize! climate crisis, Environment, Extreme weather, Global South, green housing

In the last few weeks, as the United States suffered through a record-breaking heatwave, people were instructed to take refuge in buildings with indoor air conditioning. This reliance on a system that runs on fossil fuels and contributes to nearly 20% of our greenhouse gas emissions also inevitably set us up for another, more severe heatwave. Even as the U.S. faces increasingly frequent – and deadly – climate change-related disasters, we continue to be caught off guard, treating them as short-term inconveniences and not the new normal. Science has proved that we are actively contributing to future climate devastation, and yet we continue to design buildings with an assumption that climate resilience means waiting out disasters, wasting significant energy fighting the symptoms while contributing to the illness.

UN Expert Urges Criminalization Of Fossil Fuel Disinformation

July 5, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Strategize! climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Propaganda, United Nations

United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights Elisa Morgera on Monday presented a new report to the General Assembly calling for the criminalization of spreading disinformation regarding the climate crisis, as well as a complete ban on fossil fuel lobbying and advertising by the industry. In The imperative of defossilizing our economies report, Morgera argues that the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and other rich fossil fuel countries are legally bound by international law to phase out gas, oil and coal by the end of the decade, in addition to compensating communities for the harms caused.

Climate Activists Protest At Headquarters Of Global Ad Giant WPP

June 30, 2025 Ellen Ormesher, DeSmog. Resist! Advertising, climate crisis, Extinction Rebellion, Fossil Fuels, United Kingdom (UK)

Climate campaigners turned out on Wednesday in London to occupy the lobby of UK-based communications giant WPP, demanding that the company stop working for the fossil fuel industry. As demonstrators inside staged a “die-in” — wrapping themselves in shrouds emblazoned with logos of Shell, BP, and other WPP clients — a grim reaper figure in front of the building climbed atop a mock-up of an oil rig and set off a plume of black–coloured smoke. Protesters also unfurled a 15-metre banner in front of the building which declared “WPP are climate criminals, ban fossil fuel advertising”.

Bee Hotels Can Help Native Pollinators Recover In The Wake Of Wildfires

June 30, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Create! Bees, climate crisis, Pollinators, Wildfires

Wild pollinator populations are declining all over the world, with increasingly severe climate change-fueled wildfires threatening their survival. These intense wildfires are also putting long-term ecosystem health and biodiversity at risk. Bee hotels are artificial nesting structures that have been specially designed to house cavity-nesting species. Often placed in backyards or gardens, they provide safe havens and nurseries for essential pollinators. New research led by conservationist Dr. Kit Prendergast, a native bee scientist with University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), has found that bee hotels can play an essential role in helping native bee populations recover from wildfires.

Three Years Could Be Left To Limit Warming To 1.5 Degrees

June 21, 2025 Paige Bennett, EcoWatch. Educate! climate crisis, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming

Leading climate scientists are warning that the timeframe to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is shrinking, and the world could have just three years left to prevent breaching this limit. Experts warn the threshold could be passed within the next few years, with Piers Forster, director at the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at University of Leeds, noting that “Things are all moving in the wrong direction” with global heating and sea level rise, as reported by BBC. Forster lead a recent study with more than 60 leading climate scientists from around the world that determined countries have continued to “burn record amounts of coal, oil and gas and chop down carbon-rich forests,” which has left the 1.5 degree target of the Paris Agreement at risk.

Mental Health Professionals Join Calls For Boycott Of Advertising Agencies

June 18, 2025 Ellen Ormesher, DeSmog. Resist! climate crisis, Gas Industry, Health Care, mental health

Health organisations should cut ties with advertising agencies that work for the fossil fuel industry to protest the role of greenwashing in delaying climate action, says a group of mental health advocates. In an open letter, a dozen researchers and clinicians warned of the growing toll of despair suffered by displaced families, the disorientation and grief communities face after floods, drought and wildfires, and the anxiety of children facing a worsening climate crisis. “Advertising and public relations firms that serve both the health sector and the fossil fuel industry are working at cross purposes.

Gulf Coast Communities Take On Insurers Backing Fossil Fuel Facilities

June 7, 2025 Derek Seidman, Truthout. Resist! climate crisis, Energy, Environmental racism, Gulf Coast, Louisiana, Oil and Gas Industry, Trump Administration

Promising U.S. “energy dominance,” the Trump administration is moving to accelerate fossil fuel production. Key to this agenda is the approval of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities across Gulf Coast communities that are disproportionately Black, Brown, and low-income, long treated as expendable “sacrifice zones” by the fossil fuel industry. Just recently, on May 23, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) reauthorized the massive CP2 LNG in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, which will be the biggest LNG export facility in the U.S. Local organizers and climate groups have been fighting the expansion of these “methane export facilities” which they say will intensify climate chaos and environmental racism.

Please Ensure That The Planet Does Not Burn

June 6, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Strategize! Capitalism, climate crisis, COP30, Environment

It is important to emphasise the fact that environmental degradation has not been caused by humans in general, but by a certain system of organising society which we call capitalism. The problem with the term Anthropocene (which began to be used first by scientists, then by social scientists) is that it implies that humans – as an undifferentiated whole – have created the ecological crisis we are facing. This subtly downplays the role of the capitalist system and its accompanying class and national divides. However, data shows that humanity is using the equivalent of about 1.7 Earths to sustain our current consumption levels.

Rising Temperatures And The Rising Need For A Black Radical Lens

June 5, 2025 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Black Radical Tradition, Capitalism, climate crisis, Racial disparities

This past weekend, over 500 Black folk and their comrades descended upon Indianapolis, Indiana, for the Second National Black Radical Organizing Conference (NBROC). The goal, in part, of the Second NBROC, in the words of the conference’s organizers, was to “create a space to discuss, debate, train, assess, and create a collective way forward for Black/African/New Afrikan organizations and organizers who believe that our struggle is paramount to our survival.” On the question of the survival of Black/African people the world over, climate change (or as we refer to it, the racial capitalocene ) represents a profound and salient challenge formed and sustained by root causes -white “supremacy” ideology, colonization, and patriarchy (which is to say racial capitalism) - we as Black, African, and all oppressed people have been struggling against for multiple millenniums.

Family Sues Fossil Fuel Giants For Wrongful Death

June 1, 2025 Ruth Milka, NationofChange. Resist! Accountability, Big Oil, climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Lawsuits, Preventative Deaths, Washington

In a legal first, a Washington state woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against some of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies, seeking to hold them accountable for the death of her mother during an unprecedented heatwave that scientists say would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change. Misti Leon filed the lawsuit in King County Superior Court against ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, Phillips 66, and BP subsidiary Olympic Pipeline Company. She alleges the companies are liable for the death of her mother, Juliana Leon, who died of hyperthermia after being exposed to extreme heat in June 2021.

Two Thirds Of UK Workers Will Face Deadly Temperatures By 2030

June 1, 2025 The Canary. Educate! climate crisis, Global heating, United Kingdom (UK), Worker Rights and Jobs, Workplace Safety

As the UK faces increasingly extreme summer heat due to climate breakdown, new research has revealed that up to two-thirds of British workers could be exposed to dangerously high temperatures at work by the end of this decade. What’s more, these climate crisis-exacerbated deadly temperatures will affect virtually the entire workforce by the end of the century under current emissions trajectories. These are the findings of a new report titled A New Deal for Working People: Extreme Heat. Independent research institute Autonomy produced the damning new revelations, which argues that the UK is failing to protect workers from rising heat.

Youth Sue Trump Administration To Block Fossil Fuels Over Renewables

May 31, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Resist! climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Our Children's Trust, Renewable Energy, Trump Administration, Youth Activism

A new youth climate lawsuit by 22 Americans aged seven to 25 alleges that the Trump administration is engaging in unlawful executive overreach by issuing executive orders that intentionally boost the production of fossil fuels while frustrating the growth of renewable energy. In Lighthiser v. Trump, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Montana, the youth plaintiffs say the administration’s actions violate their constitutional rights to life, health and safety and breach congressional mandates to safeguard public health and ecosystems. “Trump’s fossil fuel orders are a death sentence for my generation,” said named plaintiff Eva Lighthiser in a press release.

Green Goals, Dirty Fuel: Europe’s Fertiliser Industry Bets On Shale

May 29, 2025 Agathe Bounfour and Clare Carlile, DeSmog. Educate! climate crisis, European Union (EU), Fertilizers, Fossil Fuels, pollution, Texas

The coastal city of Freeport, Texas is a dense tangle of metal pipes, tanks and towers. Located 60 miles south of Houston, it’s home to a sprawling petrochemical complex – one of the largest and most polluting in the United States. Among its facilities is a plant dedicated to the production of ammonia, a colourless compound of nitrogen and hydrogen, and a key ingredient in fertilisers widely used on industrial arable farms – including on fields of barley, wheat and maize across Europe. Chemicals giants Yara and BASF opened the “world-scale” factory to great fanfare in 2018, promising “cost-efficient” and “sustainable” ammonia production.

Carbon Capture And Storage: The Frivolous Gamble Of Climate Policy

May 27, 2025 By Bart Grugeon Plana, Resilience. Educate! Carbon Capture, climate crisis, European Union (EU), Sustainability

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) has become an essential part of European and global climate policy. The logic is simple: we capture CO2 emissions from factories and store them deep underground. This way we save the planet and the industry. Industrial emissions account for about 25% of European emissions. To become climate neutral by 2050, they must disappear. CCS is also being counted on to green some of the energy sector’s emissions. Governments are willing to provide supportive regulation and invest heavily in it. However, there are fundamental concerns about the feasibility of the technology, both technically and economically. Its failure could prove disastrous and undermine Europe’s climate strategy altogether.

Is The Bioeconomy A Sustainable Solution For The Planet?

May 24, 2025 Jorge Curiel, Theo Rouhette and Mavi Roman, Resilience. Create! Bioeconomy, Climate Adaptation, climate crisis, European Union (EU), Sustainability

On 10 February, representatives of 14 bioeconomy organisations from 11 EU Member States signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) officially establishing the European Bioeconomy Cluster Alliance (EBCA). The agreement is an important step towards fostering collaboration and innovation in the bioeconomy sector. In Spain, regions such as the Basque Country and Catalonia, in particular, are strongly committed to the transition towards a bioeconomy model. The bioeconomy has emerged in recent decades as a transformative proposal for our economic system aimed at achieving climate neutrality and moving away from the use of fossil fuels, cement and other materials, such as plastics.

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