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After a Decades-Long Battle, Congress Votes to Open ANWR to Oil Drilling

Yesterday, the decades-old struggle over what is America’s last wilderness area, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), was reopened when Congress voted to open the Refuge to oil drilling.

Welcome to the “New Arctic”: the region “as we once knew it is no more”

The "Arctic shows no sign of returning to reliably frozen region of recent past decades”

Trump: Climate Change is not a National Security Issue

Donald Trump will cap his ongoing assault on climate change this year by dropping the issue from a list of global threats in his 70-page National Security Strategy (NSS), to be unveiled later today.

Major weather extremes in 2016 due to “human influence on climate”

The report "makes clear that we're experiencing new weather, because we've made a new climate.”

Sen. Merkley Opposes LNG Terminal as “the largest carbon polluter in Oregon”

Senator Jeff Merkley from Oregon has abandoned his support for the controversial Jordan Cove Project LNG project in Coos Bay, as it will, amongst other things "become the largest carbon polluter in Oregon."

Activists Unveil Giant “Crack” in British Museum in Anti-BP Protest

Oil giant BP’s controversial sponsorship of the British Museum was once again put under the spotlight over the weekend, when some 100 activists from the theatre group, “BP or not BP?” protested against the company’s current exhibition: "Scythians: warriors of ancient Siberia".