Russia, China, and the U.S. are battling it out to see who can sink their teeth into the Arctic, staking claim to the region’s natural resources and strategic position. In what has been a years-long race, the stakes just keep getting higher, considering that the...
Global heating is raising sea levels around the world, although at different rates in different places. All coastal areas will be threatened sooner or later. But some of the impacts are already serious. From the Gulf of Mexico, around Florida, and up to the...
Biden has agreed to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change when he becomes president, putting the agreement’s 1.5 degree Celsius limit into what Climate Action Tracker calls “within striking distance.” But what does this mean? Bringing the agreement’s...
A recent federal court decision is allowing Exide Technologies to abandon its battery recycling plant in a working class community of Vernon, California. And who’s been deemed responsible for footing the bill for cleanup? Taxpayers in the surrounding...
Since 1944, the United States and Mexico have shared water across their border, with the U.S. sending water south from the Colorado River, and Mexico moving water northward from the state of Chihuahua. But climate disruption has caused warmer temperatures and longer...
