The fossil fuel industry is cashing in on its investment in the Trump administration, while people in the US and across the globe are left to pay the price

Por primera vez, la energía solar y eólica son ahora más baratas que el carbón, el gas natural o el petróleo, y son las opciones más rápidas para instalar nueva generación de electricidad.

For the first time, solar and wind energy are now cheaper than coal, natural gas, or oil, and are the quickest options for installing new electricity generation.

Greenpeace has been ordered to pay millions of dollars in damages to Energy Transfer Partners, the corporation which built the Dakota Access Pipeline, in a case resulting from the mass protest movement against the construction of said pipeline

While health is on the agenda at the COP28 summit in the UAE, activists fear significant progress on climate and health will not be achieved due to a number of factors such as the presence of lobbyists from the fossil fuel sector

Environmental activist Tina Landis talks about the recent decline in air quality index in New York due to the fire in Quebec. She explains how colonial history and commodification led to a rise of fires, and the impact of the fuel fossil industry

Masks and stay-at-home advisories are back in New York City, now the most polluted city in the world by far as a result of wildfire smoke from Canada

The climate crisis has affected food and water security, led to increased rates of morbidity, mortality, and displacement in the world’s most vulnerable regions

The 27th UN climate change conference ended in Egypt on November 20 with a major outcome – a Loss and Damage fund. However, the cover text does not contain any new commitments on emission cuts or the comprehensive phase down of all fossil fuels 

Environmental activists and researchers feel that fossil fuel lobbyists being granted access to policymaking processes poses the threat of slowing down climate action

After a years-long push by the global South, the UN climate conference will discuss funding for loss and damage related to the climate crisis. Over a 100 heads of state are set to address the summit being held in the wake of severe climate disasters from Pakistan to Somalia

In today’s episode, we take a look at the approval of a new Prime Minister in Iraq, a strike by teachers in Uruguay, activists demanding a greater windfall tax on fossil fuel profits, and the cholera outbreak in west Asia