Three ingredients are required for an algal bloom to get going – temperature, the right conditions and food. South Australia had all the preconditions necessary, thanks to climate change.
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Australia’s Courts Say Climate Change Is a Political Problem. The ICJ Just Made it a Legal Issue.
As Australia’s courts rule yet again that climate is outside their jurisdiction, the ICJ made it a legal obligation for countries to act on the crisis.
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“Ideological Sludge”: How New Zealand Is Quiet Quitting Climate Action
New Zealand once stood out as a world leader on climate change. In June it became the first country in the world to abandon a commitment to phase out oil, gas and coal.
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As Senate Rams Through Wildly Unpopular Pro-Oil Budget Bill, New Research Shows Fossil Majors Contributed $19 Million to Trump’s Inauguration
Nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose the bill, which would gut everything from school lunch programs and veterans benefits to Medicare, while also taking an axe to clean energy projects and jobs, raising energy prices for American families, and adding $4 trillion to the national debt. The big winners in the bill are billionaires and the fossil fuel industry.
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The Day the Mountains Won
How a Peruvian farmer sued a German coal giant and helped create a legal blueprint to hold fossil producers accountable for climate harms.
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Dispatch from the Front Lines of Mozambique’s Gas Gamble
Mozambique’s LNG project was supposed to bring prosperity to the country. Instead it has fueled the fires of civil unrest. And while local residents are struggling to survive, a small cadre of elite consultants have found success amidst the rubble.
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In India’s Coal Belt, a Window into the Challenges Facing Energy Transition
India’s reliance on coal is tied to a complex set of economic, social, and energy security factors; any successful energy transition plan will have to address all of them.
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In Colombia, Chevron has a habit of buying carbon credits from projects made behind indigenous people’s backs.
Leaders of the Cotuhé Putumayo indigenous reservation, in the Colombian Amazon, say that they do not know about the carbon credit project taking place on their land, which has sold more than 3 million credits. The largest purchaser of credits in the project is a local subsidiary of U.S. oil company Chevron.
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Ugandan Communities Say Total’s Oil Project Is More of a Land Grab than a Development Opportunity
Fred Balikenda and his family were forcefully evicted from their home in Kirama village, Buliisa district on May 13, 2024 to make way for the Tilenga project. Photo by Diana Taremwa-Karakire. When Jealousy Mugisa Mulimba, a 52-year-old father of nine in Uganda’s oil-rich Buliisa district, was informed he would need to move his family from […]
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Pipe Dreams: Tanzania’s Oil Gamble
As funding for the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline barrels ahead, locals are dealing with the harsh realities of displacement.