The Trump administration announced last week that it would take additional water from Northern California and send it south to farms and communities in the San Joaquin Valley, drawing strong criticism ...

Mexican water law has been undergoing a reform since last year, when a bill was introduced to amend the constitution to make water a human right and change how it is owned and allocated. The bill is ...

There were discussions, for the first time ever, about the social justice costs of transitioning to a sustainable economy, which requires the extraction of minerals, like cobalt and lithium, that are ...

COP30 Summit Begins in Brazil without the U.S., India, China, and Russia The UN COP30 climate summit started on November 10 in Belém, Brazil, drawing tens of thousands of people from around the world.

Last week, at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, many countries made commitments to cut back fossil fuel emissions to fight climate change. China announced it would curb emissions by up ...

Since January, the seven states in the Colorado River Basin have been meeting, attempting to agree on how the four in the Upper Basin—Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico—can allocate water with ...

Pope Leo XIV’s Views on the Environment and Climate Change While Leo has been outspoken on climate and the environment, he has attracted some criticism from LGBTQ+ Catholics for remarks he made about ...

According to a law passed in 1990, every four years the federal government is required to issue the National Climate Assessment on the effects of global warming on the U.S. Now, the Trump ...

Last Thursday, February 27, about 800 employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, were fired by the Trump administration. In addition, about 500 others left their jobs ...

A case began last week at the International Court of Justice that seeks to order the United States, China, and Russia, among others, to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and provide financial aid ...

With all that as background, the new Planetary Health Check report came out last week, saying that the patient—planet Earth—is in critical condition. In its assessment, the Potsdam Institute for ...