Ecology/Environment

17/04/24
Author: 
Tiffany Crawford
A photo taken on March 24, 2022 shows a LNG (liquefied natural gas) filling station for trucks in Dortmund in western Germany. PHOTO BY INA FASSBENDER / AFP

Apr. 10, 2024

An open letter says plans for five new liquefied natural gas facilities do not align with global efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 C

Dozens of climate-action groups are calling on the B.C. government to halt plans to expand liquefied natural gas production because of the climate crisis.

 

04/04/24
Author: 
Phoebe Weston
Western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus), which are a threatened species, in Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve in Guinea. Photograph: Nature Picture Library/Alamy

Apr. 3, 2024

Up to a third of Africa’s great apes are threatened by a boom in mining projects for minerals required for the renewable energy transition, new research shows.

01/04/24
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Robot doublespeak: digital tech keeps promising energy savings while cannibalizing energy supplies. Image via Shutterstock.

Apr. 1, 2024

“It is wholly a confusion of ideas to suppose that the economical use of fuel is equivalent to a diminished consumption. The very contrary is the truth.”
— William Stanley Jevons

28/03/24
Author: 
João Camargo and Leonor Canadas
Demonstration organized by the far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party

We must resist the temptation to think that "Canada is different." The analysis and strategic points below definitely apply here, provincially and federally. Organizing our power to replace profit as the goal of society with democratic social and economic planning is the task before us.

      -- Gene McGuckin

Mar. 27, 2024

28/03/24
Author: 
Susan Shain
Hop Hopkins, WildEarth Guardians’ new executive director. Photo by WildEarth Guardians

Mar. 27, 2024

This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

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