Newsletter Photo credit: Photo by ダモ リ on Unsplash China’s clean energy investments abroad are a boon for climate, but human rights and the environment are a different story Chinese companies have pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy manufacturing investments overseas. The projects could help lower emissions, but they are having significant social, environmental and human rights impacts.
Newsletter Credit: Alex Albert/Unsplash Months after oil blast, a Black Louisiana town still awaits help Federal and state officials have sued the company behind the blast, but residents say the case won’t bring relief to their town.
Newsletter Photo Credit: Alena.K/BigStock Photo ID: 200744839 Study shows U.S. sea level rise is accelerating, rebutting Trump climate report “It’s not politics. That’s what the data say,” said the study’s author, who examined 70 tide gauges around the country.
Newsletter Photo credit: agnormark/ BigStock Photo ID: 113462627 Alberta officials stalled coal mine pollution study An Alberta government scientist was prevented from speaking publicly about his coal mine pollution research, emails show.
Newsletter Credit: photowrzesien/BigStock Photo ID: 412271062 U.S. is seeking exemption from a European climate law, officials say Diplomats told E.U. officials that the bloc’s law on methane, a potent greenhouse gas, would hurt American oil and gas companies.
Newsletter Credit: Getty Images/Unsplash+ Dominican Republic turns to assisted fertilization to save disappearing coral reefs In an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, tiny corals born in a laboratory are slowly growing under the eye of conservationists.
Politics Photo credit: Photo by Jeffrey Eisen on Unsplash Water levels across the Great Lakes are falling – just as US data centers move in Region struggling with drought now threatened by energy-hungry facilities – but some residents are fighting back.
