Tagged: Climate & Environment
During the time that President Evo Morales has been at the helm of Bolivia’s government, the country has gone from being the poorest in South America to having one of the region’s fastest growing...
The Gulf Coast Dead Zone is a massive area of water near Louisiana and Texas, where most marine life cannot live at the bottom due to low oxygen levels. It’s caused by an excess...
Around 150 ‘kayaktivists’ gathered Tuesday night in Portland, Oregon to try to block a ship leased by the Shell Oil company from exiting the harbor. The ship, the MSV Fennica, was in Portland for...
The U.S. Gulf Coast states and oil giant BP have reached a provisional settlement covering all state and federal claims stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. If approved,...
Activists in Seattle hit the water today in kayaks to block a Shell-contracted drilling rig from moving into Arctic waters. The rig left the Port of Seattle at around 6 a.m., but the so-called...
Argentina is attracting the attention of energy companies that want to bring fracking to Latin America. But the expansion of this gas extraction technique is meeting resistance in what was once a prime destination...
About 100 people including members of environmental and human rights’ groups and representatives from frontline communities in Ecuador, Nigeria, and the San Francisco Bay Area demonstrated Wednesday in front of Chevron’s annual shareholders meeting...
A massive heat wave gripping India for more than a week now has left hundreds dead. As Bismillah Geelani reports, the country’s southern part is the worst hit with heat so extreme the roads...
The Obama Administration has decided to allow Shell Oil company to drill in the Arctic off the coast of Alaska. The company must secure additional permits before it can proceed, but the green light...
The local government of Dunedin, a mid-sized New Zealand city, voted to divest from fossil fuels this week. The council’s $82.5 million fund currently holds about $1.5 million in fossil fuel shares after dumping...