2 hours agoElizabeth Warren announces 'Blue New Deal for our oceans'Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., released an addendum to her version of the Green New Deal Tuesday that includes a plan to protect fisheries and the ocean while charging industrial "bad actors" for damaging ecosystems.
1 day agoTiger fetuses in jars, skin of Sumatran tiger discovered in Indonesian poacher arrestsFive suspected poachers were arrested over the weekend in Indonesia after the skin of a protected Sumatran tiger and four fetuses preserved in a jar were discovered, according to officials.
6 days agoChristmas cards banned at England school by principal concerned about their environmental impactThe principal of an elementary school in England has apparently banned students from sending Christmas cards to fellow students — claiming the festive tradition is bad for the globe.
December 3Greta Thunberg approaches Lisbon after 20-day trip across AtlanticThe 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg neared the port of Lisbon, Portugal, early Tuesday after making a nearly three-week-long journey across the Atlantic Ocean in a catamaran in order to attend a United Nations climate change summit in Madrid.
December 2Sperm whale found dead on Scottish island ‘explodes’ during necropsy, had 220 pounds of trash in stomachA sperm whale that stranded and died on the shores of an island in Scotland “exploded” when the mammal was opened up for a necropsy. But what researchers found inside was even more surprising: a 220-pound ball of trash inside its stomach.
November 29Climate protesters block stores, disrupt Black Friday shoppingProtesters around the world disrupted Black Friday shopping in order to draw attention to climate change days before the United Nations met to discuss the issue in Madrid.
November 26UN report: World already far behind progress needed to reach Paris climate goalsThe United Nations offered what it called "bleak" findings on Tuesday as it warned that the world was headed towards global "extinction" and would need to increase its efforts "fivefold" if nations wanted to reach the temperature reduction goal outlined in the Paris Climate Agreement.
November 25Florida researchers develop cocaine overdose therapy to treat animals hurt by red tideRed tide, the toxic algae bloom responsible for killing thousands of fish and other marine life in the Gulf of Mexico each year, is intensifying on Florida’s west coast and the Panhandle, but researchers are fighting back.
November 25Malaysia's lone Sumatran rhino dies, species now extinct in countryThe Sumatran rhino is now officially extinct in Malaysia with the death from cancer of a 25-year-old female named Iman —the last known specimen in the Asian country, the BBC reported Saturday.
November 19Tropical Storm Sebastien forms in the Atlantic, forecast to stay over oceanThe 2019 Atlantic hurricane season isn't over just yet.
