Trump’s anti-climate agenda won’t just hurt the planet, but American incomes, tooPrevious research has found that global heating has driven up utility costs, home insurance premiums and healthcare bills. But according to the new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal,...READ MORE
Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study findsPeople’s connection to nature has declined by more than 60% since 1800, almost exactly mirroring the disappearance of nature words such as river, moss and blossom from books, according to a study.READ MORE
The devastating legacy of Native boarding schools: ‘no way people can apologize it away’More than 400 Indian boarding schools operated on US soil. Vehicles for policies of assimilation, perhaps better described as cultural annihilation, the schools were brutal by design. Children were not allowed to speak their own...READ MORE
‘We’ve lost some parts of nature for ever’: Ukraine war’s impact on environmentAs well as intense human suffering, three years of war have had a catastrophic environmental effect, killing wildlife, felling trees and increasing emissions. Since 2022, the Guardian photographer Alessio Mamo has been tracking the impact...READ MORE
Drugs, hormones, and excrement: the polluting pig mega-farms supplying pork to the worldMexico is a leading international pork producer, but Yucatán residents say the waste oozing from hundreds of enormous hog farms is destroying the environment.READ MORE
Human Rights Watch: World Report 2024Renewed hostilities between Israel and Hamas and in Sudan caused tremendous suffering, as did ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, Myanmar, Ethiopia, and the Sahel. Governments struggled to deal with the hottest year on record and the...READ MORE