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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may appeal an extradition order to the U.S., the U.K. High Court ruled on Monday. The 52-year-old Assange faces 17...
The severe floods came on the heels of an extreme drought in one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations.
Egypt is the third country to request to join South Africa's case, and its request is especially significant for Israel.
As Israel escalated its assault on Gaza over the weekend, Sanders said Israel shouldn’t receive any more military aid.
"The technical political science term for this is 'lying,'" said Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin.
Israeli airstrikes killed between 20 and 30 people in Rafah Sunday night, including at least five children. Among the slain children was a...
The Alabama House of Representatives voted 72-28 on Thursday in favor of a bill that would apply the state’s criminal obscenity laws to public...
President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency announced a final quartet of rules on Thursday to limit climate-warming emissions from...
Palestinian civil defense discovered hundreds of bodies buried by Israeli forces in a mass grave inside the complex of Khan Younis’ Nasser Medical...
Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, became the first Southern autoworkers not employed by one of the Big Three car manufacturers...
The climate crisis will shrink the average global income 19% in the next 26 years compared to what it would have been without global heating caused...
In a decision that the largest U.S. Muslim civil rights organization called “cowardly,” the University of Southern California announced Monday...
Campaigners have issued a “red alert” over language included in the 2024 Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act that could pave the...
Israel will no longer permit the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East to drive convoys bearing food aid into...
The latest edition of an annual consumer's guide published Wednesday reveals that almost three-fourths of non-organic fruits and vegetables sampled...
“Earth is issuing a distress call,” UN Secretary General António Guterres said in response to the new climate report.
Climate activists in six North Sea countries came together on Saturday to carry out acts of civil disobedience in protest of their governments’...
In a move that pensioners rights group Avivo called “a historic victory for retirees,” Swiss voters on Sunday voted to boost their pension by...
The Internal Revenue Service announced on Thursday that it was going after high-income earners who had dodged taxes by failing to file tax returns...
The Israeli navy fired on a United Nations convoy bringing much-needed aid to northern Gaza after Israel approved the route it would take. The...
The UN says that world leaders must curb emissions by 42 percent by 2030 to abide by the Paris climate agreement.
U.S. oil companies ExxonMobil and Chevron announced their second-highest profits in a decade on Friday, with both companies paying out a record amount...
Twenty-five Republican governors have lent their support to GOP Gov. Greg Abbott as he doubles down on his defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court order to...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams vetoed a New York City Council bill on Friday that would have banned the practice of solitary confinement in city...
U.S. Lawmakers, mostly Republicans, have inserted a record number of anti-wildlife measures into the appropriations bills for fiscal year 2024, the...
Azerbaijan, the country slated to host the next United Nations Climate Change Conference, has plans to increase its gas production by a third during...
More than 1,600 institutions like universities, pension funds, and governments that hold more than $40.6 trillion in assets have now divested from...
The last time that levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide were as high as they are today, Greenland was free of ice and the savanna and grassland...
More than 1,000 union members with Workers for a Free Palestine blockaded four weapons factories in the United Kingdom Thursday that make components...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres repeated the call for a global phaseout of fossil fuels during his remarks at the opening of the...
In what organizers said was the largest action of civil disobedience in New York City since the Iraq War, more than 1,000 protesters blocked traffic...
Despite an initial delay, the second round of hostages were released by Hamas on Saturday night. The group included 13 Israelis and four foreign...
Ecologists in Mexico relaunched a campaign Thursday to protect the axolotl, an iconic Mexican underwater salamander threatened with extinction. The...
Experts say that while the 2°C increase is an anomaly for that day, it points to the urgency of tackling emissions.
Days after the United Auto Workers announced tentative deals with the Big Three carmakers, Toyota confirmed this week that it would offer raises to...
The day after Israel unleashed its most intensive bombing campaign against Gaza since October 7, hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in cities...
Israel is violating international law by imposing a "complete siege" on Gaza, the European Union's chief diplomat said Tuesday. E.U. High...
In another sign of the climate crisis, September of 2023 — following the hottest summer ever recorded over June, July, and August — also seems to...
The climate crisis made the record-breaking storm that flooded the streets of New York City on Friday as much as 20% wetter than it would have been...
A government shutdown was averted Saturday night after the Senate voted 89 to 9 to approve a stopgap spending measure passed by the House of...
A federal judge in Ohio on Friday blocked an attempt by corporate interests to stop Medicare’s historic negotiation of certain drug prices with...
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, a long-time climate activist, had harsh words for the fossil fuel industry on Thursday. “Many of the largest...
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was charged for a second time on Friday for not leaving a protest near an oil terminal after police ordered...
Do greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels count as ocean pollution under the Law of the Sea? That’s the question that nine small...