"Financial speculators are investing in a growing number of lawsuits against governments over environmental laws and other regulations that affect profits, often generating lucrative awards, the Guardian has found."
"The United States is withdrawing from the Just Energy Transition Partnership, a collaboration between richer nations to help developing countries transition from coal to cleaner energy, several sources in key participating countries said."
"The State Department will no longer share data about foreign air pollution under a program that it says is designed to help U.S. personnel and travelers abroad."
"Half of the world’s climate-heating carbon emissions come from the fossil fuels produced by just 36 companies, analysis has revealed."
"Oil prices fell on Monday afternoon to their lowest level of the year after the OPEC oil cartel and its allies affirmed plans to gradually increase crude production beginning in April."
"Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything."
"The United Nations Environment Programme on Monday said a new round of negotiations toward a global plastics treaty will take place from August 5 to 14 in Geneva, Switzerland, after countries failed to agree on the parameters of a final agreement last December in Busan, South Korea."
"A gathering of countries in Rome this week agreed a plan to generate $200 billion in finance a year by 2030 to halt and begin to reverse the destruction of the natural world."
"Scientists have finally given the all-clear to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid. After two months of observations, scientists have almost fully ruled out any threat from the asteroid 2024 YR4, NASA and the European Space Agency said Tuesday."
