River Level at Amazon Rainforest Port Hits 122-Year Low Amid Drought October 7, 2024 By Bruno Kelly and Jake Spring The river port in the Amazon rainforest’s largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as...
A Continent Ablaze: South America Surpasses Record for Fires September 13, 2024 By Jake Spring and Stefanie Eschenbacher South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest through the world’s largest wetlands to dry forests in...
Protecting 1.2% of Earth Would Prevent Most Extinctions, Study Says June 25, 2024 By Jake Spring Setting aside an additional 1.2% of the world’s land as nature preserves would prevent the majority of predicted plant and...
Climate Lawsuits Build as Latin American Court Hears Largest Case Ever May 30, 2024 By Jake Spring Latin America’s human rights court holds a final hearing in Brazil on Wednesday in a case that’s part of a...
Climate Court Cases That Could Set New Precedents Around the World May 23, 2024 By Jake Spring Courts around the world are hearing an ever-growing number of climate change lawsuits with some of the largest cases in...
Climate Change Drives Amazon Rainforest’s Record Drought: Study January 26, 2024 By Jake Spring Climate change is the main culprit for a record drought in the Amazon rainforest that has drained rivers, killed endangered...
Climate’s ‘Catch-22’: Cutting Pollution Will Accelerate Global Warming November 3, 2023 By Jake Spring and David Stanway Air pollution, a global scourge that kills millions of people a year, is shielding us from the full force of...
Oceans are Hotter, Higher and More Acidic, Climate Report Warns May 18, 2022 By Jake Spring The world’s oceans grew to their warmest and most acidic levels on record last year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)...
‘Delay Means Death’ – UN Report Warns Window for Climate Action Is Rapidly Closing March 1, 2022 By Gloria Dickie, Andrea Januta and Jake Spring Climate change is already disrupting billions of lives and humanity is not doing enough to limit the suffering, the United...
Update: Leaders at COP26 Climate Conference Pledge to Cut Methane and Save Forests November 2, 2021 By Jake Spring and Jeff Mason GLASGOW – Leaders at the COP26 global climate conference pledged on Tuesday to stop deforestation by the end of the...