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Iran War Shows That Doubling Down on Fossil Fuels Is ‘Delusional,’ UN Climate Chief Says

Price spikes from the war highlight the necessity of the renewable energy transition for stability and national security, the U.N. official says.

By Keerti Gopal

Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, speaks during the Green Growth Summit in Brussels on Monday. Credit: Michael Chia/UNFCCC

Global Energy Transition Investment Grew in 2025 Despite Major Obstacles; Here Are the Numbers

By Dan Gearino

‘Millions of Avoidable Deaths’: Climate Change Health Harms Reach Unprecedented Levels

By Keerti Gopal

Machinery transfers coal at a port in China’s Chongqing municipality on April 20. Credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images

Top Fossil Fuel Producing Nations Plan to Blow Past Climate Targets

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Delegates rest outside of the assembly hall in Geneva, after talks aimed at striking a landmark treaty on plastic pollution ended with no consensus. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

Plastic Pollution Talks in Geneva End Without Treaty

By Bob Berwyn

A view of the Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery in Wilmington, Calif. According to the Carbon Majors database, 72 percent of global fossil fuel and cement emissions can be traced to 122 producers. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Should Big Oil Be Tried for Homicide?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Motiva oil refinery, the largest in the United States, looms over a residential neighborhood in Port Arthur, Texas. Credit: James Bruggers/Inside Climate News

 ‘A Dream Deferred:’ 30 Years of U.S. Environmental Justice in Port Arthur, Texas

By James Bruggers

Climate Defiance's first big action was at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in April 2023. Credit: Courtesy of Climate Defiance

How a Climate Group That Has Made Chaos Its Brand Got the White House’s Ear

By Keerti Gopal

A view of Expo City during COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Dec. 12, 2023. Credit: Wang Dongzhen/Xinhua via Getty Images

COP28 Left a Vacuum California Leaders Aim to Fill

By Liza Gross

Coal ash is the primary waste product of burning coal to produce electricity at facilities like this one in Jefferson County, Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News

Environmentalists Rattled by Radioactive Risks of Toxic Coal Ash

By Lee Hedgepeth

Sen. Joe Manchin arrives for a “Politics & Eggs” event at St. Anselm College's New Hampshire Institute of Politics on Jan. 12 in Manchester, N.H. Credit: Scott Eisen/Getty Images

Sen. Joe Manchin Eyes a Possible Third Party Presidential Run

By Phil McKenna

Sen. Joe Manchin waits to be introduced during an event at Saint Anselm College on Jan. 12, 2024 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Credit: Scott Eisen/Getty Images

Q&A: What a Joe Manchin Presidential Run Could Mean for the 2024 Election—and the Climate

Interview by Paloma Beltran and Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Fishermen sort their catch from a trawl fishery on a fishing boat in the Port of Molfetta on Dec. 1, 2023. Credit: Davide Pischettola/NurPhoto via Getty Images

A Common Fishing Practice Called Bottom Trawling Releases Significant Amounts of CO2 Into Earth’s Atmosphere

By Georgina Gustin

The energy at the Costco demonstration was celebratory, with balloons, cake and music. Credit: Alex Garland/Third Act/Stop the Money Pipeline

Costco Members Welcome New CEO With a Party—and a Demand to Drop Citibank

By Keerti Gopal

The UMTRA Project, a U.S. Department of Energy's remedial operation to remove radioactive uranium tailings from a former mill site is viewed on Oct. 7, 2023 near Moab, Utah. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

First Uranium Mines to Dig in the US in Eight Years Begin Operations Near Grand Canyon

By Wyatt Myskow

Biologist Sandra Steingraber attends the Build Series at Build Studio on March 10, 2017 in New York City. Credit: Bennett Raglin/WireImage

Q&A: Anti-Fracking Activist Sandra Steingraber on Scientists’ Moral Obligation to Speak Out

By Liza Gross

Attendees applaud after announcement of UAE consensus during a closing plenary of COP28 on Dec. 13. Credit: Wang Dongzhen/Xinhua via Getty Images

Q&A: The Sort of ‘Breakthrough’ Moment Came in Dubai When the Nations of the World Agreed to Transition Away From Fossil Fuels

Interview by Steve Curwood, "Living on Earth"

Scientist Rebellion, Extinction Rebellion and other scientist-activist groups staged a play dramatizing the threats fossil fuel development pose to the planet at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

Will the American Geophysical Union Cut All Ties With the Fossil Fuel Industry?

By Liza Gross

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, President of the UNFCCC COP28, attends day 13 of the climate conference on Dec. 13 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The conference has gone into an extra day as delegations continue to negotiate over the wording of the final agreement. Credit: Fadel Dawod/Getty Images

COP28 Does Not Deliver Clear Path to Fossil Fuel Phase Out

By Bob Berwyn

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