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A Yaqui Indigenous wears a bandana over his mouth as he walks through dust past the cemetery where slain water-defense leader Tomás Rojo is buried in Potam, Mexico, on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

200 environmental activists were killed globally in 2021

Some 200 environmental and land defense activists were killed around the world in 2021, including some 54 in Mexico, which assumed the position of the deadliest country in the annual report by nongovernmental organization Global Witness.

News | September 29th 2022

Alice, an all-electric airplane designed and built by Eviation, takes off in Moses Lake, Wash., for its first flight on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. (Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times via AP)/The Seattle Times via AP)

Prototype electric plane takes first flight in Washington state

A prototype, all-electric airplane took its first flight on Tuesday, September 27, 2022, morning in central Washington state.

News | September 28th 2022

Dave Foreman, founder of Earth First! poses for a portrait in Juneau, Alaska, on March 10, 1988. (AP Photo/Suzanne Vlamis, File)

Earth First! co-founder Dave Foreman, self-proclaimed 'eco-warrior' dies

Dave Foreman, a self-proclaimed eco-warrior who was a prominent member of the radical environmentalism movement and a co-founder of Earth First!, has died. He was 74.

News | September 26th 2022

Volunteers fill buckets with oil near Refugio State Beach after an oil spill north of Goleta, Calif., on May 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant, File)

California oil spill case settles for $230M

A judge has approved a $230 million lawsuit settlement by the owners of a pipeline that spilled more than 140,000 gallons of crude oil into the ocean off California in 2015, lawyers announced on Thursday, September 22, 2022.

News, US News, Politics | September 23rd 2022

This image from the Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8 shows the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai undersea volcano at the Pacific nation of Tonga on Jan. 15, 2022. Photo via AP/Japan Meteorology Agency

Tonga’s undersea eruption shook the world. But what did it do to our climate?

When an undersea volcano erupted in Tonga in January, its watery blast was huge and unusual — and scientists are still trying to understand its impacts.

News | September 22nd 2022

This image made from a video, shows whales stranded on Ocean Beach near Strahan, Australia on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. (CHANNEL 9 via AP)

32 pilot whales rescued out of more than 200 stranded in Australia

Wildlife experts on Thursday, September 22, 2022, rescued 32 of the 230 whales that were found stranded on the wild and remote west coast of Australia’s island state of Tasmania a day earlier.

News | September 22nd 2022

In this image made from a video, a rescuer pours water on one of stranded whales on Ocean Beach, near Strahan, Australia Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Photo via Australian Broadcasting Corporation/AP

Hope running out to save whales stranded in pounding surf in Australia

A day after 230 whales were found stranded on the wild and remote west coast of Australia’s island state of Tasmania, only 35 were still alive despite rescue efforts that were to continue Thursday.

News | September 21st 2022

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Shell CEO to resign as oil giant shifts away from fossil fuels

Shell CEO Ben van Beurden is stepping down at the end of 2022 after nine years in charge, the energy giant said on Thursday, September 15, 2022, a change that comes as oil and natural gas companies are under pressure to shift away from fossil fuels even as they see soaring profits from energy price s driven up by Russia's war in Ukraine.

News, Energy | September 15th 2022

This photo shows Liddell Power Station, left, and Bayswater Power Station, right, coal-powered thermal power stations near Muswellbrook in the Hunter Valley, Australia on Nov. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Australia passes law to shoot for 43% greenhouse gas reduction

Australia’s Parliament enshrined in law the government’s elevated target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 43% below 2005 levels by the end of the decade.

News | September 8th 2022

Lucas Drake, center, and other classmates practice techniques for working at heights during a Global Wind Organisation certification class at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Bourne, Mass., Aug. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Clean energy jobs grow, but wages lag fossil sector

Clean energy now provides more employment than the fossil fuel industry, reflecting the shift that efforts to tackle climate change are having on the global jobs market, according to a new report.

News | September 8th 2022