Since June, catastrophic flooding in Pakistan has forced the evacuation of 2.5 million people and claimed at least 900 lives, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Reuters reports that more than 4,500 villages in Punjab province have been submerged since late August. Most recently,
The Trump administration is aiming to reverse the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which legally classifies greenhouse gases as a threat to “public health and welfare of current and future generations,” and currently acts as the basis for emission regulations on vehicles and other pollutants, according to the Associated Press. On July
Hungary banned Pride events on March 18th, sparking protests and raising concern among human rights organizations and other EU countries. According to the Associated Press, the law allows the use of facial recognition technology to identify individuals who attend prohibited events, and violators may receive fines of up to 200,000
On March 14, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (I.M.L.S.), as well as six other government entities, to be “eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.” This order comes in the midst of cuts to numerous federal
On March 1st, over a thousand Vermonters showed up to protest J.D. Vance’s presence in the Mad River Valley, where he and his family had planned a weekend ski getaway at Sugarbush Resort. “We are gathering to show our outrage at what is happening in D.C.,” wrote Indivisible Mad River
A recent study combining 223 estimates from 450 data contributors has found that glaciers worldwide are melting faster than previously thought, having lost 5% of their ice since 2000. Additionally, according to the United Nations University, we are “projected to lose around 50 percent of glaciers (excluding Greenland and Antarctica)
The Committee to Protect Journalists recently reported that 124 journalists were killed worldwide in 2024, nearly 70% of them by Israel. This is the highest number of journalist killings since CPJ began its record in 1992. CPJ found an especially sharp increase in the deaths of freelance journalists, and UNESCO
Over the past two weeks, LGBTQ+ related data has been removed from federal websites across the U.S., and active research projects have been withdrawn for review in order to censor science relating to minority groups. This censorship is part of a movement by the Trump administration to purge “gender ideology
On his first day in office, President Trump signed a slew of environment-related executive orders, changing the United States’ trajectory in energy, climate, and foreign relations. Chief among them is the decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, abandoning the nation’s pledge to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 50-52%
On January 14th, 153 Nobel and World Food Prize laureates released an open letter titled “Hunger’s Tipping Point”, urging bold and immediate action to prevent an imminent global hunger crisis. By 2050, the global population is expected to rise by 1.5 billion. With the effects of climate change, soil degradation,
China recently approved a new hydro-power dam in Tibet, and India and Bangladesh have responded with concern over how it will impact millions living downstream. The dam, which would be the largest of its kind to date, will be built on the Yarlung Zangbo River, which flows into India and
