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The World Court has spoken on the climate crisis – and it’s sided with those facing its worst impacts.
But that’s not the only landmark court case in this month’s news round-up. Read on to find out what else happened in July and what it means for you.
Is the climate crisis making your home uninsurable? Last year, climate disasters caused over USD 300 billion in damage – and someone has to foot the bill.
Clean energy has a dirty secret: lithium-ion batteries are made in not-so-clean ways. What if we replaced them with… salt?
Hydroelectricity is technically a form of clean energy – but try telling that to conservation groups and local communities affected by hydrodams.
You may have heard a lot about wetlands following last month’s Ramsar Convention COP15. Here’s our latest explainer to answer any burning questions.
From our GLFx community, here’s how Brazil’s Indigenous Xokleng people are preserving a sacred tree, and why stingless bees matter for the Peruvian Amazon.
Looking to upskill over the holidays? Here are five key skills you need to turn your passion into impact.
It’s official: countries are legally obliged to cut greenhouse gas emissions – or they could be liable to pay reparations, the International Court of Justice has said in a historic advisory opinion.
Meanwhile, Australia’s Indigenous Torres Strait Islanders have lost a landmark case that absolves the Australian government of any responsibility to protect them against the effects of the climate crisis.
If you’ve noticed your grocery bills going up in recent years, you can thank the climate crisis for that.
Global heating is already taking a toll on our brains – but alas, it may be happening too gradually for some people to notice.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has denounced the use of “hunger as a weapon of war” in Gaza, which Israel has blocked from receiving food and other supplies, and Sudan, which is facing famine, extreme heat and flooding all at the same time.
Fossil fuels aren’t just driving the climate crisis: they’ve also created a plastic crisis that’s causing USD 1.5 trillion in health-related damage each year.
Could your frying pan make you diabetic? People with higher levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in their blood could be more likely to develop type 2 diabetes.
Giving birth in extreme heat can be incredibly dangerous – which is why India employs these specialist community health workers to help expectant mothers.
How much are the world’s wetlands worth? Destroying them could cost us USD 39 trillion by 2050.
Last year, we wrote that deforestation in the Amazon had been decreasing. Sadly, that is no longer the case in Colombia.
Never mind cutting off horns – can we save rhinos from poachers by making their horns radioactive?
Ever wondered what the ocean floor looks like? For the first time, scientists have published photos of life more than nine kilometers under the waves.
Imagine 90 percent of life being wiped out, followed by 5 million years of extreme heat. That’s exactly what happened just before the first dinosaurs were born – and we finally know why.
Thinking of buying carbon credits to protect the Amazon? You may be funding the same businesses that are destroying the rainforest to begin with.
Donald Trump’s tariffs have a silver lining: they’re creating a boom in aluminum recycling.
BP has made its biggest new oil and gas discovery in 25 years off the coast of Brazil.
We all know fast fashion hurts the planet, but should you shell out on more expensive T-shirts in the hopes that they might last longer?
From shampoo to skincare products, argan oil is everywhere – but its popularity is putting Morocco’s argan forests under threat.
COP30 host Brazil is mulling a law that would make it easier for big infrastructure projects to obtain environmental licenses, including no longer having to consult Indigenous and traditional communities.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is again opening up swathes of rainforests and peatlands for oil and gas drilling, while China is building the world’s biggest hydrodam in Tibet.
The U.S. is canceling plans to develop new offshore wind farms as its Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency both actively peddle climate misinformation.
Dubai’s old town has kept residents cool every sweltering summer for centuries – long before the invention of air conditioning. Here’s how.
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