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America Rejoins World Accord to Limit Climate Crisis   NEW YORK, New York, February 21, 2021 (ENS) – The community of nations welcomed the United States back into the Paris Climate Accord on Friday with the approval of American conservationists, politicians on both sides of the aisle and thousands of non-federal climate leaders who launched America is All In, a coalition to drive a society-wide mobilization for bold climate ambition. President Joe Biden signs his first executive orders in the Oval Office, Jan. 20, 2021 (Photo courtesy Biden Administration) On January 20, his first day in o...

Russian Tanker First to Sail Arctic Sea Route in Winter   ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, February 22, 2021 (ENS) – The Arctic’s icy Northern Sea Route is melting, allowing the Russian icebreaking LNG carrier Christophe de Margerie to complete her experimental round trip voyage across the Arctic in winter. For the first time in history, due to climate warming, the Arctic ice has thawed enough to allow a large-capacity cargo vessel to transit the eastern portion of the Northern Sea Route, NSR, in January. Normally, transit navigation along this segment of the Northern Sea Route ends in November ...

Youth Climate Case Headed for U.S. Supreme Court   EUGENE, Oregon, February 10, 2021 (ENS) – The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, without explanation, today denied the request of 21 young people to have a full panel of the court hear their climate case against the U.S. Government. “We will now seek review in the U.S. Supreme Court,” declared the plaintiffs’ Eugene-based law firm Our Children’s Trust, because the court did not correct the “significant legal errors made in the January 2020 ruling.” In this much-watched lawsuit, Juliana v. United States, a three-judge panel of the...

Emergency or Not? Peoples’ Climate Vote Polls 1.2 Million   NEW YORK, New York, January 27, 2021 (ENS) – “Urgent climate action has broad support amongst people around the globe, across nationalities, age, gender and education levels,” declared United Nations Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner today as he released the results of the first Peoples’ Climate Vote. With 1.2 million respondents, this is the largest survey of public opinion on climate change ever conducted. Using a new and unconventional approach to polling, the survey results span 50 countries covering 56...

Teens Press Climate Cases in Courts Across the World   EUGENE, Oregon, January 25, 2021 (ENS) – Climate change is worsening by the year, threatening to make the planet unliveable for people now in their teens and early twenties. Because government actions are often at the root of climate warming, young Americans have taken the first legal steps in a youth climate movement to require the government to respect their right to a stable, healthy climate, encouraging similar actions globally. Today, there are many youth climate cases before courts across the world in which young people are press...