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Climate lawfare is now a well-established route to avoid the checks and balances of democratic legislation. What widespread misery have the elderly Swiss ladies wrought?

The battle against climate change is increasingly being fought in the courtroom, as national governments, specific laws and individual companies are targeted over their role in the crisis -- sometimes successfully. On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Switzerland was not doing enough to tackle climate change,…

/PRNewswire/ -- The ninth annual Sun Valley Forum, "Restoring Harmony With Nature," will be held from July 15 to July 18, 2024, at the Argyros Performing Arts...

For Indonesian activist Tiza Mafira, it all started with a 2013 petition pushing for a one or two cent fee on plastic bags.

It's part of an emerging industry that's trying to cash in on a senseless human problem: The huge amount of uneaten food that goes from supermarkets and restaurants to the dumpster. Much of that, if it's not composted, ends up in landfills where it decays, sending potent planet-warming greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Enter a new business opportunity. A company called Winnow has developed the AI tool that spies on restaurant garbage. Another, company, Afresh, digests supermarket data to look for wasteful mismatches between what a store is stocking, and what people are buying.