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Nearly ten years after the protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, the legal reckoning has struck the environmental organization Greenpeace with full force. A judge in North Dakota has announced that he will order Greenpeace to pay ...
The 1.5 degree mark was never a symbolic number. It was a red line. Enshrined in Paris in 2015, at the urging of those states that already knew they would pay first ...
The new Human Rights Watch report reads not like a warning, but like an accounting. What was considered secure for decades – human rights, democratic institutions, rule-of-law boundaries ...
Between Washington, Brussels, and Copenhagen, descriptions of the same situation have now diverged so widely that they can no longer be explained by differing perspectives. President Trump speaks of an insecure island, ...
Germany counts a lot. Income, employment, inflation, new housing. But it does not count how many homeless people die. Not nationwide, not consistently, not continuously. Those who die become part of the general mortality statistics ...
On Monday, federal agents advance in formation in Minneapolis. No conversation, no hesitation, only enforcement. In the front row stands a woman. She holds a sign, makes the peace sign ...
One day after the US military seizure in Venezuela, Donald Trump sharpens his tone – and expands the circle of targets. While Nicolás Maduro is in US custody, the president openly speaks ...
The news came shortly before sunrise and hit Caracas like a blow: Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has been arrested and taken out of the country. Donald Trump confirmed this early Saturday ...
Donald Trump says Vladimir Putin personally informed him that Ukraine had attempted to attack one of his residences with drones. A serious accusation, made at a sensitive moment ...
Trump likely enjoyed the images. Armed U.S. units, a helicopter hovering over an oil tanker, soldiers on the deck. The impression the Trump regime wants to project to the world, that of a lawful seizure, is false. At the time of the operation, ...
In a residential neighborhood on Florida’s east coast, a scene unfolded in mid-November that shook even long-time residents. - (We will not show these images here) - In a canal in ...
Donald Trump Jr. sat on stage at the Doha Forum on December 7, 2025, confident and arrogant as always, and spoke about Ukraine as if he were describing a country ...
In Washington, nerves are rising this weekend over an operation that was originally presented as part of a routine anti-drug effort. For months, the administration has ordered boats off the coast of Latin America to be fired upon, ...
President Trump said a few days ago that the United States could "very soon" expand its campaign of killing suspected drug smugglers at sea to attacks on targets in Venezuela ...
Donald Trump acted for a year as if he could flip the country with a switch: more oil, more gas, more drilling, fewer rules, fewer environmental standards ...
The world has taken another step toward dangerous warming - but not in the fight against it. In Belém, in the heart of the Amazon, this year’s UN climate conference ...
Belém - Friedrich Merz apparently wanted to share only a brief impression after his return from Belém. What followed was nationwide criticism in Brazil, accusations of arrogance, xenophobia and a President Lula who did not hesitate ...
Belém showed this weekend what happens when a climate summit does not take place in sterile halls but in the middle of a city that breathes, sweats and struggles. Thousands of people moved through the streets, colorful, loud and ...
Veracruz – Mexiko erlebte an diesem Wochenende einen Ausbruch, der sich schon lange angebahnt hatte. In mehr als 50 Städten strömten Menschen auf die Straßen, vereint durch eine Mischung aus…
Belém, Brazil – These days, Belém is not only the gateway to the Amazon but the place where it will be decided whether the world is ready to take its own future seriously ...
The Trump administration has, within a few weeks, established a new pattern of power: it defines war so that it no longer looks like war and claims it is therefore not subject to legal limits ...
Donald Trump wanted to make history this week. A new chapter of strength, of the “Return of America.” Instead, the world is witnessing a president who sees himself as the greatest dealmaker fail at the reality ...
There are moments when one wonders whether history repeats itself - or whether it is simply mocking us. Friedrich Merz: Talks like someone eager to please ...
Donald Trump announced on Friday another decision that shakes the already overstretched structure of the global economy. Starting November 1, Chinese imports are to be hit with a 100 percent tariff - a move that can hardly ...
The government in Washington has presented a plan that looks like a fossil from another time: coal is supposed to return to the top of the US energy supply, no matter the cost ...
Donald Trump wanted to make a statement: offshore wind power should die long before it had the chance to change America. But it was precisely the judiciary, which he so ...
The government of Donald Trump is currently reviewing signs, exhibits and even books in the United States’ national parks – with the aim of removing everything that, in its view, ...
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It is 679 million dollars that could cost America its future. On Friday the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that it was cutting an entire package of federal funds – money intended for the ...
Weeks of research have brought to light a shocking picture that in its scope even surpasses pessimistic forecasts. The United States is experiencing under the second Trump administration an unprecedented reversal of decades of environmental protection policy, ...
An investigative report on the systematic shutdown of the NASA missions OCO-2 and OCO-3, the silence of mainstream media, and the catastrophic consequences for the future We also ask for your support ...
(Reading time approximately 25 minutes) The Vision at the End of the World On Norway's rugged west coast, where fjords cut deep into the land and the Atlantic ...
Amidst the dry heat of Guadalajara, where cacti root in dusty soil and the sun beats relentlessly from the sky, one of the most promising answers to one of the greatest environmental crises ...
The administration of US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that it intends to revoke a central scientific cornerstone of American climate policy - a decision that would have far-reaching consequences for environmental and public ...
It is a moment of global significance, wrapped in a sober diplomatic formulation: China and the European Union on Thursday committed to a joint climate initiative.
It doesn’t begin with a thunderclap. It begins with silence. With the voice that no longer warns. With the data that no longer arrives. With weather services standing empty ...
When Friedrich Merz talks about climate, he sounds a bit like an insurance agent trying to downplay hail damage by pointing out that the sun will probably shine tomorrow.
It was a storm that had already lost its name - and yet claimed a life. In the early hours of Monday, the remnants of Tropical Storm Chantal turned ...
What is more dangerous - a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico or a strategy document from the White House? If the planners of the "2025 Presidential Transition Project"
When the first raindrops hit the roof of the camp, the girls were already asleep. Hours later, the Guadalupe River had become a raging beast - and a summer camp a death trap.
It is a quiet retreat with enormous consequences: Starting June 30, the U.S. Department of Defense will cease sharing its satellite data with scientists and weather services ...
Ochopee, Florida – It was a hot, oppressive day in the Everglades as hundreds of people gathered along the Tamiami Trail ...
Venice, June 23, 2025 – It was a symbolic moment that not only drew attention but cast a political spotlight on the relationship between power, money, and public space: activists from Greenpeace Italy, together with the British initiative “Everyone Hates Elon,” unfurled a huge banner in the middle of St. Mark’s Square ...
Washington - It is a move that leaves many stunned: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) under President Donald Trump is planning to reconsider the ban on white asbestos - the last form ...
In the boundless expanse of Arizona, where windmills slice the horizon and barbed wire preserves the memory of another century, an old man wrestles with time. Brantley Baird, 88 years old, a man of weathered skin ...
It begins with a promise. "Energy dominance," the government calls it. Another word for the subjugation of entire landscapes – and the people who live there. In southern Louisiana, where the air smells of salt and houses cast barely any shadow ...
It begins with an image straight out of the textbook of fossil power politics: a government plane lands on the Arctic airstrip of Prudhoe Bay. Next to it, the trans-Alaska oil pipeline rises from the ground - a rusting steel artery, a symbol of an ...
They are words that sound as if from another era. While Europe groans under heatwaves, extreme weather destroys harvests, and insurance companies begin pulling out of entire regions, Michael Kretschmer strikes ...
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled on Thursday that a multibillion-dollar oil railroad project in the state of Utah may proceed - despite massive environmental concerns, despite open climate consequences, despite everything ...
How Trump's Budget Cuts Drain the Lifeblood of the Oceans. It is night on the Pacific. The waves rise like invisible mountains, the wind pulls at the masts, and beneath the feet ...