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Behind the Scenes: Using Direct Democracy to Keep Oil in the Ground Is More Complex Than it Seems

Last year, Ecuadorians voted to shield part of the Amazon from oil drilling. How the decision will be implemented is still to be determined.

By Kiley Price

A morning haze settles over the Chester River, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, in July 2023 near Centreville, Maryland. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

The Chesapeake Bay Program Isn’t Likely to Hit Its 2025 Cleanup Goals. What Happens Next?

By Aman Azhar

Delegates from countries around the world meet on June 3 at the annual climate conference in Bonn, Germany in preparation for COP29. Credit: Christoph Driessen/picture alliance via Getty Images

Developing Countries Say Their Access Difficulties at Bonn Climate Talks Show Justice Issues Obstruct Climate Progress

By Bob Berwyn

Jorge Buxadé, a Spanish candidate for the EU parliamentary election, speaks during a campaign rally on June 2 in Murcia, Spain. Buxadé leads the European delegation of Vox, a far-right party in Spain. Credit: Edu Botella/Europa Press via Getty Images

Europe’s Swing to the Right Threatens Global Climate Policy

By Bob Berwyn

El puente de la carretera 90 cruza la presa de la Amistad cerca de Del Rio, Texas. El agua entregado a EE.UU. se almacena en dos embalses, donde los niveles de agua han bajado en los últimos meses. Fotografía por Omar Ornelas

La otra disputa fronteriza es sobre un tratado de aguas de 80 años

By Martha Pskowski

The U.S. 90 bridge crosses the Amistad Reservoir near Del Rio, Texas. Water deliveries from Mexico are stored at the reservoir, where water levels have dropped in recent months. Credit: Omar Ornelas

The Other Border Dispute Is Over an 80-Year-Old Water Treaty

By Martha Pskowski

Payam Akhavan (center), lawyer and chairman of the Commission of Small Island States, speaks at a press conference on Tuesday in Hamburg, Germany after the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea issued a legal opinion on measures to protect the oceans from climate change. Credit: Christian Charisius/Picture Alliance via Getty Images

‘Historic’ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Says Countries Must Prevent Greenhouse Gases From Harming Oceans

By Katie Surma

Members of the Kenya Red Cross asses an area affected by floods while looking for residents trapped in their homes following torrential rain in Kitengela on May 1. Credit: Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images

Loss and Damage Meeting Shows Signs of Giving Developing Countries a Bigger Voice and Easier Access to Aid

By Bob Berwyn

From left: Amelia Flores, Colorado River Indian Tribes chairwoman, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs approve the tribe’s authority to lease, exchange or store its portion of Colorado River water. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Historic Agreement with the Federal Government and Arizona Gives Colorado River Indian Tribes Control Over Use of Their Water off Tribal Land

By Noel Lyn Smith

INC-4 chairman Luis Vayas Valdivieso speaks during the fourth session of the U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution on April 23 in Ottawa, Canada. Credit: Dave Chan/AFP via Getty Images

Headed Toward the Finish Line, Plastics Treaty Delegates ‘Work is Far From Over’

By James Bruggers

Haida hereditary chief Gidansda (Guujaaw) leads a group of paddlers aboard Luu Taas (“Wave Eater”), a 15-meter red-cedar canoe designed by acclaimed Haida artist Bill Reid for the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication held in Vancouver, British Columbia. Carving and paddling cedar canoes is one example of how Haida people are inextricably linked to both land and sea. Credit: Courtesy of Guujaaw

In Coastal British Columbia, the Haida Get Their Land Back

By Serena Renner, Hakai Magazine

U.N. delegates follow the day's proceedings during the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee's third meeting to formulate an international legally binding plastics treaty in Nairobi, Kenya on Nov. 14, 2023. Credit: James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

As Plastic Treaty Delegates Head to Canada, A Plea From the Arctic: Don’t Forget Vulnerable Indigenous Peoples

By James Bruggers

COP28 brought 85,000 participants to Dubai. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Policy Experts Say the UN Climate Talks Need Reform, but Change Would be Difficult in the Current Political Landscape

By Bob Berwyn

Republican presidential candidate, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, interacts with people during a campaign event on Jan. 19 in Milford, New Hampshire. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Republican Presidential Candidate Nikki Haley Says Climate Change is Real. Is She Proposing Anything to Stop It?

By Phil McKenna

Republican presidential candidate and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks to reporters following a campaign event on Jan. 11 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Q&A: In New Hampshire, Nikki Haley Touts Her Role as UN Ambassador in Pulling the US Out of the Paris Climate Accord

Interview by Paloma Beltran, Living on Earth

Demonstrators hold a sign reading Degrowth Now after they blocked the A12 highway during an Extinction Rebellion protest on March 11, 2023 in The Hague, Netherlands. Credit: Michel Porro/Getty Images

New Research Explores a Restorative Climate Path for the Earth

By Bob Berwyn

Photo illustration by Derek Harrison. Photographs by Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group; Giuseppe Cacace/AFP; Olivier Morin/AFP; Yuan Hongyan/VCG via Getty Images

2023 in Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With a Radically Warming Climate?

By ICN Staff

A young activist of American indigenous origins, Licypriya Kangujam, is removed by security after she forced herself onto the stage in a protest against fossil fuels extraction during COP28's "Uniting on the Pathway to 2030 and Beyond" session on December 11, 2023 in Dubai. Credit: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images

The Climate Treadmill Speeds Up At COP28, But Critics Say It’s Still Not Going Anywhere

By Bob Berwyn

Attendees applaud after announcement of UAE consensus during a closing plenary of COP28 on Dec. 13. Credit: Wang Dongzhen/Xinhua via Getty Images

Q&A: The Sort of ‘Breakthrough’ Moment Came in Dubai When the Nations of the World Agreed to Transition Away From Fossil Fuels

Interview by Steve Curwood, "Living on Earth"

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