• U.S. Pressures Vanuatu Over ICJ’s Landmark Climate Change Ruling

    Source:Al JazeeraThe United States is urging governments to pressure Vanuatu to withdraw a United Nations draft resolution supporting a landmark International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that countries have a legal obligation to act on climate change. A U.S. government cable says the Trump administration "strongly objects" to the proposed resolution being circulated by the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu in support of last year's ruling by the ICJ—the UN's...
  • Trump Calls Climate Change Threat to Public Health "a Scam"

    Source: PBS News HourThe White House revoked a scientific finding Thursday that climate change is a danger to public health, an idea President Donald Trump called "a scam." But repeated scientific studies have documented the harm. Again and again, research has found increasing disease and deaths—thousands every year—in a warming world. For example, a 2021 study in Nature Climate Change estimated that over a third of heat deaths in 43 countries were due to...

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