Environment — News from both sides

Trump family-linked mega-resort splits Albania: tourism boom or a sold-off coast?

A €1.4bn luxury resort backed by Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners — on Albania's Sazan island and the protected Vjosa-Narta lagoon — has triggered mass protests and an anti-corruption probe. The government calls it a once-in-a-generation investment; opponents call it a stolen, protected coast.

Government & developers The Real Deal

Environmentalists & protesters BirdLife International

Environment May 26

Is nuclear power a climate saviour or a costly distraction?

With climate deadlines looming, one camp says we need nuclear's reliable, carbon-free power now; another says it's too slow and expensive, and the money should go to renewables.

Pro-nuclear Citizens' Climate Lobby

Anti-nuclear Green America

Environment May 22

Deep-sea mining: critical minerals we need, or a gamble with the ocean?

Companies and governments want to scoop metal-rich nodules from the ocean floor to feed the clean-energy and tech boom. Scientists warn we know too little about the deep sea to risk wrecking it.

Critical-minerals push NPR

Ocean scientists World Resources Institute

Environment May 20

Brazil drills for oil at the mouth of the Amazon — progress or betrayal?

Brazil approved Petrobras drilling near the mouth of the Amazon River, weeks before hosting the COP30 climate summit. The government calls it sovereign development; critics call it climate hypocrisy near a fragile reef.

Government & industry World Oil

Environmentalists Inside Climate News

Environment May 18

Carbon capture: essential climate tool or fossil-fuel lifeline?

Carbon capture and storage promises to mop up emissions from industries that are hard to clean up. Critics say it's costly, unproven at scale, and mostly an excuse to keep burning fossil fuels.

Proponents Knowable Magazine

Critics David Suzuki Foundation

Environment May 16

Wolves are back — a conservation triumph or a rural nightmare?

Wolves have rebounded across the US and Europe after decades of protection. Conservationists hail healthier ecosystems; ranchers and hunters demand the right to cull predators that kill livestock.

Conservationists Earth.Org

Ranchers & rural communities Yale E360

Environment May 14

Should we dim the sun? The fight over solar geoengineering

Spraying reflective particles into the stratosphere could cool the planet fast and cheap. Supporters want research now; opponents warn it's a dangerous distraction with unknowable, planet-wide side effects.

Research proponents Columbia Climate School

Critics Greenpeace UK