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Tuesday, September 09, 2025

SEC approves first US climate disclosure rules: Why the requirements are much weaker than planned and the implications

Companies face new rules for disclosing their climate-related risks. halbergman/E+ via Getty Images

After two years of intense public debate, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved the nation’s first national climate disclosure rules on March 6,

Sharks, turtles and other sea creatures face greater risk from industrial fishing than previously thought − we estimated added pressure from ‘dark’ fishing vessels

Seabirds like this sooty shearwater can drown when they become tangled in drift nets and other fishing gear. Roy Lowe, USFWS/Flickr, CC BY

My colleagues and I mapped activity in the northeast Pacific of “dark” fishing vessels – boats that turn off

The Anthropocene is not an epoch − but the age of humans is most definitely underway

Human influence on the climate started even before the Industrial Revolution. Print Collector/Getty Images

When people talk about the “Anthropocene,” they typically picture the vast impact human societies are having on the planet, from rapid declines in

Arctic rivers face big changes with a warming climate, permafrost thaw and an accelerating water cycle − the effects will have global consequences

Water from the Mackenzie River, seen from a satellite, carries silt and nutrients from land to the Arctic Ocean. Jesse Allen/NASA Earth Observatory

As the Arctic warms, its mighty rivers are changing in ways that could have vast consequences – not only

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