In environmental and climate change policy, there is a blind spot when it comes to racism.The impacts of climate change are worsening and becoming more frequent: increasingly dangerous storm surge……
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For most things in life, from keeping a bug collection as a hobby to putting a satellite into orbit, taking off is the hardest part. The same happens even for…
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Over 50 fire ecologists across the Western U.S. took an unprecedented look at how forests in thousands of locations are recovering from fire in a changing climate. The results were alarming.
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A 1983 US government study documenting the placement of hazardous waste landfills in low-income and Black communities was one of the first studies to highlight the intersection of environmental issues and racial…
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A Coalition of shellfish growers in the U.S. and Canada are driving climate action to sustain aquatic ecosystems.
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Since the 1990s, it has become increasingly normal to take environmental (E), social (S), and governance (G) factors into account when considering investing decisions. Yet the roots of what we…
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The Xingu River is revered as the “house of God” by the Indigenous people living along its Volte Grande, or Big Bend, in the Brazilian Amazon. The river is essential…
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Researchers at the University of Cambridge announced Monday that they had developed the first-ever solar-powered system that could convert two types of waste into two different chemicals at the same time, in this case, carbon dioxide and plastics.
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Police dispersed hundreds of protestors rallying to save a tiny village from demolition.
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Throwing soup on a van Gogh. Blocking roads. Deflating SUV tires. Here’s why climate protests are getting so confrontational.
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A new study is the first epidemiological evidence of the link between the climate crisis and prison mortality in the United States.
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Years of climate activism and advocacy at the policy level are on the cusp of bearing fruit in 2021. President-elect Biden will reinstate U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement and…