Yearly Archives: 2017
Meeting Paris goals means dealing with climate impacts of eating meat
With our already slim chances of avoiding “dangerous” global warming, the science suggests we can’t afford to leave food and farming off the negotiating table.
Fox & Friends attacks public schools for teaching climate change and LGBTQ issues
Pete Hegseth: Parents “don't understand that even our public schools today ... have an agenda”
Women play key role in solar energy projects
Many women from rural areas around the world are now actively taking the responsibility to protect the environment, their families and livelihoods.
Harvey won’t be the last thousand-year storm
We can, and should, do everything we can to support those who need relief in the Texas gulf right now. We should also recognize that the water will keep coming.
Hurricane Harvey must prompt clarity, anger and action
We must realize we are no longer powerless to understand the world’s greatest challenge, but empowered to tackle it.
Ignore the lame excuses: What 300,000 escaped salmon prove about factory fish farming
Sustainable-food advocates want to love aquaculture – yet it comes with so many risks.
NationofChange’s Zach D Roberts questions FBI on De’Andre Harris attack investigation
“In over a decade of witnessing and documenting Ferguson, OWS, and more this was the first time I witnessed a complete lack of care from law enforcement agencies.”
Hell hath no fury like Mother Earth scorned
You can’t attribute any given weather event to climate change, but human-induced climate change is making extreme weather events stronger and more frequent, more costly, more deadly.
As hurricanes bear down, tribes act quickly to build resilience plans
After Hurricane Rita, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw and Houma Nation in Louisiana had to be entirely relocated. Now, 24 tribes are building plans to mitigate climate disaster.
1,200 dead, 41 million affected by flooding in India, Bangladesh and Nepal
Although the monsoon is an annual event, this year’s rains have been considered far worse than usual, and people are blaming climate change for making things much worse.