Plastic pollution kills cetaceans: Pounds of plastic found in whales’ stomachs
"Hundreds of thousands of whales, dolphins, seals and turtles are killed by ocean plastic pollution every year, including single-use plastics and abandoned plastic gear from the fishing industry."
What Norway’s big divestment decision means for fracking, tar sands and global oil exploration
It appears it’s just cutting its losses on money-losing endeavors like fracking in America, tar sands oil production in Canada, and frontier exploration by U.K. companies in Africa and South-East Asia.
The climate solution right under our feet
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again. –Rumi
Seaweed straws could soon replace single-use plastic straws
"Single use plastics should never be built to last, they should be designed to disappear."
Judge in second Roundup cancer trial worked for firm that defended Monsanto
This week’s closing arguments followed a recent favorable ruling for the plaintiff – this despite new revelations about Chhabria’s past ties to Monsanto.
Parenting the climate-change generation
I’m going to heed their leadership. I plan to join them, to learn and listen, to do my best to share my still unarticulatable fears and, with my children, to face this future together.
Hundreds of thousands prepare for global #ClimateStrike
"The global climate strike this Friday is gearing up to be one of the biggest environmental protests the world has ever seen."
Trump’s push for offshore oil drilling
Offshore oil drilling: regularly disastrous – and unnecessary.
Climate crisis be damned, ‘shale revolution’ poised to make US net exporter of oil...
New oil and gas development "will impede the rest of the world's ability to manage a climate-safe, equitable decline of oil and gas production."
‘Was that disruptive?’ congressman blasts air horn to make seismic testing proponents hear a...
"What if you depended on sound for hunting your food and for communication? Do you think it would be disruptive?"