Brazil’s beef industry linked to deforestation in Amazon
800 million trees were cut down in six years due to cattle ranching, which accounts for 80 percent of current deforestation throughout the Amazon.
Half of Puerto Rico still in darkness, with no light in sight
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently estimated complete power restoration by May, leaving 45 percent of the island’s 1.5 million electricity customers in the dark.
AFL-CIO Choosing Profit Over the Planet
When it comes to planetary survival, the answer from the top of the AFL-CIO (The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) hierarchy remains: We’re on the wrong side.
Fighting the Black Snake at Two Rivers: How Standing Rock-style protest came to west...
The actions, along with arrests, will likely continue in the coming weeks and months.
Oil giant consultant resigns, citing operations beyond ‘limits of our planetary systems’
"I can no longer work for a company that ignores all the alarms and dismisses the risks of climate change and ecological collapse."
Louisiana’s cancer alley residents push back against industrial polluters
The work of Citizens for a Better St. Gabriel is only beginning.
Oil development is changing the rules of the game for wildlife
New research shows that oil drilling in Canada’s boreal forest is changing how wolves, caribou, bears and other species interact.
Judge halts further fracking off coast of Southern California until a full review is...
"A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop issuing permits for offshore fracking in federal waters off the California coast."
Dealing with climate PTSD
Alaska, in other words, is suffering climate death by a thousand cuts, while I struggle daily to accept the new reality: that the state is already irreparably changed.
10 species climate change could push to extinction
Species are finding less food, more competition for limited resources, or inhospitable conditions to which they can’t adapt fast enough.