Thursday, April 18, 2024

Investigation: How pesticide companies are marketing themselves as a solution to climate change

“The current food system is responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions; it’s also fully dependent on oil both for transport and because pesticides and fertilizers are petrochemically-derived.”

Greenpeace releases far-reaching ‘just recovery agenda’ to tackle interlocking crises of inequality, racial injustice,...

We must “shift from an economy that is extractive and exploitative to one that regenerates and repairs,” the new report says.

Largest dam removal project in U.S. history restarts with interstate partnership

“At its heart, dam removal is about healing and restoration for the river, for the salmon, and for our people.”

What Portland’s smoky summer can do for air quality equity across the country

Environmental advocates in Houston and Detroit are striking a balance between acting fast and making lasting change.

Activists are alarmed as Biden picks White House official who took fossil fuel money

"If Joe Biden continues making corporate-friendly appointments to his White House, he will risk quickly fracturing the hard-earned goodwill his team built with progressives to defeat Donald Trump."

Minnesota Permits for Line 3 Pipeline approved. Indigenous and Climate Leaders are left outraged

Environmental and Indigenous groups say this construction threatens the water where Native Americans harvest wild rice and also would be a factor in increasing climate change.

Trump administration rushes to auction off Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling rights before Biden...

The pristine reserve is home to the Gwich’in people, who call it “Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit,” or, “the sacred place where life begins.”

Exposure to common herbicide potentially harms endangered species

“Finally the EPA has been forced to acknowledge atrazine’s far-reaching harms.”

Multisolving our way to Covid-19 economic recovery

Addressing the coronavirus pandemic can also provide opportunities to fight climate change and boost equity.
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Indigenous communities on the frontline as two climate change-fueled hurricanes slam Central America

“It’s caused a lot of damages to the most vulnerable peoples, which tends to be Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and Black communities all across Central America.”