Afro-descendant communities offer a living blueprint for Amazon Conservation
Lands managed by Afro-descendant peoples in the Amazon experience dramatically lower deforestation and house some of the planet’s richest ecosystems—showing how centuries-old stewardship can guide global conservation.
How young activists turned the old idea of a Green New Deal into a...
The leading force behind this wave of action is an organization called Sunrise Movement, which launched in 2016 with the immediate goal of making ambitious climate action a key issue in last year’s midterm elections.
Senators’ ownership of Big Oil stocks raises conflict of interest concerns
A recent CREW analysis reveals that ten U.S. senators own substantial shares in Big Oil companies, highlighting potential conflicts of interest amid critical climate regulation debates.
Thousands of pollution monitoring exemptions made to oil and gas industry amid pandemic
“It’s like saying, ‘We’re going to remove the radar guns and remove speedometers, but you still have to comply with the speed limit. That doesn’t make sense.”
Plastic is poisoning the soil that grows our food
New research finds agricultural land holds 23 times more microplastics than oceans, with toxic particles infiltrating crops, ecosystems, and human bodies while global regulation lags behind.
The pipeline protest before Standing Rock
Last year’s water protectors garnered worldwide attention, but several pipeline fights – such as the Enbridge Sandpiper pipeline victory – got little public notice.
FERC, which rejected 2 gas pipelines out of 400 since 1999, to review approval...
Over the past 30 years FERC has granted permits for all but two proposed interstate gas pipelines. It is a rubber stamp agency.
Malaysia to return 3,300 tons of plastic waste illegally imported from countries including the...
"Malaysia will not be a dumping ground to the world ... we will fight back."
Too harmful: The march of salt and plastics on world soils
Unsustainable human activities are exacerbating soil salinity.
Solar Power in Space Parallels that on Earth and Competes with Fossil Fuel
Major breakthroughs have been happening with the use of solar and other benign sources of power in space. The situation parallels that on Earth as solar and wind power and other clean, safe technologies compete with fossil fuels.