3 things you can do to help avoid climate disaster
Hint: Putting solar panels on your house and walking to work are not on the list.
California sues Walmart for dumping hazardous waste in the state’s landfills
Of the 58 inspections conducted since 2015 of Walmart trash compactors, "dozens of materials considered either hazardous waste, medical waste or customer records containing personal information were found."
Norvergence: Psychosocial and mental health impacts of climate change
“In the tech-saturated world, climate change is the biggest global threat (both physically and mentally).”
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17 states under heat alerts as fifth summer heat wave in the U.S. begins
The latest heat wave is now the fifth distinct extreme heat event the U.S. has experienced this summer, and follows the country's hottest June on record.
A future with little to no snow? What that means for the West
A new study hopes to inspire water managers — and the rest of us — to begin planning for how climate change will dramatically reduce snowpack.
The past 5 years were the Arctic’s warmest on record
"The good news is it's not too late to correct the course. As leaders meet this week at the UN climate talks in Poland, we urge them to run, not crawl, towards reducing emissions and accelerating a clean energy transition."
Oil execs brag about having ‘direct access’ to Trump’s pick for Interior Secretary
This culture of access has had real environmental consequences.
Clean energy grows, but many of the poorest remain in the dark
World Bank reports “a race” underway to secure sustainable energy, but a money gap leaves poorer nations – particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa – lagging.
Indigenous groups unveil plan to protect 80 percent of the Amazon in Peru and...
The Amazonian Indigenous organizations leading the plan aim to center Indigenous-led forest management and land tenure to protect endemic species.
The recycling industry in America is broken
There is a vast divide between the misleading, popular notion of recycling as a "solution" to the American over consumption problem and the darker reality of recycling as a failing business model.