Environment

This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.  

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRjAV4myxug&w=882&h=496] On Friday, September 20, an estimated 400 to 500 people in San Miguel de Allende joined millions...

"How dare you continue to look away, and come here saying that you are doing enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight."

So what is reasonable conduct in the face of the mounting climate crisis? The importance of asking this question cannot be overstated.

"It's most importantly a snub to the young people pleading for action on climate change."

In the last five decades US bird numbers have plummeted by 29%. As populations dwindle, so do the chances of species survival.

"How do you hold fossil fuel executives who knew that they were destroying the planet but kept on doing it?"

“It is alarming to see the fossil fuel industry trying to pit environmentalists and labor unions against one another."

Internal records from the Bureau of Land Management contradict what its chief told Congress about a plan to ship 200 D.C.-based career staff out West. The plan would weaken the agency, which stands between federal lands and oil, gas and mineral companies.

The strikes are happening ahead of the UN Climate Summit, which is taking place in New York on 23 September.