Why students of color are stepping up to lead climate strikes
The youth-led movement builds on the momentum of the increasingly Black and Brown leadership behind the Green New Deal.
Only 10 vaquita porpoises remain in the world, scientists announce
Despite the marine mammal's alarming decline, the international committee emphasized that the vaquita is not extinct and that recovery remains possible.
Seaweed straws could soon replace single-use plastic straws
"Single use plastics should never be built to last, they should be designed to disappear."
Judge in second Roundup cancer trial worked for firm that defended Monsanto
This week’s closing arguments followed a recent favorable ruling for the plaintiff – this despite new revelations about Chhabria’s past ties to Monsanto.
Parenting the climate-change generation
I’m going to heed their leadership. I plan to join them, to learn and listen, to do my best to share my still unarticulatable fears and, with my children, to face this future together.
Indigenous organizers halted plans for oil drilling in the Amazon
After months of protest, the government scaled back its plans – at least temporarily.
Hundreds of thousands prepare for global #ClimateStrike
"The global climate strike this Friday is gearing up to be one of the biggest environmental protests the world has ever seen."
Trump’s push for offshore oil drilling
Offshore oil drilling: regularly disastrous – and unnecessary.
Exclusive: Rhode Island governor nixed agency critiques of LNG facility, silencing health and justice...
“We’re going to keep fighting, we’re not going to allow this to be a sacrifice zone for people of color.”
‘The House is on fire,’ climate strikes come to America March 15
Now the inspiration is coming back across the Atlantic, and European teens will soon be joined by a mobilization of American high school students who will demand action from one of the world’s worst polluters, the United States of America.