Environment

Best-selling author Naomi Klein examines how the 2008 economic crisis and bank bailouts continue to shape political momentum to tackle climate change; Obama’s attempt to be a climate leader at the COP 21 meeting in Paris; and the potential for new Canada’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

This is an example of how big money can interact with the decline in local journalism to spread false or misleading information, including about the climate crisis and appropriate solutions.

“Alarming is an understatement. This report is a red alert.”

“We applaud EPA’s action to address the PFAS crisis plaguing communities across the country. It is an important first step that will hold polluters accountable and start cleaning up contaminated sites.”

“People don’t know how to have a dialogue any more.” My hope is that the case of 19th-century climatology will remind us what a genuine dialogue looks like.

Some surveys show that Europeans have significantly greater scientific knowledge about the causes of climate change than Americans.

How realistic is it to expect people around the world to reduce their meat and dairy consumption by half?

More than 20,000 elephants were killed for their ivory last year, leaving only about 415,000 remaining.

“Our work should cause some New England conservationists to reconsider both their rationale and tools for land management.”

Previously, the U.S. had held the stance of allowing individual UN member states to make their own decisions on plastic production.