Meet the McDonald’s Cashier Taking on Her CEO for Climate Change
If raising a family on a McDonald’s salary wasn’t hard enough, Tina Sandoval is working to transform the fast-food industry into one that is good for both people and planet.
Plastic-eating fungi thriving in human-made ‘plastisphere’ may help tackle waste globally
“The growing body of scientific evidence sheds light on the environmental potential for plastic degradation that needs to be unlocked."
Food apartheid: Racialized access to healthy affordable food
"Food desert" has become a common term to describe low-income communities—often communities of color—where access to healthy and affordable food is limited or where there are no grocery stores.
US cities are suffocating in the heat. Now they want retribution
In a recent lawsuit, the city argues that fossil fuel companies should be held responsible for such costs because they knowingly contributed to the climate crisis.
Native American leaders: Keystone spill highlights the need to oppose Dakota Access Expansion, KXL
“The era of fossil fuels must end."
‘The largest aviation impact on the climate’: Airplane contrails add to climate change and...
“Given the forecast for the increase in air traffic, which is very large, this contrail effect will increase even more than the carbon dioxide impact."
Flooding of Nebraska Air Force Base illustrates security risk posed by climate change
The flooding at Offutt base has prompted further criticisms of Trump's denialism.
Utah’s Great Salt Lake reaches record-low water level
While the west is experiencing a mega-drought, the lake is at its lowest water level since recording started in 1847.
Real climate coverage names names, avoids false hope and probes solutions
But mostly, real climate journalism is about asking the right, and sometimes vexing, questions.
Ocasio-Cortez & Markey unveil sweeping “Green New Deal” to radically shift U.S. off fossil...
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seemed to mock the proposal on Wednesday, referring to it as a “green dream, or whatever they call it.”