Plants: Up to 80% of food and 98% of oxygen, endangered
“At no other point in modern history has humanity faced such an array of familiar and unfamiliar risks and hazards, interacting in a hyper-connected and rapidly changing world."
150,000 Penguins Die After Huge Iceberg Blocks Route to Sea
The giant iceberg, the size of Rome, had apparently been floating close to the coast for 20 years before crashing into a glacier and becoming stuck.
Looking ahead to 2021: COP26, clean air, and Biden’s next steps
If 2020 was the year a growing number of polluters — whether companies or governments — pledged to tackle climate change, 2021 needs to be the year these pledges sprout wings and start soaring towards progress.
5 ways communities are coping with climate anxiety
From action-oriented toolkits to talk therapy and meditation, these responses facilitate recovery, hope, and activism.
Bill McKibben: Green New Deal is a chance to ‘remake not just a broken...
"...if we don’t get action really soon, if we let it stretch out, those are the decades that will finish the work of breaking the planet. It’s why the urgency of something like the Green New Deal is so crucial."
‘We are still in’: U.S. leaders reaffirm commitment to Paris Agreement
“U.S. leadership on climate change doesn't begin or end in Washington.”
What’s polluting the air? Not even the EPA can say.
Despite the high stakes for public health, the EPA relies on emissions data it knows to be inaccurate. To expose toxic hot spots, we first had to get the facts straight.
Indigenous women’s delegation takes fossil fuel divestment demands to New York City and Washington...
The call from the Indigenous Women’s Divestment Delegation is for rights and environmental violations to be more thoroughly reflected in the rating scores given to fossil fuel extraction companies.
Bill allowing 90 percent of Idaho’s wolves to be killed passes House and Senate
“Conservationists stand ready to compel an Endangered Species Act listing if viable wolf populations aren’t sustained in the face of these heavy-handed new methods.”
For Africa’s great apes, even ‘best-case’ climate change will decimate habitat
“African great apes are one of the most vulnerable mammal groups in the world.”