Friday, May 17, 2024

Tag: climate change

Ocean plastic could triple by 2040, report finds

"If we're going to significantly reduce ocean plastic pollution, we need an innovative and rigorous approach to ensure that the strategies we design are set up to delivering results."

Stories from the youth climate movement in the Global South

Young people who had mobilized for the climate across the world in 2019 were right: Much environmental damage is the result of human action, and as such, can also be reversed through human initiative.

Biden announces $2 trillion climate and green recovery plan

Biden's sweeping proposals would put an end to all greenhouse gas emissions spewed by U.S. power plants by 2035. It would also ban fracking on public lands.

Fossil fuels’ ‘net-zero’ carbon emissions scam is something humanity doesn’t have...

Why vague commitments by fossil fuel corporations to “zero out” carbon emissions don’t add up.

Report: Global climate lawsuits against governments and polluters on the rise

In the post-COVID era, as the Grantham Research Institute report concludes, “climate litigation may remain as important as ever.”

‘The future does not belong to you,’ climate campaigners say to...

"Thanks to the courageous activists who stood up to them, they have failed."

DC is the latest to sue Exxon and big oil for...

“We have a mountain of evidence of what they knew and what they did to deceive the public about the threat of climate change. And yet we’ve only scratched the surface.”

From COVID-19 to climate change, human overpopulation is the big white...

Experts warn that continued world population growth will make things worse.

Temperatures reach record heights in the Arctic Circle this past weekend

“The Arctic is believed to be warming twice as fast as the global average.”

DNC ‘snubs’ climate movement just as Greenpeace endorses Democratic panel’s visionary...

"As we confront the interwoven crises of climate change, white supremacy, and Covid-19, we must demand nothing short of a visionary, transformative agenda from Democratic leadership."

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Trump’s alleged $1 billion oil deal exposed: Media blackout raises alarms

A stunning quid pro quo promise to Big Oil executives by former President Donald Trump receives scant coverage, raising questions about media integrity and democratic accountability.
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Israeli human rights lawyer attacked while documenting settler raid on Gaza aid convoy

Food shortage continues in Gaza amid Israel’s ongoing offensive in Rafah and the shutdown of the two main border crossings in the south.

Oil companies use paid news media partnerships to protect ‘social license to operate,’ documents...

Content created by the in-house advertising studios of major media is coming under growing scrutiny.

Albuquerque is throwing out the belongings of homeless people, violating city policy

As a result, thousands of homeless people have lost personal property, according to interviews with community advocates, service providers and those who have had their possessions discarded.

Weight loss drugs go hand-in-hand with junk food industry

Capitalism has built systems of inequality in food, health, and wealth and convinced us that the cause is individual failure, not systemic predication.