Tag: climate change
Mayors of 12 major global cities home to 36 million people...
"If we're serious about a sustainable, just, and prosperous future, we have to put our money where our mouth is."
Defund or defend? In the fight over fossil fuel investments, who’s...
Despite divestment victories, big banks and asset managers continue driving climate change through their lending practices.
New Zealand plans to become first country to require climate risk...
New Zealand could be the first country in the world to require its
major financial institutions to report on the risks posed...
The climate flames come for us all
This month’s western megafires have burned millions of acres and upended countless lives. It’s a sign of things to come if we don’t start to listen and act.
Australian teens bring class action climate lawsuit to stop coal mine...
“I believe that the government has a duty to young people to protect our futures from the impacts of climate change, including stopping the impact of the Vickery Extension Project.”
Delaware just sued 30 fossil fuel companies and the American Petroleum...
“We are suing to hold [Big Oil] accountable and to make them pay for the damages done to our state.”
This is a climate emergency. We need more than half-measures from...
How to get the Democrats’ climate policy from “better than the Republicans” to “sufficient to save the planet.”
States are doing what big government won’t to stop climate change,...
“Even if the U.S. government has decided to leave the Paris Agreement, we see in the U.S. an enormous movement in favor to climate action.”
How cities can combat the dangerous combination of extreme heat and...
The compounding threats of heat and isolation have been laid bare this summer thanks to COVID-19.
‘What’s radical is doing nothing’: Attacked as an extremist, Sanders condemns...
"What is radical is doing nothing to take on the existential threat of climate change while the world burns."
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Questions grow after analysis links US strike to water facilities serving 20,000 Iranians
Satellite imagery, bomb fragment analysis, and damage assessments have intensified scrutiny over whether U.S. forces struck civilian water infrastructure near the Strait of Hormuz, raising concerns about potential violations of international law.
Reading the Times
And not just the paper.
Trump admin guts vital sea monitoring, ‘tears out the eyes and ears of science’:...
David Helvarg discusses the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, the “cutting-edge eyes [and] ears” of the ocean.
Study finds AI data centers could consume as much water as basic needs of...
The study highlighted that evaluating AI solely by carbon emissions overlooks devastating localized impacts on water and land systems.
Deviant Donald, self-destructive dictator
As explosive prices erase tax relief,/ Must one be rich to afford ground beef?