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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Why capitalism relies on nature and care work it does not pay for
Modern economies depend on unpriced ecosystem functions and undervalued care and reproductive labor—essential inputs that are difficult to commodify. This tension helps explain environmental degradation, social strain, and the limits of market systems.
The US-Israeli war on Iran is illegal. Here’s why that matters.
If this war continues without accountability, it threatens even more dire consequences in years ahead.
Does not our ongoing, epic failure to obstruct immorality confirm America as an immoral...
What morally deficient country tolerates blatant wickedness without rising up to avert the next outrage? His re-election was bad enough; tolerance of evil is worse.
Nicotine-based vaping likely causes lung, oral cancers, new comprehensive review
The review noted that the aerosols exhibit nearly all ten "key characteristics of carcinogens" identified by the World Health Organization.
‘Product of USA’ becomes a real standard enforced by USDA
The new standard, finalized in March 2024 and fully enforceable since the start of 2026, closes this gap and practice that often misled consumers who believed they were supporting American ranchers.