Tag: environment

Understanding the connection between women’s and children’s rights, family planning, and the environmental crisis.

The war not only cost lives and destroyed the Ukrainian economy, it has also been a major environmental hazard.

"...WMO is sounding the alarm that we will breach the 1.5°C level on a temporary basis with increasing frequency.”

"It is us doing our jobs and holding our government to account on the commitments they have made to protect us."

“This study represents a significant breakthrough in attribution science — directly linking wildfire destruction in a specific region to the largest global carbon producers.”

The UNEP noted that while an 80% reduction in plastic pollution would be helpful, there would still be a need to manage 100 million metric tons of plastics each year by 2040.

Scientists found microplastic particles were about 10 times higher in the algae samples than the surrounding waters, which they are now equating with microplastics found in the deep sea.

This past weekend, the newly formed Climate Defiance group made it a bit harder to get in.

Attorney Frank Bibeau found a way to legally protect nature by suing the state of Minnesota in the name of manoomin, or wild rice, sacred to the Ojibwe people.

Connecting anti-immigrant and racist ideas via population growth to environmental degradation is nothing new.