Tag: environment
The past 5 years were the Arctic’s warmest on record
"The good news is it's not too late to correct the course. As leaders meet this week at the UN climate talks in Poland, we urge them to run, not crawl, towards reducing emissions and accelerating a clean energy transition."
School strike for climate: Meet 15-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, who inspired...
“We need to change ourselves now, because tomorrow it might be too late.”
Biological annihilation
To mitigate the crisis, to save life itself, would require not merely the replacement of carbon-dirty fossil fuels with renewable forms of energy, but a genuine reevaluation of modern life and its institutions.
‘Our leaders are behaving like children:’ Teen climate activist confronts world...
"The people will rise to the challenge. And since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.”
‘We gonna rise up, rise up ’til it’s won!:’ 140+ arrested...
"When the people rise up, the powers come back. They tried to stop us but we keep coming back."
60,000 liters of oil spills from pipeline into Brazilian bay
"It was a leak of significant proportions, with an impact on the mangroves."
New global study confirms microplastic found in nearly all species of...
"Our society's addiction to throwaway plastic is fueling a global environmental crisis that must be tackled at source."
Kochs fund study to kill electric vehicle tax credit via same...
The aggressive deployment of this NERA study suggests an escalation in the Koch-funded attack on the EV tax credit in the last few weeks of Republican control of both chambers of Congress.
California becomes first state to require solar on new homes
"With extreme weather events becoming more frequent, there is even greater need for homes that are efficient, reliable and resilient."
US coal consumption to reach an all-time low in decades
"The trend lines showing the demise of coal shouldn't come as a shock to anyone, including those in the Trump administration and coal industry executives."