The Sustainability Scam: How Self-Interest Ruins Good Ideas
We have laws to ensure children are born into a safe, sustainable, and unpolluted environment. These laws are also meant to empower future generations and guarantee birth equity. But far from ensuring...
View ArticleTrump Would Be an “Extinction-Level Event” For the Planet, Turbocharging...
UC Berkeley scholars warn that “With plans to expand the production of fossil fuels, curtail environmental regulations, dismantle key climate monitoring agencies and even undermine the Endangered...
View ArticleUganda: It’s time for Total and CNOOC to Clean Up and Go Home
From a distance, anti-oil protests in Uganda might not make much sense. After all, the country has discovered “black gold.” Big multinationals with world class expertise and global clout have offered...
View ArticleWho Pays for Climate Damages? Making Big Oil Pay Is Most Popular Policy...
Making the oil and gas industry pay for climate impacts is ranked as the favoured policy choice, according to a survey conducted in eight countries across five continents by strategic insight agency,...
View ArticlePre Election Nightmare
We are almost at the abyss. It is a date circled on the calendar, like a dental cleaning, a car safety inspection or an execution. All of American history has shuffled forward to this moment....
View ArticleThe GOP Playbook for Sabotaging Environmental Regulations
The devastation throughout the southeastern United States in the wake of hurricanes Helene and Milton has laid bare the importance of strong climate policy, including adaptation and mitigation...
View ArticleThe U.S. Southwest Offers Blueprints for the Future of Wastewater Reuse
No country is immune from water scarcity issues—not even wealthy countries like the United States. Population growth and climate change are stretching America’s water supplies to the limit, and tapping...
View ArticleBillionaires Emit More Carbon Pollution in 90 Minutes than the Average Person...
The first-of-its-kind study, “Carbon Inequality Kills,” tracks the emissions from private jets, yachts and polluting investments and details how the super-rich are fueling inequality, hunger and death...
View ArticleBRICS Rejects Global Climate Action
Sovereignty was the theme of this year’s BRICS Summit, the 16th annual conference of major oil producing and rapidly developing countries. BRICS—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—are now...
View ArticleCOP29 Must Kickstart Stalled Progress on the Lifeline That is Adaptation
2024 has been another brutal year for Africa in terms of climate change. From the Horn of Africa to Mozambique, Malawi and the Congo, the continent has faced record-breaking temperatures, devastating...
View ArticleThe Plastics Industry’s Wish List for a Second Trump Administration
Tucked into a green-sounding federal recycling bill filed last month is a wish list, not of tough new mandates to get a handle on the world’s plastic’s crisis, but of regulatory rollbacks and...
View ArticleActivist Diary #6: First Aid Drop to Western North Carolina
Hurricane Helene killed at least 230 people across six states in the southeastern United States. Western North Carolina was especially devastated, with 95 people reported killed at the time of this...
View ArticleNew Scientific Report Confirms World Leaders Failing to Meet Climate Goals
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released its annual emissions gap report today. According to this latest analysis, global heat-trapping emissions have yet to peak, and the world is on...
View ArticleOutrageous Anti-Protest Laws Can’t Silence the Climate Movement
In August, climate activist and cellist John Mark Rozendaal was arrested and charged with criminal contempt for playing a few minutes of Bach outside Citibank’s headquarters in New York City....
View ArticleCOP16: It’s Wild-West Capitalism Versus Life on Earth
All eyes should be on the salsa dancing capital of the world, Cali, Colombia, where representatives of 190 nations are joined by a broad swath of global civil society and international Indigenous...
View ArticleElection Throws Uncertainty Onto Biden’s Signature Climate Law
President Joe Biden’s signature climate change law passed Congress by the narrowest of margins, without a single Republican in favor. GOP leaders have attacked the bill and promised to repeal it. Yet...
View Article“An Ecological War Is Going On”: Uganda Charcoal Booms Despite Ban
When Mustapha Gerima decided to drop in on his home village of Midigo in northern Uganda’s Yumbe district in 2016, he never imagined the visit would change the whole trajectory of his life. He was...
View ArticleCOP or CON? How Big Conservation Captured Biodiversity Protection
Heads of state and ministers from across the world will meet for the COP16 biodiversity summit from 21 October to 1 November in Cali, Colombia. Credit: COP16. Some 31 years after the Convention on...
View ArticleThird-Party Funder is the Only Winner in Odyssey Marine Exploration’s Suit...
Mexico is trying to protect the environment and fishing communities off the country’s northwest coast from the harmful effects of offshore mining. For that, the government will in all likelihood pay a...
View ArticleIn the Shadow of King Coal
Writer and director Elaine McMillion Sheldon begins her latest documentary, King Coal, with a funeral rite. A multigenerational, multiracial procession of people in black clothing walks slowly up a...
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