2024 Is the Climate Election
Journalism Should Cover It That Way By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope The press is covering the 2024 campaign as if climate isn’t on the ballot, but 56 percent of US voters are ‘concerned’ or…
Environment
Educate More Girls, Eat Less Meat
Oregon university researchers push novel plan to fight climate change By Gosia Wozniacka A team of scientists led by Oregon State University researchers has devised a new climate change scenario that offers different thinking on…
A Warming Planet, Pathogens, and Diseases
By Zoya Teirstein People around the world are living longer, healthier lives than they were just half a century ago. Climate change threatens to undo that progress. Across the planet, animals—and the diseases they carry…
Make Polluters Pay
Vermont Law Makes Fossil Fuel Companies Liable for Climate Impacts Interview by Paloma Beltran Vermont’s House and Senate have approved a bill that would make fossil fuel companies financially liable for their carbon pollution and…
L.A. Captures 96 Bn Gallons of Stormwater
By Ian James Heavy rains this winter and spring sent torrential flows down local creeks and rivers, and L.A. County managed to capture and store a significant amount of that stormwater, officials say. To be…
Keeping Cool in 100° Heat Without AC
By Èlia Borràs If architects are people who like to think their way around challenges, building schools in Burkina Faso must be the dream job. The challenges, after all, are legion: scorching temperatures in the…
The Hidden Cost of Clean Energy: Black Lives
By Adam Mahoney A lawsuit filed five years ago charged several U.S. tech companies with complicity in child labor. Among said companies was Tesla, the world’s largest electric vehicle producer. Tucked into that lawsuit is…
Haw River Tribunal Puts a Pipeline on Trial
By Hannah Chanatry In a sunlight-filled conference center at the Haw River State Park in Guilford County, North Carolina, Russell Chisholm stood and clicked through a PowerPoint presentation with photographs of broken streambeds and construction…
Wall Street Is Laundering Enviro Crime Profits
By Zack Budryk Environmental organized crime is a massive global enterprise, bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars each year—and the U.S. financial system appears to be helping conceal its profits. Interpol estimates that environmental crime…
Fossil Fuel Financing Reaches $6.9 Trillion
By Rainforest Action Network The recently released 15th annual Banking on Climate Chaos report employs a new, expanded data set that credits each bank making financial contributions to a deal instead of only crediting banks…