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…
Environment
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…
Sumaq Kawsay
Alternative development rooted in the wellbeing of humans and nature By Sammi Bennett & Krystyna Swiderska Across the world, people are questioning dominant narratives of social progress based on capital accumulation and natural resource extraction….
Cities Stripping Concrete for Earth and Plants
By Chris Baraniuk On a hot July day, Katherine Rose picked up a sturdy metal pole and jammed it under the tempting lip of a pre-cut concrete slab. Rose, communications and engagement director at Depave,…
The Next Pandemic
It’s already here for Earth’s wildlife By Diana Bell I am a conservation biologist who studies emerging infectious diseases. When people ask me what I think the next pandemic will be I often say that…
Bus Drivers Strike with Climate Activists
in 57 German Cities By Berit Ehmke and Yanira Wolf Public transit workers across Germany have broken new ground by coordinating our contracts—nearly all of them nationwide have expired over the last four months—and shutting…