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17 Young People On The Moment The Climate Crisis Became Real To Them
By: Mary Retta
Watching An Inconvenient Truth in your middle-school science class. Hearing Greta Thunberg’s calls to join weekly school strikes. Driving away from smouldering wildfires engulfing dry California hillsides.
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Meat, Monopolies, Mega Farms: How the US Food System Fuels the Climate Crisis
By: Amanda Schupak
From a beef-heavy diet to growing crops that don’t feed people – the biggest challenges facing the agriculture industry.
Food and the climate crisis are locked in a tangled web of cause and effect. Globally, food!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Big Oil Lied To Us: The Takeaway From An Explosive New Docuseries
By Chris McGreal.
There is a moment in the revelatory PBS Frontline docuseries The Power of Big Oil, about the industry’s long campaign to stall action on the climate crisis, in which the former Republican senator Chuck Hagel!-->!-->!-->…
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Bioacoustics: Listening To Nature Is Our Only Option To Solve The Climate Crisis
As current climate conversations overwhelmingly lack both heart and accessibility, Joycelyn Longdon, an environmental PhD student at Cambridge, tackles the subject from an education and action-focused perspective – not for aimless!-->…
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The History Of Earth Day: From Radical Roots To Elementary School Classrooms
By: Molly Taft
If you ask Adam Rome, Earth Day isn’t as punk as it used to be.
“Earth Day is so tame nowadays,” says Rome, the author of The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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US Congressman Jamie Raskin: Only Democracy Can Save Our Species
By Ankito Rao.
Progressive congressman from Maryland believes that no other crisis, even the existential threat of the changing climate, can be solved without first protecting the fabric of American democracy
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Climate Scientists Are Getting Arrested For Trying To Spread Their Message
By Peter Kalmus.
On Wednesday, I was arrested for locking myself onto an entrance to the JP Morgan Chase building in downtown LA. I can’t stand by – and nor should you.
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Climate Research Shouldn’t Be Funded by Fossil Fuel Companies
The oil and gas industry uses universities to influence environmental policy. Here’s how we fight back.
By Ilana Cohen and Jake Lowe
As student organizers, we’ve seen the power of divestment come to bear by helping secure historic!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Major Climate Research Publisher Found To Be Supporting Oil And Gas Drilling
By Amy Westervelt
Scientists working with one of the world’s largest climate research publishers say they’re increasingly alarmed that the company works with the fossil fuel industry to help increase oil and gas drilling, the Guardian!-->!-->!-->…
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Climate Migrants Might Be The Answer To A Clean Economy
By Alex Robinson.
The coral atoll of Tarawa in Kiribati is a 29-kilometre-long triangle of white sandy beaches in the central Pacific Ocean. But it isn’t paradise for many residents, who are on the front lines of the climate crisis.
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Big Oil Accused Of Preventing Climate Law Suits Through Disinformation And Scare Tactics
By Chris McGreal.
US oil firms have been accused of using scare tactics after telling a federal court on Tuesday that lawsuits alleging fossil fuel companies lied about the climate crisis could threaten America’s oil supply.
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A Tale Of Two Climate Migrants: What Global Warming Does To Weather Refugees
By: Jeremy Deaton
The United States has done more to fuel climate migration than any other country on Earth, but it does not always welcome climate migrants.
Climate change is fueling longer dry spells, bigger floods and more violent!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Words Are One Of The Most Effective Weapons In The Fight Against Climate Change And This Is How
By Tara Lohan
Speak up, identify the stakes, and use language that inspires action and combats right-wing messaging, says climate communications expert Genevieve Guenther.
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Moving Conferences Online Can Save Up To 94% Of Event Carbon Footprints New Study Finds
By Elizabeth Claire Alberts.
A new study found that moving conferences online can reduce the carbon footprint by 94% and energy use by 90%. It also found that hybrid events, in which some participants attend in person while others!-->!-->!-->…
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The 6 Environmental News Stories You Need To Follow Throughout 2022
By John R. Platt and Tara Lohan.
Last year's COP26 was hailed as a disappointment by many environmentalists. Now, in 2022, fighting for the planet is more important than ever. Staying aware of new developments and key figures will prove!-->!-->!-->…
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Climate Change Is A Feminist Issue Not Just an Environmental One
By: Sara London
In 2015, Botswana experienced its worst drought in history. Since then, families have had to move, taking their children out of schools; farmers have lost crops, leaving communities hungry and desperate.
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The 30 Day Action Plan That Will Help You Tackle the Climate Crisis
By: John R. Platt
Doing something every day will help to change your attitude and create momentum for change.
A recent poll found that people today, especially younger people, feel helpless when it comes to fighting climate change.
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The Climate Crisis Is Forcing Women and Girls to Sell Their Bodies
By Anya Zoledziowski
A family fell on such hard times after a cyclone that when a man offered their daughter, 17, a job, they agreed. They later learned she was forced into the sex trade.
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6 Books To Read on Climate Justice and Nature Centring Marginalised People
By Francisca Rockey
If you walk into your local library or bookshop and you’re looking for a book on nature or the climate crisis, you’re likely to find that most of the texts are written by white people; meaning most of our!-->!-->!-->…
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COP26 Ends With Promises, But Not Nearly Enough Progress
By Tina Gerhardt
The UN climate conference’s agreement acknowledges several key issues for the first time—but doesn’t do enough to address them.
As COP26 drew to a close with the Glasgow Climate Pact, a 10-page document,!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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How Climate Change Threatens Pregnant Women and Their Fetuses
By Cara Korte
World leaders will turn their focus to gender Tuesday at the U.N. global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. Globally, women are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change than men, as they make!-->!-->!-->…
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