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Environment & Health
Scientists Are Stunned by How Rapidly Ice Is Melting in the Arctic
One researcher offered a bleak prognosis: “We’re not going to stop this train wreck.”
Trump’s Plan to Save Coal Country Will Actually Hurt It
Coal country could fall further behind as other regions embrace the renewable energies of the future.
Trump’s Bureau of Land Management Is Being Sued Again Over Climate Impacts
It’s the second lawsuit the agency has faced over its approval of oil and gas leases on public lands in recent years.
Communities That Ban Pesticides Face an Uphill Battle
As places across the U.S. restrict or ban pesticides, many are realizing passing a law is just the beginning.
Navy Contaminates Local Groundwater and Sewer System in Maryland
PFAS substances linked to cancer have likely leached into drinking water that supplies metropolitan D.C.
I Say No to Frac-Sand Mining Near My Home — for Myself and the Planet
We have to do whatever we can to make wrecking the planet more expensive.
How Unions and Climate Organizers Learned to Work Together in New York
A bill in the works since 2016 has brought together climate activists and unions for radical climate action in New York.
A Father’s Day Gift For Myself: Activism
My two-year-old will barely be the age I am now when the climate catastrophe comes.
United Nations Agency Criticizes Carbon Offsets
The UN Environment Programme is now criticizing a strategy it had supported for two decades.
“Freedom Gas” Will Be Used to Justify Oppression at Home and Abroad
Characterizing fossil fuels as “freedom” amid an existential climate threat is reprehensible.