By Claire Wiley In March, Carissa Cabrera posted a video of severe flooding near her home in Hawaii to TikTok in response to a comment on her profile reading “climate change is not real.” Over footage of a swollen river and cars navigating badly flooded roads, a voiceover says: “This isn’t global warming. This isn’t […]
Cities around the globe dimmed their lights for an hour on Saturday, to mark Earth Hour. The annual event organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) encourages countries to dim their lights for an hour starting at 8:30 p.m. local time. This year, organizers said they wanted to highlight the link between the […]
On Saturday, March 27, people around the world will celebrate the annual Earth Hour, albeit in a slightly different way. This annual tradition, first launched by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and its partners in Sydney in 2007, involves participants from more than 180 countries switching off their lights on the last Saturday in March in […]
By Brett Wilkins In what Indigenous and environmental activists hailed as a testament to the power of grassroots organizing, a leading U.S. fossil fuel company on Monday announced the cancellation of a planned fracked natural gas terminal in southern Texas. Reuters reports liquefied natural gas developer Annova LNG said it will immediately discontinue work on […]
By Michael Svoboda To honor Women’s History Month, Yale Climate Connections’s March bookshelf presents a selection of new and recent titles on how women are changing the politics and prospects for action on climate change. Three books focus on the efforts of young women. Another four books offer the seasoned perspectives of veteran activists, organizers, […]
By Martin Kuebler When Fridays for Future (FFF) takes to the streets on March 19, activists around the world are going to be doing everything they can to make sure the climate crisis stays in the news. In the Netherlands, 16-year-old Erik Christiansson will join a small physically distanced protest in The Hague with other […]
“I AM DONE!!! I DID IT!!!” These were the words that climate activist Edgar McGregor tweeted after 589 consecutive days of picking up trash at a popular Los Angeles hiking spot. I AM DONE!!! I DID IT!!! After **589** days of picking up trash every single day, I can say with confidence that Eaton […]
By Kenny Stancil Amid the ongoing climate emergency and the devastating coronavirus pandemic that has resulted in more than 500,000 deaths in the U.S. alone as well as an economic meltdown that has left millions of people unemployed, the Sunrise Movement on Thursday launched its “Good Jobs for All” campaign to demand that lawmakers pursue […]
By Jeff Turrentine Tamara Lindeman certainly doesn’t seem particularly anxious, or grief stricken, or angry. In fact, in a recent Zoom conversation, the Toronto-based singer-songwriter (who records and performs under the name The Weather Station) comes across as friendly, thoughtful, and a little shy. Nevertheless, anxiety, grief, and anger are what fueled Lindeman’s creative process […]
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