The UK government will fund the planting of more than 130,000 trees in English towns and cities in the next two years as part of its efforts to fight climate change, The Guardian reported Sunday. The plan, announced Sunday, will allow individuals, local governments, non-governmental organizations and charities to apply for grants from the Urban […]
With the School Strike for Climate movement inspired by Swedish 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, young people have taken the lead on climate activism. Now, a first-of-its-kind study suggests that this could be a winning strategy to get more adults involved, too. Researchers at North Carolina State University (NC State) found that teenagers educated about climate change […]
By Maggie Ellinger-Locke We only have about a decade to reverse course on the climate crisis. Activism opposing fossil fuel pipelines is needed more than ever. But activists are facing threats to their right to protest in state legislatures across the country. Lawmakers are introducing legislation to restrict the right to protest. These bills are […]
By John R. Platt Looking for something new to read? We’ve got you covered. Here are our picks for the best environmentally themed books of May 2019 — and it’s quite a collection, with 13 new titles about a pioneering conservationist, the history of water woes in California, the dirty legacy (and future) of coal […]
The UK parliament became the first national legislative body in the world to declare a climate change “emergency” Wednesday. The historic move closely follows Extinction Rebellion protests that blocked traffic in key parts of central London for a week in April. The protest had three demands: that the UK government “tell the truth” about climate […]
By Kaitlin Grable 1. The media still isn’t addressing climate change in a way that matches the urgency of the problem. Despite years of record-breaking extreme weather, the climate crisis usually gets minor mentions when mainstream news comments on climate-linked disasters or Trump’s pro-fossil fuel rhetoric. Climate change shouldn’t be a footnote — it should […]
By Jessica Corbett The global climate crisis and Medicare for All are top issues for a large majority of Democratic voters, according to new polling results published Tuesday by CNN. The survey, conducted last week, asked Democrats and left-leaning Independents how important they considered certain policy items. Most people polled said it is somewhat or […]
2020 Democratic presidential candidate and former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke announced a $5 trillion plan to fight climate change Monday. The plan is O’Rourke’s first major policy announcement and one of the most detailed climate policies outlined in the primaries so far, Reuters reported. “We are announcing the most ambitious climate plan in the history […]
Name and shame. That’s the dual directive from a new report that calls on news organizations to use appropriate language when discussing the climate crisis — even as the report calls them out for inaction. The report — titled ‘Call It a Crisis’: The Role of U.S. Network News in Communicating the Urgency of Climate […]
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