At the end of Oregon’s legislative session, Republicans fled the state to kill a cap-and-trade bill designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, effectively killing 100 other pieces of legislation as the short legislative session expired. Now that the state house is in recess, the governor found a work around, signing a sweeping executive order to […]
By Daisy Simmons “It’s not easy to watch.” That was a recurring introductory remark at screenings during the recent 2020 Wild & Scenic Film Festival. Held each year in the bucolic foothills of the Sierra, the five-day festival screens more than 140 environmental films, from artful meditations on the beauty of nature, to distressing stories […]
By Jessica Corbett Octogenarian actor and activist Jane Fonda declared ahead of a climate action protest in California Friday that the U.S. needs a “climate president” and she is now backing Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is leading a grassroots movement challenging the Democratic Party establishment coalescing around former Vice President Joe Biden. “We have to […]
By Tara Lohan Journalist Meera Subramanian wants to tell you a story about the environment…. That’s getting harder and harder, though. The media landscape has become a version of “The Walking Dead,” with newspapers around the country closing, being acquired by hedge funds, or cutting their editorial staffs to the bone. What’s a journalist to […]
Women have long been at the forefront of the effort to protect the Earth and its creatures. Some of them, like Greta Thunberg and Jane Goodall, are household names. Others, like around 55 percent of the people who hit the streets for 2014’s People’s Climate March, are anonymous (s)heroes. In between these extremes are many women […]
The climate crisis played a significant role in Australia‘s devastating wildfire season, a group of researchers has confirmed. Their findings, made public ahead of peer review Wednesday, concluded that the climate crisis made the fires that killed at least 34 people and destroyed nearly 6,000 buildings at least 30% more likely, The New York Times […]
The world’s tropical forests are rapidly losing their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere, worrying scientists that a major carbon dump will transform them into a carbon source, according to research published Wednesday. The study, which was published in the journal Nature, found that in 15 years the Amazon could turn into a carbon […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) used the cover of Super Tuesday to put out an update to its plans to limit scientific research in its decision-making on Tuesday evening, as the mass media world had its eyes focused on the election results trickling in. The proposal, called Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science, is part […]
By Theresa Crimmins Across much of the U.S., a warming climate has advanced the arrival of spring. This year is no exception. In parts of the Southeast, spring has arrived weeks earlier than normal and may turn out to be the warmest spring on record. Apple blossoms in March and an earlier start to picnic […]
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