In an era of extreme political polarization, opportunities for bipartisan efforts on climate change may seem impossible, but a recent introduction of rare climate legislation, authored by Republican and Democratic senators, could pioneer future agreements. Last Wednesday, U.S. Senators Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), co-chairs of the Bipartisan Senate Climate Solutions Caucus, introduced […]
Misunderstanding the needs of how to protect three rare cat species in Southeast Asia may be a driving factor in their extinction, according to a recent study. Only six to 11 percent of the habitat used by the fishing cat, leopard cat and rusty-spotted cat is currently protected, based on findings published in the journal […]
A new study from scientists at the University of Geneva concludes different features are necessary for forests to better capture carbon — an important process continually studied due to climate change — including location, size and climate. Data from forests on five continents was published in the journal Nature Communications contrasting two hypotheses currently at […]
By Jeannette Cwienk Shubham Mani Tripathi, newspaper reporter, India: shot dead in June 2020 for exposing illegal sand mining. Maria Efigenia Vasquez Astudillo, radio reporter, Colombia: struck and killed by a projectile in October 2017 while covering clashes between the Indigenous community and local police. Joseph Oduha, journalist, South Sudan: fled the country in 2019 […]
A large landslide caused by torrential rains during Hurricane Eta buried half a small village’s residents, leaving the other half searching for family members and neighbors in Guatemala on Tuesday, The Washington Post reported. Officials deemed Queja, a farming community of a few hundred residents, “uninhabitable,” and ended rescue operations, calling for the survivors to […]
By Carly Nairn Climate change and global food demand could drive a startling loss of up to 23 percent of all natural habitat ranges in the next 80 years, according to new findings published in Nature Communications. Habitat loss could accelerate to a level that brings about rapid extinctions of already vulnerable species. Shrinking ranges […]
Typhoon Goni, one of the most powerful storms on record, slammed into the Philippines Sunday, displacing hundreds of thousands of people and killing at least 16. The storm came as the Philippines grapples with one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in Southeast Asia, which complicated evacuations. The country has reported more than 383,000 cases and […]
By Ajit Niranjan When private equity giant Blackstone invested in alternative milk maker Oatly this summer, furious customers pledged to boycott the dairy-free drink. “Blackstone investments have been linked with deforestation activities in Brazil,” wrote British local produce shop Buth Bharraigh in a tweet announcing they would stop selling Oatly products. “I don’t want my […]
By Tim Schauenberg Whether they smoked a joint on the couch or sniffed a line in a club, some 269 million people around the world indulged in drugs in 2018, according to the United Nations. Cocaine production is at record levels, opium has been on an upward trend for the past decade, the market for […]
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