ExxonMobil has spent more than $39 million to manufacture doubt about climate science. In a secret video recording made public in late June, a top ExxonMobil lobbyist—Keith McCoy, who was fired soon afterward—not only conceded that the ...
Time-proven acequia irrigation systems already in use in New Mexico make it possible for people to thrive in arid regions. Here in the U.S. Southwest, we are trapped between the extremes of a decades-long megadrought ...
Click here to download the Spanish translation of this article. (Haga clic aquí para descargar la traducción al español de este artículo.) Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has given new license to the killing of Indigenous people in Brazil. Before he ...
Lyla June Johnston is an Indigenous public speaker, artist, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages from Taos, New Mexico.
John Hausdoerffer is an author and teacher from Gunnison, Colorado, where he serves as the Dean of the Clark School of Environment & Sustainability at Western Colorado University. He has written and co-edited titles such ...
When it comes to Monsanto’s controversial herbicide, both the mainstream scientific community and our regulatory establishments have failed us. In September 2012, I attended a nutrition conference where Dr. Don Huber from Purdue University was ...
Unsustainable logging by the forest products industry is driving massive carbon emissions. Covering a third of the planet’s land surface, forests are massive carbon sinks, absorbing and storing carbon dioxide and keeping it out of ...
A court has ruled that the EPA must ban the controversial pesticide chlorpyrifos—or prove its safety. A federal appeals court has ruled that unless the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can prove that the pesticide chlorpyrifos ...
Wet markets are perfect breeding grounds for pathogens that can jump from animals to humans. The exact origin of the coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2, which started the COVID-19 pandemic, is still unclear. Early reports suggested that ...
Despite industry rhetoric, hydropower is high-cost and high-risk. There are better options for a post-pandemic recovery and a renewable energy future. There’s some good news amidst the grim global pandemic: At long last, the world’s ...
As Black and Latinx families experience disproportionate food insecurity, experts warn of famine in dozens of countries. Beyond the questions surrounding the availability, effectiveness and safety of a vaccine, the COVID-19 pandemic has led us ...
Healthy rivers can no longer be separated into the “nice-to-have” column of environmental progress. The Biden-Harris transition team identified COVID-19, economic recovery, racial equity and climate change as its top priorities. Rivers are the through-line ...
Tensions rise between neighboring Guyana and Venezuela over a piece of land that has been disputed since at least 1835. Both Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali and Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro have exchanged sharp words about the status of the ...
The pandemic has demonstrated the shortcomings of our mega-food industries and the necessity to localize food production. Farms and mills from Northern California to Canada are creating new small-scale, regional food systems. The U.S. was ...
With a recent report titled “Projections of Future Coral Bleaching Conditions,” published by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in November, Leticia Carvalho—head of the Marine and Freshwater Branch of UNEP—said on December 21 that coral reefs ...
Large parts of the world—outside of China and a few other countries—face a runaway virus, which has not been stopped because of criminal incompetence by governments. That these governments in wealthy countries cynically set aside ...
In the COVID era, growing food locally has become more essential than ever. When I call Chef Q. Ibraheem to discuss urban farming in her own cooking career, she’s in the middle of placing an ...
“We knew this would happen. Lake Charles and Cameron Parish are petrochemical industry epicenters. The plants, export terminals, refineries, oil tank farms are ticking time bombs every hurricane season.” This is a developing news story… ...
Not much, apart from football, unites the Colombian people. If a 2014 Interior Ministry survey called “The Power of Football” is to be believed, then 94 percent of the Colombian population say that football is either important ...
“This is a huge victory for birds and it comes at a critical time, science tells us that we’ve lost 3 billion birds in less than a human lifetime and that two-thirds of North American ...
The Food Industry Scorecard is the result of a year-long audit of the nation’s largest food companies to see what animal welfare promises they made, kept and broke. Like countless animal lovers, I have always ...
Indigenous peoples are calling for an immediate moratorium on extraction from the Amazon. (Common Dreams) Since I was a child in the 1980’s I have heard calls to protect the Amazon. I remember watching videos ...
The pandemic makes one thing clear: We must change our relationship with wildlife or suffer the consequences. The term “zoonotic disease” wasn’t a hot topic of conversation before the novel coronavirus started spreading across the ...
Bustling civet cat attractions are breeding grounds for disaster. This may seem hard to swallow, but the world’s most expensive coffee is made out of poop. Kopi luwak comes from coffee beans digested and excreted ...
Last year, at least 30 rich countries exported locally-banned toxic substances to poorer ones, allowing corporations to write off their costly waste and transferring the costs to some of the poorest people on earth. (By: ...
The fact that climate plans from the House Democrats and the “unity task forces” set up by Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are better than anything we’ve seen in over a decade does not make ...
“We’re not going to sit back and allow a decision that could harm public health during a public health crisis go unscathed,” said Earthjustice. “We’ll be seeing them in court.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) ...
“Unfettered capitalism has brought us to this disaster. We must halt and reverse the privatization of the commons to protect and nurture these natural resources for future generations.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) A study ...
Democratic candidate Joe Biden revealed an aggressive green energy plan on Tuesday. While the package is designed to push America toward a 2035 carbon-free goal, the $2 trillion plan would also create new employment opportunities, ...
In Trump’s latest blow to America’s wildlife, the government wants to allow the worst trophy hunting practices on public lands in Alaska. Our nation’s iconic wildlife is under attack in another inexplicable move by the ...
“It’s still not too late to avoid the worst effects of the #ClimateEmergency. But governments need to act NOW,” tweeted Greenpeace. (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) As a United Nations agency released new climate projections ...
Why vague commitments by fossil fuel corporations to “zero out” carbon emissions don’t add up. Fossil fuel giant Shell took time in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic to announce on April 16 that it ...
“We should not be wasting taxpayer dollars on an industry that’s in a tailspin of its own making, especially when it seems intent on bringing the whole planet down with it.” Over 5,600 fossil fuel ...
“The movement to put people before profits, and Indigenous rights before oil companies, is winning.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) The Supreme Court late Monday upheld a federal judge’s rejection of a crucial permit for ...
“If the events of 2020 have taught us anything, it’s that health and justice must be prioritized early on in any decision-making process if we want to avoid a crisis later on.” (By: Jessica Corbett, ...
The rules of the global economy got us into this mess. But rules can change. (Common Dreams) The global economy is collapsing. When the pandemic began, experts at the International Monetary Fund predicted that we would ...
“This is a clear instance of the law and law enforcement being used to protect corporations, profit, and property over people.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) At least 40 U.S. climate and environmental advocacy groups ...
“There are no more worthy targets of a climate fraud lawsuit than Exxon, Koch Industries, and API: the unholy trinity of climate denial.” (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a ...
It’s become clear we can’t rely on EPA to do its job. Which is why the task once again falls to Congress. (Common Dreams) Four years ago this week, Congress and President Obama took a ...
“100°F about 70 miles north of the Arctic Circle today in Siberia. That’s a first in all of recorded history. We are in a climate emergency.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) A small Siberian town ...
“After nine years of promises without proper action and decades of pollution, the people of Ogoniland are not only sick of dirty drinking water, oil-contaminated fish and toxic fumes. They are sick of waiting for ...
“EPA has abdicated its responsibility to set federal drinking water standards for a chemical long known to be unsafe.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) President Donald Trump’s EPA on Thursday finalized a rule to roll ...
“The public wants a Green New Deal. The public wants green stimulus. The public wants to address inequality.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Amid persistent calls for a green and just recovery from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and ...
“If the investigation demonstrates that Exxon is behind these attacks, it only shows how far the fossil fuel industry will go to silence critics.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) The Canadian digital watchdog group Citizen ...
Congress is considering an allocation for the mass killing of farmed animals. The COVID-19 pandemic has shined a spotlight on disturbing injustices in our food system—reaffirming the need for systemic change. Slaughterhouses (euphemistically called “meatpacking ...
Jair Bolsonaro’s aggressive deregulation and exploitation of the Amazon’s resources threatens the entire planet. The wildfires that tore across Australia were as devastating as they were overwhelming, scorching some 15 million acres of land, killing ...
Most scientists agree that an unprecedented economic transformation is now needed to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C and avert climate breakdown. (Common Dreams) The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a sharp and sudden shock to the global ...
“Ancient and slow-growing deep sea corals, endangered large whales and sea turtles, and an incredible array of fish, seabirds, sharks, dolphins and other wildlife—these are the species and habitats that will pay the price.” (By: ...
“By recklessly buying billions in fossil fuel bonds the bank is propping up the single biggest obstacle to tackling the climate crisis.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) After the European Union’s central bank on Thursday ...
“Our disrespect for wild animals and our disrespect for farmed animals has created this situation where disease can spill over to infect human beings.” (By: Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) In a webinar Tuesday about pandemics, wildlife, ...
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