Director Damon Gameau imagines what the future could look like by the year 2040 if “we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the ...
“What this new U.N. Human Rights Committee decision does is allow lawyers to actually use this precedent-setting text to argue in future court cases [for] a client that fits within this kind of narrow definition.” ...
“The food we eat, the way we grow the food we eat, the way we dispose of the food is one of the large contributors to the climate crisis.” The “party of the year” for ...
Rex Tillerson testified Tuesday in a New York lawsuit that could be a turning point for prosecuting powerful actors who knowingly deceived others about climate change. Rex Tillerson, who served as CEO of ExxonMobil from ...
(Beyond Pesticides) A plan announced earlier this month by Agriculture Secretary, Sonny Perdue, to relocate one of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) top research office — the Economic Research Service — into the Office of ...
Cape Town will run out of water on May 10th according to the mayor. Cape Town would be come the first city in modern times to completely run out of water. Patricia de Lille, mayor ...
“We are taking the largest action by any city to confront the growing climate crisis and demonstrate the leadership necessary to win this fight against fossil fuels and the damages they’ve caused.” (Common Dreams, by ...
“We need you to take a stand no matter what land you live or work on. The struggle to save Mother Earth begins with you.” (Common Dreams, by Jake Johnson) Shortly following the Nebraska Public Service ...
Responding to activists call for a ban on fracking at the U.N. climate summit in Germany, California Governor Jerry Brown tells protestors “Let’s put you in the ground.” (Watch the full video here: https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/13/ca_gov_jerry_brown_tells_indigenous) Democracy Now! ...
An economist analyzes data on catastrophic disasters and finds the number of billion-dollar disasters has increased over time. (The Conversation, Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University) No sooner had Hurricane Harvey’s record rains receded from ...