Indigenous Leaders Beg US Firms to Stop Supporting Deforestation
Andre Penner/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Indigenous leaders from the Amazon have implored major western brands and banks to stop supporting the ongoing destruction of the vital rainforest through mining, oil drilling, and logging, warning that the ecosystem is on the brink of a disastrous…
Fossil-Fuel Boosters Have Criminalized Climate Protests Across America
Raymond Kingfisher and other Indigenous foes of the Dakota Access Pipeline rally in Washington, DC, in March 2017.Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wir This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Republican-led legislatures have passed anti-protest laws drafted by an extreme right corporate lobbying group in a third of all…
Climate Delegates Flock to Cairo to Prep for Next UN Summit
Families displaced by recent flooding set up this makeshift camp in Charsadda, Pakistan.PPI via ZUMA Press Wir This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With only two months to go before the United Nations climate conference kicks off in Egypt, delegates are descending on Cairo this…
Electric Utilities Key Players in Climate Denial, Study Finds
Getty Images This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. America’s electric utilities were aware as early as the 1960s that the burning of fossil fuels was warming the planet, but, two decades later, worked hand in hand with oil and gas companies to “promote doubt around climate…
The Colorado River Is Dying. Can Its Aquatic Dinosaurs Be Saved?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.“You’re looking at the most endangered fish in North America,” Zane Olsen, the manager of the Ouray National Fish Hatchery tells me as he points to a deep open-topped water tank. Inside are dozens of juvenile bonytail, the rarest…
Just How Clean Is “Clean” Hydrogen, Anyway?
A hydrogen fuel cell bus in Canton, Ohio. Tony Dejak/AP This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Democrats’ new climate legislation, which President Joe Biden signed into law this week, has been described as “transformative” and “game-changing.” But perhaps the most apt word…