The Pope Might Make Destroying the Earth a Sin. Will Catholics Listen?
Pope Francis leads a special Mass on the occasion of the World Day of Poor in St. Peter’s Basilica, on November 17, 2019 in Vatican City, Vatican.Alessandra Benedetti/Getty This piece originally appeared in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Pope Francis is not your average pope. He’s weighed in on prison reform and women’s…
Here’s Why NOAA Under Trump Is in a “Holding Pattern”
A meteorologist monitors weather patterns at NOAA Boulder.Hyoung Chang/Getty After spending two years in confirmation purgatory, Barry Myers, the Trump nominee to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), asked the White House last week to rescind his nomination. Myers explained that he needed to step down because of recent cancer surgery and chemotherapy,…
At a Protest in Arizona, Border Communities Are Fighting Trump’s Wall
Over 300 environmentalists, Indigenous activists, Samaritan groups and human rights defenders gather to protest new U.S.-Mexico border wall construction.Russ McSpadden/Center for Biological Diversity This piece originally appeared in High Country News and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. On a Saturday morning in early November, Edwina Vogan and a few of her friends…
Most Superfund Sites Are Threatened by Climate Change. EPA Doesn’t Plan to Do Anything About It.
Dixie Oil Processors Superfund site on September 4, 2017 in Friendswood, Texas.Justin Sullivan/Getty Two years ago, Congress asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to determine how prepared the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was to address the threat climate change poses to Superfund sites—spaces that store hazardous materials, like coal ash ponds or decommissioned mining sites…
This Report Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Every Child. Its Authors Hope Congress Will Listen.
Dr. Stephen Teach guides Jeffery Ulmer through listening to his daughter’s asthmatic breathing while mother Farisa Walsh sits by on Thursday, October 3, 2013, in Washington, DC.Jahi Chikwendiu/Getty On Monday, some of the authors of the annual Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, a massive report compiled by 120 health and climate experts from…
This Pipeline Cuts Across a Reservation. Wisconsin Might Make Tribal Members Felons for Protesting It.
Opponents of an aging oil pipeline that bisects the Straits of Mackinac plan to protest through the winter.Trevor Bach/The Washington Post This piece originally appeared in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. For more than 60 years, one section of Enbridge’s elaborate network of pipelines carrying petroleum across Canada has taken…