Divert Just Five Percent of Military Funds to Climate Action, Advocates Argue
Combat tanks in Sderot, Israel. Ilia Yefimovich/dpa/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Wealthy nations should divert five percent of their military budgets to climate finance, advocates argue. The call comes as global leaders at COP 28 in Dubai gather for a special-themed day on “relief, recovery, and peace”…
UN Deems North Carolina Chemical Pollution a Human Rights Violation
Lance King/Getty Images/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The United Nations says the ongoing PFAS contamination of the Cape Fear watershed in North Carolina violates residents’ right to a clean and safe environment, and it has urged the Environmental Protection Agency to hold the polluters accountable. Its…
US Beauty Products Are Still Full of Dodgy Ingredients
Women at a Philadelphia screening of “A Letter to my Sisters,” a documentary about young women and breast cancer.Caroline Gutman/Inside Climate News This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the arcane and often seemingly impenetrable bureaucracy of the US government, few agencies have as broad of…
Have COPs Outlived Their Usefulness?
Gehad Hamdy/Getty Images/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Diplomats, academics, and activists from around the globe will gather yet again this week to try to find common ground on a plan for combating climate change. This year’s COP, as the event is known, marks the…
“Air Pollution From Coal Is Much More Harmful Than We Thought,” New Study Reveals
Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via ZUMA Wir This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Coal-fired power plants killed at least 460,000 Americans during the past two decades, causing twice as many premature deaths as previously thought, new research has found. Cars, factories, fire smoke, and electricity plants…
Cities Are Dialing Back Mandatory Minimum Parking Rules
Jason Hawkes/Getty/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the beginning, parking lots were created to curb chaos on the road. But climate change has turned that dynamic on its head. Since the 1920s a little-known policy called parking minimums has shaped a large facet of American life.…