Report: Trump Officials Helped Meatpackers Thwart Covid Safety Measures
Workers at a Missouri pork-processing facility in 2017, prior to the pandemic.Preston Keres/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire This investigation was originally published by the Guardian. It is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Trump officials “collaborated” with the meatpacking industry to downplay the threat of Covid to plant workers and block public health measures which could…
The Fossil Fuel Industry’s Expansion Plans Will Be the Death of Us
This investigation was originally published by the Guardian. It is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s biggest fossil fuel firms are quietly planning scores of “carbon bomb” oil and gas projects that would drive the climate past internationally agreed temperature limits with catastrophic global impacts, a Guardian investigation shows. The exclusive…
Drought in Ethiopia Is Fueling a “Dramatic” Rise in Child Marriage
A 15-year-old girl with her husband to be in Mozambique, east Africa.Shiraaz Mohamed/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Drought-afflicted areas of Ethiopia are seeing “dramatic” increases in child marriage as the worst climate-induced emergency for 40 years pushes people to the brink, the head of Unicef has said.…
Climate Change May Fuel “Devastating” Disease Outbreaks
A scanning electron micrograph of Ebola virus Makona (red) from an outbreak in West Africa.NIH/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There will be at least 15,000 instances of viruses leaping between species over the next 50 years, with the climate crisis helping fuel a “potentially…
Russia’s War on Ukraine Has Nearly Doubled Its Fossil-Fuel Revenues
Sergei Bobylev/Zuma This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Russia has nearly doubled its revenues from selling fossil fuels to the EU during the two months of its war in Ukraine, benefiting from soaring prices even as volumes have been reduced. Russia has received about…
The Folly of Ramping Up American Gas Exports to Europe
The Marvel Crane, a liquid natural gas carrier, at an LNG terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana.US Coast Guard/Flickr This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the span of weeks, Russia’s war on Ukraine has created millions of refugees, transformed the geopolitical landscape, upended global energy markets and…