Nuclear Power Is “Clean”—If You Ignore All the Waste
The Exelon Byron Nuclear Generating Stations running at full capacity 14 May, 2007 in Byron, Illinois. Jeff Haynes / Getty This story was originally published by the High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nuclear power generates electricity without emitting greenhouse gases or other air pollutants. Yet it hasn’t been extensively deployed to…
Amazon Threatened to Fire Some Employees for Speaking out on Climate
Amazon and other tech employees participate in the Global Climate Strike on September 20, 2019 in Seattle, Washington.Karen Ducey/Getty This story was originally published by the Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Amazon has threatened to fire employees for speaking publicly about the company’s role in the climate crisis, tech workers at the retail…
A New Trump Rule Would Fast-Track Oil Pipelines Without Consideration of Climate Change
Environmental groups gather at the Capitol to oppose oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in October 2017. Tom Williams/AP The Trump administration will soon make it easier for projects like oil pipelines and highways to get federal approval regardless of their environmental risks and effects on climate change, according to the New…
“President Trump Has Created an Environmental Crisis at the Border”
Jorge Villalba/Getty This piece was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. The survival of eight endangered and threatened species, including four kinds of endemic fish, is in doubt in Arizona, as massive quantities of groundwater are extracted to construct Donald Trump’s border wall. The 30ft-high barrier is under…
Here’s How Lebanese Environmentalists Helped Spark a Green Revolution
Rubbish bags piled up on the side of the road in the Jdeideh neighbourhood, north of Beirut, Lebanon.Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty This piece was originally published in Sierra Magazine. Five Gen-Zers crouched around a small pile of trash in the center of Martyr’s Square in downtown Beirut in the early November sun. Wearing white gloves, they sorted…
Heroes of the 2010s: Fearless, Fed-Up Students Who Called Out All the Bullshit
Armando Franca/Andrew Harnik/AP/Mother Jones The staff of Mother Jones is rounding up the decade’s heroes and monsters. Find them all here. Furious, funny, and fed up. True heroes of the decade: the students who spoke up, walked out, and shook us from paralysis and moral complacency. I’m talking, of course, about the recent youth movements—March For Our Lives…