Climate Activists Protest Black Friday Around the World
Sam Mellish/Getty On Black Friday, climate change activists in cities all over the planet took to the streets to decry the biggest shopping day of the year. According to the New York Post, 300 protesters marched down a busy street in New York City then blocked traffic near Herald Square by sitting in an intersection.…
Climate Change Is Getting Worse, but at Least Politicians Are Finally Talking About It
Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, and Bernie Sanders pose for photographers prior to the Democratic Presidential Debate on November 20.Brian Cahn/Zuma This piece was originally published in Slate and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. As much as I try to forget it, one of the enduring moments of the 2016 election was…
Climate Change Is Brutal for Everyone but Worse for Women
Women carry belongings from their submerged house in the aftermath of Cyclone Bulbul in Amarabati Village, India on November 10./Zuma This piece was originally published in Wired and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. The climate crisis is so epic, so vicious, so wide-reaching, that at this point there are few aspects of…
Tech Company Free Meals Beget a Lot of Leftovers. Meet the Man on a Mission to Rescue Them.
Marisa Endicott I meet Les Tso on a corner in San Francisco’s SoMa district on a wet Thursday afternoon. He pulls his silver Isuzu SUV into an alley. “Today because it’s the first rain, people are going to be driving cluelessly—there are a lot of Uber and Lyft drivers that come from out of the…
Health Officials in “Cancer Alley” Will Study if Living Near a Controversial Chemical Plant Causes Cancer
Louisiana health officials plan to knock on every door within 2.5 kilometers of the controversial Denka Performance Elastomer plant in St. John the Baptist Parish in hopes of determining exactly how many people in the neighborhood have developed cancer. Neighbors say the inquiry, first announced in late August, is long overdue. The Denka plant is…
Here’s Why Neighborhoods With More People of Color Pay Higher Energy Bills
The Alfred E. Smith Houses, a public housing development built and maintained by the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, April 26, 2018.Drew Angerer/Getty This piece was originally published in CityLab and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. It is well-established that the lower a family’s…