These 5 People Are Bringing Equity to the Fight Against Climate Change
Grist/Elsa Mengistu/Adrien Salazar/CEERT/Adam DeTour Photography/Todd Youngblood Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Climate change doesn’t discriminate, but systems created by people do. Policies and other decisions put some closer to the frontlines of disaster than others: communities of…
The US Is Accused of Blocking Global Action Against Plastic Pollution
This story was originally published by The Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Environmental groups involved in talks at a United Nations conference in Kenya have accused the US of blocking an ambitious global response to plastic pollution. Representatives of countries at the UN environment conference in Nairobi this week agreed to significantly reduce single-use plastics over…
These Photos of Kids Protesting Climate Change All Over the World Will Give You Hope for the Future
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Young people all over the world skipped school Friday and followed the example of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenager who has been striking most Fridays since 2018 to demand political leaders’ attention to climate change. As my colleague Rebecca Leber explains: These young people…
Scientists Found Worrisome New Evidence About Roundup and Cancer
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The long-simmering debate about whether the world’s most widely used herbicide causes cancer has bubbled up anew. Glyphosate is the key component of weedkillers such as Monsanto’s Roundup. On March 12, attorneys made closing arguments in San Francisco on the first phase of a closely…
“I’m Fighting for My Future”—A Climate Change Generation Is Making Itself Heard
Greta Thunberg, climate activist, who inspired global strikes.Daniel Bockwoldt/DPA via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2040, Haven Coleman will be 33 years old. Having grown up in Colorado, she may have left the state to attend college or start her career, but wherever she goes will be…
David Wallace Wells: It’s Time to Panic About Climate Change
Craig Barritt /Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Today’s guest on the Mother Jones Podcast is David Wallace Wells, a deputy editor at New York magazine, and author of a vividly distressing new book about the all-encompassing perils of climate change titled The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. With every full-throated warning,…