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The Week in Climate Change News
A (non-comprehensive) list of interesting and relevant climate change, climate policy, and environmental justice stories. We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realize. Greenhouse gas emissions might have already peaked. Now they need to fall...
Feature Connection: Investigative Journalism
The Truth is Out There Throughout history, investigative journalists have been revered, reviled, and repressed, often simultaneously and resulting from the same story. That should not be all that surprising, as exposing the truth often pleases one constituency at the...
Happy Earth Day!
Our world needs transformation. It’s time for the people of the world to hold governments and the private sector accountable for their role in our environmental crisis while also calling for bold, creative, and innovative solutions. This will require action at all...
12 Eco-Friendly Ways to Support the Planet
We need a healthy planet to thrive, and our planet needs us! Celebrate Earth Day by taking action for nature and people today and every day. Shop at eco-friendly stores Plant a tree Cook an all-green meal Pick up garbage alongside the beach, lake or around the...
Blue Justice and Blue Growth
I recently found an interesting article called Blue Growth and Blue Justice that examines the social justice implications of the rapid and unchecked development of ocean resources. The article highlights ten injustices that can be produced by blue growth: (1)...
The Week in Climate Change News
A (non-comprehensive) list of interesting and relevant climate change, climate policy, and environmental justice stories. Nowhere for the water to go: Dubai flooding shows the world is failing a big climate change drainage test. Flooding in the United Arab Emirates’...
Featured Connection: Coastal Science
The Sustainable Use of Resources and Conservation of Biodiversity Coastal environments contain a wealth of biodiversity and economic opportunity. Due to the interaction of terrestrial, marine, and atmospheric processes, they are one of the most complex environments on...
Global Heating Pushes Coral Reefs Towards Worst Planet-Wide Mass Bleaching on Record
The world is currently experiencing a global coral bleaching event, according to NOAA scientists. This is the fourth global event on record and the second in the last 10 years. Bleaching-level heat stress, as remotely monitored and predicted by NOAA’s...
Environmental Justice Thought Leaders
Robert Bullard Any list of environmental justice luminaries has to start with Dr. Robert Bullard, the man many consider the "Father of environmental justice." Dr. Bullard was one of the first to understand the unequal environmental burdens faced by vulnerable...
The Week in Climate Change News
A (non-comprehensive) list of interesting and relevant climate change, climate policy, and environmental justice stories. European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction. A group of older Swiss women has won the first-ever climate case victory in the...
New York Pollution Burdens Communities of Color Most
The first comprehensive survey of environmental inequalities by the mayor’s office of environmental justice reveals that nearly half of all New Yorkers live in areas with “disproportionate” burdens from pollution. Most affected are communities of color, which are also...
Featured Connection: Science Journalism
Making the Complex Understandable The rapidly changing scientific, medical and technical landscape requires the skills of a special type of journalist who can both understand and explain these changes to the general population. Science journalists take complicated...