By Drew Costley
Associated Press, PBS NewsHour
Climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spread among animal species by 2070 — and that’s likely to increase the risk of emerging infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans, according...
By Candice Bernd
Truthout
Antiwar and progressive veterans organizations across the country are marking the first Earth Day after the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan and Russia’s subsequent invasion of Ukraine by highlighting the ways in which militarism fuels the...
By Yessenia Funes
Atmos
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its final report Monday. The Frontline explores the significance of the sixth report finally naming “colonialism” as a historical and ongoing driver of the climate crisis.
The Intergovernmental Panel...
By Kate Aronoff
The New Republic
With the “Green New Deal Champions” pledge, progressive groups are reorienting for 2022—and 2030.
With prospects for comprehensive climate legislation looking dim, a number of congressional Democrats and several dozen progressive groups are set...
By C.J. Polychroniou
Truthout
The ongoing war in Ukraine does not bode well for the future of peace and sustainability on planet Earth. As Noam Chomsky said in a recent interview for Truthout, “We are at a crucial point in human...
By Jake Johnson
Common Dreams
The Congressional Progressive Caucus “is absolutely right that President Biden should declare it so we can build the energy security that only renewable energy can bring,” said one climate advocate.
Grassroots climate advocates praised the...
By Cesia Alvarez and Melissa Laratte
Ms. Magazine
We are two immigrant women and professional caregivers. Despite how crucial the role of care workers is for the well-being of our communities, we are highly undervalued.
When crises strike, we turn...
By Adrien Salazar and Kate Alexander
Common Dreams
Joe Biden must end U.S. climate obstructionism, or else future generations will mark his leadership on climate in this time of great need as a complete and abject failure.
The Biden administration’s ...
By Barbara Ransby
Truthout
On this International Women’s Day, as the world watches a historic and bloody war unfold in Europe — while people in the United States and Europe largely continue to ignore the suffering of the millions of...
By Sarah Lazare
In These Times
Just as scientists warn we must drastically shift away from fossil fuel extraction, the Biden administration is pressing for more oil production.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin escalates his horrific invasion of Ukraine, in...
By ClimateDenierRoundup
Daily Kos
Carbon dioxide removal is the process of removing carbon pollution from the atmosphere via natural and technological methods, and will be an important tool for restoring a safe climate — once we’ve pretty much stopped sending more...
By Justine Calma
The Verge
The DOE funded projects that never came to fruition
The Biden administration wants to shove more money into projects that are supposed to capture CO2 emissions from power plants and industrial facilities before they can...
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By Rucha Chitnis
Yes! Magazine
When Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida in October 2018, June Barrett, a Black Jamaican home care worker, rushed to take care of their elderly patients in Miami. Barrett, had worked...
By Shreya Chattopadhyay
The Nation
There are signs that the Biden administration and mainstream foreign policy groups may be ready to listen, if not embrace a full paradigm shift.
Although the US war in Afghanistan is now widely seen as...
By Em Nguyen
Spectrum News 1
WASHINGTON D.C. — Senate Democrats made a breakthrough Tuesday night on an infrastructure deal, agreeing on a $3.5 trillion figure to invest in climate, education and family programs.
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By Jessica Corbett
Common Dreams
The bill aims to ensure “an intersectional response” to the climate crisis, coronavirus pandemic, economic inequity, and racial injustice “that is proportionate to the scope of the problems we face.”
On the heels of President...
By Rishika Pardikar
Eos
According to a new report, net zero targets many governments are pursuing are distractions from the urgent need to drastically reduce carbon emissions.
In the past few months, many governments have announced net zero carbon emission ...
The Tribune Signatories, however, concerned by several additional factors not included in this statement Eighty-seven farmer organisations and allied agroecology, farm and food justice groups in the United States delivered a solidarity statement in support of Indian farmers’ historic protests...
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KPFA Our Political Director, Sunyoung Yang, chats with David Rosenberg of The KPFA Evening News about how a feminist, anti-racist, regenerative economy centers care and ends harm in our communities. Listen to the segment from 24:57-27:48....
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By Jihan Gearon
Stanford Social Innovation Review
A call to bring back matriarchy in Indigenous communities to rebuild and decolonize the foundation of Native community life.
The words “Indigenous feminism” can be triggering in Indigenous communities. I’ve read op-eds in the...
By Sarah Lazare
In These Times
Why anti-war feminists don’t want hawkish women like Michèle Flournoy in positions of power.
As the incoming administration of Joe Biden is celebrated for advancing women’s rights through the likely appointment of hawkish women...
By Christine Ahn, Yifat Susskind, and Cindy Wiesner
Newsweek
In the 2020 presidential election, Black women, Indigenous women and people of color across the country delivered the votes to throw Donald Trump out of office. These voters want a new...
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As California Governor Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit kicked off Thursday, indigenous and climate justice activists blocked the main entrance in protest. While the protests took place outside the GCAS, Gov. Brown and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg,...
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Civic and business leaders convened at California Governor Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit, but protestors decried their “false solutions” to the climate crisis
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DHARNA NOOR: I’m here in San Francisco at the Global Climate Action...
SAN FRANCISCO — They erected a mini oil rig, locked arms through oil drums and sat down on the street. “Keep it in the ground,” their banners read. “No more fossil fuels,” they chanted. Protesters gathered at the Global Climate...
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Hundreds of activists snarled commute-heavy traffic, picketed or simply sat in yoga poses outside the Parc 55 hotel in San Francisco’s clogged downtown Market Street area Monday morning, the first weekday leg of what promises to be a rocky series...
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By Kate Aronoff for In These Times In the wake of Donald Trump’s upset victory over Hillary Clinton, In These Times asked organizers who have worked in the climate, racial justice, immigrant rights and other movements for their reactions and...
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The Laura Flanders Show This week, American voters come to end of a long national “nightmare,” as Laura has called it. This electoral seasons has left many of us battered and jaded, resigned to hit the polls for a less...
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By Sarah Lazare on AlterNet On October 18, human rights defenders José Ángel Flores and Silmer Dionisio were murdered after they left a meeting of peasant farmers in the Bajo Aguán region of Honduras. Both were organizers with the Unified...
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