By Nicolás Rivero, The Washington Post Placards are displayed at an art installation titled “the Underwater” by Miami-Dade County artist-in-residence Xavier Cortada during Miami Art Week on Dec. 5. The initiative calls attention to the climate crisis through yard signs that reveal Miami’s vulnerability to rising seas. (Lynne Sladky/AP) In …
A Locally Grown Solution for Period Poverty
By Diana Gitig, Ars Technica A Kenyan tinkerer and Stanford engineer team up to make maxi pads from agave fibers. Women and girls across much of the developing world lack access to menstrual products. This means that for at least a week or so every month, many girls don’t go to …
It’s One of the Biggest Experiments in Fighting Global Poverty. Now the Results are In.
By Nurith Aizenman, NPR It’s an unprecedented – and massive – experiment: Since 2017 the U.S.-based charity GiveDirectly has been providing thousands of villagers in Kenya what’s called a “universal basic income” – a cash grant of about $50, delivered every month, with the commitment to keep the payments coming …
Navajo Nation Faces Possible New Threats After Decades of Uranium Mining
By Kate Holland and Tenzin Shakya, ABC News A Canadian company is working to move forward with uranium extraction. Just miles from the site of the 1979 Church Rock Mill spill, the largest nuclear disaster in American history, uranium extraction operations could resume near the Navajo Nation. Now, Navajo leaders …
The Overlooked Climate Solution Making Headway at COP28: Doing More With Less
By Akielly Hu, Grist Doubling the annual pace of energy efficiency progress would achieve half of the emissions reductions needed by 2030. This weekend, 118 countries at the COP28 climate summit pledged to triple the world’s renewable power capacity and double the pace of energy efficiency improvements by 2030. The deal echoed a …
COP28: What UN reports say about global action on climate change
By Gloria Dickie, Susanna Twidale, and David Stanway, Reuters Nov 29 (Reuters) – Ahead of this year’s COP28 climate summit in Dubai, U.N. agencies have released several reports offering updates on global progress in limiting climate change. Here are some of the most important findings: GLOBAL GREENHOUSE GASES ARE STILL RISING Global …
10,000 Oysters Released on to Reef to Help Clean Sea
By Jay Vydelingum, BBC About 10,000 native oysters have been released onto a manmade reef off the North East coast aimed at helping to remove pollutants from the sea. Conservationists said the under water platform, off Whitburn, South Tyneside, should create a new marine ecosystem. More than 750 tonnes of …
From Tree Planting to ‘Sponge Cities’: Why Nature-Based Solutions are Crucial to Fighting the Climate Crisis
By Patrick Greenfield, The Guardian Nature could hold the key to protecting humanity as the planet heats, but scientists say it is still an underused option The natural world underpins human civilisation on every corner of the planet. From oceans to rainforests, grasslands to mangrove swamps, ecosystems feed billions of …
US Coal Power Plants Killed at Least 460,000 People in Past 20 Years – Report
By Nina Lakhani, Guardian Pollution caused twice as many premature deaths as previously thought, with updated understanding of dangers of PM2.5. Coal-fired power plants killed at least 460,000 Americans during the past two decades, causing twice as many premature deaths as previously thought, new research has found. Cars, factories, fire …
Louisiana Residents’ Lawsuit Over Racism in Petrochemical Plant Approvals Nixed
By Clark Mindock, Reuters Nov 17 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Black Louisiana residents alleging their local government racially discriminates through land use policy that has concentrated polluting petrochemical plants in minority neighborhoods, finding the lawsuit was filed too late. U.S. District Judge Carl …