Year: 2021
Manchin’s Home State Hammered by Climate Change
New York Times: FARMINGTON, W.Va. — In Senator Joe Manchin’s hometown, a flood-prone hamlet of about 200 homes that hugs a curve on a shallow creek, the rain is getting worse. Those storms swell the river, called Buffalo Creek, inundating homes along its banks. They burst the streams that spill down the hills on either […]
‘Destroying the planet is against our religion,’ say Colorado Springs religious leaders at climate protest
Let us find the best electricity & natural gas rates for you
The Surprising Truth Behind Planting Trees and Climate Change
Facing floods and fires, undocumented immigrants have nowhere to turn for help
Undocumented immigrants are ineligible for aid after disasters like Hurricane Ida and wildfires. Some people are trying to change that.
Global south suffering gap in climate change research as rich countries drive agenda, studies suggest
Developing countries suffer from a significant gap in terms of scientific research related to climate change, a new study shows, even though they contain the communities and people most vulnerable to extreme weather, rising sea levels and other serious impacts of climate change.
‘It’s not as carbon-hungry’: UK’s largest sunlit vertical farm begins harvest
In a greenhouse in Worcestershire, Shockingly Fresh grows towers of leafy veg for supermarket shelves
Drought in northern Kenya pushes millions towards hunger
In northern Kenya, the ribs of dead sheep stretch towards the blazing sun as parched herders trudge past, a day’s march from water. The value of their skinny goats is falling as fast as the prices scrawled on the sacks in the market are shooting up.
‘Community ownership’ might be the best way to fight deforestation
Forests owned, managed and governed by their communities naturally preserve biodiversity and have very low levels of deforestation.