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6/4/20

The connection between climate change and racial inequality activism..

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The Energy 202: Green groups back protesters. But they’re grappling with how best to address their own issues with race.

By Dino Grandoni Photo by Lindsey Wasson/Reuters 6/2/20

Green groups are expressing full-throated support for demonstrators protesting the killing of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis police custody — even as they struggle with their own long-standing issues with addressing racial inequality…

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The Energy 202: Green groups back protesters. But they’re grappling with how best to address their own issues with race.

By Dino Grandoni Photo by Lindsey Wasson/Reuters 6/2/20

Green groups are expressing full-throated support for demonstrators protesting the killing of George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis police custody — even as they struggle with their own long-standing issues with addressing racial inequality…
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350.org

Black lives also matter in the climate movement

By Gabriel Perez dos Santos    Photo: Lori Shaull

Marches around the world show us that Black lives matter. The deaths of George Floyd, João Pedro, and so many other victims of police violence…

Jun232020

Climate Home News

US climate activists confront the movement’s whiteness problem

By Chloé Farand

Coronavirus, Black Lives Matter and a Chevron slip-up highlight how environmentalism has failed black communities – and new models of activism are needed The post…

Jun192020

HuffPost

If We Don’t Solve Racial Injustice, We’ll Never Solve The Climate Crisis

By Nylah Burton    Photo: David Dee Delgado via Getty

Making the connection between racism, inequality and the environment is the only way we will preserve human life on this planet. …

Jun132020

HuffPost

We don’t have to halt climate action to fight racism

By Mary Annaïse Heglar    Photo: Jose Luis Magana / AFP via Getty

It’s time to stop #AllLivesMattering the climate crisis…

Jun122020

EcoWatch

City Compost Programs Boost Food Security and Social Justice

By Kristen DeAngelis, Gwynne Mhuireach and Sue Ishaq    Photo: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images

By Kristen DeAngelis, Gwynne Mhuireach and Sue Ishaq Almost overnight, the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed many Americans’ relationships with food. To relieve some of the…

Jun112020

Washington Post

Minority areas already have high pollution. Trump’s coronavirus response makes it worse, critics say.

By Dino Grandoni     Photo: Nick Hagen for The Washington Post

President Trump’s efforts to prop up the economy during the coronavirus pandemic may end up doing more harm than good for poor and minority neighborhoods…

Jun82020

Medium

Climate justice means justice for black lives

By 350 Canada

The work of dismantling white supremacy is critical to building a climate movement that is rooted in justice.

Jun52020

Grist

Hurricanes disproportionately harm communities of color. TV news ignores that fact.

By Emily Pontecorvo     Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

Zero out of 669 news segments on major networks reported on the disproportionate impact of hurricanes on poor communities and communities of color….

Jun52020

The New Yorker

Bill McKibben: Racism, police violence, and the climate are not separate issues

By Bill McKibben    Photo: Jim West / Alamy

Having a racist and violent police force in your neighborhood is a lot like having a pollution-emitting factory in your neighborhood….

Jun22020

EcoWatch

15 EcoWatch Stories on Environmental and Racial Injustice

By EcoWatch    Photo: Aleksander Kalka / NurPhoto / Getty Images

As protests are taking place across our nation in response to the killing of George Floyd, we want to acknowledge the importance of this protest…

Jun22020

Business Green

Al Gore: ‘Need for climate action is bound together with the struggle for racial equality and liberation’

By James S Murray

Al Gore has become the latest environmental campaigner to express solidarity with the protestors for racial justice facing increasingly violent crackdowns across the US, warning…

Jun22020

Green America

People of Color Are on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, André Floyd

At the close of 2015, the nation was reeling from news that residents of Flint, Michigan, had been drinking and bathing in water contaminated with…

Jun22020

Public News Service

Faith Communities Connect Floyd Protests, Climate Change

By Andrea Sears    Photo by Manpeppe/Adobe Stock

An interfaith group working to slow climate change says there is a link between ending reliance on fossil fuels and the protests taking place across…

Jun22020

FRIENDS OF THE EARTH

Friends of the Earth stands in support of Black lives and echoes calls to defund the police



Friends of the Earth U.S. condemns the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Ahmaud Arbery, and the continued state-sanctioned violence against Black…

Jun22020

Gizmodo

There Is No Climate Justice Without Defunding the Police

By Brian Kahn    Photo by Getty

The U.S. has erupted in protests over the brutal killing of George Floyd by police. The protests have largely been peaceful. The police response has…

Jun22020

The Sierra Club

The Climate Crisis Is Racist. The Answer Is Anti-Racism.

By Eric Holthaus    Photo by PaulMoody123

I’m writing this from St Paul, Minnesota. Our neighbouring city, Minneapolis, is descending into riots this evening. I can hear the fireworks and tear gas…

Jun22020

GRIST

Responding to protests, green groups reckon with a racist past

By Shannon Osaka    Photo by Michael B. Thomas / Getty Images

Already stressed by the threat of coronavirus and widespread unemployment, the United States has erupted into protests after the killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old…

Oct212019

The Guardian

‘Racism dictates who gets dumped on’: how environmental injustice divides the world

By Nina Lakhani    Illustration by Daniela Gilbon

Five luminaries explain the concept of ‘environmental justice’ and reveal why, alongside the climate crisis, it is one of the most pressing issues of our…

Aug122015

The New Yorker

Environmentalism’s Racist History

By Jedediah Purdy

Madison Grant (Yale College 1887, Columbia Law School) liked to be photographed with a fedora, or just his dauntingly long head, tilted about thirty degrees…

5/4/20

The climate change stories that won a Pulitizer..

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The Washington Post

Read The Washington Post stories that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize

By Washington Post Staff 5/4/20

The staff of The Washington Post won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting for its series on climate change, 2°C: Beyond the Limit, which fundamentally reshaped the climate debate by showing that extreme warming…

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Read The Washington Post stories that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize

By Washington Post Staff 5/4/20

The staff of The Washington Post won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting for its series on climate change, 2°C: Beyond the Limit, which fundamentally reshaped the climate debate by showing that extreme warming…
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The Washington Post

On land, Australia’s rising heat is ‘apocalyptic.’ In the ocean, it’s worse.

By Darryl Fears    Photo by Bonnie Jo Mount

Even before the ocean caught fever and reached temperatures no one had ever seen, Australia’s ancient giant kelp was cooked. Rodney Dillon noticed the day he…

Dec192019

The Washington Post

How we know global warming is real

By Chris Mooney

Sonnblick Observatory opened and began recording the weather in 1886, a technological wonder that measured how wind, barometric pressure and temperatures changed at upper altitudes,…

Dec132019

the Washington post

Facing catastrophic climate change, they still can’t quit Big Oil

By Juliet Eilperin     Photo by Bonnie Jo Mount

The varnished wooden cross stands amid a cluster of grave markers tilted at odd angles in the cemetery, because the ground beneath them is sinking.…

Dec52019

The Washington Post

Fires, floods and free parking: California’s unending fight against climate change

By Scott Wilson     Photo by Michael Robinson Chavez

When the fire came this time, blowing in fast and ashy from the dry hills around her camping resort, manager Terri Bowman was ready.

Nov122019

The Washington Post

The climate chain reaction that threatens the heart of the Pacific

By Simon Denyer and Chris Mooney    Photo: Salwan Georges

The salmon catch is collapsing off Japan’s northern coast, plummeting by about 70 percent in the past 15 years. The disappearance of the fish coincides with…

Oct312019

The Washington Post

The ice used to protect them. Now their island is crumbling into the sea.

By Brady Dennis    Photo by Bonnie Jo Mount

High on a bluff overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Adele Chiasson no longer ventures into her backyard for a simple reason: It is falling…

Oct162019

The Washington Post

Facing unbearable heat, Qatar has begun to air-condition the outdoors

By Steven Mufson, Chris Mooney    Photos by Salwan Georges

It was 116 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade outside the new Al Janoub soccer stadium, and the air felt to air-conditioning expert Saud Ghani as…

Oct42019

The Washington Post

Radical warming in Siberia leaves millions on unstable ground



As permafrost collapses and farm land is devastated, people turn to mammoth-tusk hunting and migration….

Sep112019

The Washington Post

Dangerous new hot zones are spreading around the world

By Chris Mooney and John Muyskens    Photo: Carolyn Van Houten

The day the yellow clams turned black is seared in Ramón Agüero’s memory.

Aug132019

The Washington Post

Extreme climate change has arrived in America

By Steven Mufson, Chris Mooney    Photo by Salwan Georges

Before climate change thawed the winters of New Jersey, this lake hosted boisterous wintertime carnivals. As many as 15,000 skaters took part, and automobile owners…

4/24/20

…And what really motivated Michael Moore to produce Planet of the Humans??

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Films For Action

Planet of the Humans (2019)

When Planet of the Humans first came out, we added it to the site before watching it because we trusted Michael Moore’s track record of releasing quality films that are factually accurate. After we watched…

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Planet of the Humans (2019)

When Planet of the Humans first came out, we added it to the site before watching it because we trusted Michael Moore’s track record of releasing quality films that are factually accurate. After we watched…
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Guardian

Michael Moore film Planet of the Humans removed from YouTube

By Jonathan Watts    Photo: Vittorio Zunino

British environmental photographer’s copyright claim prompts website to remove film that has been condemned by climate scientists YouTube has taken down the controversial Michael Moore-produced…

May72020

the guardian

How did Michael Moore become a hero to climate deniers and the far right?

By George Monbiot    Photo by Alamy

The filmmaker’s latest venture is an excruciating mishmash of environment falsehoods and plays into the hands of those he once opposed.

May12020

Rolling Stone

‘A Bomb in the Center of the Climate Movement’: Michael Moore Damages Our Most Important Goal

By Bill Mckibben

If you’re looking for a little distraction from the news of the pandemic — something a little gossipy, but with a point at the end…

May12020

Yale Climate Connections

Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary peddles dangerous climate denial

By Dana Nuccitelli

Environmentalists and renewable energy advocates have long been allies in the fight to keep unchecked industrial growth from irreversibly ruining Earth’s climate and threatening the…

Apr292020

The Hill

Michael Moore says environmentalists ‘might be on the wrong path here because we’re not winning this battle’



Academy Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore said Tuesday that the environmentalist movement “might be on the wrong path here because we’re not winning this battle.” The…

Apr292020

Drilled News

Planet of the Ecofascists

By Amy Westervelt

Almost everything in Michael Moore’s supposed documentary Planet of the Humans is out of date, which undermines any potential the film had to bring important…

Apr292020

Films For Action

6 Reasons Why Planet of the Humans Is a Disaster of Misinformation

By Ben Wehrman

Michael Moore’s latest documentary, “Planet of the Humans,” has staked its claim as the most staggering FUD dump of the decade. Here’s why.

Apr282020

The Guardian

Climate experts call for ‘dangerous’ Michael Moore film to be taken down

By Oliver Milman    Photo by Erik Pedersen/Handout

Planet of the Humans, which takes aim at the green movement, is ‘full of misinformation’ says one distributor. A new Michael Moore-produced documentary that takes…

Apr282020

VOX

Michael Moore produced a film about climate change that’s a gift to Big Oil

By Leah C. Stokes    Photo by Planet of Humans

Last week marked the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. To celebrate the occasion, filmmaker Michael Moore dropped a new movie he produced, Planet of the…

Apr282020

Local Power

Review of Planet of the Humans: What They Get Right and the Environmentalists Get Wrong

By Paul Fenn

Planet of the Humans has stirred the resentment of many a climate crusader. Yesterday, the chair of the Sierra Club California Energy and Climate Committee…

Apr272020

PV Buzz

If you haven’t seen Michael Moore’s “Planet of the Humans” yet, don’t

By Ben Wehrman

FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt): A disinformation strategy used to influence perception by disseminating negative and dubious or false information and a manifestation of the…

Apr272020

Heated

Really, Michael Moore?

By Emily Atkin

Michael Moore’s new bombshell climate change documentary, Planet of the Humans, argues that renewable energy is worse for the planet than fossil fuels. It claims…

Apr272020

Resilience

Review: Planet of the Humans

By Richard Heinberg

A few days ago, Emily Atkin posted a reaction to Michael Moore’s latest film, Planet of the Humans (directed and narrated by Jeff Gibbs), in…

Apr272020

The Solar Nerd

Planet of the Humans: a film review



I saw Roger and Me in the theaters back in 1989, and I thought TV Nation was funny and insightful. He’s an agitator and polemicist,…

Wattisduurzaam.NL

Planet of the Humans, a weak documentary on sustainable energy

By Thijs Ten Brinck

While you probably have more time to waste than ever and Planet of the Humans is free to watch, I don’t recommend watching the movie.…

Apr262020

MEDIUM

Michael Moore’s environment film a slap in the face on Earth Day

By Cathy Cowan Becker

I have followed the films of Michael Moore since Roger & Me came out while I was in grad school. Fahrenheit 9/11 looked at what…

Apr242020

ketanjoshi.co

A reheated mess of lazy, old myths

By Ketan Joshi

The film ‘Planet of the Humans’ opens with the director, Jeff Gibbs, operating a fossil-fuelled combustion engine vehicle, on a road full of combustion engine…

Apr232020

Forbes

Michael Moore’s ‘Planet Of The Humans’ Skewers Renewables, Delivers Anti-Human Malthusianism

By Robert Bryce

Humans are like cockroaches. We need fewer of them. That’s the fundamental message of Michael Moore’s new documentary, Planet of the Humans.

Apr232020

ECOEQUITY

Why “Planet of the Humans” is crap

By Tom Athanasiou

Mostly, Planet of the Humans is just so fucking bad. So bad that its good points are useless. It does have some good points –…

Apr232020

Films For Action

Skepticism Is Healthy, but Planet of the Humans Is Toxic

By Timmon Wallis

It can be refreshing to watch a true believer taking a deeper look at their own sacred cows. But in his rush to be open-minded…

Apr222020

350.org

Response: Planet of the Humans Documentary

By Bill McKibben

A Youtube video emerged on Earth Day eve making charges about me and about 350.org — namely that I was a supporter of biomass energy,…

Apr212020

Forbes

New Michael Moore-Backed Documentary On YouTube Reveals Massive Ecological Impacts Of Renewables

By Michael Shellenberger    Photo by Getty

Over the last 10 years, everyone from celebrity influencers including Elon Musk, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Al Gore, to major technology brands including Apple, have repeatedly…

Aug82019

ABC NEWS

New Michael Moore-backed doc tackles alternative energy

By Lindsey Bahr    Photo by Vianney Le Cae

What if alternative energy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be? That’s the provocative question explored in the documentary “Planet of the Humans,” which is…

4/22/20

PATA…Earth Day

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WIRED

How We Will All Solve the Climate Crisis

By Nicholas Thompson Illustration by Eiko Ojala 4/1/2020

NOT LONG AGO, in more innocent times, I was driving with my three sons back from trying to ski on a mountain that doesn’t really have snow anymore, and we were talking about climate change.…

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How We Will All Solve the Climate Crisis

By Nicholas Thompson Illustration by Eiko Ojala 4/1/2020

NOT LONG AGO, in more innocent times, I was driving with my three sons back from trying to ski on a mountain that doesn’t really have snow anymore, and we were talking about climate change.…
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Inside Climate News

Video: Covid-19 Drives Earth Day Anniversary Online, Inspiring Creative New Tactics For Climate Activists

By Anna Belle Peevey

For this year’s 50th anniversary, organizers had sweeping plans to bring millions more into the streets to further galvanize a growing movement dedicated to confronting…

Apr222020

New York Times

Earth Day Turns 50

By John Schwartz and Claire O’Neill    Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images

Also this week, our recommendations for climate books

Apr222020

Parade

Looking for the Best Earth Day Activities? Here Are 15 Fun Ways to Celebrate Earth Day

By Maryn Liles    Photo by iStock

Earth Day—which is on April 22, 2020—is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and the annual recognition of our planet has come a long way…

Apr172020

NASA Global Climate Change

NASA Observes Earth Day with Downloadable Art

    Photo: NASA

When Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders snapped the iconic Earthrise image, it captured the imagination of the people on Earth and helped to inspire the…

Apr172020

National Geographic

Create a Neighborhood Safari



LOOKING FOR A way to show your children just how amazing the world is—without straying too far from home? Plan a neighborhood safari with your…

Apr162020

Yale Environment 360

How the Laws That Earth Day Inspired Have Benefited Us All

By Richard Conniff    Photo from Shutterstock

Fifty years after the first Earth Day helped create the nation’s most important environmental laws, the Trump administration is pushing for a sweeping rollback of…

Apr112020

NASA

NASA Marks Earth Day’s 50th Anniversary with #EarthDayAtHome

Media Advisory    Image by NASA

As the world observes the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on Wednesday, April 22, NASA is highlighting the agency’s many contributions to sustaining and improving our…

Apr12020

EarthDay.org

TAKE THE EARTH DAY DAILY CHALLENGE



While we collectively take action as individuals to bend the curve and reduce the spread of coronavirus, we cannot lose sight of the bigger picture…

Apr12020

National Geographic

EARTH DAY

By the Editor

Fifty years ago we celebrated the first Earth Day. Where will we be 50 years from now?

Mar252020

National Geographic

Greta wasn’t the first to demand climate action. Meet more young activists.

By Laura Parker    Photo by Victoria Will

In what they see as a battle for their future, youths are taking action and demanding their elders do more to protect the planet. DELANEY REYNOLDS,…

Mar202020

EarthDay.org

EARTHRISE: EARTH DAY GOES DIGITAL



The coronavirus pandemic does not shut us down. Instead, it reminds us of what’s at stake in our fight for the planet. If we don’t…

Mar192020

Forbes

Coronavirus Encouraged Pro-Climate Behaviors: Here’s How Earth Day Celebrations Could Help Sustain Them

By Nives Dolsak & Aseem Prakash    Photo by Getty

The Coronavirus crisis has changed our daily lives. It has affected annual rituals, such as March Madness and St. Patrick’s Day Parades. While crises take…

3/17/20

The connection between the coronavirus and climate change…

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ProPublica

How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease

by Abrahm Lustgarten Photo: Xinhua/Yang Zongyou via Getty Images 5/7/20

A catastrophic loss in biodiversity, reckless destruction of wildland and warming temperatures have allowed disease to explode. Ignoring the connection between climate change and pandemics would be “dangerous delusion,” one scientist said.

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How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease

by Abrahm Lustgarten Photo: Xinhua/Yang Zongyou via Getty Images 5/7/20

A catastrophic loss in biodiversity, reckless destruction of wildland and warming temperatures have allowed disease to explode. Ignoring the connection between climate change and pandemics would be “dangerous delusion,” one scientist said.
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New York Times

Pandemic’s Cleaner Air Could Reshape What We Know About the Atmosphere

By Coral Davenport    Photo: Rosem Morton/The New York Times

In the crystalline air of the pandemic economy, climate change researchers have been flying a small plane over Route I-95, from Boston to Washington, measuring…

Jun172020

New York Times

Emissions Are Surging Back as Countries and States Reopen

By Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich    Illustration: Nature Climate Change and Global Carbon Project

As the pandemic rages, the world is still far from getting global warming under control.

Jun152020

Guardian

Covid-19 pandemic is ‘fire drill’ for effects of climate crisis, says UN official

By Fiona Harvey     Photo: Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images

Lise Kingo says social equality issues must be part of sustainable development agenda

Jun122020

Civil Eats

Op-ed: It’s Time to Rethink the Food System from the Ground Up

B David Montgomery, Jennifer, J. Otten and Sarah M. Collier    Photo: USDA

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic shutdowns have severely disrupted and spotlighted weaknesses in the U.S. food system. Farmers, food distributors, and government agencies are…

Jun122020

Civil Notion

Science, the pandemic, and how the coming election is a crossroads for climate change

By Joel Stronberg     Photo: David Clode on Unsplash

The COVID-19 contagion shows once again the disdain President Trump and his administration have for science-based policies and actions. Over these past months Trump has…

Jun52020

Washington Post

How carbon levels hit a record high even as emissions fell during coronavirus pandemic

By Dino Grandoni    Photo: AP Photo/Martin Meissner

Greenhouse gas emissions have plunged since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, Earth’s carbon dioxide levels are at their highest point…

May252020

Metro

Coronavirus: Sir David Attenborough reminds us about climate change

By Mel Evans     Photo: WWF

Sir David Attenborough has shared his fear climate change has been ‘swept’ off the front pages by the coronavirus pandemic, as he called for a…

May232020

EcoWatch

Rainforest Deforestation More Than Doubled Under Cover of Coronavirus

By Deutsche Welle     Photo: Charlie Rogers / Moment / Getty Images

As the COVID-19 virus was spreading around the world, deforestation in the world’s rainforests rose at an alarming rate, the German arm of the World…

May192020

Guardian

Steep fall in emissions during coronavirus is no cause for celebration

By Fiona Harvey    Photo: Jeff Holmes/JSHPIX/Rex/Shutterstock

Brief hiatus will make little difference to catastrophic levels of global heating, experts say

May142020

the new yorker

One Crisis Doesn’t Stop Because Another Starts

By Bill McKibben    Photo by David McNew

Around the world, weary people in many countries have begun to chart the promising slide of daily coronavirus cases and deaths—less so in the United…

May92020

New York Times

Will the Coronavirus Crisis Trump the Climate Crisis?

By Steven Erlanger    Photo: Alessandro Grassani for The New York Times

The battle over how to spend recovery funds — to quickly restore the old economy or invest in a greener one — will define the…

May82020

New York Times

G.O.P. Coronavirus Message: Economic Crisis Is a Green New Deal Preview

By Lisa Friedman     Photo: Bryan Anselm for The New York Times

As the economy melts down, embattled conservatives are testing a political response: saying Democratic climate policies would bring similar pain.

May52020

Reuters

Amid pandemic, U.S. renewable power sources have topped coal for 40 days

By Nichola Groom    Photo: REUTERS/Toby Melville

Electricity generated by renewable sources like solar, wind and hydro has exceeded coal-fired power in the United States for a record 40 straight days, according…

May42020

Washington Post

The Energy 202: It’s not just oil. The coronavirus crisis is hitting solar and wind work, too.

By Dino Grandoni    Photo: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

The coronavirus crisis is not only battering the oil and gas industry. It’s drying up capital and disrupting supply chains for businesses trying to move…

May42020

Guardian

‘The parallels between coronavirus and climate crisis are obvious’

By Michael Segalov    Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/DPA-Zentralbild

Environmental journalist Emily Atkin hopes public pressure over the pandemic will be a model for forcing governments to act

Apr272020

State of the Planet

The Pandemic is a Reason to Preserve not Pollute the Planet

By Steve Cohen

The pandemic should be teaching us the importance of public health, environmental protection and scientific analysis; which should lead us to preserve rather than pollute…

Apr252020

EcoWatch

Coronavirus Plastic Waste Polluting the Environment

By Nikolia Apostolou    Photo: Vincenzo Lombardo / Getty Images

By Nikolia ApostolouOver a month into the lockdown and the usually bustling streets of Kalamata, a Greek city southwest of Athens traditionally known for its…

Apr252020

The Guardian

Climate science deniers at forefront of downplaying coronavirus pandemic

By Emily Holden    Photo: Mark Felix/AFP/AFP via Getty Images

Vocal influencers such as the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and the Heartland Institute are hitting back at a time when people’s trust in science is…

Apr232020

State of the Planet

What COVID-19 Can Teach Us About Sustainability

By Daryush Nourbaha    Photo: Philafrenzy/Wikimedia Commons

A student examines the parallels between what this virus is doing to us and what we’ve been doing to our planet. …

Apr232020

Energy News Network

Clean energy can drive the coronavirus recovery, Massachusetts advocates say

By Sarah Shemkus    Photo: NAIT / Flickr / Creative Commons

Activists and businesses are making the case to make solar, offshore wind, and electric transportation a priority.

Apr232020

Guardian

The Covid-19 crisis creates a chance to reset economies on a sustainable footing | James Shaw

By James Shaw    Photo: Malcolm Foster/AP

New Zealand climate minister says governments must not just return to the way things were, and instead plot a new course to ease climate change…

Apr222020

New York Times

Oil collapse and COVID-19 create toxic geopolitical stew

By Rick Gladstone    Photo: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg

For nations reliant on oil sales, the combination of the price collapse and the coronavirus pandemic has created new threats of poverty and political instability…

Apr202020

Vox

Coronavirus stimulus money will be wasted on fossil fuels

By David Roberts    Photo: Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images

Low gas prices in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, on March 30. | Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images Oil and gas companies were already…

Apr202020

Climate Home News

Coronavirus: which governments are bailing out big polluters?

By Chloé Farand

A round-up of the support countries are extending to aviation, coal, oil and gas businesses as demand is hit by the Covid-19 pandemic The post…

Apr192020

InsideClimate News

Empty Grocery Shelves and Rotting, Wasted Vegetables: Two Sides of a Supply Chain Problem

By Georgina Gustin

Covid-19 and climate change are testing a food system that critics say has lost its resilience.

Apr172020

InsideClimate News

Video: In New York’s Empty Streets, Lessons for Climate Change in the Response to Covid-19

By Anna Belle Peevey     Photo: Anna Belle Peevey/InsideClimate News

The pandemic is fast-moving while the impacts of climate change take decades to manifest, but both threaten humanity if some common steps aren’t taken in…

Apr142020

The New York Times's Live Events

How Is the Climate Community Reacting to the Coronavirus Pandemic? | The Greenhouse

By Hannah Fairfield, Somini Sengupta, Nadja Popovich and John Schwartz

The response to the coronavirus pandemic has had unexpected climate consequences, including less air pollution and fewer greenhouse gas emissions. What lessons can be taken…

Apr142020

New York Times

‘Unbelievable’ Timing: As Coronavirus Rages, Trump Disregards Advice to Tighten Clean Air Rules

By Coral Davenport

Despite an emerging link between air pollution and Covid-19 death rates, the Trump administration will decline to tighten standards on soot emissions.

Apr142020

HuffPost

Why The Solutions To Coronavirus And Climate Change Are The Same

By Amanda Schupak    Photo: Joseph Eid via Getty Images

Protecting the environment will make us healthier, so we can withstand the next pandemic — or prevent it. …

Apr132020

LA Times

Coyotes, bobcats and bears: Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park

By Susanne Rust    Photo: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times

Yosemite Village is normally a crush of humanity and traffic congestion. On Saturday, it was peaceful like few times before — the only sounds coming…

Apr132020

AccuWeather

Air pollution way down over Northeast, NASA satellite images appear to show

By John Murphy    Photo: NASA

Major cities across the Northeast are now seeing significant improvement in air quality similar to the improvements seen in Italy and China during coronavirus lockdowns.

Apr122020

The Guardian

Carbon emissions from fossil fuels could fall by 2.5bn tonnes in 2020

By Jillian Ambrose    Photo: National Geographic Image Collection/Alamy

Reduction of 5% would represent biggest drop in demand for industry on record

Apr122020

EcoWatch

We Must Be Honest About What the Coronavirus Outbreak Will Mean for Climate Action

By Anders Lorenzen

By Anders Lorenzen, A Greener Life, a Greener WorldIn the wake of the global Covid-19 outbreak which has caused the biggest disruption to life as…

Apr92020

Resilience

When Climate Met Covid

By Guy Dauncey

We face not one but three simultaneous inter-connected crises: the COVID-19 Emergency, the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency, and the Crisis of Capitalism. We urgently need…

Apr92020

The New Yorker

Will the Coronavirus Kill the Oil Industry?

By Bill McKibben    Photo: Alexey Malgavko / Reuters

It’s hard to get mad at a virus, but it’s easy to be enraged by people and institutions that are disregarding the threat it poses in order to further their own…

Apr92020

ABC News

Human impact on biodiversity loss may fuel future pandemics

By Maggie Rulli and Lindsey Griswold     Photo: Stringer/Imaginechina via AP, FILE

Encroachment on plant and animal life by man is fueling diseases, scientists say….

Apr82020

National Geographic

Pollution made COVID-19 worse. Now, lockdowns are clearing the air.

By Beth Gardiner    Photo: Francois Henry, Rea/Redux

As the novel coronavirus tears around the world, it’s exploiting our biggest weaknesses, from creaking health care systems to extreme social inequality. Its relationship with…

Apr82020

The New Yorker

“Working Together Is What Humans Are Built to Do”: Social Trust Is Key to Stemming the Coronavirus Crisis

By Bill McKibben    Photo: Win McNamee / Getty

The coronavirus pandemic is now so sprawling that it has revealed the souls of tens of thousands of individuals, from remarkably kind nurses to online sellers seeking to corner the market for hand…

Apr82020

InsideClimate News

Decades of Science Denial Related to Climate Change Has Led to Denial of the Coronavirus Pandemic

By Neela Banerjee and David Hasemyer     Photo: Misha Friedman/Getty Images

American science denialism, deployed for years against climate change and, most recently, the coronavirus, can be traced back to the early 1950s during the fight…

Apr82020

New York Times

Race, Pollution and the Coronavirus

By Lisa Friedman and Zoë Schlanger    Photo: Daniel Slim/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Also this week: How to be ready for overlapping disasters

Apr82020

State of the Planet

COVID-19 Provides Lessons on Climate Adaptation for Cities

By Amy Turner    Photo: Michael Walter on Unsplash

Some policies can simultaneously address public health threats, reduce emissions and provide for a city’s recovery. …

Apr62020

Eco-Business

Coronavirus-induced oil price plunge is hurting the circular economy for plastic

By Robin Hicks    Photo: Robin Hicks/Eco-Business

One of the biggest oil demand falls in history may be good news for emissions-watchers. But it’s bad news for the business of plastic recycling.…

Apr62020

Yale Climate Connections