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us/Activists Find Evidence of Formosa Plant in Texas Still Releasing Plastic Pollution Despite $50 Million Settlement
By Julie Dermansky
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On the afternoon of January 15, activist Diane Wilson kicked off a San Antonio Estuary Waterkeeper meeting on the side of the road across from a Formosa plastics manufacturing plant in Point Comfor...
us/How One Utah Community Fought the Fracking Industry — and Won
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By Tara Lohan, The Revelator. Originally posted on The Revalator. Kanab, a small Utah town that’s home to the famous Best Friends Animal Society, took an unconventional path to face down a frac sa...
uk/Comment: Why the Police Labelling Extinction Rebellion a 'Terror Threat' Isn't a Surprise
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By Marc Hudson, Researcher on Sociomaterial Transformations at Keele University, for The Conversation Extinction Rebellion was once criticised by other activists for “love bombing the cops”, but n...
Joaquin Phoenix, Martin Sheen Arrested at Jane Fonda's Final Weekly Climate Protest in DC
By Zach D. Roberts
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Every Friday for the last seven weeks, actress and activist Jane Fonda has held a rally and act of civil disobedience in front of the U.S. Capitol, calling for action on climate change. Each week s...
Sharon Lavigne stands outside holding a small stop sign and wearing a white t-shirt reading 'RISE ST. JAMES' and a closed fist
The Plastics Giant and the Making of an Environmental Justice Warrior
By Julie Dermansky
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This report was produced as part of ivoh’s Restorative Narrative Fellowship. On the evening of January 6, Louisiana state regulators issued 15 key permits to the Taiwanese petrochemical corporatio...
us/Comedy Can Help Us Tackle The Climate Crisis – Here's How
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By Birte Loschenkohl, University of Essex Society’s defining issues are rarely presented as raw facts and stats, and climate change is no exception. From the performance of funerals for lost speci...
us/A Year Of Resistance: How Youth Protests Shaped The Discussion On Climate Change
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By Joe Curnow, University of Manitoba and Anjali Helferty, University of Toronto Greta Thunberg made history again this month when she was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. The 16-year-old...
us/2019 in Photos: Impacts from Environmental Rollbacks and the Growing Climate Activism
By Julie Dermansky
on
Here is a selection of photos I shot for DeSmog in 2019, another year when arguably not enough collective action was taken to protect the planet from global warming.  Throughout 2019 the Trump adm...
uk/2019 in Review: Greta, Boris, and Melting Ice
By Sophie Yeo
on
The year is almost over, and — in so many ways — we are in a different place now than when the year began.  For many people, it feels like something has shifted when it comes to climate action. Th...
uk/From Rees-Mogg to the School Strikers – Looking Back at the Faces of 2019
By Rich Collett-White
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2019 was the year public concern around climate change seemed to go mainstream. Galvanised by UN warnings that the world is rapidly running out of time if it wants to avoid crossing the “safe” thre...

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us/Activists Find Evidence of Formosa Plant in Texas Still Releasing Plastic Pollution Despite $50 Million Settlement
ByJulie Dermansky
on

On the afternoon of January 15, activist Diane Wilson kicked off a San Antonio Estuary Waterkeeper meeting on the side of the road across from a Formosa plastics manufacturing plant in Point Comfor...
us/How One Utah Community Fought the Fracking Industry — and Won
ByGuest
on

By Tara Lohan, The Revelator. Originally posted on The Revalator. Kanab, a small Utah town that’s home to the famous Best Friends Animal Society, took an unconventional path to face down a frac sa...
uk/Comment: Why the Police Labelling Extinction Rebellion a 'Terror Threat' Isn't a Surprise
ByGuest
on

By Marc Hudson, Researcher on Sociomaterial Transformations at Keele University, for The Conversation Extinction Rebellion was once criticised by other activists for “love bombing the cops”, but n...
Joaquin Phoenix, Martin Sheen Arrested at Jane Fonda's Final Weekly Climate Protest in DC
ByZach D. Roberts
on

Every Friday for the last seven weeks, actress and activist Jane Fonda has held a rally and act of civil disobedience in front of the U.S. Capitol, calling for action on climate change. Each week s...
The Plastics Giant and the Making of an Environmental Justice Warrior
ByJulie Dermansky
on

This report was produced as part of ivoh’s Restorative Narrative Fellowship. On the evening of January 6, Louisiana state regulators issued 15 key permits to the Taiwanese petrochemical corporatio...
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Sharon Lavigne stands outside holding a small stop sign and wearing a white t-shirt reading 'RISE ST. JAMES' and a closed fist
us/Comedy Can Help Us Tackle The Climate Crisis – Here's How
ByGuest
on

By Birte Loschenkohl, University of Essex Society’s defining issues are rarely presented as raw facts and stats, and climate change is no exception. From the performance of funerals for lost speci...
us/A Year Of Resistance: How Youth Protests Shaped The Discussion On Climate Change
ByGuest
on

By Joe Curnow, University of Manitoba and Anjali Helferty, University of Toronto Greta Thunberg made history again this month when she was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. The 16-year-old...
us/2019 in Photos: Impacts from Environmental Rollbacks and the Growing Climate Activism
ByJulie Dermansky
on

Here is a selection of photos I shot for DeSmog in 2019, another year when arguably not enough collective action was taken to protect the planet from global warming.  Throughout 2019 the Trump adm...
uk/2019 in Review: Greta, Boris, and Melting Ice
BySophie Yeo
on

The year is almost over, and — in so many ways — we are in a different place now than when the year began.  For many people, it feels like something has shifted when it comes to climate action. Th...
uk/From Rees-Mogg to the School Strikers – Looking Back at the Faces of 2019
ByRich Collett-White
on

2019 was the year public concern around climate change seemed to go mainstream. Galvanised by UN warnings that the world is rapidly running out of time if it wants to avoid crossing the “safe” thre...

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