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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
The Plastics Giant and the Making of an Environmental Justice Warrior
By Julie 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...
us/Comedy Can Help Us Tackle The Climate Crisis – Here's How
By Guest
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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
By Guest
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
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
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...
uk/COP25: NGOs Barred from UN Climate Talks After Unauthorised Protest
By Sophie Yeo
on
The halls of the UN climate negotiations in Madrid are unusually quiet this evening, as non-governmental organisations were ejected from the venue following a protest. Hundreds of people staged an...
uk/Six Ways the Police ‘Abused their Power’ During the Extinction Rebellion Protests
By Sophie Yeo
on
The police have been accused of abusing their power in more than 500 instances during the Extinction Rebellion protests in October, according to a report released this week by the independent Netwo...
us/Citing Latest Climate Science, Nearly 30 Arrested Protesting New Natural Gas Plant in New York’s Hudson Valley
By Justin Nobel
on
On Saturday, November 16, 29 people were arrested in a rally at a massive natural gas-fired power plant, the Cricket Valley Energy Center, that is being constructed in a picturesque rural valley of...
us/In Oregon and Five Other States, Youth Are Making Legal Cases for Climate Action
By Lee van der Voo
on
The Oregon Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday, November 13 to decide the fate of one of a half dozen state-level climate lawsuits filed on behalf of American youth. The plaintiffs in the Orego...

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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...
Series: Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley
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...
uk/COP25: NGOs Barred from UN Climate Talks After Unauthorised Protest
BySophie Yeo
on

The halls of the UN climate negotiations in Madrid are unusually quiet this evening, as non-governmental organisations were ejected from the venue following a protest. Hundreds of people staged an...
uk/Six Ways the Police ‘Abused their Power’ During the Extinction Rebellion Protests
BySophie Yeo
on

The police have been accused of abusing their power in more than 500 instances during the Extinction Rebellion protests in October, according to a report released this week by the independent Netwo...
us/Citing Latest Climate Science, Nearly 30 Arrested Protesting New Natural Gas Plant in New York’s Hudson Valley
ByJustin Nobel
on

On Saturday, November 16, 29 people were arrested in a rally at a massive natural gas-fired power plant, the Cricket Valley Energy Center, that is being constructed in a picturesque rural valley of...
us/In Oregon and Five Other States, Youth Are Making Legal Cases for Climate Action
ByLee van der Voo
on

The Oregon Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday, November 13 to decide the fate of one of a half dozen state-level climate lawsuits filed on behalf of American youth. The plaintiffs in the Orego...

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