Category: Environment
Event: Mobilizing to Defeat Climate Change
by Washington Spectator | Sep 9, 2016 | Environment, PoliticsPhoto Credit: Azeem Azeez Join the New Republic and three of our nation’s leading environmental activists, Bill McKibben, Reverend Lennox Yearwood Jr., and Elizabeth Yeampierre for a critical public conversation on climate change, its social, political, and biological impact and what can be done now to arrest and where possible reverse its deadly progress. Writer […]
Sentimental Journeys
by Alyssa Battistoni | Jul 27, 2016 | Environment, PoliticsAsian Development Bank Climate change happens slowly. It’s technical and complicated—frankly, it’s boring. That is to say, it’s ideally suited for documentaries. It’s not a coincidence that the event most frequently cited as the beginning of popular climate consciousness was not a riot à la Stonewall, but the 2006 release of An Inconvenient Truth, […]
An Invisible Epidemic
by Janette Sherman and Joseph Mangano | Feb 4, 2016 | Environment, PoliticsPhoto Credit: Tobin Is it possible for an epidemic to be invisible? Since 1991 the annual number of newly documented cases of thyroid cancer in the United States has skyrocketed from 12,400 to 62,450. It’s now the seventh most common type of cancer. Relatively little attention is paid to the butterfly-shaped thyroid gland that wraps around […]
GOP Presidential Candidates Struggle With Oregon
by Hannah Gais | Jan 5, 2016 | Blog, Environment, PoliticsPhoto Credit: Gage Skidmore On Saturday, January 2, a group of armed anti-government protesters seized a building at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns, Oregon, aggrieved by the federal government’s treatment of ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond. The father-and-son duo were convicted of arson in 2012 after admitting that two fires they lit in […]
Did Canada’s Tar Sand Pipe Dream Just Die?
by Lou Dubose | Dec 9, 2015 | Environment, The Intervalphoto: Flickr user buen viaje Did the U.S. media miss a big environmental story while the world is focused on Paris? (And the neo-fascism of Donald Trump.) Maybe the biggest single-source climate victory in the past decade. On Monday, Canada’s daily Globe and Mail reported that the Northern Gateway Pipeline is “probably dead.” Nobody outside […]