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Watch John Oliver explain the Green New Deal like only he can
John Oliver covered the Green New Deal and carbon pricing on Last Week Tonight for a whole 19 minutes. Here's what he said:
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Which cities have concrete strategies for environmental justice?
How do you fix decades of racial segregation and zoning? Use the same tools that created the injustice in the first place, says a new report.
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California defies Trump to ban pesticide linked to childhood brain damage
“This job really should have been done by the U.S. EPA.”
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Joe Biden looks to revive Obama’s climate plan. Scientists say that’s not good enough.
“There may have been a chance for modest, ‘all of the above,’ ‘middle ground’ climate strategies 20 years ago but we’ve passed that point now.”
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Dam it all: More than half of the world’s long rivers are blocked by infrastucture
It hasn’t even been a week since the U.N. released a depressing report on biodiversity, and now, a new study in Nature shows that 63 percent of the world’s longest (at least 620 miles) rivers are impeded by human-built infrastructures such as dams and reservoirs. Dam(n). Rivers are a key source of food and water […]
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Hold on to your buns, because fake burgers are going wild
The meat vs. "meat" saga continues, but this time, the meat industry might be switching sides.
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Air pollution in many national parks is as bad as in Los Angeles
Nearly every single one of our national parks is plagued by significant air pollution.
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With hurricane season looming, Trump is blocking relief funds and mocking Puerto Rico
The way Trump has dealt with Puerto Rico and Hurricane Maria does not bode well for the this year's looming hurricane season.
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The Arctic Council brought up climate change, and the U.S. couldn’t handle the heat
The U.S. is really excited about melting ice in Arctic but doesn't want to acknowledge climate change