Climate Justice
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![Illustration of fiction writers]()
![Illustration of fiction writers]()
Why intersectionality in fiction matters
The best writers establish connections between diverse communities, which is essential to addressing planetary challenges.
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![Vanessa Nakate advocates for girls' education as a climate solution]()
![Vanessa Nakate advocates for girls' education as a climate solution]()
Girls’ education isn’t just a human right. It’s the next big climate solution.
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate is advocating for expanding access to schooling for girls in low-income countries — a policy that could drastically cut emissions.
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![An educator helping young kids make a chalk drawing of the earth]()
![An educator helping young kids make a chalk drawing of the earth]()
Bills banning critical race theory also threaten climate education
More than two dozen bills seek to ban critical race theory from public school curricula. That is a direct threat to climate education and justice.
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![Wawa Gatheru and Ki'Amber Thompson]()
![Wawa Gatheru and Ki'Amber Thompson]()
These environmental justice leaders are creating the spaces they wish they’d had
Wawa Gatheru and Ki’Amber Thompson both came to environmentalism by accident. Now they’re making sure more people can find their way.
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![Firefighters watch a prescribed burn in South Lake Tahoe, California]()
![Firefighters watch a prescribed burn in South Lake Tahoe, California]()
As the nation prepares to burn again, Indigenous fire practices are a hot topic
On the Yurok Reservation in Northern California, Rick O’Rourke fights fire with fire — and teaches others to do the same.
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![Illustration of a traditional Chamorro canoe sailing around a polluted earth.]()
![Illustration of a traditional Chamorro canoe sailing around a polluted earth.]()
Pacific Islanders have been fighting environmental crises for centuries, if only the world would notice
The 10 million residents of Oceania are among the most frontline of frontline communities — and they have much to teach the rest of us.
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![Sogorea Te’ Land Trust cofounders Corrina Gould and Johnella LaRose]()
![Sogorea Te’ Land Trust cofounders Corrina Gould and Johnella LaRose]()
‘This land was stolen’: Behind the fight to recover sacred Indigenous lands in the Bay Area
The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust has dedicated itself to reclaiming Ohlone shellmounds and other sites. “Even if it’s a postage stamp, it doesn’t matter. We are getting the land back.”
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![Indigenous attorney Tara Houska stands against the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota.]()
![Indigenous attorney Tara Houska stands against the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota.]()
A pipeline is threatening their homeland. Indigenous women are fighting back.
To tribal attorney Tara Houska, the fight against the Line 3 pipeline is a fight for future generations.
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![A demonstrator marches, holding a Black Lives Matter flag, during the sixth night of protests over the shooting death of Daunte Wright by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota on April 16, 2021.]()
![A demonstrator marches, holding a Black Lives Matter flag, during the sixth night of protests over the shooting death of Daunte Wright by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota on April 16, 2021.]()
As a Black climate activist, racism gets in my way
White activists wonder why Black communities aren’t more climate-focused. Allies know that fighting racial injustice is the first step.
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![UPROSE members participating in the People's Climate March]()
![UPROSE members participating in the People's Climate March]()
A just transition doesn’t have to be top-down. This Brooklyn neighborhood is proof.
Residents of Sunset Park are creating their own climate adaptation and resiliency plans, with the help of community organization UPROSE.
