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![Aerial View of the West Side of Lummi Island During a Beautiful Sunrise.]()
![Aerial View of the West Side of Lummi Island During a Beautiful Sunrise.]()
This community put the brakes on oil, coal, and natural gas with one law. Yours can, too.
Whatcom County’s watershed victory should inspire local governments to join dozens of others that have quashed new fossil fuel proposals.
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Climate change is scary. This therapist says lean into those feelings.
Too many people are avoiding climate reality. A professional offers 6 ways to stay engaged — for the planet and for our mental health.
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Science has a prescription for the ocean’s heartburn. Some side effects are worth it.
A project to de-acidify bay waters saved baby oysters in Oregon — and has the potential to save the oceans. We just need to get more comfortable with geoeingeering to do it.
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Puerto Rico’s future is solar. Recovery funds should go there, not to its outdated grid.
Rather than pour more money into a doomed system, Puerto Rico should use FEMA funds to provide every resident, business, and institution on the island with rooftop solar and storage.
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![Image of pill bottles on top of a background showing contaminated water]()
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Doctors could prescribe greener (and probably fewer) drugs. If only they had more information.
Pharmaceuticals have shocking downstream environmental consequences, but physicians and consumers need transparency to make better choices.
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The climate crisis is making us sick. Doctors need better training to treat it.
Few medical schools include climate change in their curricula, so physicians are ill-equipped to prevent resulting illness and death, or even reduce their own carbon footprint.
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![The coastline of São Miguel Dos Milagres, Brazil]()
![The coastline of São Miguel Dos Milagres, Brazil]()
Climate policy has an ocean-sized hole in it. My legislation would change that.
Arizona representative Raúl Grijalva on his ambitious plan to bolster blue carbon and coastal economies.
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![Drilling Rig On Private Property in Rural Calvert, Pennsylvania]()
![Drilling Rig On Private Property in Rural Calvert, Pennsylvania]()
In the U.S., private landowners can decide where fracking is allowed. It shouldn’t be up to them.
State and local governments have had little luck banning fracking. It’s time to begin restricting property owners' rights to exploit the resources beneath their land.
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![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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The climate crisis needs a feminist response, not a military one
Climate is being defined as a national security issue, but ‘security’ doesn’t have to mean violence.
