Latest Ecology

• Caputo: Hazardous Homes

  Thousands of U.S. Public Housing Residents Live in the Country’s Most Polluted Places
• Redfern: New Mexico’s Economists: “Like It or Not, We’re at the Tail End of the Fossil Fuel Age.”

  Right now, more than 40% of the state’s income relies on the boom-and-bust fortunes of oil and gas. Now, according to a trio of New Mexico’s leading economists, the time has come to change course
• First-Arai: Ecosystem Destruction Fueled the Pandemic. Pollution Has Made It Worse

  A small increase in long-term exposure to polluted air leads to a large increase in COVID-19 death rates
• Service: 500+ Groups Call on President-Elect Biden To Order Fossil Fuel Lease Ban

  Hundreds of conservation, Native American, religious, and business groups today sent President-elect Joe Biden text for a proposed executive order to ban new fossil fuel leasing and permitting on federal public lands and waters
• First-Arai: Factory Farms Are Poisoning Rural Communities

  Joe Biden’s plan for rural America does not mention any kind of comprehensive farm reform
• Kelloway: Vilsack for Agriculture Secretary Is Everything That’s Wrong With Democratic Party

  Our planet and rural communities cannot afford four more years of Vilsack’s aggressive corporatism
• Shouro Dasgupta, and Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson: Climate change is resulting in profound, immediate and worsening health impacts, over 120 researchers say

  If responses to the economic impacts of COVID-19 align with an effective response to climate change, we’ll see immense benefits for human health, with cleaner air, healthier diets and more liveable cities
• Avery: Human Society And The Biosphere

  As the greenhouse gas emissions of human society push the earth towards catastrophic climate change, rates of extinction in the biosphere will certainly become higher
• Wilkins: Indigenous Water Protectors Take Direct Action Against Minnesota Tar Sands Pipeline

  Construction on the Enbridge Line 3 extension—which will transport up to 760,000 barrels of the world's dirtiest oil daily—began earlier this week, despite strong Native opposition
• Carrington: World Is ‘Doubling Down’ on Fossil Fuels Despite Climate Crisis – UN Report

  Production must fall by 6% a year to avoid ‘severe climate disruption’ but Covid-19 funding is supporting increases
• Arnsdorf: Trump Races to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections

  The Trump administration is rushing to approve dozens of eleventh-hour policy changes. Among them: The Justice Department is fast-tracking a rule that could reintroduce firing squads and electrocutions to federal executions
• Corbett: Michigan Gov. Moves to Shut Down Line 5 Pipeline to Protect Great Lakes

  "Enbridge has imposed on the people of Michigan an unacceptable risk of a catastrophic oil spill in the Great Lakes that could devastate our economy and way of life."
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  Cole: As Wind, Solar, surge, Renewables to be Globe’s largest Source of Electricity by 2025

  The International Energy Agency just issued a report concluding that wind and solar are growing rapidly, unlike beleaguered fossil fuels, and that in only five years they will be generating a third of the world’s electricity, overtaking coal
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  Glick: Want USA Unity? Go Solar and Wind

  A rapid acceleration of wind and solar isn’t just good for our destabilizing climate. It’s also a job creator, millions of socially-valuable, potentially union jobs
• MacDonald: Exxon Spends Millions on Facebook To Keep the Fossil Fuel Industry Alive

  Aided by a right-wing political consulting firm, the company is rallying supporters to fight for oil and gas interests at every level of government
• Koehler: Life in Cancer Alley

  Shut up and let corporate America — and also, for that matter, corporate Taiwan — get on with its business. We have ethane to crack and plastic to produce. We dare not let America run out of shopping bags
• Horn: After Dakota Access CEO gave $10M, Trump pushed secret pipeline permits

  “It wouldn’t be the first time he’s given Trump cash shortly before getting lucky with his pipelines”
• And Kendra Pierre-Louis: The Trump Administration Is Reversing 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List

  After three years in office, the Trump administration has dismantled most of the major climate and environmental policies the president promised to undo.
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  Shiva: Bill Gates’ Global Agenda and How We Can Resist His War on Life

  When we wage war on the biodiversity of our forests, our farms, and in our guts, we wage war on ourselves
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  Wakes: What the Flint Water Crisis Meant for My Family

  Take it from me: You don't want to go through what we did. Every community deserves water, life, and dignity.
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  Lerner: As the West Burns, Trump Administration Races to Demolish Environmental Protections

  Polluters and their agents in government want to finalize as many environmental rollbacks as possible before the presidential election
• Hyman: New Fossil Fuel Projects Meet Indigenous Resistance in New Mexico

  “They’ve always put a price tag on our forehead, and just expect us to be quiet”
• Libardi: Amazon heroes who don’t give up

  The Guardians of the Forest, a group of indigenous Guajajara in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, struggle to defend their land from invaders and to guarantee their survival in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic
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  Jamail: Fracking Company Has Made It Rain Toxic Water Upon New Mexico Without Penalty

  New Mexico is faced with this fundamental issue: Does it fill its coffers with blood money, sacrificing the health of its people in order to reap funding from the oil and gas industry? Or does it hold accountable an entire industry that is poisoning its people and the Land of Enchantment?
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  Monbiot: Watery Grave

  Across the UK, our rivers are being turned into filthy, dead gutters, at astonishing, heartbreaking speed.