It’s impossible to live sustainably without tackling inequality, activists say.
June 3, 2020 By Somini Sengupta
This week, with the country convulsed by protests over the killing of a black man named George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis, we decided we’d talk to leading black climate ...
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FORT COLLINS»A group of 57 businesses, environmental groups and other organizations has petitioned the board of the Platte River Power Authority to narrow its options for future electrical generation so that the utility’s primary coal-fired generato...
Earth Protect is pleased to announce the appointment of Laurel Manley, 4th year student at Colorado State University who is majoring in Biological Science and Ecosystem Science & Sustainability. Laurel will be with Earth Protect across the summer working on content development, dissemination and...
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NEW YORK» or those working to mitigate climate change — whether globally or hyperlocally — the coronavirus pandemic has raised existential questions. Will the environment still be considered critically import...
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CONTURSI TERME, ITALY» In the hills near Naples, something unusual was taking place at a pasta factory one day in February. In a nearby olive grove, engineers in safety gear had hooked up tanks of a hydroge...
Earth Day looked a little different this year. With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting people around the globe, in-person mass mobilizations and gatherings are not an option.Young people around the world are continuing the fight to safeguard our planet, and are motivating all of us to continue the figh...

Words by Tina Casey
MAY 25, 2020

Analysts were already predicting the end of recycling last year, when mountains of waste began to pile up after China and other countries began refusing to accept such shipments from overseas. The COVID-19 outbreak has further complicated global recyc...
Tina Casey, May 20, 2020
Signs of a business consensus on a green COVID-19 recovery are continuing to grow. In the latest development, the We Mean Business group of 155 leading global corporations has joined with the UN Global Compact and the Science Based Targets initiative to advocate for e...
Coronavirus has changed how our cities operate. People aren’t driving everywhere, flying frequently or using tons of electricity. As a result, global carbon emissions could fall as much as 2.5 billion tonnes in 2020. And city leaders are taking note. Amid the destruction of lives and the global econ...
MAY 5, 2020 While the exact origin of the coronavirus outbreak remains debated, scientists know we’ll face more pandemics in the future without decisive action.
Infectious diseases have been rising since the 1950s, with an estimated three out of every four disease coming from animals. We...
Projecting Climate Demands Outside Chase CEO's Home
Today is Chase's biggest meeting of the year. Since we can't be there in person, we decided to do something different and project our demands across the street from Chase CEO Jamie Dimon's house last night.
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BANGKOK»Six days a week, the butchers of Tomohon gather at Indonesia’s most notorious market and cut up bats, rats, snakes and lizards that were taken from the wilds of Sul...
TNYT, May 13, 2020 Brad Plumer
WASHINGTON — The United States is on track to produce more electricity this year from renewable power than from coal for the first time on record, new government projections show, a transformation partly driven by the coronavirus pandemic, with profound implicat...
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Coronavirus has changed how our cities operate. People aren’t driving everywhere, flying frequently or using tons of electricity. As a result, global carbon emissions could fall as much as 2.5 billion tonnes in 2020. And city leaders are taking note. Amid the destruc...
By Steven Erlanger TNYT, Published May 9, 2020 Updated May 11, 2020
The battle over how to spend recovery funds — to quickly restore the old economy or invest in a greener one — will define the post-pandemic world.
BRUSSELS — With the global paralysis induced by the coronavirus, levels of ...
Public support for action on climate change and hundreds of wind and solar co-ops that brought benefits to local communities restarted a stalled movement.By Dan Gearino APR 30, 2020
BERLIN—Twenty years ago, before climate change was as widely seen as the existential threat it is today, Germany emba...
Published: 01 April 2020 Nature volume 580,
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Sustainable Development Goal 14 of the United Nations aims to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development”. Achieving this goal will require rebuilding the marine life-support system...
Shared from the 5/10/2020 The Denver Post eEdition By Nadja Popovich, Kendra Pierre-Louis and Livia Albeck-Ripka
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After three years in office, the Trump administration has dismantled most of the major climate and environmental policies the president promised to undo.
C...
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Mountain lions face an uncertain future under a new state plan to let hunters kill up to 15% a year across western Colorado, and more near subdivisions — rankling animal rights advocates who favor a live-and-let-...
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DEADLY PEST By Mike Baker © The New York Times Co.
BLAINE, WASH.»In his decades of beekeeping, Ted McFall had never seen anything like it.
As he pulled his truck up to check on a group of hives near Custer, Wash., in November, he could spot from t...
