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Druids prop up faerie stone knocked over by a bull to stop bad luck, sparking...
The story begins in 2009 in Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland. Donal Bohane had been renting some land from his cousin for farming, and on that land stood a neolithic standing stone that had been...
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The United States is the #1 worst G20 nation when it comes to climate change
The 2020 Climate Transparency Report was released in November 2020 as a collaboration between over a dozen think tanks and nonprofits supported by the World Bank Group. The report examines the...
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Meet the most fossil fuel-friendly member of Biden's cabinet
US Representative Cedric Richmond (D-LA), who served as the national co-chair for the campaign of President-Elect Joe Biden, has been named a senior adviser for the Office of Public Engagement...
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A stunning visualization of how racist housing policies create urban heat...
The New York Times has an extraordinary article—building on some earlier research from Yale Environment 360—that illustrates with frightening detail how racism, urban planning, and climate change go...
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The EPA has released the first ever pollution regulations for airplanes…but...
Aviation is notoriously bad for the environment. According to the nonprofit Environmental and Energy Study Institute, "Aircraft contribute 12 percent of U.S. transportation emissions, and account for...
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How fossil fuel companies are knowingly scheming to profit from climate change
In early March 2020, New York Magazine published an excellent article the went behind the scenes of a Shell corporate conference. It's a long read, but has continued to haunt me ever since, as...
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The Trump administration's last-minute attempt to sell off Alaskan drilling...
A small bit of good news that got overshadowed by the rest of the chaos on Wednesday, January 10: Shortly after President Trump lost his bid for re-election, the Trump Administration decided to push...
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Ocean pollution is shrinking mammal testicles
Lest you were convinced that caring about climate change or the environment was somehow emasculating, a new study from the Zoological Society of London should put your fears to rest. Or rather, it...
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Toyota just paid the largest fine ever for violating the Clean Air Act
The New York Times reports: Toyota Motor is set to pay a $180 million fine for longstanding violations of the Clean Air Act, the U.S. attorney's Office in Manhattan announced on Thursday, the largest...
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How regenerative crops and Afro-Indigenous farming techniques are putting...
One of the newest episodes of Gimlet Media's climate change podcast, How To Save A Planet, focuses on two very different farmers who take unique approaches to the same carbon-reduction practice:...
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Brilliant student creates solar panel powered by rotting food
Carvey Ehren Maigue, a student at Mapua University in the Phillipines, has found a way to power solar panels by utilizing food waste to harvest light, even on cloudy days. Maigue's AuReus: solar...
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Tropical peat conservation could help fight future pandemics
When I think of peat, I think of Scotch or Irish fireplaces. When I think of pandemics—pre-COVID, and now—I think about the impending doom of mutant virus strains spreading rapidly through increasingly...
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How to heat your chickens (and your home) with Bitcoin
For the first time ever, the Bitcoin market value has just topped $1 trillion. That's great news for crypto investors! Unfortunately, it also means the currency's energy consumption demands are...
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Meet the millennial who's mapping the Catholic Church's land holdings to...
Thanks to this fantastic New Yorker profile, I just learned about Good Lands, an environmental initiative run by Molly Burhans that aims to catalog the landholdings of the Catholic Church in order to...
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How carbon credits helped a Native American tribe buy back its land and...
A recent episode of Gimlet Media's How To Save A Planet podcast focuses on the Yurok Tribe of northern California, who embraced the Western economics game to buy back the land that was stolen from...
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Arctic Shipping Routes are melting early. It's good for trade, but not the...
The Northern Sea Route along the Bering Route has typically been open for passage from July to November. The rest of the year, the Arctic ice is just too thick for any ships to pass. In 2020, a Russian...
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Turning off your camera during Zoom calls is actually good for the environment
By this point, we've all been on both sides of it: speaking on a Zoom call, and feeling that sinking depth of human disconnection in your gut as you try to articulate something to a screen of...
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Amazon illegally fired climate change activists
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Amazon illegally retaliated against two internal critics when it fired them, reports Karen Weise for the New York Times. The employees, Emily...
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Stylish protestors use colorful tools to smash windows at Barclays London HQ
Seven smartly attired climate change activists were arrested in London earlier today after they calmly and methodically broke the windows of Barclays London headquarters. The stylish septet, who are...
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Meet the man who spent 2 years on house arrest after suing an oil company.
I first heard the story of Steven Donziger on the fifth season Amy Westervelt's brilliant true crime climate change podcast Drilled! But Esquire also recently published an excellent story about him as...
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