December 5, 2023
How Movement Organizations Organized Funders
December 4, 2023
‘The Most Imperiled Ecosystem’: Grassland Wildlife Declining in West Texas, Great Plains
December 5, 2023
How Movement Organizations Organized Funders
December 4, 2023
‘The Most Imperiled Ecosystem’: Grassland Wildlife Declining in West Texas, Great Plains
When Racha Mousdikoudine opens her kitchen faucet, she never knows what will happen. “Maybe I won’t get any water at all,” she told CNN. “Maybe I’ll get 30 minutes of water. Maybe the water will only come after hours of waiting.” For the last four months, Mousdikoudine and her two children have had little or […]
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Even as Australia braces for a summer of projected extreme heatwaves and bushfires amid the intensifying climate crisis, the fossil gas industry is gearing up for a truly enormous new fracking project in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin. In February, a CSIRO-backed report was published, stating Beetaloo could be developed without adding to Australia’s net emissions. In […]
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The Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI), in partnership with the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, conducted a study “[t]racking progress with the TPI Net Zero Banking Assessment Framework.” As part of its assessment process, TPI used the Net Zero Baking Assessment Framework to evaluate banks’ progress in managing the low-carbon transition and mitigating the […]
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The study of whale ecology did not begin until most populations had been depleted by commercial whaling. Some species still teeter on the edge of extinction, whereas others have shown encouraging signs of recovery. The Eastern Pacific population of gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) was hunted to low levels in the 19th century but was protected […]
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Mangroves are incredibly beneficial to Florida’s environment, and they wear a lot of proverbial hats. Mangroves play a critical role in a lot of marine ecosystems: they filter the water, act as a nursery habitat, and maintain healthy biodiversity. Mangroves also protect Southwest Florida’s coastlines from storm surge and other harmful impacts from major storms and […]
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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) issued SRF funding to 71 projects across the state in fiscal year 2023 for water system upgrades. These projects reduce the risk of contaminants entering drinking water, surface water and ground water resources across the state and reduce pressure on local governments to raise water […]
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International climate campaigner Bill McKibben said that the apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum shows that “the engagement of religious leaders may be the best chance we have” to confront the climate crisis. He welcomed the follow-up to Laudato Si’ while speaking at an online event organised by the Laudato Si’ Movement on the day of its publication. More than 12,000 people […]
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A Swedish court on Wednesday fined climate activist Greta Thunberg once again for disobeying police during an environmental protest in July in southern Sweden. The Malmo District Court ordered her to pay a 2,250 kroner ($206) fine. Thunberg, who already had been fined for a similar offense, took part in a July 24 environmental protest […]
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The World Bank is seeking to persuade governments to take money away from subsidies for fossil fuels and invest it in good causes like climate change. Governments around the world currently spend over half a trillion dollars a year on making the use of fossil fuels cheaper and the bank wants some of this to […]
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Newberry community welcomed hundreds from across the state to spectate and compete at this year’s Newberry Rodeo. Competitors on Friday were high-school-aged children competing for scholarship money, including Jacob Helms. Helms says he wants to pursue rodeoing professionally and believes it can help others his age pursue their dreams. “It teaches kids a lot, […]
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