Sunday, April 6, 2025

How to turn neighborhoods into nubs of resilience

Three places showing how to make the transition from domination and resource extraction to regeneration and interdependence.

The fight against extinction requires biocultural restoration

The combined extinctions of Hawai‘i’s biodiversity and elements of Hawaiian culture represent the great unravelling of an eco-civilization.

Trump administration orders USDA and Forest Service to remove climate change references, suppressing critical...

The systematic erasure of climate change information from government websites threatens scientific transparency, public safety, and environmental policy.

Over 200 groups demand no water privatization in any infrastructure deal

“Water privatization has failed communities across the country and must be rejected in all its forms.”

Giant North Dakota oil spill from 2013 still not cleaned up

This is another example of how unsafe pipeline are, and that spills are not a question of “if” but “when.”

Fossil fuel groups ‘spent millions’ on social media ads spreading climate disinformation during COP27

The cost of living crisis and a surge in fossil fuel prices “turbocharged an ecosystem of disinformation” around the summit, study finds.

New York bans single-use plastic bags

New York becomes the second state to ban single-use plastic bags starting in March 2020.

Tribes and environmental groups sue Trump administration to preserve clean water protections

The administration’s latest attempt to undermine the Clean Water Act would jeopardize tribal and state rights to protect their water quality

The real Standing Rock victory is this: “Inevitable” is not what it used to...

The whole pipeline fiasco was a more appropriate story for the 19th century instead of the 21st. Now, the timing is ideal for a new beginning: #HealNorthDakota

World’s first floating wind farm will power 20,000 homes

Scotland has officially switched on the Hywind Scotland, the world's first floating wind farm.