This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Elizabeth Yeampierre has been an important voice on these issues for more than two decades. As co-chair of the Climate Justice Alliance, she leads a coalition of more than 70 organizations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Parks and green spaces can tremendously benefit a community. When the community is involved in planning and decisionmaking processes, park amenities can better mirror the community’s priorities. Last month, the DC-based nonprofit Casey…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The United States is expected to experience as much sea-level rise by the year 2050 as it witnessed in the previous hundred years. That’s according to a NOAA-led report updating…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Daily Harvest, American Farmland Trust (AFT), and California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) recently launched a partnership that aims to help underserved farmers in California strengthen their farms and transition to sustainable agricultural practices. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The collective realization about our acceptance of polluted air has been one of the most spectacular realities unveiled by the new coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). As personal vehicle miles fell dramatically, skies in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of the most effective ways to promote children’s health is to reduce air pollution, according to a meta-analysis of 45 studies exploring the link between air pollution and stunting. The researchers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 2022 marks the second year of the last decade we have to solve climate change. Scientists are unanimous that we must halve global carbon emissions by 2030 to have a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sea levels are rising, and that will bring profound flood risks to large parts of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts over the next three decades. A new report led by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A multidecade study of young adults living in the United Kingdom has found higher rates of mental illness symptoms among those exposed to higher levels of traffic-related air pollutants, particularly…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change, on top of a long list of societal inequities, disproportionately harms incarcerated people in the U.S., a multi-part Intercept investigation reveals. California, Texas, and Florida have the highest…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, affectionately known as RGGI (pronounced “Reggie”), is becoming the coolest climate club on the East Coast. The program, which went into effect in 2009, places…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you want to clean up the largest pollution spill in the country, one unaltered by decades of work and billions of dollars, you need to spend a lot of…