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Civil Eats • 3rd March 2021

As Food Scrap Collection Peaks, NYC Community Compost Sites Face Evictions

Big questions remain about the future of food waste disposal in a city of 8 million that committed to sending zero waste to the landfill by 2030.

Guernica Magazine • 15th June 2020

Poison Route

National Grid’s North Brooklyn pipeline will funnel fracked gas through largely low-income neighborhoods of color. Can it be stopped?

The Intercept • 26th October 2020

The Dark Money-Funded Women’s Group Rallying Behind Amy Coney Barrett

The Independent Women’s Forum and its sister group have received millions from dark-money groups advancing conservative control of the courts.

The New York Times • 11th August 2020

When Disasters Overlap

Cities around the world are facing more frequent and more deadly heat waves, and New York is no exception. But community organizers say the city’s response could use some help in one key area: communication.

Popular Science • 19th July 2020

A potential wave of mass evictions could make this year’s turbulent hurricane season even worse

The confluence of a pandemic, mass evictions, and a particularly nasty hurricane season could make the rest of 2020 even more of a nightmare.

Civil Eats • 28th January 2021

Questions Remain about Big Food's Influence on the New Dietary Guidelines

Advocates and experts point to a long-standing pattern of corporate influence on the nation’s ‘go-to source of nutrition advice.’

The Intercept • 5th February 2021

Indigenous Groups Push Insurers to Abandon Fossil Fuel Projects

Indigenous land defenders are increasingly pressuring the financiers of fossil fuel infrastructure to respect their sovereign land right.

Popular Science • 12th October 2020

Toxic waste sites aren’t prepared for hurricane season

The EPA has ignored reports that Superfund sites are not resilient to climate change, and communities are at risk.

Popular Science • 26th October 2020

We didn’t track hurricanes hundreds of years ago—but trees did

Researchers are trying to extend the tropical storm record by looking inside ancient coastal trees.

Grist • 4th January 2021

How activists successfully shut down key pipeline projects in New York

Years of coordinated grassroots opposition prevented the construction of 931 miles of interstate pipeline across the northeast, including 448 miles within New York.

The Intercept • 7th October 2020

The House Just Passed Another “Save Our Seas” Act. Here’s Why It Won’t.

In narrowly focusing on marine plastic debris, the law fails to address the behavior that is at the root of the plastic crisis: the fossil-fuel intensive production of plastics

Popular Science • 14th October 2020

Slow, meandering hurricanes are often more dangerous—and they’re getting more common

Hurricanes are often described as “barreling” through a region, yet some of the most dangerous storms in recent years have exhibited just the opposite behavior: meandering, roaming, and hovering for days on end.

Al Jazeera • 12th October 2020

Is the climate crisis creating a mental health crisis?

A growing network of psychiatrists is tackling a mental health crisis spurred by climate change.

Popular Science • 26th October 2020

Severe storms are increasingly leaving us without power. Microgrids can help.

Severe storms are increasingly leaving us without power. Microgrids can help. As climate change spurs worsening hurricanes, renewable microgrids have the potential to generate and redistribute power.

Popular Science • 30th July 2020

Nursing homes aren’t equipped to provide life-saving A/C in the event of a power outage

Despite tragedies, there is no federal requirement for nursing homes to have backup generators capable of restoring power to the air conditioning.

Popular Science • 1st November 2020

Healthy ecosystems are nature’s barrier to hurricane damage

A new report documents how natural ecosystems can safeguard communities from supercharged hurricanes and other natural disasters.

Teen Vogue • 22nd June 2020

What a Democratic President Could Do On Climate Change Right Away

It didn't take long for the Green New Deal, a framework and policy package designed to meet the scale of the crisis by addressing far-reaching inequality and decarbonizing the United States economy at once, to gain quick traction — and the support of the majority of Americans.

Teen Vogue • 2nd January 2020

The Real Reason California’s Wildfires Are Getting Worse

California’s beautiful stretches of forest and grassland are meant to burn. Fire is a natural part of the state’s diverse ecosystems, and native plants (including sequoias and redwoods) have adapted to withstand periodic fires. But California was never meant to burn the way it is now.

Civil Eats • 18th November 2019

High Plains Farmers Race to Save the Ogallala Aquifer

About a decade ago, Chris Grotegut realized that he had to start pumping much less groundwater out of his wells. It dawned on the cattle rancher and grain farmer that if he didn’t act soon, there may not be enough water to sustain his 11,000-acre farm in Hereford, Texas—much less to support the next generation on his land.

Greta Moran

The Longest 80 Miles: How Nursing Home Evictions Tear Families Apart

As Food Scrap Collection Peaks, NYC Community Compost Sites Face Evictions

Poison Route

The Dark Money-Funded Women’s Group Rallying Behind Amy Coney Barrett

When Disasters Overlap

A potential wave of mass evictions could make this year’s turbulent hurricane season even worse

Questions Remain about Big Food's Influence on the New Dietary Guidelines

Indigenous Groups Push Insurers to Abandon Fossil Fuel Projects

Toxic waste sites aren’t prepared for hurricane season

We didn’t track hurricanes hundreds of years ago—but trees did

How activists successfully shut down key pipeline projects in New York

The House Just Passed Another “Save Our Seas” Act. Here’s Why It Won’t.

Slow, meandering hurricanes are often more dangerous—and they’re getting more common

Is the climate crisis creating a mental health crisis?

Severe storms are increasingly leaving us without power. Microgrids can help.

Nursing homes aren’t equipped to provide life-saving A/C in the event of a power outage

Healthy ecosystems are nature’s barrier to hurricane damage

What a Democratic President Could Do On Climate Change Right Away

The Real Reason California’s Wildfires Are Getting Worse

High Plains Farmers Race to Save the Ogallala Aquifer

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