climate change - Deceleration (Page 2)

Her Body Was 126 Degrees After She Died; Bexar County Medical Examiner Blames Drugs

Jessica Witzel’s autopsy report raises an important question: How many other heat-related deaths among unhoused residents are being erased by the failure to collect and report accurate data on climate-related mortality?

By Marisol Cortez

/ 9 Jan 2025

Her Body Was 126 Degrees After She Died; Bexar County Medical Examiner Blames Drugs

Fighting for the Climate Under Authoritarianism Regimes—A Q&A with Yeb Saño

Former chief climate diplomat for the Philippines Yeb Saño discusses his work with Greenpeace Southeast Asia and the challenges climate activists face under repressive governments.

By Waging Nonviolence

/ 22 Nov 2024

Fighting for the Climate Under Authoritarianism Regimes—A Q&A with Yeb Saño

National Climate Organizers Say They’re Ready for ‘An Absolute Fight’ During Trump 2.0

Disheartened, worried, even scared, activists and strategists are nevertheless better prepared this time around and bracing for a long fight.

By Inside Climate News

/ 14 Nov 2024

National Climate Organizers Say They’re Ready for ‘An Absolute Fight’ During Trump 2.0

Louisiana PLEDGE Campaign Seeks to Liberate ‘Cancer Alley’ & Build a Climate Resilient Economy

Inspired by the climate-driven insurance crisis, congressional candidate Devin Davis signed onto the full PLEDGE campaign, which uses electoral politics to build movement power to reject fossil fuels and resist becoming their ‘extraction colonies.’

By Frances Madeson

/ 22 Oct 2024

Louisiana PLEDGE Campaign Seeks to Liberate ‘Cancer Alley’ & Build a Climate Resilient Economy

In Climate Vulnerable New Mexico, Acequia Networks that Have Sustained Families for Generations Are Under Threat

Traditional irrigation canals have long held communal—even ‘spiritual’—power while helping balance the water supply during droughts. But this communal system is increasingly threatened by commodication of water, growers say.

By Undark

/ 18 Oct 2024

In Climate Vulnerable New Mexico, Acequia Networks that Have Sustained Families for Generations Are Under Threat

Trump’s Promised Mass Deportations Would Hurt Families—and ‘Decimate’ the U.S. Food Supply Chain

If the Republican candidate carries out his immigration agenda, who will run America’s farms?

By Grist

/ 17 Oct 2024

Trump’s Promised Mass Deportations Would Hurt Families—and ‘Decimate’ the U.S. Food Supply Chain

Hurricane Misinformation Deluge Reveals New Escalating Climate Hazard

Dangerous online rumors that exploded after Hurricane Helene could be just the beginning, says emergency management expert Samantha Montano.

By Yale Climate Connections

/ 12 Oct 2024

Hurricane Misinformation Deluge Reveals New Escalating Climate Hazard

Is ‘Cool Pavement’ … Cool? Pedestrians & Bicyclists May Not Think So

Deceleration measured heat at one location and found reflected heat from the street was worse at the cool pavement location

By Greg Harman

/ 9 Oct 2024

Is ‘Cool Pavement’ … Cool? Pedestrians & Bicyclists May Not Think So

‘Extreme Weather Survivors’: The Women Trying to Humanize the Climate Crisis

“I want a safe world for my baby and all of our babies and all of our kids that have, through no fault of their own, inherited a giant problem.”

By The 19th

/ 4 Oct 2024

‘Extreme Weather Survivors’: The Women Trying to Humanize the Climate Crisis

Our Homes–and Bodies–Weren’t Built to Survive this Heat

As the heat index drops below advisory levels in South Texas, my brain finally has energy to reflect back on how my dogs and I survived–and didn’t—the increasingly deadly heat of these past two summers.

By Rachel Cywinski

/ 1 Oct 2024

Our Homes–and Bodies–Weren’t Built to Survive this Heat

North Carolina to Kathmandu, Floodwaters Bringing Death & Destruction

“It is hard to open social media without seeing cellphone videos from the cars-washing-down-steep-streets genre; everywhere the flows are muddy-brown, and swirling with power,” Bill McKibben said. Edward Carver | Common

By Common Dreams

/ 1 Oct 2024

North Carolina to Kathmandu, Floodwaters Bringing Death & Destruction

CPS Energy’s Fossil Fuel Fixation Threatens Our Future

To best navigate our climate crisis, the people of greater San Antonio need their City Council to seize the controls of our wayward City-owned utility.

By Darby Riley

/ 25 Sep 2024

CPS Energy’s Fossil Fuel Fixation Threatens Our Future