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Why Whales are Climate Change Heroes

February 15, 2020

Willie Mackenzie

What makes whales so important? It’s actually a number of reasons. Undoubtedly these are amazing animals in their own right, with complex social structures, and even their own types of culture. And many of the ways that whales amaze us are the very reasons they help keep oceans healthy.

Green is the New Black: How Black Staff are Working to Center Justice, Solidarity and Liberation at Greenpeace

February 13, 2020

Lauren E. Wiggins

Meet Some of the Greenpeacers Carving Out a Place for Black Liberation in the Environmental Movement

Indigenous law and the raids on Wet’suwet’en

February 13, 2020

Without the support of hereditary chiefs, pushing through the Coastal GasLink pipeline violates Indigenous rights.

4 ways to shrink the fossil fuel industry and protect the climate

February 7, 2020

Tim Donaghy

Unless we take steps to halt and reverse the expansion of fossil fuel production, roughly half of any emissions reductions we might achieve through a Green New Deal could be lost.

Governor Newsom: here's how we're grading your climate leadership

February 6, 2020

Caroline Henderson

Despite its reputation for climate action, California continues to be a major oil and gas producer. Here's how we'll be grading Governor Newsom on his climate leadership until the end of 2020.

3 ways we can solve the air pollution crisis

February 5, 2020

Air pollution is no match for all of us, working together. All the solutions listed here are already happening around the world because people came together and demanded it.

Racist Housing Practices Linked To Hotter Neighborhoods

January 31, 2020

Jack Shapiro

We need a responsible phaseout of fossil fuel production with a just transition for workers, to ensure that some communities are not left behind to continue suffering from fracking fluid spills or toxic air pollution from the refinery next door, while others get cleaner and safer.

The resistance continues: Amazon Indigenous Leaders gather to launch 2020 activities

January 30, 2020

Shockingly, the government is preparing to introduce legislation that would take away veto power of Indigenous Peoples, who have the exclusive use of their territories under the Constitution

Greenpeace activists hang a cloud-shaped banner outside of Amazon.com's headquarters, and across the street from Microsoft offices, reading

Microsoft, Google, Amazon – Who’s the Biggest Climate Hypocrite?

January 27, 2020

Elizabeth Jardim

With all the frenzy around Microsoft’s carbon negative announcement, it would seem that cloud companies are champing at the bit to lead on climate solutions. But the truth is more complicated...

How Did We Get Here? The Politics Behind the Tongass Attack and Next Steps for Preservation

January 21, 2020

Lauren E. Wiggins

This directive to fully exempt a national forest from the 2001 National Roadless Rule is unprecedented. The Tongass has been protected for decades. And yet, Trump and his administrative cronies still seek a rollback on environmental protections.

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