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Environmental Justice

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The Ask

Injustice Forever? Toxic PFAS Chemicals Have ‘Made a Mockery of Our Environmental Regulations’

With a lack of regulations addressing toxic “forever chemicals,” students and professors at a Vermont college have taken their research skills into communities to spur action.
December 17, 2021
by
Tara Lohan
With a lack of regulations addressing toxic “forever chemicals,” students and professors at a Vermont college have taken their research skills into communities to spur action.
Facilities and emissions at night
The Ask

The Fight Against Plastic: ‘If You’re Not at the Table, You’re on the Menu’

A new podcast puts BIPOC storytelling front and center in working for solutions to the plastic crisis.
December 3, 2021
by
Tara Lohan
A new podcast puts BIPOC storytelling front and center in working for solutions to the plastic crisis.
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Op-Eds

Human Rights Depend on a Thriving Natural World

Any work to achieve human-rights gains will be upended unless we address our climate and biodiversity crises.
November 8, 2021
by
Steve Trent
Any work to achieve human-rights gains will be upended unless we address our climate and biodiversity crises.
smokestacks on horizon
Book Excerpts

Why We Need Environmental Justice at the Heart of Climate Action

The Global South and communities of color in Global North countries disproportionately face harms from climate change, writes Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate in her new book, A Bigger Picture.
November 3, 2021
by
Vanessa Nakate
The Global South and communities of color in Global North countries disproportionately face harms from climate change, writes Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate in her new book, A Bigger Picture.
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Editorials

Voter Suppression Is the New Climate Denial

The slow-moving coup threatens not just democracy but meaningful action on climate, extinction and environmental justice.
October 27, 2021
by
John R. Platt
The slow-moving coup threatens not just democracy but meaningful action on climate, extinction and environmental justice.
Reviews

12 Environmental Novels We’re Reading This Fall

Whether you’re into literary fiction, thrillers, sci-fi or comics, these new novels help us explore the complex geographies of climate change, pollution and the extinction crisis.
October 21, 2021
by
John R. Platt
Whether you’re into literary fiction, thrillers, sci-fi or comics, these new novels help us explore the complex geographies of climate change, pollution and the extinction crisis.
Brookhaven landfill protest
Pollution & Toxins

‘We’re Taking Action Into Our Own Hands’ — A Community Stands Against a Landfill

Long Island residents and their allies seek environmental justice after decades of pollution.
October 13, 2021
by
Erica Cirino
Long Island residents and their allies seek environmental justice after decades of pollution.
Waipi'o Valley, Hawaiʻi. Photo: Claire Fackler/ CINMS, NOAA
Voices

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.
October 11, 2021
by
Kawika B. Winter
The combined extinctions of Hawai‘i’s biodiversity and elements of Hawaiian culture represent the great unravelling of an eco-civilization.
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Op-Eds

To Save the Planet, We Need to End Corporate Funding of Police

Those fighting to protect the planet face intense police repression that's funded by private corporations.
August 16, 2021
by
Shea Leibow
Those fighting to protect the planet face intense police repression that's funded by private corporations.
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Ideas

Five Shifts to Decolonize Ecological Science — Or Any Field of Knowledge

European “explorers” left their mark not only on the environment, but also in knowledge systems.
July 21, 2021
by
The Conversation
European “explorers” left their mark not only on the environment, but also in knowledge systems.

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