After all the damage caused by extreme natural disasters in 2022, including Hurricane Julia in Central and South America and deadly floods in Nigeria and Australia, it’s challenging to envision how climate change could get any worse. However, a group…
In May of 2022, The Guardian published a five-month investigation about planned “carbon bombs," a term used to describe large fossil fuel projects or other big sources of carbon. According to their research, "these plans include 195 carbon bombs, gigantic…
Source: Wikimedia Commons By Olivia Amitay In the early 2000s, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) introduced the concept of a climate tipping point— a warming threshold that, when crossed, causes an irreversible positive feedback loop, producing cascading effects…
October 18, 2022 marked the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, whose laws are administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Its anniversary present was the start of a Supreme Court case – Sackett v. EPA – that might…
Source: Wikimedia Commons By Olivia Amitay In 1972, Congress passed the Clean Water Act with the intention to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the Nation's waterways. This law represented an astounding step towards protecting…
This episode of "The Sweaty Penguin" looks at the Permian Basin: a large region of Western Texas and Southeastern New Mexico, home to the highest emitting oil and gas project in North America. The Permian is also known as a…
Source: rawpixel By Melina Nguyen LGBTQIA+ communities are more likely to experience homelessness, air pollution and health problems compared to their cisgender, heterosexual counterparts because of extreme heat, say experts. Extreme heat is a period of high heat, usually alongside…
There have been a string of stunts recently with climate activists targeting artwork, from Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” and Monet’s “Grainstacks” being attacked with soup and mashed potatoes, and an individual gluing his head to Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring.”…
Source: Wikimedia Commons By Ethan Brown On December 31, 2022, Extinction Rebellion (XR) — a UK-headquartered global environmental organization founded in 2018, known for acts of civil disobedience — posted a piece on its website with the headline “WE QUIT.”…
In Edgewater, a bustling urban town across the Hudson River from Manhattan, the polluted site of a former factory sits right on the water. Today it's a Superfund site being cleaned up, destined to become a piece of prime real estate…
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