Feb 11, 2023
According to a new study published last week in Earth’s Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, rising seas will swamp farmlands, pollute water supplies, and displace millions of people much sooner than expected. Sea level rise keeps speeding up, and...
Feb 10, 2023
According to a new study by the Union of Concerned Scientists, more than 14 million Americans live within just five miles of 104 cancer gas-emitting facilities. The study found that these commercial plants release large amounts of ethylene oxide. Ethylene oxide, a...
Feb 10, 2023
Indigenous science is a distinct, time-tested, and methodological knowledge system that can enhance and complement Western science. According to the Indigenous Science Network, “like Western science, Indigenous science relies upon direct observation for...
Feb 6, 2023
The environmental justice atlas documents and catalogs social conflict around environmental issues. Across the world, communities are struggling to defend their land, air, water, forests and livelihoods from damaging projects and extractive activities with heavy...
Feb 4, 2023
According to the Environmental Justice Foundation, we live in an era of extraordinary climate injustice. The impacts of the climate crisis are deepening already existing vulnerabilities and inequalities within and across generations, communities, and countries...
