Sign up to receive the Climate Beat weekly newsletter in your inbox. Plastics are everywhere in modern life. And since plastics are forever, the world’s seas are now littered with massive gyres of plastic waste — billions of tons of used food containers, water bottles, fishing gear, and other items that fragment into microplastics, “wreaking […]
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As environmental abuses continue around the world, some governments and corporations are going to extraordinary lengths to criminalize lawful, public protest. UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders, Michel Forst, last month issued a memo that called “increasingly severe crackdowns on environmental defenders” in the UK “extremely worrying.” Authorities in Uganda, Spain, and Germany have also […]
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Sign up for the weekly Climate on the Ballot newsletter. Welcome to Climate on the Ballot, the weekly elections email from Covering Climate Now’s editors. Our goal over the next 39 weeks is to help you and your newsroom make the climate crisis an integral part of your coverage of this year’s elections — local, […]
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Sign up to receive the Climate Beat weekly newsletter in your inbox. Let’s start with three facts: More voters around the world face elections in 2024 than ever before. Last year was the hottest in recorded history. And scientists warn that oil, gas, and coal must be rapidly phased out if we are to preserve […]
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This piece originally appeared in the Guardian. Fact one: more voters face national elections in 2024 than ever before in recorded history – about 4 billion people, nearly half the human population. Fact two: last year was the hottest in recorded history – and scientists warn that oil, gas and coal burning must be rapidly […]
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