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How I got my school district to combat climate change through food

How I got my school district to combat climate change through food

Thanks for your interest in Friends of the Earth. You can find information about us and get in touch the following ways: Growing up in California, where forest fires and...

Scientists Again Call for Civil Disobedience To Spur Climate Action, Saying ‘Time is Short’ - Inside Climate News

Scientists Again Call for Civil Disobedience To Spur Climate Action, Saying ‘Time is Short’ - Inside Climate News

For the second time this year, climate researchers are urging their colleagues to risk arrest and commit acts of civil disobedience in an effort to pressure governments to take...

Germany’s €9 train tickets scheme ‘saved 1.8m tons of CO2 emissions’

Germany’s €9 train tickets scheme ‘saved 1.8m tons of CO2 emissions’

Germany’s three-month experiment with €9 tickets for a month’s unlimited travel on regional train networks, trams and buses saved about 1.8m tons of CO emissions, it has been...

U.S. Approval of Labor Unions at Highest Point Since 1965

U.S. Approval of Labor Unions at Highest Point Since 1965

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Seventy-one percent of Americans now approve of labor unions. Although statistically similar to last year's 68%, it is up from 64% before the pandemic and is...

Standard Bank board: fossil fuel ties brought to light

Standard Bank board: fossil fuel ties brought to light

Standard Bank shareholders call to action. Photo: Just Share Go to: Related Banks Related Dodgy Deals Seven of Standard Bank’s 18 board members are conflicted on climate...

Cost of living: four ways to stop banks and companies using complex maths against you

Cost of living: four ways to stop banks and companies using complex maths against you

The cost of living crisis is dominating headlines at the moment. With so much conflicting information flying around, it can be hard to work out what is the best way to look...

Sewage alerts: the long history of using maps to hold water companies to account

Sewage alerts: the long history of using maps to hold water companies to account

Southern Water was handed a record fine of £90 million in July 2021 after pleading guilty to illegally discharging sewage along the rivers and coastline of Kent, Hampshire and...

Dear Zaria: what do I do about my climate anxiety and depression?

Dear Zaria: what do I do about my climate anxiety and depression?

I am struggling so much with depression caused by climate change and political inaction around me and I have even felt suicidal lately. I don't know who to turn to for support....

It’s time Australia recognised cats and their impact as a major environmental issue | Trent Zimmerman

It’s time Australia recognised cats and their impact as a major environmental issue | Trent Zimmerman

The Macquarie Island parakeet was, by all accounts, an elegant parrot endemic to the island off southern Tasmania that shared its name. We will never really know, because the...

Climate impacts have worsened vast range of human diseases

Climate impacts have worsened vast range of human diseases

More than half of the human diseases caused by pathogens have been worsened at some point by the sort of impacts associated with the climate crisis, a new and exhaustive study...

Watch out! Here comes the climate deal's other shoe.  | Opinion

Watch out! Here comes the climate deal's other shoe. | Opinion

The Democrats' health, climate, and corporate tax plan—the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)—was just signed into law by President Biden. If projections are accurate, this...

Study warns economic impacts of climate change 'far larger' than previously thought

Study warns economic impacts of climate change 'far larger' than previously thought

The effects of climate change on economic growth may be "far larger and far more uncertain" than has been previously thought, a new study from the University of California,...