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How the most powerful environmental groups help greenwash Big Meat’s climate impact
2024-08-07 by in VoxFactory farming is terrible for the environment. Environmentalists are sharply divided over what to do about it.
Humanity is failing one of its greatest moral tests
2024-08-07 by in VoxThe modern meat industry is cruel, unsustainable, and unnecessary. Here’s how we fight it.
Oil companies sold the public on a fake climate solution — and swindled taxpayers out of billions
2024-07-29 by in VoxOil and gas companies know carbon capture and storage isnt a climate change solution, per documents, whistleblowers and public comments.
Tagged under: Disinformation and Misinformation | Oil Industry | Carbon Capture and Storage | Climate Change | Shell | Exxon
Biden isn’t advertising America’s record oil boom
2024-03-13 by in VoxBiden is not "waging war" on American energy. He’s boosting it.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy
This chart of ocean temperatures should really scare you
2024-02-28 by in VoxThe Atlantic Ocean is freakishly warm right now. Scientists are sounding the alarm.
Tagged under: Coral Reefs | Oceans
This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry.
2023-10-20 by in VoxAlmost half of the continental US is used for meat production. There’s something better we could do with it.
Tagged under: Meat Production | Cattle and Dairy Farming
America’s most iconic coral reef is dying. Only one thing will save it.
2023-09-17 by in VoxAn extreme heat wave has pushed Florida’s reef to the brink — and burned up years worth of progress.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Coral Reefs | Florida
How cars ruin wild animals’ lives
2023-09-12 by in VoxIf you love nature, consider not driving in it.
Tagged under: Cars
A frightening virus is killing a massive number of wild birds
2023-05-09 by in VoxScientists have never seen anything like it.
The weird Republican turn against corporate social responsibility
2022-12-10 by in VoxCompanies say they want to acknowledge environmental impacts. Republicans are mad about that.
Tagged under: ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance
Climate change has come for the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter
2022-09-29 by in VoxChina’s catastrophic summer shows its climate adaptation plans still have a long way to go.
Tagged under: China | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change
The end of natural gas has to start with its name
2022-02-10 by in VoxThe oil and gas industry didn’t invent the name. But it invented the myth of a clean fuel.
Tagged under: Methane
Time is running out. Here’s how the climate movement can level up.
2022-01-10 by in VoxThe high-risk, high-reward stakes of building a more radical movement.
Tagged under: Activism | Joe Biden | Climate Change | US Politics
The father of environmental justice, on whether we’re all doomed
2021-12-10 by in VoxRobert Bullard joined Vox Conversations to discuss the global struggle to keep this world safe to live in, and how racism gets in the way.
There’s a ticking climate time bomb in West Texas
2021-06-01 by in VoxBiden faces a critical decision about the Permian Basin and its methane emissions from oil and gas.
Tagged under: Joe Biden | Methane | Climate Change | Texas
What’s your "fair share" of carbon emissions? You’re probably blowing way past it.
2021-02-24 by in VoxHow the right to pursue happiness through unlimited consumption harms the planet, and our kids.
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Climate Change
This popular and proven climate policy should be at the top of Congress’s to-do list
2021-02-04 by in VoxThe case for a national clean electricity standard.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | US Politics | Joe Biden | Climate Change | Electricity
Air pollution is much worse than we thought
2020-08-12 by David Roberts in VoxDitching fossil fuels would pay for itself through clean air alone.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fossil Fuels | India
Why rich people use so much more energy
2020-03-20 by David Roberts in VoxIt’s mainly all the traveling, says a comprehensive new study.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Social tipping points are the only hope for the climate
2020-01-29 by David Roberts in VoxA new paper explores how to trigger them.
Tagged under: Tipping Points | Climate Change
"Flood the zone with shit": How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy
2020-01-16 by Sean Illing in VoxThe impeachment trial didn’t change any minds. Here’s why.
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Disinformation and Misinformation
How should billionaires spend their money to fight climate change? I asked 9 experts.
2019-11-12 by Sigal Samuel in VoxIs it better to invest in developing clean energy technologies, say, or in trying to get a Democrat elected president?
Tagged under: Climate Change
The Paris climate agreement is at risk of falling apart in the 2020s
2019-11-05 by David Roberts in VoxIt will be a perilous decade for the only international climate treaty going.
Tagged under: The Paris Agreement
Bernie Sanders’s new bet: a climate change message can win him the Iowa caucuses
2019-11-04 by in VoxIn the final 100 days before Iowa’s caucuses, Sanders is going all in on a climate change message.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Greta Thunberg is right: It’s time to haul ass on climate change
2019-10-04 by David Roberts in VoxEconomically and politically, early ambition is better.
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Climate Change | Economics
Air travel is a huge contributor to climate change. A new global movement wants you to be ashamed to fly.
2019-07-25 by in VoxGreta Thunberg gave up flights to fight climate change. Should you?
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | Climate Change | Air Travel
Elizabeth Warren thinks corruption is why the US hasn’t acted on climate change
2019-06-22 by in VoxHere’s how she intends to fight greenhouse gases and money in politics.
Tagged under: Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | US Politics
More natural gas isn’t a "middle ground" — it’s a climate disaster
2019-05-30 by David Roberts in VoxTo tackle climate change, natural gas has got to go.
Tagged under: Climate Change
"I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you recycle."
2019-05-28 by in VoxStop obsessing over your environmental "sins." Fight the oil and gas industry instead.
Tagged under: Climate Change
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: "Things are going to get worse"
2019-04-12 by in VoxThe voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
Tagged under: David Attenborough | Wildlife | Predictions
What genuine, no-bullshit ambition on climate change would look like
2018-05-07 by David Roberts in VoxNew scenarios show how to hit the most stringent Paris targets.
Tagged under: Climate Change
"I’m an environmental journalist, but I never write about overpopulation. Here’s why."
2017-09-26 by David Roberts in VoxSince you asked (many times).
All the risks of climate change, in a single graph
2017-01-09 by in VoxThere are a lot of them.
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