Written by: Kimberly White
Scientists and academics across the globe have joined together in a call to phase out coal, oil, and gas.
More than 2,000 scientists, researchers, and academics delivered a letter demanding national governments to develop, adopt, and implement...
Written by: Deepa Padmanaban
Unprecedented heat waves swept through Canada, the United States, and northern India this year, claiming hundreds of lives. These heat waves are not new: In India, 17,000 deaths have occurred because of heat waves since the 1990s.
A recent global study...
Written by: Kimberly White
Harvard University is moving away from the fossil fuel industry.
After years of pressure from activists, the Ivy League university will divest from the fossil fuel industry. The university joins more than 1,300 institutions controlling roughly $14.6...
Written by: Kimberly White
The Government of Canada has announced a substantial new investment to support Indigenous-led conservation.
The Canadian government will provide up to $340 million in new funding over the next five years to support Indigenous leadership in conservation....
Written by: Aida Cuní Sanchez, Martin Sullivan, and Phil Platts
Tropical forests are well known for being the “lungs” of our planet. Through photosynthesis, the trees in these forests produce oxygen and remove enormous amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, helping to mitigate...
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Written by: Natasha Vizcarra
An international panel of 200 scientists has called for a halt to deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, saying the biome plays a critical role in global water cycles and regulating climate variability and therefore must...
Written by: Kimberly White
Environmental groups have joined together to challenge a controversial decision to lease out millions of acres of public waters for oil leasing.
The Biden administration announced plans to open up millions of acres for oil and gas...
Written by: Alastair Lee Bitsóí
With drought a persistent problem in the Southwest, Hopi/Tewa seed keeper Valerie Nuvayestewa has eagerly joined the effort to bring back an Indigenous superfood that her ancestors cultivated for 11,000 years. The Four Corners Potato...
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Kimberly WhiteHello and welcome to The Planetary Podcast. Today we are joined by Ingmar Rentzhog, Founder of We Don't Have Time. Thank you so much for joining us today, Ingmar!
Ingmar RentzhogThank you so much, Kimberly.
Kimberly...
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Kimberly WhiteHello and welcome to Common Home Conversations. Today we're joined by Leida Rijnhout, environmental justice expert and an Associate at the Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future. Thank you so much for joining us....