climate

A psychotherapist explains why some adults react badly to young climate strikers

Young climate strikers I spoke to recently are confused and distressed about the things adults are doing. It’s not just inaction during the worsening climate crisis that bothers them, but the increasingly bizarre criticism many older people throw at striking schoolchildren, in the media and elsewhere. In the absence of any meaningful attempts to restrain […]

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At Amazon, workers unite to speak out on warehouses, climate and more

Amazon employees, joined by workers from other tech companies, march past the Amazon Spheres during the Global Climate Strike on Sept. 20, in Seattle. Karen Ducey/Getty Images An energetic crowd of hundreds of Amazon workers gathered around the Spheres, a 90-foot-tall glass building at the center of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, to hold up signs reading

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Column: In climate deal with automakers, California finds solution to Trump — ignore him

It became clear in February that if the country’s auto emissions and mileage standards were to be maintained, California would have to go it alone. That was when the Trump administration abruptly announced it was breaking off discussions with the state’s air quality regulators over the administration’s proposal to gut those standards. One other aspect

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Scientists ‘must be allowed to cry’ about climate change and the destruction of nature

A coral ‘rubblefield’ in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, that has been severely damaged by illegal dynamite fishing (Image: Tim Gordon) The destruction of the natural world is proving to be heartbreaking for many sensitive souls. So now scientists have said that it’s totally OK to cry when faced with climate change and the other ravages wrought

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Campaigners create Twitter ‘fact avalanche’ to combat climate untruths

Environmental campaigners are taking an aggressive approach to fighting Twitter misinformation by bombarding climate change deniers with a “fact avalanche”.  Protect Our Winters Canada has launched an online tool, created by Sid Lee Montreal, that alerts people when an untruthful tweet about climate change has been posted on Twitter. The Fact Avalanche tool then invites

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