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Opinion: A 20-year struggle for environmental justice — and a public park — in one California city
Read more: Opinion: A 20-year struggle for environmental justice — and a public park — in one California cityJust up the road from Oakland and Berkeley, the city of Richmond is a minority and low-income community of 115,500 people — mainly Latino, Black and Asian American — with a major Chevron refinery whose pollution has been an ongoing source of conflict (the city just reached a $550-million settlement with Chevron to mitigate health…
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Climate Change and Wars Are Increasing the Risk of an Oil Disaster
Read more: Climate Change and Wars Are Increasing the Risk of an Oil DisasterIncreased oil traffic between Russia and China through the Arctic Circle is putting Alaska Native communities at an elevated risk for an oil spill. Climate change, compounded by conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, threatens an oil disaster off the coast of Alaska, potentially devastating Indigenous communities and the nation’s richest fishing grounds. This danger arises…
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Florida’s Coral Reef Is Dead—Now What?
Read more: Florida’s Coral Reef Is Dead—Now What?When I first snorkeled off of Key West as a teenager back in 1966, Florida’s coral reef was estimated to have 90 percent live cover—a multi-hued array of fan, brain, pillar and elkhorn corals, shoaling fish, grazing sea turtles, and hammerhead sharks that stretched from Palm Beach to the Dry Tortugas seventy miles west of…
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Triage and Transformation Strategies for the Climate Emergency
Read more: Triage and Transformation Strategies for the Climate EmergencyIn 2004, I contributed to Feeling the Heat, a book in which nine journalists traveled the world to report on the impacts of climate change. My chapters covered Australia, Florida, Fiji, and Antarctica. Today, you no longer have to travel to cover climate catastrophes because they’re regularly coming to a neighborhood near you. Despite a few outspoken…
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Will Biden’s new American Climate Corps match the success of the California Conservation Corps?
Read more: Will Biden’s new American Climate Corps match the success of the California Conservation Corps?On Wednesday, President Biden used his executive power to establish the American Climate Corps, which will employ and train 20,000 young people in the work of climate resilience. Similar to but more modest than the famed CCC — the Civilian Conservation Corps established by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 during the Great Depression — the ACC…
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Each episode navigates insightful discussions on marine life, and the critical issues affecting our seas. Informative, educational and humorous, it’s a valuable resource for anyone passionate about understanding and preserving our ocean world!
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