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Report: Worsening land inequality widens gender, climate change gaps
Reuters discusses Worsening land inequality widens gender, climate change gaps.
The International Land Coalition (ILC) report is here and their website is here.
Land inequality is growing worldwide, threatening the livelihoods of 2.5 billion people who directly rely on farming and widening disparities in gender, health and climate-change […]
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Here’s How Scientists Want Biden to Take on Climate Change
Scientific American discusses Here’s How Scientists Want Biden to Take on Climate Change. Ambitions include promoting electric vehicles and incorporating environmental justice.
For the past four years, climate experts have watched with dismay as Donald Trump’s presidential administration has systematically weakened climate regulations, bolstered the use of fossil fuels that drive rising […]
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And now, everything the country is not talking about
Environmental Health News discusses And now, everything the country is not talking about … And here’s at least one thing to do about it all.
It’s hard to argue that COVID-19 and the U.S. elections shouldn’t be dominating the headlines, but let’s not forget all the festering problems we’re currently […]
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Luis Magaña Has Spent 20 Years Advocating for Farmworkers, But He’s Never Seen Anything Like This
Inside Climate News discusses Luis Magaña Has Spent 20 Years Advocating for Farmworkers, But He’s Never Seen Anything Like This. The Covid-19 pandemic and the megafires have made it clear to him: Farmworkers need much better protections.
The hardest harvest season Luis Magaña has known in half a century in […]
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“Over Half of the People Who Used to Grow Crops Here Can’t Do It Anymore”
New Republic discusses why “Over Half of the People Who Used to Grow Crops Here Can’t Do It Anymore”. Canyon de Chelly, part of Navajo Nation lands in Arizona, has been suffering from worsening droughts.
Since 2017, extreme drought has ravaged Canyon de Chelly, on the Navajo Nation in northeastern Arizona. […]
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Study: VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMPLETES ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE STUDY
VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMPLETES ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE STUDY. Located here.
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Wildfires and Health – 4 articles
Investigate West discusses how racial and economic divides extend to wildfire smoke, too. Thanks to centuries of housing, education and economic discrimination, African-Americans and Latinos are more likely to be poor, more likely to live in substandard housing that can easily let smoke in, more likely to be homeless, more […]
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