In a world where no one can seem to agree on any meaningful solutions to climate change, we need to find all the common ground we can. “Promise & Peril,” a Los Angeles Loyolan Project Citizen Climate 360 film, seeks to find that ground through telling the stories of two
Citizens’ Climate Lobby is closer than ever to achieving a carbon fee and dividend, and their November conference is the push they needed to get the legislation in congress.
By Alexis Durham, Genesis Jefferson, Brandon Lang CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir explains why people don’t care about climate change and how climate denial and fatigue contribute to it.
By Alexis Durham, Genesis Jefferson CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir, former New York Times reporter John Schwartz, and Morgan State University professor and former Washington Post reporter Karen DeWitt give climate change coverage a grade and discuss what more needs to be done. Learn more about our view on
By Ashley Buschhorn Climate change is ravaging our planet, killing crops, driving animals to extinction and, yes, killing people, yet the mainstream media’s coverage of the issue is woefully lacking. “The state of coverage does not meet the state of emergency,” CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir told Climate360 News.
By Ava Borskey BATON ROUGE, LA — The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new report with a dire outlook: Climate changes, like warming and sea level rise, are projected to increase in every region in the coming decades. Climate change is on the agenda in political circles and
As seen in the Love Canal and Valley of the Drums sites, these contaminated sites have a history of allegedly making people ill or causing birth defects due to residents’ proximity to unmanaged toxic waste. Hence Ross’ concern over his family and neighbors’ health in Baltimore.
By Cristobal Spielmann Living in the social media age means getting bombarded with misinformation on a daily basis, whether that information comes in the form of videos, memes or poorly researched and written news articles. With climate change, that misinformation can be both pernicious and dangerous. It perpetuates myths about
arden owned by Ron Finley. Finley, also known as the “Gangster Gardener”, founded The Ron Finley Project to “transform food deserts into food sanctuaries.”
By Willow Campbell Many synthetic pesticides used in farming can harm both the climate and your body. Some foods retain the residue of pesticides more than others, to the point where no existing product can wash them away. In May of this year, a study from Frontiers in Environmental Science showed that pesticides widely used in
By Ava Borskey BATON ROUGE, LA — Most of Manon Bellet’s artistic work deals with time, ephemerality and disappearance. “Our confrontation of human beings seeing something that we can never catch, metaphorically our lives, but obviously the world around us and the world we live in,” Bellet said. “My
By Sydney McGovern, Ava Borskey BATON ROUGE, LA – As the threat of climate change grows each year, the American South is at a crossroads. Record-high temperatures, severe storms and rising sea levels threaten the livelihood of those living on the Gulf Coast and could impose the equivalent of a 20% income tax
By Spencer Hayes A building collapse that took the lives of almost 100 people has devastated the Miami Surfside community. It has also reignited the climate change discussion across the country. It will take some time for the building analysis to be completed, however, many theories are already circulating, attempting
By Sami Beekman, Nicole Nguyen BATON ROUGE, LA – What do New Orleans, Louisiana, and Charleston, South Carolina, have in common? The foundation of both southern cities’ modern infrastructure was built on marsh land in the 19th and 20th centuries. Through a combination of turn-of-the-century drainage systems, the shoring-up of
By Sydney McGovern BATON ROUGE, LA – If you keep up with climate change, you’ve probably seen images of disaster – homes ravaged by forest fires or cities slain by hurricanes. Aerial shots of flooded streets, destroyed buildings and dying ecosystems have long dominated the visual story of climate change.
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