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COP26 Week 1: Catalyst for change or performative gesture?

16Nov

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COP26 Week 1: Catalyst for change or performative gesture?

By Alex Kim The first week of COP26 was packed with action. From new agreements to failings of old ones the first week leaves us with a lot to discuss. Day One: Sunday, Oct. 31 The opening days of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) brought out representatives and activists from the global community to discuss climate change and find ways to mitigate its effects on the planet. Though not formally invited, climate activist Greta Thunberg was swarmed by hundreds of people concerned with climate change upon her arrival to the convention in Glasgow, Scotland. Representatives from around the globe were calling on world leaders to take direct action to prevent the global climate from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above  “pre-industrial levels....

Journalists give climate coverage a report card

9Nov

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Journalists give climate coverage a report card

By Alexis Durham, Genesis Jefferson https://youtu.be/SXT64rKj42Q 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 mainstream climate change coverage here.

9Nov

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Community, Loyola Marymount University, Opinion

Climate change reporting lies with us

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. A new report shows that 85% of the world population has experienced a weather event that has been worsened by climate change. The report also showed that global warming has affected 80% of the world’s land area. When you consider these events one by one you discover the human-impact of them. Whether it is Texans freezing to death in the 2021 winter storm or refugee camps in South Sudan being swept away by flash floods, there is a toll on human life br...

29Oct

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What is COP26?

By Ashley Buschhorn Image ©No10 Crown Copyright . 04/02/2020. London, United Kingdom. Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson with Sir David Attenborough talk to school children at the Science Museum for Launch of the UK hosting of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). Picture by Andrew Parsons / No10 Downing Street COP26 is the 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Glasgow, Scotland, from Sunday, Oct. 31, through Friday, Nov. 12. This could be a pivotal event for the future of climate change. The Conference of Parties, the COP, consists of world superpowers such as the U.S., U.K., China and Russia. Two of the world’s largest pollutants, Russia and Brazil, will participate in COP, but their presidents will not be in attendance. China, ...

Environmentalists say the EPA’s efforts to clean up toxic waste fall short

23Aug

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Environmentalists say the EPA’s efforts to clean up toxic waste fall short

By Kennedi Hewitt and Alexis Durham https://youtu.be/lkopo6be_eo Produced, filmed and edited by Kennedi Hewitt and Alexis Durham. Glenn Ross is a self-proclaimed urban environmentalist. For 40 years, the 71-year-old has fought to make his Baltimore community a safer place for his children and neighbors by educating others on the reality of Superfunds. A Superfund, as defined by the Environmental Protection Agency, is a contaminated site “due to hazardous waste being dumped, left out in the open, or otherwise improperly managed.” Such sites include landfills and mining sites. Officially titled “Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act” (CERCLA), Superfunds were established by Congress in the 1980s after the Love Canal ...

How to tell if there’s climate misinformation on your feed

22Aug

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How to tell if there’s climate misinformation on your feed

Climate misinformation has permeated the online discourse in a way that can be difficult to parse through. How can we accurately call it out? Graphic by Cristobal Spielmann. 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 climate change not being real and not being caused by humans. Patrick Moore and PragerU Take the 2015 video “The Truth about [Carbon Dioxide],” presented by Patrick Moore, whose title is “co-founder of Greenpeace,” and produced by Prager University. On the surface, ...

California representatives announce new California Coastal Caucus

21Aug

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California representatives announce new California Coastal Caucus

Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA). By Kelsey Warda (Climate 360). By Veronica Backer-Peral SAUSALITO, CA — In an effort to address policy issues of importance to coastal California, congressman Jared Huffman (D-CA) and congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) announced the launch of the Congressional California Coastal Caucus on August 20, 2021. The announcement took place at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California, and was followed by a panel discussion with both congressmen, Dr. Jeff Boehm, Chief Executive Officer of The Marine Mammal Center, and Dr. Cara Field, Medical Director of The Marine Mammal Center and moderated by Carol Costello. One important focus of the caucus is climate change. “The reason why I ran for Congress is because of climate change,” Lieu told on-site Clim...

Urban gardens aid in the fight against food deserts and climate change

20Aug

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Urban gardens aid in the fight against food deserts and climate change

https://youtu.be/DqDT1KgEL9c By Kennedi Hewitt In South Central Los Angeles, across the street from the new metro system on Exposition Boulevard, is an urban garden owned by Ron Finley. Finley, also known as the “Gangster Gardener”, founded The Ron Finley Project to “transform food deserts into food sanctuaries.” Finley, who has been gardening since he was a kid, says he views gardening as a source of freedom because it is an “empowering practice to grow your own food.” “Everyone should at least have the potential to cultivate their own food,” he says, “cook their own food, and that to me is a form of freedom.” South Central LA, a predominantly low income and Black and Brown community, is considered a food desert. As defined b...

Opinion: Could climate change play a role in the California recall?

2Aug

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Loyola Marymount University, Opinion

Opinion: Could climate change play a role in the California recall?

As California experiences the wildfires, drought and extreme heat, it’s possible that gubernatorial candidates could touch on the problems of climate change in the recall campaign. Graphic by Cristobal Spielmann. By Cristobal Spielmann California has been experiencing two major upheavals this year. The first of these is political: a gubernatorial recall election set to take place in less than eight weeks against current Democratic governor Gavin Newsom. The other, much more important upheaval, is the one faced by the impact of climate change. From wildfires to droughts, this summer has proved itself historic by showing how dismal the future of unmitigated climate change would look in California. The Dixie Fire has burnt over 200,000 acres and become one of the...

‘We consume too much and we toss it too quickly’: Palomo-Lovinski encourages a circular fashion economy

29Jul

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‘We consume too much and we toss it too quickly’: Palomo-Lovinski encourages a circular fashion economy

Photo via Kent State University. By Kennedi Hewitt and Connor Fallon Before she was a beloved professor at Kent State University, Noël Palomo-Lovinski was a sustainable fashion designer in New York City. Ahead of her time, she got into sustainability as a new mom searching for more organic foods and products for her family. Over time it became a lifestyle. “Once you start learning some facts about climate change you go down a deep rabbit hole and develop a passion,” said Palomo-Lovinski. As a professor in the early 2000s, she used her experience to encourage her students to curate their fashion sustainably. She was met with backlash and told that she was destroying and limiting their creative practices. Despite this pushback, nearly 20 years...