The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) concluded November 12, with disappointing outcomes from many perspectives of the climate emergency. As the summit ran late on its final day, and as delegates shaped their statements for all 197 countries to...
On Tuesday, October 26, Dr. Prakash Kashwan joined Ithaca College professor Dr. Jake Brenner for a discussion on environmental justice, interdisciplinary scholarship, and the legacy of colonialism in conservation. Dr. Kashwan is an environmental justice...
In moments when the climate emergency’s dire impacts become unignorable, mainstream news can produce appropriately urgent reporting, such as on wildfires and other disasters. But only sustained coverage of humans’ damage to the planet will communicate the depth of the...
Amid record heat waves, early hurricanes, and wildlife die-offs that look like mass extinction events, Rupert Murdoch has decided to double down on the ‘climate change isn’t real’ stance in the worst possible way: launching a full-time weather channel called Fox...
Just days before an undersea gas pipeline burst in the Gulf of Mexico resulting in a fiery vortex that was all too symbolic of the current climate emergency, it was made public that a senior ExxonMobil lobbyist unwittingly revealed how the oil company uses its...
Among the many disasters that marked 2020 were the apocalyptic wildfires that raged in the American west, turning the skies into eerie dystopian shades of orange and leaving over 4 million acres of land burned in the state of California alone. According to CalFire’s...
