climate crisis

Student Activists Pass Municipal Resolution To Make Polluters Pay

April 25, 2025 Sunrise Smith, Popular Resistance. Create! climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Massachusetts, pollution, Student Activism

Northampton, MA. – Sunrise Movement activists at Smith College and local advocates passed a Climate Superfund Resolution in Northampton last Thursday. On Earth Day dozens rally in Amherst, calling on the Amherst Town Council and other municipalities in the Connecticut River Valley to join the call to make polluters pay. Thursday’s resolution in support of H.1014/S.588, “An Act to Establish a Climate Change Superfund”, was the first to pass in Western Massachusetts, following previous resolutions in Boston, Cambridge, Medford, and Malden. “I’ve watched my generation strike, resist, campaign, lose hope, and get back up again,” said Emma Coopersmith.

Five Insurance Companies Are Propping Up Fossil Fuel Companies

April 23, 2025 The Canary. Resist! Allianz, Aviva, AXA, BP, climate crisis, Fossil Fuel, Insurance Companies, Intact, Oil and Gas Industry, Zurich

A new report exposes the complicity of global insurers in the climate crisis. Notably, it has revealed how five major insurance companies – Allianz, AXA, Aviva, Zurich, and Intact – have invested to the tune of $6.5bn in the fossil fuel corporations wrecking the planet. The report was authored by the Boycott Bloody Insurance campaign – which launched last month with a day of action. On Tuesday 25 March, the group targeted insurance offices nationwide. Now, its new publication Ensuring Climate Crisis: The Insurance Industry and Fossil Fuel Giants highlights how these insurance companies, while often presenting a green image, continue to support and profit from the fossil fuel industry.

Environmental And Science Groups Sue Trump Administration

April 16, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Resist! climate crisis, Environmental Justice, Lawsuits, Trump Administration

Environmental and science groups are suing the Trump administration for removing public information concerning climate and the environment from federal agency websites. The Sierra Club, the Environmental Integrity Project, California Communities Against Toxics and Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) filed a complaint on Monday in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. “The removal of these websites and the critical data they hold is yet another direct attack on the communities already suffering under the weight of deadly air and water,” said Ben Jealous, executive director of Sierra Club.

We Need To Completely Rethink Affordable Housing

April 14, 2025 Drew Warshaw, Next City. Create! Affordable Housing, climate crisis, Housing, Housing Crisis

I used to think climate change was the crisis we would solve last, if at all. But seeing the affordable housing crisis up close has changed my mind. Unless we find a reservoir of will to tap the oceans of money we are swimming in and the mountains of land we are sitting on, we may never solve this crisis. Instead, our country will be left with the challenges we at Enterprise Community Partners, the national affordable housing nonprofit that I help lead, push up against every day: Special interests that carve up the already-small pie of public funding into incoherent slices that don’t scale. The technocracy of building codes, zoning and regulation that has vexed basic home construction with a cipher so complex that you need a PhD to make sense of it.

Guide To Becoming An Environmental Leader

April 13, 2025 Sam Davis, Resilience. Organize! climate crisis, Community, Environment, Organizers

Your community needs leaders who care about the environment. As climate change, pollution, and loss of biodiversity threaten our planet’s health, we can’t afford to wait for governments or corporations to solve these problems. We need individuals who are willing to take action, inspire others, and make a difference. And those differences need to happen right in our backyards. That’s why we need people like you. You know your community best, which means you can see right through the politics in community meetings and get to the heart of the issues. Becoming an environmental leader is not easy. It requires knowledge, skills, values, and habits that go beyond recycling, using reusable bags, and turning off lights.

Timber From Illegal Logging In Amazon Discovered In US, European Markets

April 6, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! Amazon, climate crisis, European Union (EU), International Law, Logging, United States

A new investigative report, Tricks, Traders and Trees, by international NGO the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reveals widespread illegal logging, corruption and fraud in the Brazilian Amazon. The investigation traced illegal timber that had originated from five logging sites in Pará state to the United States and European Union, despite laws that prohibit the importing of illegal timber and require due diligence from companies. “Our investigation shows how illegal Amazon timber is flooding EU and U.S. markets, fueling unfair competition for legitimate companies despite laws banning the trade in illicit wood.

Canada’s Support For LNG Is Support For Trump’s Fossil-Fuelled Fascism

April 4, 2025 Nick Gottlieb, Canadian Dimension. Strategize! Canada, climate crisis, Fascism, Fossil Fuels, Trump Administration

American so-called “natural gas” (the mixture of hydrocarbons made up mostly of methane) production began to explode under President Barack Obama and has continued to increase under every president since. Liquified natural gas exports, which involve an energy intensive liquefaction process that enables the gas to be shipped, kicked off around 2016 and have also climbed steadily upwards every year. The main problem that the gas industry faces is not regulation, but markets: the rate of renewable adoption in Asia is exceeding all expectations and LNG markets are expected to be dramatically oversupplied in the coming years.

Natural Disasters Are Driving A School Crisis

April 2, 2025 Adam Mahoney, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Black America, Children, climate crisis, Education, Extreme weather, Racial disparities

Adrinda Kelly watched from New York as Hurricane Katrina swallowed her hometown of New Orleans in 2005. Floodwaters rose, neighborhoods disappeared underwater, and she felt a familiar ache deepen. Her family was safe, but devastation quickly compounded a painful realization: Black children were portrayed as disposable, and New Orleans’ education system was almost completely privatized. Black students’ test scores faltered. Almost two decades later and nearly 2,000 miles away, similar echoes reverberated in Altadena, California, as wildfires swept through Los Angeles County in January.

Biodiversity Study Highlights Destructive Global Impact Of Humans

March 28, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! Animals, Biodiversity, climate crisis, Environment, Extinction, pollution, wildlife

One of the largest studies ever conducted on biodiversity loss worldwide has revealed that humans are having a severely detrimental impact on global wildlife. The number of species is declining, as well as the composition of populations. “Biological diversity is under threat. More and more plant and animal species are disappearing worldwide, and humans are responsible. Until now, however, there has been no synthesis of the extent of human intervention in nature and whether the effects can be found everywhere in the world and in all groups of organisms,” a press release from University of Zurich (UZH) said.

Protesters Remind Labour That Rosebank Is A Sinking Ship

March 20, 2025 The Canary. Resist! climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Rosebank, United Kingdom (UK)

On Wednesday 19 March, campaigners from Fossil Free London staged a Titanic-themed demonstration in Westminster over the Labour Party government’s potential re-approval of the climate-wrecking Rosebank oil field. Campaigners recreated the infamous scene in which lead character Jack Dawson drowns as Rose clings to a door in the sea. They chanted “There’s an iceberg we don’t want to hit! Rosebank is a sinking ship” with a banner reading “Let Go of Rosebank”. This was to draw a creative parallel with the approaching climate emergency and the government’s potential reapproval of the project’s development.

World Experienced 152 Unprecedented Climate Events In 2024

March 20, 2025 Paige Bennett, EcoWatch. Educate! climate crisis, Displacement, Extreme weather, Global heating

According to the latest State of the Global Climate 2024 report from the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the world experienced 152 unprecedented and 297 unusual extreme events related to climate change last year. Topping the list of extreme events were heat waves, with 137 events, followed by extreme rain and wet spells (115 events), flooding (104 events), tropical cyclones (47) and drought (44). In total, these events were linked to 1.1 million people injured, 1,700 deaths and 824,500 people displaced. As The Guardian reported, the number of people displaced by extreme climate events in 2024 was the highest annual number since 2008, when the records began.

Fuel Poverty Action, Corbyn, Others Launch Retrofit For The Future

March 19, 2025 Hannah Sharland, The Canary. Create! climate crisis, Energy Efficiency, Housing, Housing Crisis

A coalition of groups is launching a new campaign that joins together the dots on the climate, housing, and fuel poverty crises. Retrofit For the Future plans to put renters’ rights and a green and just transition for workers at the heart of the retrofit debate. Retrofit For The Future Fuel Poverty Action, ACORN, Greener Jobs Alliance, Medact, and the Peace & Justice Project will be officially launching the new initiative on Wednesday 19 March. You can join them online for this at 7.30pm if you sign up here. The campaign will call on the government to direct its attention to retrofit-upgrading and improving existing homes. It will set out the compelling case that doing so is a key to tackling both the climate emergency and the housing crisis.

The Seven Fundamental Drivers Of Overshoot

March 17, 2025 Nate Hagens, Resilience. Strategize! climate crisis, New Economy, Overshoot, Sustainability

Humanity is in overshoot. The last 50 years have marked a unique period in history during which our species has been able to access, extract, and consume natural resources at a rate faster than the Earth is able to regenerate them. As humanity continues to grow its population beyond the carrying capacity of its environment, the associated excess consumption is degrading the health of Earth’s ecosystems. By over-consuming our environment—and ecosystem stability—in the short-term, we are putting our planet’s long-term stability and capacity to provide for future generations in jeopardy.

How Appalachian Towns Are Learning To Help Each Other After Floods

March 15, 2025 Katie Myers, Next City. Create! Appalachia, climate crisis, Disaster Recovery, Flooding, Kentucky

When the rivers and creeks running through eastern Kentucky jumped their banks and flooded a wide swath of the region for the second time in as many years, Cara Ellis set to work. One week later, she’s hardly let up. Ellis has spent countless hours helping friends in her hometown of Pikeville evacuate and delivering supplies to people who have lost their homes. “I’ve been here, there, everywhere in the county,” she said. “It’s overwhelming. There’s been a lot of devastation.” Ellis spoke during a brief moment of rest in the chaos. Her home was spared when storms brought torrential rain to central Appalachia during the weekend of February 15.

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