UNICEF: Air pollution contributes to 600K child deaths annually. Study reveals huge number of children breathing toxic fumes more than six times over safe limits.
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Exxon boss: climate change is ‘real’ and ‘serious’ | ThinkProgress
The company is accused of ignoring its own climate change science for years.
Read More »UN passes most significant resolution on conflict and the environment since 1992 | TRWN
States are urged to comply with the environmental provisions of international humanitarian law and to consider reflecting the ICRC’s 1996 guidelines on environmental conduct in war in their military manuals.
Read More »Re-imagining Post-conflict Environmental Assistance | Toxic Remnants of War Project
To mark the UN’s environment and conflict day last year the Toxic Remnants of War Project published a major new report that explores how a more formalized system of post-conflict assistance could increase the protection of civilians and their environment....
Read More »Nations Reach Landmark Climate Deal | NYT
Rwanda, which has worked to emerge from the shadows of its 1994 genocide, hopes to become known as well for the forging of a major climate deal.
Read More »We have money to fight climate change. It’s just that we’re spending it on defense | The Guardian
Stopping one fighter plane program would save enough to build wind farms to power 320,000 homes. We need to drastically reassess our priorities
Read More »Recalculating the Climate Math | New Republic
The numbers on global warming are even scarier than we thought.
Read More »How Nuclear Power Causes Global Warming | The Progressive
Supporters of nuclear power like to argue that nukes are the key to combatting climate change. Here’s why they are dead wrong.
Read More »As ‘environment powerhouse,’ Brazil to join Paris climate accord, President tells UN Assembly | UN News Centre
Following the tradition of being the first Head of State to address the annual United Nations General Assembly’s annual general debate, the President of Brazil today pledged that his country will formally join the Paris Agreement on climate change by depositing its instrument of ratification at a special event tomorrow with the UN Secretary-General. “As the world’s most biodiverse country ...
Read More »Why Clean Energy Is Center Stage on International Day of Peace | Jim Marston, Huffington Post
"As an environmental advocate, I can’t help but think about the effects of climate change on the current state of global peace." Jim Marston, Environmental Defense Fund
Read More »Wall Street’s Destruction Of Sacred Sioux Indian Burial Grounds | Countercurrents
The moguls of the petroleum industry and reckless abusers of the Earth’s finite resources are now intent upon creating an underground pipeline wall 1,172 miles long back and forth across the Missouri River, through North & South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois ....
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