Pocket Archive: Climate & Environment

From September 2018: Ambitious dreams have now become a reality as the Ocean Cleanup deploys its $20 million system designed to clean up the 1.8 trillion pieces of trash floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Unesco removes the Belize Barrier Reef from its list of endangered sites, praising government action.

American students talked about their experiences after spending 5 days in Cuba through the Semester At Sea academic exchange program.

Anyone born after February 1985 has not lived a single month where the global temperature was below the long-term average for that month.

The Heartland Institute's recent International Climate Change Conference in Las Vegas illustrates climate change deniers' desperate confusion. Personal attacks are common among deniers. Their lies are continually debunked, leaving them with no rational challenge to overwhelming scientific evidence that the world is warming and that humans are largely responsible.

The culture jamming activist group The Yes Men have struck again. Earlier this week, members of the group spoke at the Homeland Security Congress posing as U.S. government officials. At the conference, they announced a fictitious new U.S. government plan called “American Renewable Clean-Energy Network” to convert the United States to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030. After the announcement, The Yes Men and indigenous activists led the audience in a large circle dance to celebrate the fictitious plan. We air excerpts from their action, including the speeches delivered by “Benedict Waterman,” undersecretary of policy implementation at the U.S. Department of Energy, and “Bana Slowhorse,” a Bureau of Indian Affairs official with the “Wannabe Tribe.” The group joins us in studio to talk about their action. Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum are two members of The Yes Men, and Gitz Crazyboy is an activist fighting tar sands extraction in his Native lands.

Both industry and government are putting money before the health and security of its people and the environment.

Edinburgh University researchers say windfarm energy prevented 36m tonnes of harmful coal and gas emissions in six years

New EU law that could mark a turning point in the fight to protect the world’s remaining forests