‘Good Fire And Bad Fire.’ Indigenous Practice May Be Key To Prevention
"For thousands of years, North American tribes carefully burned forests to manage the land. The future may lie in a return to that past."
Source: National Geographic, 12/28/2020
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Analysis: Faulty Food Systems Laid Bare by COVID-19 And Climate Crises
"From wildfires in California and locust attacks in Ethiopia to job losses caused by pandemic lockdowns in Italy and Myanmar, climate change and COVID-19 disrupted food production and tipped millions more people into hunger in 2020."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 12/28/2020
"For Young Californians, Climate Change Is A Mental Health Crisis Too"
"Maddie Cole in eighth grade stopped running cross country. She’d competed the year before, but the air quality in her native Sacramento was so bad that she got sick during a race; she soon learned she had asthma."
Source: LA Times, 12/28/2020
In Indian Country, Tears, Hope And Defiance Over Nomination of Haaland
"American Indians have high hopes that Deb Haaland, Biden’s pick for interior secretary, can reset the troubled relationship between the federal government and Indigenous peoples. Can she deliver?"
Source: Washington Post, 12/28/2020
Scott Prioritizes Racial Justice, Food Security, and Climate for House Ag
"The first Black chairman of the powerful Agriculture Committee says his team is already lining up several spring hearings on key issues."
Source: Civil Eats, 12/28/2020
Greens Eye Biden Superfund Reboot For Environmental Justice and Climate
"The EPA’s program for cleaning up the nation’s hazardous waste dumps has a backlog of sites that lack funding—the largest in 15 years."
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/28/2020
The Resistance: In Trump’s War on Climate Science, They Fought Back
"The scientists' efforts were often unseen and sometimes unsuccessful. But over four years, they mounted a guerilla defense that kept pressure on the Trump Administration."
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/28/2020
"EPA to Rule on Texas Fracking Wastewater Plan Before Trump Exit"
"The EPA plans to decide the fate of a Texas oil and gas wastewater discharge plan the same day it closes public comment on the proposal, sparking concern from environmentalists that the agency is rushing to finalize the move in the waning days of the Trump administration."
Source: Bloomberg, 12/28/2020
"Japan Adopts Green Growth Plan To Go Carbon Free By 2050"
"Japan aims to eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles in about 15 years, the government said Friday in a plan to achieve Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s ambitious pledge to go carbon free by 2050 and generate nearly $2 trillion growth in green business and investment."
Source: AP, 12/28/2020
Why the South Lags on Staving Off Crisis
Most Southern state leaders are doing the least to fight the climate crisis, despite having the most to lose environmentally and economically. When will that begin to change? The latest entry in our “Covering Your Climate: The South” special report looks at the politics of the climate crisis, the dominance of utilities, and the transportation and forestry sectors, along with the few climate breakthroughs.
