September 2022 – Jugendumweltschutz in Deutschland

Chevron’s commercials just got the ‘Don’t Look Up’ treatment

What do cooing babies and frolicking elephants have to do with oil companies? Exactly. Quelle: https://grist.org/culture/dont-look-up-director-adam-mckay-made-a-chevron-parody-commercial/...

Culture

Extreme Weather Housing news

Hurricane Ian was a powerful storm. Real estate developers made it a catastrophe.

'Dredge-and-fill' created thousands of homes vulnerable to storm surge. Quelle: https://grist.org/extreme-weather/hurricane-ian-real-estate-developers-canals-cape-coral/...

Extreme Weather Housing

Global Indigenous Affairs Desk news

Every two days, a land defender is killed. Most are Indigenous.

A new report finds Indigenous people in Brazil, Colombia and the Philippines often face the highest rates of violence. Quelle:…

Global Indigenous Affairs Desk

Agriculture Food Health news

EPA declines stricter regulation on pesticide linked to bee die-offs

The birds and the bees and the pesticide-covered seeds that kill them. Quelle: https://grist.org/agriculture/epa-fails-regulate-pesticide-covered-seeds-kill-pollinators/...

Agriculture Food Health

Accountability Energy news

Nord Stream gas leaks may be biggest ever, with warning of ‘large climate risk’

‘Colossal amount’ of leaked methane, twice initial estimates, is equivalent to third of Denmark’s annual CO2 emissions or 1.3 million…

Accountability Energy

Health Language news

‘It makes climate change real’: How carbon emissions got rebranded as ‘pollution’

California activists paved the way for defining climate change as an air pollution problem. Now it's federal law. Quelle: https://grist.org/health/how-carbon-emissions-got-rebranded-climate-pollution-ira/...

Health Language

Climate news Science

Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills

Cars and highways are among the top contributors to ocean oil pollution, study finds. Quelle: https://grist.org/science/ocean-oil-pollution-is-growing-and-not-from-oil-spills/...

Climate Science

Extreme Weather news

As Hurricane Ian makes landfall, Florida faces historic storm surge

The Category 4 storm pushed walls of water several feet high into low-lying cities from Sarasota to Fort Myers. Quelle:…

Extreme Weather

Indigenous Affairs International news Politics

In Brazil’s presidential election, the fate of the Amazon is at stake

Polls show left-wing former president Lula ousting incumbent Jair Bolsonaro on October 2. Quelle: https://grist.org/international/in-brazils-presidential-election-the-fate-of-the-amazon-is-at-stake/...

Indigenous Affairs International Politics

Accountability Equity news Politics Race

‘A much-needed step’: The EPA creates a new environmental justice office

The initiative will give hard-hit communities $3 billion to address pollution. Quelle: https://grist.org/accountability/new-epa-office-environmental-justice-3billion-grants/...

Accountability Equity Politics Race