A new study estimated there is enough lithium in Pennsylvania’s fracking wastewater to meet up to 40 percent of US domestic needs. But experts are concerned this discovery will be used to justify more fracking.
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Should we be having babies in a warming world? It’s a question JS Sasser explores through the lens of race, class and eco anxiety.
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Sea Tribunal Says Countries Must Prevent #Greenhouse Gases From Harming Oceans
#news #environment #climatechange #pollution

Katie Surma reports for Inside Climate News

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Japan, France, Germany, the United States and other wealthy nations are reaping billions of dollars in economic rewards from a global program meant to help the developing world grapple with the effects of climate change

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‘Historic’ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Says Countries Must Prevent Greenhouse Gasses From Harming Oceans @katie_surma insideclimatenews.org/news/21052024/…

When it comes to the seas, countries could soon be on the hook for their climate commitments. @katie_surma insideclimatenews.org/news/21052024/…

‘Historic’ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change Says Countries Must Prevent Greenhouse Gasses From Harming Oceans

“When it comes to climate governance, the Paris Agreement is not the only game in town,' Joie Chowdhury told me about the opinion

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The big new threat to human rights: climate change Inside Climate News @katie_surma insideclimatenews.org/news/21052024/…

Significant Environmental and Climate Impacts Are Impinging on Human Rights in Every Country, a New Report Finds

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“They didn’t just steal the land, they stole your knowledge of your own family, your own heritage,” Tijerina said.

“When it happens in Europe they call it ethnic cleansing, but when it happens in Texas they call it urbanization.”

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“The Mexican Americans, with no jobs and education, became a laboring class of farm workers on the very ranches their grandfathers had owned,” said historian Andres Tijerina.

“We think Mexicans are born poor. They’re not, they’re made poor.”

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“We now have a whole generation of young people who have grown up only knowing that nature has rights” -

Natalia Greene told me about Ecuador’s 15-year anniversary of constitutionally recognizing the rights of nature

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Ecuador recently marked its 15th anniversary of constitutionally recognizing the rights of nature.

Now, the energy transition and drug war are posing challenges to nature's rights. I talked with Natalia Greene about this and other RON developments.

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I've been following Katie Surma's enlightening #rightsofnature reporting for a couple of years and sometimes I have this gut-level question -- how did we develop the idea that we in any way would have the right to chop and kill something 1000 years old? insideclimatenews.org/tags/rights-of…

“I would like to see us finally implementing the rights of nature in our constitution so we can safeguard our environment and our livelihoods'

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Story Update:

A Town Board in Colorado Repeals Rights of Nature Resolutions

The ink is barely dry on a Colorado town’s first rights of nature resolutions, yet a motion to repeal them passed unanimously Tuesday night.

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The Department of Agriculture Rubber-Stamped Tyson’s “Climate Friendly” Beef, but No One Has Seen the Data Behind the Company’s Claim insideclimatenews.org/news/08052024/…

A Colorado town embraced the Rights of Nature, symbolically recognizing the rights of a creek and appointing two guardians to study and report on the ecosystem's health.

With the ink barely dry on those resolutions, the town is voting to repeal them

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EV Sales Are Taking Off. Why Is Oil Demand Still Climbing? insideclimatenews.org/news/07052024/…

Historic Agreement with the Federal Government and Arizona Gives Colorado River Indian Tribes Control Over Use of Their Water off Tribal Land insideclimatenews.org/news/02052024/…