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Matthew Crane
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I Don’t Like ‘Em Putting Chemicals in the Water
Source: Agriculture.com (Successful Farming) Recently, crisis in cities like Flint have drawn attention to the issue of drinking water...
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Nikita Samin
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Missing Voices in Global Climate Action: Indigenous Sovereignty
Source: Fitzpatrick, M and Hersher, R. "'He Needs to Listen to Us' Protestors Call on Trump to Respect Native Sovereignty" WBUR, March...
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Parker Van-Wyck
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Masks for Gags: Environmental Whistleblowing in Agri-Business
Source: Troubled slaughter: Big Ag fights to keep out prying eyes (Susie Cagle). Covid-19 is capable of exposing the flaws and...
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Connor Walsh
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The Myths of New Urbanism: Why Density Alone Cannot Reduce the World’s Urban Ecological Footprint
Image Source: Image courtesy of Bon Bahar from Unsplash As urbanization rates continue to skyrocket around the globe, density has been...
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Robyn Sulkko
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Not in Our Backyard! Environmental Racism and Hypocritical Environmental Activism in Canada
The Story of Chemical Valley and the Aamjiwnaang Protestors carry sign that reads “Cancer Alley” in opposition to toxic pollutants in...
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Ashton Gray
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Entomophagy and You: Why Insect Agriculture May be Key to Solving our Environmental Woes
Canned crickets that are served as a snack in Myanmar. Photographer: Harish Shivaraman | Source: Unsplash It’s hard to ignore the...
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Kieran Smith
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Reducing Combined Sewer Overflows in Canada: It's Time to Think Green
Credit: Kieran Smith It is common to see large culverts that discharge rainwater into rivers and lakes as they are installed to keep...
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Mimi Shaftoe
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Rights of Nature and Indigenous Sovereignty: Friends or Foes?
To the Maori people, the Whanganui River is a living being and a relative. The River was recognized as a legal person by New Zealand in...
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Oumalker Jaamac
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Trudeau’s Performative Environmental Activism
Over the last two elections, the Liberal government has bolstered on an all-inclusive, progressive, youth-oriented, gender-equitable, and...
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Iain Newman
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Nuclear Power: The Core Solution to Clean Energy
Nuclear energy suffers from a mainly negative public perception thanks to its often-dramatized portrayal in popular culture and to major...
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Sophia Stavropoulos
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How to Define Climate-Displaced People — Migrants or Refugees
"An Iñupiat girl stands on [an] ice floe on a shore of the Arctic Ocean in Barrow, Alaska in the United States of America". UNICEF/Vlad...
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Ahmed Haider
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The Future of Protein
Source: The Jakarta Post. (Shutterstock/photka) Will our earth going to be able to sustain an estimated 10 billion people by 2050? When...
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Jacqueline Gabriel
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Neoliberalism: The Exploitation of the Environment through the Atomization of Society
Source: Kyle Sandberg's Carbon Tax To Spur Remodeling Neoliberalism is an ideology which suggests that an unregulated market can resolve...
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Om'Ojo Joe-Atodo
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Looking at Climate Action Through the Paris Agreement
Xie Zhenhua, the Special Representative for Climate Change for China (left), Prakash Javadekar, the Minister for Environment, Forest and...
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Zhezhao Lin
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Global Climate Change and the Geopolitical Era of the Cryosphere
Photograph: Davide Monteleone Global warming is leading to the rapid melting of the cryosphere, and this has triggered a struggle for...
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Harris Barnard-Davidson
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Sustainable Forest Management in Canada
A clear-cut block in British Columbia, near Fort St James. The patchwork of Canadian forests is shown in the distance, which are...
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Josef Mendoza
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How Unsustainable Agriculture Caused COVID-19
After following quarantine policies for months, we finally have hope for a vaccine that promises to end global lockdowns, and health...
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Elisabeth Hadjis
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30-by-30: Biden’s Bold Plan for Ocean Conservation
From the removal of crucial fisheries management policies, to the United States’ exit from the Paris Agreement this November, President...
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Talia Deslauriers
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Recycling Is Not What They Say It Is
Plastic bundles are packed in shipping containers. These will travel across the globe to find a recycling facility or a simple dumping...
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April Cho
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The BIPOC Struggle: Victims of Climate Change and White Environmentalism
Credit: Vlad Tchompalov Environmentalism is unsurprisingly, undeniably, and profoundly white. Beyond its racist origin, the movement...
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