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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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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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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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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