Exclusive – Genesis Butler on animal agriculture and the climate crisis
We spoke with sixteen-year-old activist Genesis Butler about the inextricable link between animal rights and the climate crisis. At the age of six, Genesis Butler decided to become vegan. It was a move unexpected by her parents, who were raising her in a home that combines Black, Mexican, and Indigenous...
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Why have India’s top wrestlers taken to the streets in protest?
India’s Olympic-level wrestlers have recently been leading a demonstration in New Delhi as an act of protest. This movement, which started with MP Brij Bhushan being accused of sexual assault, is scheduled to end only after his arrest. With powerful stakeholders involved, the victims await justice and an acceptable...
This company gives new life to old tyres fished from the ocean
Off the coast of Florida, there sits a graveyard of discarded tyres at the bottom of the ocean. Though a collective effort to remove them has been underway for a decade, one organisation finally has a plan to turn them into something new. In the 1970s, the American company Broward...
Hundreds killed in DRC floods and landslides
More than 400 people have been died and about 5,000 are missing after intense flooding and landslides hit the DRC last week. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been prone to floods and landslides for many years, with the frequency and severity of these natural disasters increasing in recent...
How politics is affecting Southeast Asia’s green agenda
Despite being absolutely critical, the road to mitigating climate change isn’t easy, especially in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is home to more than 675 million people and faces many obstacles in its pursuit of a green future. Comprised of ten countries, The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is the...
Ocean pollution is boosting Sargassum seaweed in the Atlantic
Regions in the Caribbean have seen tons of orange-brown algae called Sargassum washing up on coastlines over spring and summer, in an ‘invasion’ that is getting more severe each year. Is that a bad thing? At face value, the great span of Atlantic Ocean between Florida and West Africa looks...
Brazil’s Amazon deforestation fell by 68% in April under Lula da Silva
Taking the reins from Jair Bolsonaro in January, Lula da Silva has thus far honoured his pledge to tackle Brazil’s astronomical deforestation problem. In April, the rate of such activity was down 68% on the previous year. In the run-up to Brazil’s elections last October, several ecological experts suggested the future of the Amazon rainforest relied solely on who would become president. Jair Bolsonaro’s contentious stint of three years had brought...
Exclusive – Kevin J. Patel’s community-centric approach to activism
We spoke with the intersectional climate justice activist and founder of OneUpAction International about his mission to support and empower young leaders to implement solutions by providing them with the resources they need to be changemakers. ‘Community is where it begins,’ says Kevin J. Patel, an intersectional climate justice activist who’s spent the last decade advocating for the environment. He is the son of working-class, Indian immigrants, who relocated to the...
Opinion – Queerphobia’s rise is affecting the Indian internet
With the beginning of the marriage equality hearings in the Supreme Court, the Indian queer community has had to face rising queerphobia online, ranging from dehumanization to death threats. I haven’t had a single day of peace on social media since April 18th. This date began one of the most arduous hearings in the Indian Supreme Court's history of handling queer issues: whether marriage equality should be sanctified under the law...
Salted crops can provide cost-effective carbon capture say researchers
Cost effective carbon capture is currently a bit of a myth. But could arguably Earth’s oldest preservative, salt, provide a solution to lock atmospheric carbon deep underground? Carbon removal is now deemed essential to stay within all theoretical pathways of 1.5C warming, says the IPCC’s AR6 Synthesis Report. Depending on how effectively we transition the most pollutant industries away from fossil fuels, we’ll need to actively sequester somewhere between 5...
