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Topic: Environment (page 24)

RFS Firefighters battle a spot fire on November 13, 2019 in Hillville, Australia. Catastrophic fire conditions - the highest possible level of bushfire danger - have eased across greater Sydney, Illawarra and Hunter areas thanks to a slight cool change, however dozens of bushfires are still burning. A state of emergency, as declared by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Monday, is still in effect, giving emergency powers to Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons and prohibiting fires across the state. (Sam Mooy/Getty Images)

Australia's cataclysmic wildfire season

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Views of the sunken road, known as the "bloody lane", on the Antietam battlefield, where over 5,500 soldiers lost their lives in four hours of combat on September 17 of 1862, as seen on March 26, 2019 in the farmland outside of the small village of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The Civil War battlefield has been preserved by the National Park Service as an historical site. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

From battlefields to parks

Todd Lookingbill, Peter Smallwood - The Conversation
Waorani men and women participate in an assembly in ancestral Waorani territory, Pastaza, Ecuadorian Amazon. (Amazon Frontlines)

Fighting for our future

Mitch Anderson - Truthout
This undated image provided by journal Science shows a campsite in Pucuncho Basin. Stone tools and other artifacts have revealed the presence of hunter-gatherers at about 14,700 feet above sea level, between 12,000 and 12,500 years ago in the Peruvian Andes. (AP Photo/Science, Matthew Koehler) (AP)

How humans kicked off a new age of fire

Kate Yoder - Grist
A homeless man sleeps on the grass at Civic Center Plaza on May 17, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Getty/Justin Sullivan)

California is living a dystopian future

Stephanie LeMenager - The Conversation
(Getty/JamesBrey)

Farming needs more attention from pols

Lisa Schulte Moore - The Conversation
(Getty/supershabashnyi)

Should we ban frequent flyer programs?

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
(Ivan Pisarenko/AFP via Getty Images)

Defend farmers or protect corporations?

Karine Eliane Peschard - The Conversation
(Getty/Parkpoom)

Scientists demand "paradigm shift"

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
(Shutterstock)

Oil companies must cut production by 35%

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams
The prices farmers receive for crops do not cover all the costs of keeping farms viable, not to mention the extra costs of ecological or regenerative farming systems. The farm crisis is not over. (Pixabay/Pexels)

Big problems on small family farms

Elizabeth Henderson - Independent Media Institute
(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

"It happens over and over and over"

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
(Getty/Bill Chizek)

Supreme Court & the rich kill democracy

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
FILE - In this May 11, 2003, file photo, Microbiologist Ruth Bryan works with BG nerve agent simulant in Class III Glove Box in the Life Sciences Test Facility at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. The specialized airtight enclosure is also used for hands-on work with anthrax and other deadly agents. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is investigating what the Pentagon called an inadvertent shipment of live anthrax spores to government and commercial laboratories in as many as nine states, as well as one overseas, that expected to receive dead spores. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File) (AP)

Kate Yoder
Floodwaters associated with Hurricane Matthew surround homes and an ambulance on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, in Lumberton, N.C. Gov. Pat McCrory said Thursday the number of power outages was down to about 55,000, from a high of nearly 900,000 when the storm hit. (AP Photo/Brian Blanco) (AP)

If facts won't work, what will?

Kate Yoder - Grist
Antarctic Glacier with cavities (Getty Images/goinyk)

Tipping point closer than we thought

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
(Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images)

Confusion at the fish counter

Jenny Weitzman - The Conversation
(Getty/6okean)

E-cigarette waste raises concerns

Eli Wolfe - FairWarning
A Cal Fire firefighter monitors the Kincaide Fire as it burns a hillside on October 24, 2019 in Geyserville, California. Fueled by high winds, the Kincaide Fire has burned over 7,000 acres in a matter of hours and has prompted evacuations in the Geyserville area. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images))

Max Moritz, Faith Kearns
A layer of pollution can be seen hovering over Los Angeles, California (Getty/Frederic J. Brown)

Around 125 anti-fracking activists demonstrated at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus on January 10, 2012. (ProgressOhio/Flickr)

Climate activists demonstrate in Washington, D.C. in 2015. One displays a sign admonishing ExxonMobil for its complicity in furthering the climate apocalypse. (Johnny Silvercloud/Flickr)

ExxonMobil bankrolling climate deniers

Elliott Negin - Truthout
Cars destroyed by the Camp Fire sit in the lot at a used car dealership on November 9, 2018 in Paradise, California. (Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)

Are wildfires a public health issue?

Faith Kearns, Max Moritz - The Conversation
Judy Aquiline, a Sonoma local, sits in the candle-lit restaurant Reel and Brand in Sonoma, California, on October 9, 2019, during a planned power outage by the Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) utility company. - Rolling blackouts set to affect millions of Californians began on October 9 as a utility company started switching off power to an unprecedented number of households in the face of hot, windy weather that raises the risk of wildfires. (BRITTANY HOSEA-SMALL/AFP via Getty Images)

California's blackouts are not enough

Carl Pope
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