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Environmental recap 2020
Climate & Environment, Journalism & Media
December 27, 2020 | WhoWhatWhy Staff

Our Best Environmental Coverage of 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutes The dire state of the environment is one of humanity’s greatest challenges. Here are some of our 2020 environmental stories you may have missed.

Hong Kong, protests
Climate & Environment, Life & Culture
December 26, 2020 | Edward Girardet

Business as Usual: No Longer Acceptable for Young People

Reading Time: 8 minutes As British naturalist David Attenborough — an indisputable “influencer” of today’s youth — has noted on various occasions, time is running out for our planet. The move to action may now lie in the hands of young people. Maybe it’s time to do more than simply pretend that we are listening to the concerns of the new generation.

recycling waste, Basel Convention
Climate & Environment
December 20, 2020 | Max Steiner
Tags: world

US-Canada Plastic Trade Deal Subverts Basel Convention

Reading Time: 11 minutes As the Basel Convention receives a major update, outsiders like the US may suddenly have to face their own trash.

Camp, Sheenjek River, ANWR
Climate & Environment, Politics & Policy
November 18, 2020 | Max Steiner

Arctic Refuge Parceled Out for Sale in Trump’s Final Push

Reading Time: 5 minutes Meet the opposition the Trump administration faces as it pushes to auction off one of Alaska’s last remaining wild places to the oil and gas industry.

Xi Jingpingm Vladimir Putin, pancakes
Climate & Environment, Politics & Policy
November 18, 2020 | Jeff Schechtman
Tags: podcast

The Geopolitics of Energy

Reading Time: 12 minutes Energy expert Daniel Yergin on Joe Biden facing a world whose geopolitics have been transformed by climate, fracking, and an insatiable global demand for energy.

Elephant
Climate & Environment, Life & Culture
October 3, 2020 | Keith Somerville
Tags: world

The Cost of the Coronavirus for African Animals

Reading Time: 12 minutes A specialist explores the detrimental influence the coronavirus is having on wildlife in Africa and beyond — and what urgently needs to be done to counter it.

Fires and Smoke and Covid and 2020, 1088x725
Climate & Environment
September 19, 2020 | Barbara Besser

Breath by Breath: Living by the AQI in San Francisco Bay

Reading Time: 3 minutes COVID-19 and spontaneous wildfires were bad enough; now it’s the quality of the air which keeps us prisoners in our own homes.

Greenland, ice, ocean
Climate & Environment, Health & Care
September 17, 2020 | Paul Andrew Mayewski and Charles H. Norchi
Tags: coronavirus

Twin Crises: Coronavirus and Climate Change

Reading Time: 9 minutes Both the pandemic and our compromised environment require a unified global response.

Austin, Texas, Tropical Storm Laura
Climate & Environment, Politics & Policy
August 31, 2020 | Sofia Andrade
Tags: climate change, Florida, RNC

Hurricanes Rage While the RNC Ignores Climate Change

Reading Time: 4 minutes In an unprecedented year for climate disasters, the RNC opted to lambaste Democrats rather than face the two storms raging in the Gulf and the fires in California.

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