Boston Bans Artificial Turf In Parks Due To Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’
The city joins a growing number across the US in limiting the use of artificial turf made with dangerous PFAS compounds
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Microplastics Found In Human Blood For First Time
Exclusive: The discovery shows the particles can travel around the body and may lodge in organs
Opinion: Once Again, America Is In Denial About Signs Of A Fresh Covid Wave
In the past couple of weeks, UK, Germany, France and others are experiencing a new wave. The US should get ready
Opinion: This Is How We Defeat Putin And Other Petrostate Autocrats
After Hitler invaded the Sudetenland, America turned its industrial prowess to building tanks, bombers and destroyers. Now, we must respond with renewables
A Better World Is Possible: The Library Of Things: Could Borrowing Everything From Drills To Disco Balls Cut Waste And Save Money?
Never mind books: in a slightly tatty block in Oxford you can borrow all the things that usually cost a fortune to hire – and its advocates say it’s a scheme that is about to conquer the world
Issues & Analyses: World Spends $1.8tn A Year On Subsidies That Harm Environment, Study Finds
Research prompts warnings humanity is ‘financing its own extinction’ through subsidies damaging to the climate and wildlife
Opinion: Capitalism Is Killing The Planet – It’s Time To Stop Buying Into Our Own Destruction
Instead of focusing on ‘micro consumerist bollocks’ like ditching our plastic coffee cups, we must challenge the pursuit of wealth and level down, not up
Issues & Analyses: Ten Ways To Confront The Climate Crisis Without Losing Hope
• Reconstruction after Covid: a new series of long reads
It’s easy to despair at the climate crisis, or to decide it’s already too late – but it’s not. Here’s how to keep the fight alive
Issues & Analyses: Reasons To Be Hopeful: The Climate Solutions Available Now
We have every tool we need to tackle the climate crisis. Here’s what some key sectors are doing
Opinion: We Can’t Solve The Climate Crisis With A Broken Democracy
Defusing the climate emergency requires defusing threats to American democracy
Opinion: The Next US Civil War Is Already Here – We Just Refuse To See It
The right has recognized that the system is in collapse, and it has a plan: violence and solidarity with treasonous far-right factions
Opinion: Telling People To ‘Follow The Science’ Won’t Save The Planet. But They Will Fight For Justice
The climate emergency has clear themes with heroes and villains. Describing it this way is how to build a movement