Topic - Environmental Justice, page 7

E360 VIDEO CONTEST WINNER

In Sicily, A Plague of Cancer Overwhelms an Oil Refinery Town

Interview

Lessons Learned from Centuries of Indigenous Forest Management

By Richard Schiffman

E360 VIDEO CONTEST WINNER - SECOND PLACE

For Iranian Villagers, A Dam Uproots a Rural Way of Life

Workers put solar panels on a house near downtown Oakland under a program that uses revenue from California’s cap-and-trade auctions.

Green Upgrade: How California Is Pioneering ‘Energy Justice’

By Patricia Leigh Brown

How Green Groups Became So White and What to Do About It

By Diane Toomey

Native Knowledge: What Ecologists Are Learning from Indigenous People

By Jim Robbins

Islanders estimate that about half of the population have already moved from Isle de Jean Charles, including 42-year-old Keith Brunet, who moved his wife and two children from this house to Houma. He had mucked enough mud out of his house from hurricanes to call it quits on his island home. "You get tired of it," he said in February 2018.

On the Louisiana Coast, A Native Community Sinks Slowly into the Sea

By Ted Jackson

New York City has painted about 7 million square feet of tar rooftops white to lower temperatures.

Urban Heat: Can White Roofs Help Cool World’s Warming Cities?

By Fred Pearce

Valley of the Gods in Bears Ears National Monument.

Opinion

From Utah’s Red Rock Desert, A Call for Protecting Our Public Lands

By Terry Tempest Williams

Interview

A Troubling Look at the Human Toll of Mountaintop Removal Mining

By Richard Schiffman

A mining operation in Surigao del Norte, a province in the Philippines.

Interview

How an Activist Minister in Philippines Took On the Mining Barons

By Fred Pearce

The Belo Monte Dam under construction on the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon, in 2015.

Opinion

How a Dam Building Boom Is Transforming the Brazilian Amazon

By Philip Fearnside

E360 Video Contest Winners

On Our Lands: Indigenous Bolivians Take Control Of Their Forests

Nonhle Mbuthuma, leader of the Amadiba Crisis Committee, which opposes a proposed titanium mine on South Africa’s Eastern Cape.

A Death in Pondoland

How a Proposed Strip Mine Brought Conflict to South Africa’s Wild Coast

By Fred Pearce

Supporters of Bill Kayong outside the court at the trial of three men charged in his murder.

Murder in Malaysia

How Protecting Native Forests Cost a Southeast Asian Activist His Life

By Fred Pearce

A shrine to Berta Cáceres in La Esperanza, Honduras.

Firing Line

In Honduras, Defending Nature Is a Deadly Business

By Fred Pearce

Protesters gathered on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation to contest the building of a pipeline near Cannonball, North Dakota.

Activism

At Standing Rock, A Battle Over Fossil Fuels and Land

By Katherine Bagley

Video Contest Winner - Runner Up

An Amazon Tribe’s Deadly Fight To Save Its Land From Logging

By Adam Spencer

Hard-Pressed Rust Belt Cities Go Green to Aid Urban Revival

Gary, Indiana is joining Detroit and other fading U.S. industrial centers in an effort to turn abandoned neighborhoods and factory sites into gardens, parks, and forests. In addition to the environmental benefits, these greening initiatives may help catalyze an economic recovery.

By Winifred Bird

Bringing Energy Upgrades To the Nation’s Inner Cities

Donnel Baird has launched a startup that aims to revolutionize how small businesses and nonprofits secure funding for energy efficiency and clean energy projects in low-income neighborhoods. In a Yale Environment 360 interview, he talks about how he plans to bring his vision to dozens of U.S. cities.

By Diane Toomey

With New Tools, A Focus On Urban Methane Leaks

Until recently, little was known about the extent of methane leaking from urban gas distribution pipes and its impact on global warming. But recent advances in detecting this potent greenhouse gas are pushing U.S. states to begin addressing this long-neglected problem.

By Judith Lewis Mernit