Clusia guttifera and snake plant tell the story of Miami’s transformation due to rapid development, speculative buying, and outside investment Miami’s landscapes of gentrification is a story from Prism, a BIPOC-led nonprofit news outlet that centers the people, places, and issues currently underreported by national media. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our work today.| Prism
Sponsored by oil and gas corporations, SB 419 seeks to exempt hydrogen fuel from certain taxes in a purported push toward clean energy Hydrogen fuel isn’t so ‘clean,’ say opponents of California bill is a story from Prism, a BIPOC-led nonprofit news outlet that centers the people, places, and issues currently underreported by national media. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our work today.| Prism
Once-in-a-century crop failures could strike every decade by 2100, according to new research from UBC.| UBC News
B.C. is pushing mineral mining to meet clean energy demand, but UBC experts stress the need to balance growth with Indigenous rights and the environment.| UBC News
Wildlife researchers at Washington University in St. Louis tracked pigeons in two cities to see what affects their density. The post Pigeons of St. Louis: A new look at a cosmopolitan bird appeared first on The Source.| The Source | Washington University in St. Louis
Western tent caterpillars swarm in massive numbers every decade, then vanish. UBC’s Dr. Judith Myers shares insights from 50 years of research into their mysterious cycles.| UBC News
UBC researchers uncover a massive new RNA virus in farmed Pacific oysters during a mass die-off in B.C., Canada.| UBC News
UBC researchers have identified the bacterial culprit behind sea star wasting disease, solving a decade-long mystery and opening the door to recovery efforts for devastated marine ecosystems.| UBC News
California’s failure to include incarcerated people in emergency plans shines light on the life-threatening dangers facing people in custody| Prism
New research finds long-term impacts on flood size and frequency decades after trees are removed| UBC News
The Gulf of Alaska is one of the world’s biggest commercial fisheries. In Kodiak, Indigenous leaders and community growers promote the value of homegrown produce| Prism
The U.S.-based Iraqi Seed Collective is using the practice of saving seeds to bring extinct Iraqi vegetables back to life| Prism
We, the undersigned civil society organisations from the 15 member countries* of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), call upon RCEP governments to continue to exclude Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) from the RCEP. After strong civil society opposition and much public debate, governments agreed to exclude ISDS from the RCEP, which came into force for […]| Focus on the Global South
Wildfires pollute waterways and could affect their ability to sequester carbon, recent University of British Columbia research shows.| UBC News
Seed keepers and seed activists are maintaining foodways and building cultural reverence through community networks| Prism
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Climate change cannot be tackled by capitalist ecological policies of financial institutions and Western states but socio-economic justice and postcolonial epistemes.| E-International Relations