goldman prize

Top Tweets
wind turbines lined up in a green field
Palm trees bending in the wind
Coal power plant with emissions rising from towers
Liquid Natural Gas tanker
Vietnam climate activists crackdown
Asian Development Bank/Flickr

Leading environmentalists decry crackdown on Vietnam climate activists

Letter from Goldman prize winners aims to block country’s bid to join UN’s human rights council over its jailing of campaigners
A slow violence comes to an end in LA

A slow violence comes to an end in LA

Nalleli Cobo has been an organizer for most of her life–despite being only 21. Her leadership is creating a new future for Los Angeles.
Honduras court convicts ex-dam executive in murder of celebrated environmentalist
www.nytimes.com

Honduras court convicts ex-dam executive in murder of celebrated environmentalist

Roberto David Castillo, the former head of the company that was building a hydroelectric dam on Indigenous land in Honduras, was found guilty of being a co-conspirator in the murder of Berta Caceres.
human-made mass exceeds earth's entire biomass
www.newyorker.com

Bill McKibben: Our stuff weighs more than all living things on the planet

This year, the weight of all “human-made mass” exceeded that of the earth’s entire biomass. We now live on Planet Stuff.
How a journalist came to cover the brutal murder of Honduran activist Berta Cáceres
foreignpolicy.com

How a journalist came to cover the brutal murder of Honduran activist Berta Cáceres

A conversation with Nina Lakhani, author of “Who Killed Berta Cáceres? Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender's Battle for the Planet."

Two decades of resistance: Coal River Mountain Watch takes stock at 20
ohiovalleyresource.org

Two decades of resistance: Coal River Mountain Watch takes stock at 20

Twenty years ago a small group of activists stood up against mountaintop removal mining in the heart of West Virginia's coal country.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
MOST POPULAR
CLIMATE