Circle of Blue
AUGUST 9, 2021
Bernal was politically-minded from a young age. But what galvanized her political consciousness were the Standing Rock protests, a sustained resistance movement of Native American communities against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, beginning in 2016. In order for the land to be fruitful, there needs to be water,” she said.
Circle of Blue
MAY 23, 2022
A child collects drinking water in Rajasthan, India in 2016. Rehman urged political leaders to act on the issue, advocating for technology upgrades, ecosystem restoration in the Indus River Valley, and enforcing a 1991 accord that governs the distribution of water between Pakistan’s provinces. Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
While they might seem like a small token of participation, “I Voted” stickers help normalize voting as an expected social norm – political scientists have highlighted that people are more likely to vote when they think that others around them vote, too. Back in 2016, the U.C.
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
In just four years of global warming, 2012-2016, more than one trillion tons of Greenlandic ice were lost: enough ice melt to fill a pool the size of the state of New York to a depth of twenty-three feet. The biggest barriers to progress are political and psychological.
Legal Planet
MAY 16, 2023
As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. From 2007 to 2016, control of the Australian House and Senate were generally in the hands of different parties, and the two parties almost never agreed on climate issues. As in the U.S.,
Circle of Blue
MARCH 1, 2022
Temperatures on this day in July 2016 exceeded 110 degrees Fahrenheit. There is still time to reduce carbon emissions — though scaling up a low-carbon economy requires marshalling political will, public support, technical expertise, and financing. Scientific body warns of ‘rapidly closing window’ for action.
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
He hosts the group’s podcast, “the Highwire,” and he produced the 2016 pseudo-documentary “Vaxxed.” He leads the Informed Consent Action Network, or ICAN, a well-funded advocacy group that spreads vaccine misinformation, including baseless claims that childhood vaccines cause autism. He’s dabbled in election denial. near the Capitol on Jan.
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