Q&A
Q&A: Is Pittsburgh Becoming ‘the Plastic City’?
Once a month for nearly two years, Evan Clark, the Waterkeeper at Three Rivers Waterkeeper, a water quality advocacy organization based in Pittsburgh, has traveled by boat along the Ohio River to Shell’s enormous new plastics plant in Beaver County. This facility is a cracker plant, using ethane from fracked gas to make ethylene and […]
Read MoreQ&A: How the Drug War and Energy Transition Are Changing Ecuadorians’ Fight For The Rights of Nature
MINDO, Ecuador—Natalia Greene ducks her head underneath the fronds of a giant fern. It is pitch black in the Chocó Andino cloud forest and Greene is searching for spiders, frogs and other nocturnal creatures. “Ah, found one!” she shouts, steadying the beam of her flashlight on a sinewy spider. Greene marvels at the tiny tarantula […]
Read MoreQ&A: Ronald McKinnon Made It From Rural Alabama to the NFL. Now He Wants To See His Flooded Hometown Get Help
COFFEE COUNTY, Ala.—Ronald McKinnon thinks six years is long enough. Residents of the Shiloh community, the historically Black neighborhood where McKinnon grew up, have faced repeated flooding for six years now—the result of an expanded highway state workers elevated above nearby homes, they have said. McKinnon grew up in Shiloh, attending nearby Elba High School […]
Read MoreQ&A: What an Author’s Trip to the Antarctic Taught Her About Climate—and Collective Action
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Elizabeth Rush, author of “The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth.” The so-called “doomsday” glacier in Antarctica known as Thwaites holds enough ice that its melting could raise sea levels worldwide by […]
Read MoreQ&A: How YouTube Climate Denialism Is Morphing
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood and with Imran Ahmed, the CEO and founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate. It has been edited for length and clarity. Climate science has been under attack for decades. But some climate deniers are no […]
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