Climate Crimes

Faced with the irrefutable facts of global warming, sea-level rise, and large-scale climate collapse, governments and corporations remain determined to enrich themselves no matter the cost to continued life on Earth.

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Brazil
Emboldened by Bolsonaro, Land-Hungry Ranchers Are Destroying a Pioneering Project to Help the Poor and Save the Amazon
The Intercept - Sílvia Lisboa
On the morning of February 12, 2005, American missionary Dorothy Stang was walking by the side of the road in the Brazilian Amazon when she was …
Nov 25, 2019
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How Plastic Pollution Is Making Central America Uninhabitable
The Intercept - Amelia Urry
The fishermen stand thigh-deep in the muddy water as our boat pulls up to the shore, grass shushing against the hull. It is a still, cool morning and …
Oct 27, 2019
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Coca-Cola Named Most Polluting Brand in Global Plastic Waste Audit
The Intercept - Sharon Lerner
Coca-Cola was found for the second year in a row to be the most polluting brand in a global audit of plastic trash conducted by the Break Free From …
Oct 23, 2019
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Imperial Oil, Canada’s Exxon Subsidiary, Ignored Its Own Climate Change Research for Decades, Archive Shows
The Intercept - Murtaza Hussain
Record droughts, raging forest fires, crop failures, and disappearing glaciers: It has become undeniable that the planet is in the early stages of a …
January 8
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Ozone Layer Recovery Is Being Undermined by Pollution From U.S. Companies
The Intercept - Sharon Lerner
The global response to the “ozone hole,” as it came to be known in the 1970s, has long been held up as a model for environmental problem-solving — …
January 18