COP28 must represent the start of climate finance justice
This year’s debate at COP28 will focus on climate justice and financing and the urgently needed transformation of the world’s energy and land use systems. As governments gather in Dubai for this year’s climate conference, two things are painfully clear. First, we are...
Society criminalizes people for rescuing animals from cruel factory farms
Wayne Hsiung’s trial and conviction highlights the extraordinary difficulty of exposing animal cruelty on factory farms in a legal system that only sees them as property. Wayne Hsiung, an attorney and leading figure in the animal rights movement, was convicted of two...
7 reasons to love turkeys and not eat them
Every year on Thanksgiving, a staggering 46 million turkeys are consumed. But turkeys are not a table centerpiece, they have personalities as distinct and varied as cats or dogs. Thanksgiving is a holiday about giving thanks and being grateful, but somehow over the...
The beef industry is turning the Amazon forest to dust
The beef industry is the biggest driver of Amazon deforestation. A new report by the Climate Observatory notes that Brazil’s beef industry now has a bigger carbon footprint than Japan. Cows, dust and smoke. That was what greeted me on my return home to Altamira, after...
How do rising temperatures harm wild animals?
While people and their beloved pets can take refuge in air conditioned rooms, wild animals can’t summon up soothing streams of cool air at the flick of a switch. You haven’t been imagining the heat; well over 100-million Americans have been subject to dangerous heat...
