Pipeline Propagandists Targeted Standing Rock’s Neighbors; Then Came a Data Center | Newsletter
The pipeline giant Energy Transfer paid a mercenary security firm to use Facebook to fuel divisions between an Indigenous-led movement and its mostly white, rural neighbors. Personnel working for the private security contractor TigerSwan described their divisive propaganda plans in WhatsApp chats and emails that Drilled and High Country News published at the end of…
Indigenous Communities, Activists in Africa Gird for Legal Battles with Governments over Climate Harms
A lawsuit filed in the Ugandan district of Mbale in 2020, shortly after weather experts warned that eastern Uganda would receive some of the heaviest rains in years is indicative of a broader, if still uneven, movement across Africa in recent years: Communities and activists are increasingly turning to the courts to challenge governments and…
The Climate Movement Isn’t in Retreat, It’s Under Attack…and It’s Time to Fight Back | Newsletter
In 2020, a source shared a presentation with me from an internal branding workshop they’d been asked to attend for bp. It was fascinating for a number of reasons, not least because it indicated that the oil major felt genuinely threatened by a surprising new enemy: young people. There have always been ebbs and flows…
A Team of Australian Researchers Wants to Bring Attribution Science to the Masses
It is not clear what is happening at first. In one video, a CCTV camera looks out over a port facility; in another it is a grand building that marks the Nepal-China border crossing. There are people in these images but from this distance, they look like specks. But the specks on the screen are…
Himalayan Nation Has Surplus Clean Energy but No Buyers at Home or Abroad
An interview with Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice.
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Nepal Floods Put Climate Loss and Damage Fund to the Test
An interview with Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice.
What Standing Rock’s Propaganda War Means Today
Ten years after the standoff, exclusive documents reveal that digital mercenaries targeted local communities and stirred up anti-protest sentiment.
New Zealand to Become First Country in the World to Lock the Courthouse Door on Climate Change
Borrowing a tactic from the United States, New Zealand will adopt a law authored by industry to give legal immunity for tort claims against fossil fuel producers and big emitters.
New Data Pins a Quarter of a Million Climate-Related Deaths Since 2018 on Equinor
New attribution science finds that fossil fuels sold by Equinor in 2025 alone will bring about between 34,000 and 58,000 additional human deaths compared to a world in which they were never burned.
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