A growing civil resistance grassroots movement is tackling global warming. Activists say they are taking a stand against life-threatening activities like fossil fuel burning and fracking. Organizers say a growing sense of the magnitude of the climate crisis is spurring ever more people – particularly young people – to get involved. A quick scan on the internet shows there are daily protests on nearly every continent. “We’re fighting for our generation,” says Hannes, a participant in Austria. “We are reasonable people trying to defend nature and the climate,” he says. “We’re not the extreme ones – people who want to keep burning coal and cutting down forests are extreme, because they are destroying the environment that we need to live” – dw.com
- World Bank: Half of South Asia living in vulnerable climate ‘hotspots’ – Reuters
- Trump Administration sued by 11 states over HFCs – InsideClimateNews (See HFC page)
- Sunny Day flooding – America’s new climate norm – Guardian
- Almost a quarter of child deaths in sub-Saharan Africa could be prevented by improving air quality – Independent
- US judge throws out climate change lawsuits against big oil – ABCNews
- Rallies in Germany against government’s continued reliance on coal – DeutscheWelle
- Mumbai becomes the largest Indian city to ban single-use plastics – Guardian
- Train derailment spills 230,000 gallons of crude oil into Iowa river –FoxNews
- NOAA won’t drop climate and conservation from its mission, agency says – USAToday
- Court orders controversial pipeline halt over West Virginia streams and wetlands – EcoWatch
- Worst drought in 40 years: Latvia declares a national state of disaster – TerraDaily
- Indian capital’s summer of discontent: anger, killings over water – Reuters
- UK Roads have begun to melt as the UK basks in the ongoing heatwave – Telegraph