The 26th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties, COP26, is in Glasgow, Scotland, from Oct. 31 to Nov. 12, 2021, comes at a time when Africa is not only at the brunt end of the vagaries of the weather but is still reeling from the debilitating impact of COVID-19. These […]
As the planet continues to warm, President Joe Biden issued an executive order in January asking 23 federal agencies to prepare reports identifying the prime threats of climate change and how they plan to respond to the issue. The report elaborated on how climate change will reach people’s everyday life from where they live, what […]
Donald Trump entered his presidency intent on reversing as many of his predecessor’s policies as possible and replace them with “America first” edicts. So he started signing executive orders dismantling environmental protections. One of his directives, the Navigable Waters Protection Act (NWPA) that drastically reduced federal protections for streams, marshes, and wetlands across America, was […]
