Yessenia Funes's posts

Gold mining is becoming an increasingly dangerous threat to the Amazon. A new study has found that barely any trees…

Before the coronavirus pandemic threw the U.S. into recession, the Navajo Nation was already dealing with a…

Remember earlier this month when a Russian mining company spilled thousands of tons of diesel into a beautiful Arctic…

Warm air doesn’t reach Antarctica as easily as the rest of the globe, but a new study has found that not even the…

This week’s primaries were full of huge progressive victories, including races that prominently featured climate…

In California, trucks won’t be able to pollute the air and planet for much longer. The state is approving the…

Antarctica’s sea ice has crashed in recent years. It’s nothing to celebrate, but apparently some Antarctic penguins…

For the first time, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has included climate change in its annual…

At Earther, we stan the bears. Bears are good, especially when they are fat. They are the hero we all need. That’s…

Nothing seems safe from the grips of plastic these days. Not national parks, not oceans, and, according to new…

The West Coast is preparing for a future where giant diesel transport trucks go electric. Utilities and state…

In the last year, some big banks have committed to protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska through…

The Five Mile Swamp Fire had been burning for nearly three days in the muddy swamps of Florida’s Santa Rosa County…

Oil giants are coming to terms with their impending doom. That’s especially true these days for BP, the London-based…

The fossil fuel industry rightly gets a lot of flack for how it contributes to the climate crisis, but a recent repor…

The economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus has decimated jobs and created a pretty scary financial situation…

Nearly 800 monuments celebrating the Confederacy stand in public spaces across the U.S. today. A growing number of…

Microplastics are taking over the world. A new study found that microplastics are present in at least 11 remote and…

Today, Black families are most likely to live surrounded by toxic air pollutants extractive industries discharge into…

First, there were murder hornets. Now, invasive, poisonous toads are the latest bizarre creature to go wild in the…