by Susan Keown | Jun 3, 2022 | ScienceWire
For The Tyee, Peter Fairley (@pfairley) visits activists in British Columbia who are pushing for climate action via hunger strikes. “Climate activism via self-sacrifice … is on the rise globally, as campaigners seek to arouse public attention and force government...
by Susan Keown | Dec 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
In Yes! Magazine, Breanna Draxler (@BreannaDraxler) writes about climate activists who approach their work through a lens of justice. Built on a holistic understanding of environment, the environmental justice movement is dedicated to dismantling the systems of...
by Chris Tachibana | Jul 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
Activists get technical in a story by Wayt Gibbs for Anthropocene magazine. Low-cost instruments and abundant ingenuity are democratizing surveillance, Wayt writes. The examples are brilliant: crowdsourcing the identification and location of fracking ponds with...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 1, 2018 | ScienceWire
In a story for New York Times Magazine, Michelle Nijhuis documents climate change activists who are risking jail time to make their point. Michelle worked on this story for more than a year, following the court battles of the Valve Turners after they temporarily shut...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 2, 2018 | ScienceWire
Madeline Ostrander reviews 100 years of Seattle activism, from the Wobblies to the 1999 World Trade Organization protests to anti-offshore drilling kayaktivists. Madeline and coauthor Valerie Schloredt wrote a feature series for Seattle Met and gave the highlights on...
