Dharna Noor

3 days ago | motherjones.com | Dharna NoorBio |Dharna Noor

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. David Cross is many things: a famed comic, an Emmy award winner, and a New York Times best-selling author. But he is not a climate scientist. That fact might make him the perfect person to communicate the urgency of global heating to mass audiences. “You’ve got to speak to people in a way they can understand,” he said.

4 days ago | theguardian.com | Dharna Noor

David Cross is many things: a famed comic, an Emmy award winner, and a New York Times bestseller. But he is not a climate scientist. That fact might make him the perfect person to communicate the urgency of global heating to mass audiences. “You’ve got to speak to people in a way they can understand,” he said. That’s the purpose of a new video in which Cross co-stars with renowned environmental scientist Michael Oppenheimer.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Dharna Noor

A Seattle woman has brought the first-ever wrongful death lawsuit against big oil, claiming fossil fuel companies’ climate negligence caused her mother’s death during a major heatwave. Juliana Leon died of hyperthermia at age 65 during the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat dome – an event that killed nearly 200 people, and which meteorologists say would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused global warming.

1 week ago | nationalobserver.com | Dharna Noor

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration Oil interests have funded cultural institutions such as museums, youth organizations and athletic groups in recent years, new research shows, in what appears to be a public relations effort to boost their image amid growing public awareness of the climate crisis.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Dharna Noor

Twenty two young Americans have filed a new lawsuit against the Trump administration over its anti-environment executive orders. By intentionally boosting oil and gas production and stymying carbon-free energy, federal officials are violating their constitutional rights to life and liberty, alleges the lawsuit, filed on Thursday.