No reason we should be tolerating this level of sickness and death at a time when clean and cheap alternatives to fossil fuels are readily available.

Wildfires used to 'go to sleep' at night. Climate change has them burning overtime Wildfires used to die down and even stop at night with cooler temperatures and increased humidity. But a study released Friday says climate change is making burning weather more around the clock in No...

Wildfires that don't sleep

We have the tools to get off this path

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Indonesia’s Nickel Boom Is Flooding Indigenous Lands in North Maluku The criminalization of eleven members of the Maba Sangaji Indigenous community is a stark example of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP). It reflects a calculated effort to silence...

“In the past, even after flooding, the water would clear up within a day. Now, the floods bring heavy mud. And lately, it’s getting deeper—and redder.” - Asis Bakir, Maba Sangaji community member

What’s the real cost of “green” tech?

Join CRI's @kristashennum.bsky.social, Leslie Quintanilla & #SFSU students for an Earth Week panel on critical minerals, extraction & climate justice, moderated by Logan Hennessy.

🗓 April 23 | ⏰ 3–4:45 PM
📍 SF State, Library 121

No registration needed.

Opinion | A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality

“‘I am trying to make you understand how choices made in your offices, thousands of kilometers away, turned into Kalashnikov bullets, into blood,’ the judge said.”

A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/o...

Mexico: Ensure Justice for Killing of Environmental Defender Authorities in Mexico should ensure a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into the killing of Roberto Chávez, an environmental defender in Michoacán state, and bring those responsible to jus...

Authorities in #Mexico should ensure a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into the killing of Roberto Chávez, an environmental defender in Michoacán state, and bring those responsible to justice: cri.org/mexico-ensur... (1/3)

Stop Greed, Build Green | Climate and Community Institute A new framework to put the working class in charge of climate and economic transformation.

🚨🚨 Today, we’re launching “Stop Greed Build Green,” a strategic framework and agenda to confront the affordability crisis and the climate crisis together by putting working people in charge of the economy and the climate transition. (1/10)

Indonesia’s deforestation surges 66% in 2025, reversing years of decline JAKARTA — Indonesia’s deforestation surged in 2025, rising 66% from the previous year, marking a sharp reversal after several years of decline, according to new data from the NGO Auriga Nusantara.…

Deforestation in Indonesia surged 66% from 2024 to 2025, when more than 433,000 hectares were lost, according to the NGO Auriga Nusantara.

The country reached historic low deforestation in 2021, when around 230,000 hectares were cleared. By Hans Nicholas Jong for @mongabay.com:

UCS just released a very nice and concise guide for how to stay safe in the public eye -- for scholars and researchers, but also for anyone else concerned about safety during autocratization:
www.ucs.org/sites/de...

Announcement: We've updated the CSDDD Datahub!

Which corporations will have to comply with the CSDDD following Omnibus I?

📢 The updated SOMO CSDDD Datahub is out today and reveals:

- the 1,450 corporate groups covered by the CSDDD
- the companies meeting the thresholds
- their sectors
- their HQ countries

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Graphic showing faster rebuilding in Santa Rosa and Paradise than Altadena and Pacific Palisades

Fifteen months after the Los Angeles wildfires, rebuilding is lagging behind other disasters. "There’s certainly no chance of them being this outlier of fast recovery. It’s not physically possible at this point." www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Indonesia’s Prabowo calls for criminal charges against firms resisting forest crackdown He warned that anyone who refused to cooperate would be seen as going against the president. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

President Prabowo's forest task force has been seizing areas controlled by companies, ordering them to pay fines for illegal business operations. A total of 5.88 million hectares of plantations and 10,257ha of mining concessions have been seized share.google/8cLjbltVWkBv...

Bay Area folks! Join us during SF Climate Week for a conversation about minerals, human rights, and climate justice.

Real resilience isn’t about securing more, but needing less 🔥

As more sectors compete for the same critical minerals, the EU's focus is on securing greater supply.

But, what's a better path for the EU?
- Reduce demand
- use fewer materials
- rethink key sectors

Read more: bit.ly/3PY7K8l

The Government of #Indonesia must hold the perpetrators and authors of this horrific crime accountable, end its public attacks against human rights and environmental defenders, and halt efforts to adopt legislation that would restrict or criminalize the peaceful activities of independent NGOs.

Aktivis di Bangka Belitung Diduga Disiram Air Keras Muhammad Rosidi, aktivis lingkungan dari Bangka Selatan, Provinsi Bangka Belitung, menjadi korban penyiraman air keras

#Indonesian environmental defender Muhammad Rosidi was attacked with acid in February by unidentified individuals. He believes the attack was linked to his activism against illegal #mining in Bangka Island:
www.tempo.co/hukum/aktivi... #Indonesia #HumanRights #Mining

NM state land commissioner rejects application for gas pipeline to power Project Jupiter data center • Source New Mexico The New Mexico State Land Office denied a request by a Texas energy company to build a segment of a 17-mile pipeline to fuel Project Jupiter.

“The New Mexico State Land Office has denied a request by a Texas energy company to build a segment of a 17-mile pipeline to fuel the Project Jupiter data center in Southern New Mexico.”

People really don’t like data centers. Especially when powered by fossil fuels.

The biggest risks to your home aren’t always the most obvious – and they’re already showing up in your insurance bill. A scholar of sustainable impacts and environmental law explains that it’s not just wildfires, hurricanes, and tornadoes.

#climatechange #environment

An Oil Explosion in a Black Texas Town Traces Back to Trump's Iran and Venezuela Crises “The chickens have come home to roost,” one resident said. “Our exact fears have come true.”

In Jan, Black residents in TX reached out to me w/ a new fear: the invasion in Venezuela would lead to an oil disaster in their backyard

Their fears became reality. As oil prices spike from the Iran war, this facility refining Venezuela oil exploded
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Sri Lanka’s Fuel Conservation Holiday Signals a Deeper Energy Crisis By Sakeena Razick

#SriLanka declared Wednesdays a holiday to conserve #fuel following #oil shortages amid the ongoing war. But this signals a deeper energy crisis of #Fossilfuel dependency & structural inefficiencies in a #climate vulnerable island. Our latest by Sakeena Razick: open.substack.com/pub/climater... #lka

US-Indonesia trade deal slammed as ‘extractive colonialism’ over mining, fossil fuels JAKARTA — Environmental activists are sounding the alarm over a new trade agreement between the U.S. and Indonesia that they warn could accelerate mining expansion, fossil fuel dependence and forest l...

The Indonesia-US trade deal risks weakening Indonesia’s climate commitments under the Paris Agreement. Agreeing to import $15 billion in fossil fuels from the US may continue to prop up fossil fuel usage in Indonesia at a time where comm's are already experiencing serious climate impacts.

1.3 million Zambians receive HIV treatment and other medical aid from the United States. Threatening these lifesaving programs to pressure Zambia into signing a critical minerals agreement is ethically indefensible.

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Petrochemical expansion is not inevitable — it is financed.

Our new report traces $133B in bank financing and $1.6T in investor exposure behind US petrochemical growth — even as legal challenges, overcapacity, & cancellations mount

Read: bit.ly/4uOHCga

Indonesia: Acid Attack Against Rights Activist Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto should immediately issue a presidential decree setting up a fact-finding team independent of the military to fully investigate the acid attack against a prominent...

President Prabowo should immediately issue a presidential decree setting up a fact-finding team independent of the Indonesian military to fully investigate the acid attack against a prominent human rights activist who has criticized the military www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

*more than 84 countries combined*

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

CRI's @kristashennum.bsky.social talks with @heidiheidilim.bsky.social about rights abuses in the nickel industry in #Indonesia and the #Philippines, the role of #EV companies, and what we can do to change this! Watch the full talk here! youtu.be/OIpT8cxEBLs?...

$200B, the Pentagon's insane ask for the illegal Iran war, is comparable to all planned spending on energy and climate over *10 years* in Biden's signature bill, which Trumpists almost completely repealed last summer.

Fossil fuel propaganda is evolving A new analysis of nearly 2,000 fossil fuel ads finds Big Oil has moved from green promises to insisting oil and gas are inevitable. (They're not).

Big Oil is no longer trying to convince us they want to preserve a safe & stable climate

Now, they're focused on convincing us that the world is only safe & stable if they're in charge

That's the thesis of a new @cleancreatives.bsky.social report analyzing 2000 oil ads, exclusively in HEATED today

Mining and Human Rights ft. Krista Shennum of Climate Rights International YouTube video by Heidi Lim

Transition minerals used in EVs and renewables are often from exploitative mines with human rights abuses, powered by fossil fuels. I talked to @kristashennum.bsky.social from @climaterights.bsky.social on her work in Indonesia and the Philippines and how we can help. youtu.be/OIpT8cxEBLs