Climate Change

Property insurance rates have spiked since 2021 due to the increasing frequency of climate-related natural disasters

How to combat the Big Oil Propaganda that is stalling Climate Action

The industry’s most effective tool is a global network of foundations, think tanks and lobbyists known as the Climate Change Counter Movement

Climate Crisis

The Real Threat: U.S. Spending to Combat Climate Change has been Swallowed by the Pentagon

OtherWords

The Paris Treaty envisioned the economic and social transformations needed to keep the planet from overheating to unlivable levels

Antarctica

West Antarctica’s History of rapid Melting Foretells sudden Shifts in Continent’s ‘catastrophic’ Geology

The Conversation

Much of the discussion about the melting of massive ice sheets during a time of climate change addresses its effects on people

Climate Crisis

Trump Announces Plan to Break Up the Life-Saving National Center for Atmospheric Research

Yale Climate Connections

The center is one of the world’s premier institutions for studying the atmosphere. Its work has saved countless lives.

Climate Crisis

Climate Breakdown: Even “Weak” Cyclones cause Fatal Flooding as Oceans Heat Up

The Conversation

By Ligin Joseph, University of Southampton (The Conversation) – The final week of November was devastating for several South Asian countries. Communities in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand were inundated as Cyclones Ditwah and Senyar unleashed days of relentless rain. Millions were affected, more than 1,500 people lost their lives, hundreds are still missing, and […]

Biodiversity

“I don’t see Palestine as an isolated story”

Global Voices

An Interview with Vivien Sansour, Founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library By Thin Ink This is an excerpt of a longer interview on Thin Ink, a weekly publication on food, climate, and where they meet. Read the full interview here. ( Global Voices ) – Vivien Sansour is the founder of the Palestine Heirloom […]

Antarctica

“We cannot Negotiate with the Melting Point of Ice:” World’s Ice Sheets shed 640 bn. Tons in 12 Months

The Conversation

Chris Stokes, Durham University; Florence Colleoni, National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS), and James Kirkham, British Antarctic Survey “We cannot negotiate with the melting point of ice.” That’s the message from more than 50 leading scientists who study the Earth’s frozen regions, published in the latest annual State of the Cryosphere report. In […]

Climate Crisis

Climate Breakdown: Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com ) – What self-destructive creatures we turn out to be! Can you even believe it? Only recently, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, met in Brazil for two weeks. While 194 countries were represented there, the historically greatest fossil-fuelizer on the planet, Donald Trump’s United States, was, of course, missing in […]