Climate Change

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 […]

Climate Change

Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – How plague came to Europe around 1347 has long been debated by historians. Scientists have located the origin of the primary reservoir of the disease in today’s Kyrgyzstan, and it has long been thought somehow to have come west with the Mongol invasions of the fourteenth century. One colorful tale […]

Climate Crisis

Rate of Global Heating in the Arab World is Twice the Global Average

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The World Meteorological Organization has issued its annual report on the 22 countries of the Arab world, covering last year, and presents alarming conclusions about human-driven climate change in that region. 2024 was the hottest year on record in the Middle East, around 1º Celsius (1.8º F.) hotter than the […]