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Archives: Desertification
It’s going to Get a lot Hotter; how Hot depends on You
Richard B. Rood | (The Conversation) | - - Earth’s climate is changing rapidly. We know this from billions of observations, documented in thousands of journal papers and texts and summarized every…
The World Is Burning (Stop burning Fossil Fuels, Stupid!)
By IPS World Desk | (Inter Press Service) | - - Record high temperatures are gripping much of the globe and more hot weather are to come. This implies more drought, more…
The Climate Catastrophe Trump Promotes: Bangladesh between Flood and Drought
World Bank | (Video Clip) - - "Due to its geographical position, Bangladesh is among the countries most vulnerable to climate change impacts. Watch how communities in areas afflicted by recurring floods…
How bad could Trump’s Paris Agreement withdrawal be? A scientist’s perspective
By Robert Kopp | (The Conversation) | - - Even before the Paris Agreement was signed in December 2015, market forces and policy measures were starting to tilt the world toward a…
Top 5 Climate Catastrophes to which Trump just Doomed his own Supporters
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On Thursday, Trump delivered himself of one of the most brain-dead speeches ever given by an American president, more imbecilic even than Bush's…
The Other Terrorism: Toxic CO2 Gas Promoted by Trump Budget, Shell
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Terrorism is properly defined as non-state actors using violence against civilians to achieve a political purpose. Some argue that this definition lets states…
20 Million People Could ‘Starve to Death’ in Next Six Months
By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | - - ROME (IPS) - Urgent action is needed to save the lives of people facing famine in North Eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan…
Climate March: How many more atomic bombs is Trump setting off in our Atmosphere?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The People's Climate March on Saturday will protest the Trump administration's pro-Climate Change policies of increasing US carbon dioxide and methane emissions. Just…
Does Climate change increase Threat of Terrorism?
By Manon Flausch | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Samuel White | - - "Poverty and insecurity can be factors in radicalisation." [Manon Flausch] From South America to the Middle East, the effects…
Donald Trump: Global Ecocide
By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - Can one determined and willfully ignorant man both stem the green tide and push the world over the brink into…
We are heading for the warmest climate in half a billion years
By Gavin Foster, Dana Royer, and Dan Lunt | (The Conversation) | - - Carbon dioxide concentrations are heading towards values not seen in the past 200m years. The sun has also…
Climate Change Solutions Can’t Wait for Trump
By Desmond Brown | (Inter Press Service) | - - BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (IPS) - From tourism-dependent nations like Barbados to those rich with natural resources like Guyana, climate change poses one of…
Trump’s New Decree to ‘Wreak Havoc’ on Climate, Reward Big Oil
TeleSur | - - The latest executive order is seen by critics as a reckless attempt to boost energy industry profits at the cost of the environment and public health. U.S. President…
Top 4 Worst pieces of Climate News from WMO in Age of Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The World Meteorological Organization of the United Nations issued its annual report on the climate on Tuesday, making a full and final assessment…
New Scientific Evidence that Middle East may become Uninhabitable
By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | - - ROME (IPS) - New evidence is deepening scientific fears, advanced few years ago, that the Middle East and North Africa risk becoming…
Hey Scott Pruitt: Tom Brokaw says you’re full of it on CO2 & Climate Change
Climate State | (Video News Clip) | - - Climate State: Global Warming ϟ ☼ ❅ What You Need To Know, with Tom Brokaw
As Trump Bans Somalis, 100s dying from Hunger in Severe Drought
The Watchers : Watching the World Evolve and Transform | - - 110 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in just one region of Somalia as severe drought…
Red state rural America is acting on climate change – without calling it climate change
By Rebecca J. Romsdahl | (The Conversation) | - - President Donald Trump has the environmental community understandably concerned. He and members of his Cabinet have questioned the established science of climate…