Extreme Heat

Climate change is at least somewhat implicated in the social dislocations that fuel terrorism in Somalia

Serious Court Challenges May Reverse the Trump EPA’s Revocation of 2009 CO2 Endangerment Finding

The court found that various greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, were “pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act.

All the 15 Hottest Spots on Earth on Thursday were in Australia; Will it become Uninhabitable?

At a 2.7º C. increase, northern Australian areas such as Darwin, Broome and Port Hedland will become uninhabitable by the end of the century

Acidification of Oceans

Dutch Judges Order Netherlands to protect its Caribbean Island of Bonaire from Climate Change

Juan Cole

the “residents of Bonaire were wrongly treated differently from residents of the European Netherlands.”

Climate Crisis

2025 was Earth’s 3rd-Warmest Year on Record

Yale Climate Connections

human-caused global warming pushed global temperatures to near-record levels despite the cooling influence of the La Niña phenomenon

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: 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 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 […]

Climate Crisis

Trump’s Assault on Green Energy could Kill 1.3 million in Climate Disasters

ProPublica

Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change. By Sharon Lerner ( ProPublica ) – New advances in environmental science are providing a detailed understanding of the human costs of the […]