Extreme Weather

Africa is expected to bear a heavy toll, with more than 170 million people predicted to be exposed to food crises

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.

Massive Morocco Rainstorms, Flooding: “Passing from a stable Climate System”

Gemenne said that we are passing from a relatively stable climate system to an unstable one, where extreme weather events will multiply

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

Climate Change: 55 Weather Disasters costing a Billion Dollars Each hit our Earth the Past Year

Yale Climate Connections

The total damage wrought by weather disasters in 2024 was $242 billion, with 47 billion-dollar weather disasters

Climate Crisis

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

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

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 […]

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 […]