Flooding

The U.S. average high tide flood frequency is now 50% greater since 2000 and 100% greater than it was 30 years ago

Man-Made Climate Change Will Give California Whiplash Between Drought, Floods

California’s recent severe drought may have only been a taste of things to come.

How to Survive Climate Change: Learn from Puerto Ricans & Hurricane Maria

By Jane Palmer | ( Mosaic) | – – The rest of the world can learn from Puerto Rican communities rallying together to recover from a natural disaster fuelled by climate change. Christmas is a big deal in Puerto Rico – celebrations traditionally run from November to February – but festivities are in scant supply […]

Climate Change

Sea Level Rise Speeding up as Humans burn more Fossil Fuels

contributors

TeleSur | – – The rise in global sea levels has accelerated since the 1990s amid rising temperatures, with a thaw of Greenland’s ice sheet pouring ever more water into the oceans. Sea level rise is accelerating and could reach 66 centimeters by century’s end, in line with United Nations estimates and enough to cause […]

Climate Change

Climate change victims need official refugee status: Oxfam

contributors

By Marion Candau | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Paola Tamma | – – With the COP23 climate conference ongoing in Bonn, Oxfam published a troubling report on people displaced by climate change. EURACTIV France reports. Since 2008, about 26 million people have been displaced each year due to natural disasters. The figure for 2016 was […]

Extreme Weather

If Trump were really President, he’d Forgive Puerto Rico’s Debts and Rescue it

Juan Cole

Washington owes it to 3.4 mn US citizens to help them rebuild

Climate Change

How Colonialism, Inequality turbocharge Caribbean Hurricanes

contributors

Historical legacy of exploitation and poverty lingers

Caribbean

Much of U.S.’s Puerto Rico “Destroyed” by 138 mi/hr Storm, Pleads with Trump for Aid

contributors

Climate Scientists predicted serial Super-Storms decades ago

Denialism

Those 90 Companies that Caused Climate Crisis? They Should Pay for It

Juan Cole

By Sarah van Gelder | Yes! Magazine | – – The companies responsible for the climate crisis should cover the costs of fighting wildfires and recovering from hurricanes. Pacific Northwest forests are on fire. Several blazes are out of control, threatening rural towns, jumping rivers and highways, and covering Portland, Oregon, Seattle, and other cities […]