Environment

American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently shook up environmental politics by releasing a broad outline of a Green New Deal

Climate Change

Global Heating Helped Cause the Massive Midwest Floods but TV Didn’t Tell you That

The Conversation

Climate change is likely to cause a disproportionate increase in heavy precipitation events in the Midwest, a trend that is already apparent

Climate Change

Ocean Heat hits Record High, in Bad News for Planet

AFP

The thermal expansion — water swelling as it warms — is expected to raise sea levels 12 inches

Climate Change

Back to the Sweltering Pliocene: World’s Production of CO2 Spiked again in 2018

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The world– you and I included– actually greatly increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, by 2.87 parts per million, raising the total to just about 410 ppm. So reports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This was a significant increase, the fourth largest during the past 60 […]

Climate Crisis

ExxonMobil & 4 other Oil Giants Spent $1 bn on Greenwashing PR, $100 bn on New Fossil Fuels

AFP

“How can we accept that companies spending hundreds of millions lobbying against EU reaching the Paris agreement are still granted access to decision makers?

Climate Crisis

Facing Tough EU CO2 Rules from 2020, German Auto Giants Race to go Electric

AFP

VW now aims for 40 percent of sales to be electric powered by the end of the next decade

Climate Change

How Youth Climate Strikers can and Must Keep up the Momentum

The Conversation

Well-established youth organisations can use their large networks and professional experience

Climate Change

Icebergs Hiving off Chile’s Giant Grey Glacier at Alarming Rate

AFP

A United Nations study in 2018 found that 95 percent of Chile’s 24,100 glaciers had receded

Climate Change

Millions of Children Globally Skipped School to Protest Elders’ Climate Denialism, Destruction of their Future

AFP

By AFP bureaux | – Montreal (AFP) – Classrooms in capitals from Bangkok to Berlin and Lagos to London emptied as organizers of the student strike called demonstrations in more than 100 countries. Students flooded into the streets across Europe, North and South America, and Asia carrying placards reading: “There is no planet B”, “You’re […]