Environment

By Sam Morgan | EURACTIV.com| – – A new study is the first to take into account all types of pollution. The results make difficult reading. Pollution causes 9 million deaths around the world every year, according to a landmark new study which found that one in six of all deaths are linked to polluted […]

Climate Change

Warm waters melting Antarctic ice shelves for 1st time in 7,000 years

contributors

Sev Kender | (The Conversation) | – – The vast expanse of the Antarctic is a region of the world particularly vulnerable to climate change, where ice loss has the potential to significantly increase sea levels. Now, for possibly the first time in 7,000 years, a phenomenon known as “upwelling” (the upward flow of warmer […]

Archaeology

Volcano-driven Climate Change Defeated Egypt’s Ptolemies

contributors

By Steven Young | ( The Watchers) | – – Around 245 BCE Ptolemy III, ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt, made a decision that still puzzles many historians: After pursuing a successful military campaign against the kingdom’s nemesis, the Seleucid Empire, centered mainly in present-day Syria and Iraq, Ptolemy III suddenly decided to […]

Climate Change

Singer Marc Anthony to Trump: You will be held Accountable for needless American Deaths in Puerto Rico

Juan Cole

TeleSur | – – Singer-songwriter, Marc Anthony took to Twitter to decry the U.S. administration’s “tone-deaf, idiotic, callous and disrespectful approach” to Puerto Rico. Marc Anthony took to social media to decry the Trump administration’s response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. tone-deaf, idiotic, callous and disrespectful approach. History has a way of remembering.Until our […]

Donald Trump

As Trump disses Puerto Rico Again, 83% in dark, 36% Drinking Dirty Water

contributors

The Watchers | – – According to latest figures, the death toll in Puerto Rico caused by the passage of Category 4 Hurricane "Maria" on September 20, 2017, has risen to 45. There are still 113 people unaccounted for. Most of the island is still without basic services such as power and running water, nearly three weeks […]

Denialism

As Trump & Pruitt unleash Climate Demons, Scientists dream of Atlantic Wind Farm

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The debate over whether Donald Trump or Rex Tillerson has the higher IQ, provoked by a Trump tweet that he now says was a joke, actually raises a serious question. Why would someone deliberately sabotage our air, water and climate? The science needed for understanding that […]

Climate Change

Can Coffee survive Climate Change?

contributors

Sylvain Charlebois | (The Conversation) | – – Fall is always a good time to create new habits, and coffee chains know it. These days, they are desperately trying to find any excuse to get you to drink their java. Many chains used National or International Coffee Day, just passed, as a reason to offer […]

Climate Change

Top Ten Renewable Energy surprises in New IEA Report

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A new International Energy Agency report contains some startling findings about solar energy dominance and its future. !. Renewables comprised 66% of all new net electricity capacity additions in 2016. Two-thirds of added capacity, in other words, consisted of photovoltaic solar cells, wind turbines and biofuels. […]

Coal

Industrial Mercury (including Coal) & the Communities it has Poisoned

contributors

By Joshua Sokol | (Mosaic) | – – From 1932 to 1968, hundreds of tonnes of mercury seeped into the clear waters of Minamata Bay, Japan, causing health and environmental problems still felt today. As the first global treaty on mercury finally comes into force, what have we really learned from this disaster? Joshua Sokol […]