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Can Climate Solutions also help Low-Income Consumers fight inequality?

By Basav Sen. | ( Inequality.org) | - - Renew Oregon is advancing innovative climate justice proposals, building on a legislative victory to expand the state’s use of renewable energy, with strong…

100 Days: How much Damage has Trump already done to the Earth?

By Martin Khor | (Inter Press Service) | - - PENANG (IPS) - This week, Donald Trump will mark his first hundred days as US President. It’s time to assess his impact…

Trump’s 1984: Peace is War, Environment is Pollution, Health is Sickness

By Steven Harper | (BillMoyers.com) | - - "If you look at these Cabinet appointees, they were selected for a reason. And that is for the deconstruction [of the administrative state]." At…

Human-Caused Climate Change is Human-Caused Genocide

By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Not since World War II have more human beings been at risk from disease and starvation than at this very moment. On…

Does Climate change increase Threat of Terrorism?

By Manon Flausch | EURACTIV.fr | translated by Samuel White | - - "Poverty and insecurity can be factors in radicalisation." [Manon Flausch] From South America to the Middle East, the effects…

Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change (If only poisonous CO2 were black)

Vox/ UCLA | (Video News Clip) | - - "The biggest problem for the climate change fight isn’t technology – it’s human psychology. This is the first episode of Climate Lab, a…

40% of California Grid Power from Solar, Sometimes Costs less than Nothing

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - For the first time, on the day of March 23, 40% of Californian grid power between 11 am and 2 pm was generated…

Global Warming in Atlantic driving Rapid Arctic Sea Ice Retreat

Tom Rippeth | (The Conversation) The seasonal sea-ice retreat across the Arctic Ocean is perhaps one of the most conspicuous indicators of climate change. In September 2012, a new record was set…

1 in 50 new Jobs in US is in Solar Energy, despite Trump

Bill Ritter, Jr. | (The Conversation) | On Tuesday, March 28, President Trump traveled to the Environmental Protection Agency to sign an executive order rolling back a number of climate-related regulations that…

Donald Trump: Global Ecocide

By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - Can one determined and willfully ignorant man both stem the green tide and push the world over the brink into…

Sorry, Trump: China is Leading World toward first “Ecological Civilization”

David Tyfield | (The Conversation) | - - The Trump administration’s hostility towards climate action and research leaves a void in global climate politics. Could China step up? The world’s largest absolute…

Can the West Coast throw up a Green wall against Trump’s Assault on Environment?

By Arun Gupta. | ( Yes! Magazine ) | - - Despite a string of victories in the last few years limiting the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure on the West Coast,…

“No new Coal Plants!” – European Energy Companies

Newsy |. (Video News Clip) | / The Tree | - - "Energy companies representing almost the entire European Union have promised not to build new coal power plants after 2020." Newsy:…

When it comes to Climate Change, you are what you Eat

By Sarantis Michalopoulos | ( EURACTIV.com) | - - Governments are “trapped” by lobbyists, and it’s hard to fight climate change. But if young people are mobilised and turn to healthy lifestyles,…

We are heading for the warmest climate in half a billion years

By Gavin Foster, Dana Royer, and Dan Lunt | (The Conversation) | - - Carbon dioxide concentrations are heading towards values not seen in the past 200m years. The sun has also…

Climate Change Solutions Can’t Wait for Trump

By Desmond Brown | (Inter Press Service) | - - BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (IPS) - From tourism-dependent nations like Barbados to those rich with natural resources like Guyana, climate change poses one of…

Putin joins ranks of Denialists in support of Trump

Putin joins ranks of Climate Denialists in support of Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Russian President Vladimir Putin has abruptly become a climate-change denialist, apparently under the influence of key figures in the Trump administration, which Putin…

Trump’s New Decree to ‘Wreak Havoc’ on Climate, Reward Big Oil

TeleSur | - - The latest executive order is seen by critics as a reckless attempt to boost energy industry profits at the cost of the environment and public health. U.S. President…

Trump’s Coal Plants, Auto Emissions are causing our Alzheimer’s Epidemic

By Jiu-Chiuan Chen | (The Conversation) | - - Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive brain disease that eventually strips sufferers of their ability to remember, communicate and live independently. By 2050, it…

Top 4 Worst pieces of Climate News from WMO in Age of Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The World Meteorological Organization of the United Nations issued its annual report on the climate on Tuesday, making a full and final assessment…