Environment

By Rod Lamberts | – There are so many stories flying around about the horrors already being wrought by climate change, you’re probably struggling to keep up. The warnings have been there for decades but still there are those who deny it. So perhaps it’s timely to look at how climate change is affecting you, […]

Climate Crisis

Actually we are implicated in the World’s 7th Mass Extinction of Life on Earth

The Watchers

By Julie Celestial | – (The Watchers) – The biodiversity crisis we experience today– defined by the rapid loss of species and rapid degradation of ecosystems– is believed to be the sixth mass extinction. However, some scientists say it should perhaps be called seventh, suggesting the inclusion of the End Guadalupian in the Big Five […]

Brazil

Statistic of the decade: The massive deforestation of the Amazon

The Conversation

By Liberty Vittert | – This year, I was on the judging panel for the Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Decade. Much like Oxford English Dictionary’s “Word of the Year” competition, the international statistic is meant to capture the zeitgeist of this decade. The judging panel accepted nominations from the statistical community and […]

Climate Crisis

On the Verge of a New Kind of Culture: How Youth Changed the Climate Movement

Yes! Magazine

By Mike Males | – ( Yes! Magazine) – Frustrated with a lack of process on curbing climate change, young activists are taking matters into their own hands. “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children,” affirms the Oglala-Sioux version of a belief common to several indigenous cultures. […]

Climate Crisis

Americans want an End to Fossil Fuels, but Corporate Media won’t Tell You So

Basav Sen

The Washington Post downplayed the most hopeful findings of their own poll on climate action, so we highlighted those findings for them.

Climate Crisis

The Anti-Trump: Merkel’s Germany dumps 20% of Its Coal Use, CO2 Falls 7%, Renewables at 40%

Clean Energy Wire

By Julian Wettengel | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Germany has seen a second year of significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, as coal use fell by more than 20 percent and energy production from renewables increased, preliminary calculations by energy research group AG Energiebilanzen show. While the country’s overall energy use […]

Climate Crisis

Climate Crisis Rages in Australia, with 14 of 15 hottest Places in World and Sydney Fire-Besieged

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Australia has been turned by the climate crisis into a huge oven. On Wednesday, 14 of the hottest places in the world were in Australia. Firefighters are combating 100 wildfires in New South Wales (NSW), with some of them encroaching on Sydney, Australia’s largest city. NSW declared a 7-day state […]

Climate Crisis

Climate Crisis after Disappointing COP 25: “The Science is Screaming!”

H. Patricia Hynes

(Special to Informed Comment) – In the wake of the disappointing UN COP 25 climate conference in Madrid, thousands of climate scientists are exhorting governments publicly, with an existential sense of urgency based upon the most up-to-date science, that we are doomed within decades if we do not act immediately to slow the climate crisis. […]

Climate Crisis

Now that Australian Wildfires are choking its Cities with Smoke, Can we Finally talk Climate Emergency?

The Conversation

By Blanche Verlie | – I moved to Sydney less than five weeks ago and the city has been shrouded in smoke haze on and off since then. I joke this is my “Sydney hazing” but it’s only now – having worked on climate change for over a decade – that I’m suddenly feeling burnt […]