Environment

Tampa (AFP) – The planet urgently needs to transition to a green economy because fossil fuel pollution risks pushing the Earth into a lasting and dangerous “hothouse” state, researchers warned on Monday. If polar ice continues to melt, forests are slashed and greenhouse gases rise to new highs — as they currently do each year […]

Climate Change

“It’s Quite Scary”- Climate Scientists Alarmed as Europe Melts in Record Heat

AFP

In Lazio, the region where Rome is located, heatwaves have caused around 7,700 deaths since 2000

Climate Change

Heatwave Deaths to Rise 2,000% over next 60 Years in 1/3 of Earth

TeleSur

The researchers relied on historical data and used climate models to estimate future temperatures. Heatwave-related deaths could rise up to 2,000 percent by 2080, according to a new study, the Week Magazine has reported. The research published in PLOS Medicine Tuesday found that heatwaves which are a critical public health issue, will “increase in the […]

Climate Change

Today’s Abnormally hot Arctic Temperatures not observed since Time of Christ

Kerry Sheridan

Tampa (AFP) – Planet-warming greenhouse gases surged to new highs as abnormally hot temperatures swept the globe and ice melted at record levels in the Arctic last year due to climate change, a major US report said Wednesday. The annual State of the Climate Report, compiled by more than 450 scientists from over 60 countries, […]

Climate Change

Global Heat Wave made Twice as Likely by Humans Burning Coal, Oil & Gas

Juan Cole

You’ve seen the headlines. Dozens of people dead in Japan of heat stroke. Massive forest fires raging in Sweden. Dozens dead in Athens from wildfires. Record temperatures in Oman and Algeria. The world is suffering from heat waves on four continents all at once. Marina Pitofsky notes, “In the past 30 days, there have been […]

Climate Change

Is America Sclerotic or still Youthful Enough to take on Imperial Presidency and Climate Change?

Tom Engelhardt

There was a period in my later life when I used to say that, from the age of 20 to my late sixties, I was always 40 years old; I was, that is, an old young man and a young old one. Tell that to my legs now. Of course, there’s nothing faintly strange in […]

Climate Change

Climate: Desertification degrades 30 mn Acres a Year when we Need 70% more Food

The Conversation

Our misuse and abuse of land and water is changing fertile land into deserts

Climate Change

Expanding ‘Dead Zone’ in Arabian Sea raises Climate Change Fears

Alison Tahmizian Meuse

In the waters of the Arabian Sea, a vast “dead zone” the size of Scotland is expanding and scientists say climate change may be to blame

Environmentalism

Ireland To Become First Country to Divest From Fossil Fuels

TeleSur

Ireland’s lower house of parliament has passed a bill that will require the country to divest all of its shares in fossil fuel companies