Climate Change
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‘The Power to Create a New World’: Trump and the Environmental Challenge Ahead | Zarefah Baroud
Zarefah Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 16, 2017 Catastrophic climate change is no longer a subject for argument, at least on a mainstream level within the science community. Yet, as temperatures ...
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New Study 'Sounds Alarm' on Another Climate Feedback Loop | Andrea Germanos
Arctic Tundra. (Photo: USFWS) "What we know from this study is that warming will result in the loss of stored carbon in a wide variety of ecosystems -- and that has potentially harmful effects in ...
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Dystopian Donald: Will Trump Make 1984 Look Like a Nursery Tale? | Tom Engelhardt
It might just be impossible to overstate how much damage this administration can do. (Photo detail: Jim Bourg/Reuters, Paneikon) Dec. 22, 2016 (Tom Dispatch) -- Can you doubt that we’re in a ...
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Our best shot at cooling the planet might be right under our feet | Jason Hickel
Cracked soil by a village in Iran abandoned by farmers because water reserves ran dry due to overuse. Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images Studies suggest that regenerating soil by turning our ...
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The Myth of the Anthropocene | John Michael Greer
"Welcome to the Anthropocene" YouTube Oct. 5, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- To explore the messy future that modern industrial society is making for itself, it’s necessary now and again to stray into ...
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Air Pollution Skyrocketing Worldwide in 'Public Health Emergency': WHO | Nadia Prupis
WHO found that fully 92 percent of people worldwide live in regions where the pollution exceeds the organization's safety limits. (Photo: UCL News/flickr/cc) Developing countries and vulnerable ...
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Earth 'Locked Into' Hitting Temperatures Not Seen in 2 Million Years: Study | Nika Knight
"This is not an exact prediction or a forecast," the author of the new research said, advising caution regarding her study's temperature predictions. "The experiment we as humans are doing is very ...
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Anthrax Spewing Zombie Deer Are the Least of Your Warming Planet Worries | Eric Roston
Reindeer in eastern Siberia. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Diseased carcasses dating to World War II aren’t the only surprises coming our way courtesy of climate change. Climate change is ...
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Climate Change Is Hell on Alaska's Formerly Frozen Highways | Greg Quinn
Illustration: Sam Dodge for Bloomberg A critical artery is threatened by thawing permafrost. Aug. 2, 2016 (Bloomberg) -- For seven decades, the Alaska Highway has mesmerized adventure-seeking ...
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Rising Sea Levels Could Cost U.S. Homeowners Close to $1 Trillion | Patrick Clark
Climate Change. By garlandcannon. Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Being underwater will soon mean exactly what it says. Especially in Florida. Aug. 2, (Bloomberg) -- When talking about housing, “underwater” ...
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Climate Change Activism: A Post-Mortem | John Michael Greer
John Michael GreerJuly 27, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- As I write these words, much of North America is sweltering under near-tropical heat and humidity. Parts of the Middle East have set all-time ...
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