“To have a new record set that quickly is surprising, but who knows how long that will last? Possibly not that long at all.” A record-breaking temperature of 65 degrees was taken at an Argentinian ...
“As wildfire experts have repeatedly explained, you can’t log or even ‘rake’ our way out of this mess. The Trump administration and the interior department are pushing mystical theories that are false in order to ...
The start of the World Economic Forum coincides with a new Oxfam report on global income inequality, which found that the richest 1% now hold more wealth than 6.9 billion people. Climate change and extreme ...
“As wildfires rage out of control and our planet endures record-breaking temperatures, Democrats must stop oil and gas companies from using backroom trade deals to destroy the environment.” The new NAFTA replacement, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement ...
“BlackRock beginning its shift of capital out of fossil fuels, including today’s divestment of coal in its actively managed funds, is a fantastic start…” BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, the head of the world’s largest asset ...
“They are pissing inside the tent and that’s unusual. It’s evidence of how high tensions are within the family over climate change.” Division within the Murdoch media empire intensified on Tuesday after Rupert’s younger son ...
The already devastating Australian wildfires are on pace to be the worst environmental disaster of the last century. Updated figures from the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Science have now doubled the impact of Australia’s ...
“We may be in the midst of a national security crisis, but that is not stopping the administration from rolling back climate change regulations.” While the majority of media attention focused on the U.S.’ escalating ...
Despite multiple warnings that Australia would face “catastrophic fires,” Australia consistently ranks as one of the worst countries on climate change policy. Australia’s worst bushfire season on record intensified on Tuesday, forcing thousands of people ...
“No presidential candidate is going to get taken seriously on climate change if they’re funded by and taking advice from current and former fossil fuel executives.” Former Vice President Joe Biden is not going to ...
Wealthy countries have left developing countries with an ugly choice: to forgo carbon, the cheapest fuel, and then forgo social development for their populations; or to continue to use carbon and threaten the planet. In ...
Indonesian fires this year emitted nearly twice the amount of greenhouse gases as the forest fires that razed parts of the Brazilian Amazon, new research shows. (By Hans Nicholas Jong, MongoBay) Fires from land and ...
The 11,000 scientist-endorsed letter offers several long-term policy prescriptions to climate change. More than 11,000 scientists joined to warn of “untold suffering” from the climate emergency in a report published on Tuesday, a day after ...
Mike Pompeo, the so-called “congressman from Koch,” announced the U.S.’ formal withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement on Monday. The Trump Administration notified the United Nations on Monday that it plans to formally withdraw from ...
Rex Tillerson testified Tuesday in a New York lawsuit that could be a turning point for prosecuting powerful actors who knowingly deceived others about climate change. Rex Tillerson, who served as CEO of ExxonMobil from ...
“We’re hardly alone among companies that contribute to organizations while strongly disagreeing with them on climate policy” – Google spokesperson.
Extinction Rebellion activists of all ages are continuing to press for action on climate during a planned two-week-long protest in several major European cities. In 48 hours, the London metropolitan police arrested more than 500 ...
“When the financial system shifts its capital away from resource-hungry, brown investments to those that back nature as solution, everybody wins in the long-term.” On the eve of the United Nations climate summit in New ...
“I see a new momentum. I believe in these last few months [there has been] a turning point.” World leaders gathered at the UN climate summit in New York City on Monday in the wake ...
The fate of the planet is in the balance. But so is the fate of humanity. The United Nations General Assembly gathers this week at the UN headquarters in New York City. This is the ...
“We’re here to reclaim our right to live, our right to breathe, our right to exist.” (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Kicking off what organizers say will be the largest mass climate demonstration in history, ...
Chubb’s new anti-coal policy demonstrates how the insurance industry can help mitigate the climate crisis. It seems like every day there is a new story of a pipeline spilling crude oil or an oil refinery ...
There’s growing frustration, particularly among the world’s youth, with how adults have so horribly mismanaged the climate crisis. The Global Climate Strike on Friday, September 20, is expected to draw millions of people across 150 ...
As the world burns — and as kids sound the alarm — the original environmental scientist is worth revisiting. Alexander von Humboldt was born on September 14, 1769. In his day, he was a globetrotting, ...
“For a fraction of the cost of the Trump tax cuts, we could pay for a trillion new trees and offset 2/3rd of all emissions to date.” New research from the journal Science shows that ...
“What is happening in coastal Alaska is what is coming in one sense for everybody else. Changes are happening, and changes will be magnified.” Anchorage, Alaska, reached 90 degrees on Thursday, shattering all-time temperature records ...
The annual G-20 summit wrapped up in Japan, but while it was long on topics it remains to be seen whether it will result in any action. On Saturday, June 29, the annual summit of ...
“Heat waves will become more intense, they will become more drawn out, they will become more extreme, they will start earlier, and they will finish later.” Monthly and all-time temperature records have been breaking across ...
“We need an honest debate on this, where people can actually show what they intend to do rather than offer bromides and bumper-sticker comments in 60 seconds.” The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is facing outrage ...
“This is like assembling a panel of ‘gravity skeptics’ who insist it’s safe to jump off tall buildings, except in this case they want to take us all with them.” The White House tried to ...
“With Bolsonaro, people who destroy forests feel safe and those who protect forests feel threatened.” Deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest reached its fastest rate in a decade last month, according to satellite images from Brazilian space ...
Monday’s rally in D.C. gave Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and the Sunrise Movement a platform to promote the Green New Deal. “I’ll be damned,” Ocasio-Cortez said at the Green New Deal rally, “if the same politicians who ...
A MapLight analysis of Federal Election Campaign data found that 65 House members who opposed the measure received $268,965 from the 10 largest oil and gas companies in the U.S. since the beginning of the ...
“All of a sudden, the speech today shifted everyone’s attention to, ‘Are we looking at next conflict in Arctic?'” Secretary of State Pompeo spoke to diplomats at a meeting of the Arctic Council in Finland ...
“More than 40% of amphibian species, almost 33% of reef-forming corals and more than a third of all marine mammals are threatened.” One million animal species are currently threatened with extinction, according to a landmark ...
According to the study, Brazil lost 25% of per capita GDP, Nigeria lost 29%, and India lost 31% because of climate change. The first of two new climate studies finds that climate change intensifies the ...
The song doesn’t just talk about nature—it also touches on different ethnicities and nationalities, urging for peace and harmony. Released on April 19 in anticipation for Earth Day, rapper Lil Dicky’s music video about saving ...
The fracking revolution has led to private equity’s highest allocation of investment in fossil fuels in 20 years, but is it basically a Ponzi scheme? United States natural gas consumption increased 10% in 2018. The ...
The results found that 74 percent of existing national coal capacity “was at risk from local wind or solar that could provide the same amount of electricity more cheaply.” According to a new study from ...
On Friday, March 15, around 10,000 students in several countries skipped school to raise concerns about climate change. Tens of thousands of students walked out of school and held rallies in countries across the globe ...
“We’re here to warn him and all senators: if you refuse to back the Green New Deal, young people will remember next time you ask for our votes.” (By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams) Hundreds of ...
Members of both houses set out non-binding legislation defining the Green New Deal. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey introduced legislation Feb. 7 they think should be the final solution to carbon emissions and ...
A handful of studies offer compelling evidence that the stratospheric polar vortex is changing. (By Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University The Conversation) A record-breaking cold wave is sending literal shivers down the spines of millions of Americans. Temperatures across ...
“It’s hard to say whether it’s good or bad but it’s big and it could have a lot of cascading consequences. Though it does seem a little scary.” Due to an unusual biological trait of ...
(MapLight) A controversial family credited with helping Donald Trump win the White House spent $4.4 million last year to finance climate change deniers, according to its foundation’s latest tax return. The Mercer Family Foundation, led by ...
The Paris climate goals are closer to a reality now that countries have agreed upon a ‘rulebook’ on how to get there. Climate delegates in Poland finally reached an agreement on several steps to make ...
While Western countries struggle to progress and find common ground on climate change, Costa Rica is quietly breaking records for renewable energy. The Central American country of Costa Rica has broken its own renewable energy ...
“Sunrise is a movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process,” – Sunrise Movement. Citizen Truth’s Peter Castagno interviewed Sunrise Movement Activist Georgette Sordellini to hear how thousands of ...
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.15″] Both Sides articles give you the opposing viewpoints on the most important issues of today. This week, Florida was devastated by hurricane Michael. The category 4 storm brought winds over 155 miles ...
While the Trump administration may be trying to reinvigorate fossil fuel usage, California is going in the opposite direction and set a goal of zero-carbon emissions by 2045. California Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 100 ...
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