Environment

After a technically successful climate summit last year, it is time to see which countries address scientific warnings with ambition

Climate Change

Climate Sabotage & Forever Wars: Is America the Most Dangerous Country in the World?

Tom Engelhardt

On Climate Change, quagmire seems like an appropriate image, as long as we keep in mind that we are the aggressors.

Mass Extinction

Mysterious Mass die-off of Insects threatens Pollination, Food Supply

Nature

Most pollinators are insects (e.g., bees, flies, butterflies, moths, wasps, beetles, and thrips), and bees are the most important

Environmentalism

Can the Green New Deal Save the Planet and Create Jobs?

Norah Vawter

By Norah Vawter | – (Otherwords.org) – Lately there’s been a lot of bad news about climate change and the future of humanity. In October, the United Nations issued a major report warning of a climate crisis as soon as 2040. The day after Thanksgiving, the Trump administration tried to bury the release of its […]

Environment

Germany’s Carbon Dioxide Emissions Down 6% in 2018

contributors

By Julian Wettengel | – ( Clean Energy Wire ) – Germany’s energy-related CO₂ emissions dropped by more than six percent year-on-year as the country consumed “significantly” less energy in 2018, but with a greater share of renewables than last year, said energy market research group AG Energiebilanzen (AGEB). Increased fuel prices, mild weather and […]

Climate Change

$100 Bn.: Cost in 2018 of Climate Crisis Caused by Burning Fossil Fuels

TeleSur

2018 saw at least one major climate-induced disaster on every inhabited continent on Earth. Climate change-induced disasters cost nations at least US$100 billion in 2018, a watchdog said Thursday, warning the spate of deadly wildfires, floods and superstorms was “a shadow” of things to come if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t slashed. This year is set […]

Climate Crisis

The Climate Crisis: “There is no Time to Continue down this Road of Madness”

H. Patricia Hynes

The conference goals are “nowhere near ambitious enough to tackle” the climate emergency “at the scale we need to.”

Climate Change

How the Right missed the Real Globalist Conspiracy, of Big Oil to Heat the Planet

John Feffer

There is indeed a new global order. It’s called climate change

Climate Change

Despite US, Russian & Saudi Opposition, Climate Summit Reaffirms Paris Goals

Juan Cole

If the world does nothing to cut down on carbon dioxide, it will heat up by 3 degrees C. this century, or an average of 5 degrees F