Environment

By Kyla Tienhaara | – Everyone, it seems, has an opinion about the (new) Green New Deal. It’s an ambitious plan to make America carbon-neutral — as well as more equitable — in a mere 10 years. Although the Green New Deal resolution that will be voted on in the U.S. Senate is likely to […]

Climate Change

Ocean Heatwaves already Devastating Marine Life, with Fisheries in Danger

Marlowe Hood

Paris (AFP) – Invisible to people but deadly to marine life, ocean heatwaves have damaged ecosystems across the globe and are poised to become even more destructive, according to the first study to measure worldwide impacts with a single yardstick. The number of marine heatwave days has increased by more than 50 percent since the […]

Climate Change

Climate Crisis: Glacier Melt, Droughts, Floods require Indo-Pak Cooperation to Avoid Disaster

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By Omair Ahmad | – (The Third Pole) – With glacier retreat, permafrost melt, and extreme rainfall events, ICIMOD’s HIMAP report suggests that the countries of the Hindu Kush Himalayas have to start cooperating far more closely, or pay a huge price Water in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is going through large and […]

Green Transportation

Desperate European Automakers going Electric to Survive: Geneva Auto Show

AFP

By Daniel ARONSSOHN | – Paris (AFP) – The Geneva Motor Show kicks off this week with automakers eager to show off new electric models, even as they nervously eye a horizon coloured by trade wars and Brexit uncertainty. After years of growth and record profits, the sector took a sharp U-turn in mid-2018 amid […]

Climate Change

Could the Climate Crisis End America’s Global Dominion?

Alfred W. McCoy

(Tomdispatch.com) – Once upon a time in America, we could all argue about whether or not U.S. global power was declining. Now, most observers have little doubt that the end is just a matter of timing and circumstance. Ten years ago, I predicted that, by 2025, it would be all over for American power, a […]

Climate Change

Answering the Attacks on the Green New Deal: Not Implementing it is too Expensive

John Feffer

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – Critics dismiss it as a dream. But that’s precisely what it is. It’s visionary. By John Feffer, February 20, 2019. Print Shutterstock It’s become a common trope of the Trump era for columnists and commentators to attack the lunacy of the far right at the same time as castigating the […]

Climate Change

Carbon farming: how smart agriculture can both feed people and fight climate change

The Conversation

By Richard Lindsay | – Imagine “carbon emissions”, and what springs to mind? Most people tend to think of power stations belching out clouds of carbon dioxide or queues of vehicles burning up fossil fuels as they crawl, bumper-to-bumper, along congested urban roads. But in Britain and many other countries, carbon emissions have another source, […]

Climate Change

Britain sees Hottest Winter Day in Recorded History as Global Heating Accelerates

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By Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS | – Paris (AFP) – As western Europe enjoys record highs for winter temperatures, southern parts of the continent are being hit with snow flurries. What is going on with the weather, and how closely are the topsy-turvy temperatures linked to climate change? – What’s causing the heat? – On Monday Britain […]

Climate Change

Marshall Islands Consider Radical Measures to Survive Fossil Fuel-driven Rising Seas

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Majuro, Marshall Islands (AFP) – The far-flung Marshall Islands needs to raise its islands if it is to avoid being drowned by rising sea levels, President Hilda Heine has warned. Plans are underway for national talks on which of the 1,156 islands, scattered over 29 coral atolls, can be elevated in a dramatic intervention to […]