Environment

Tom Rippeth | (The Conversation) The seasonal sea-ice retreat across the Arctic Ocean is perhaps one of the most conspicuous indicators of climate change. In September 2012, a new record was set for the time that we have been tracking sea ice with satellites: the minimum sea ice extent was some 50% below the climatic […]

Climate Change

1 in 50 new Jobs in US is in Solar Energy, despite Trump

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Bill Ritter, Jr. | (The Conversation) | On Tuesday, March 28, President Trump traveled to the Environmental Protection Agency to sign an executive order rolling back a number of climate-related regulations that have taken effect over the past eight years. The president’s team claims this effort will help bring our nation closer to energy independence, […]

Acidification of Oceans

Donald Trump: Global Ecocide

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By John Feffer | ( Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – Can one determined and willfully ignorant man both stem the green tide and push the world over the brink into ecocide? In Pittsburgh, where I worked for two months in 1986, I breathed clean air. The steel mills along the rivers leading into […]

China

Sorry, Trump: China is Leading World toward first “Ecological Civilization”

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David Tyfield | (The Conversation) | – – The Trump administration’s hostility towards climate action and research leaves a void in global climate politics. Could China step up? The world’s largest absolute emitter could certainly use US inaction as an excuse to backslide on its promises of greenery. But China could instead see this as […]

Climate Change

Can the West Coast throw up a Green wall against Trump’s Assault on Environment?

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By Arun Gupta. | ( Yes! Magazine ) | – – Despite a string of victories in the last few years limiting the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure on the West Coast, Donald Trump’s presidency shows it was never going to be easy to defeat the oil and gas industry. In two months, Trump has […]

Climate Change

“No new Coal Plants!” – European Energy Companies

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Newsy |. (Video News Clip) | / The Tree | – – “Energy companies representing almost the entire European Union have promised not to build new coal power plants after 2020.” Newsy: “EU energy companies make major coal announcement” The Tree notes that anyway there soon won’t be any growth in consumer demand for coal […]

Climate Change

When it comes to Climate Change, you are what you Eat

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By Sarantis Michalopoulos | ( EURACTIV.com) | – – Governments are “trapped” by lobbyists, and it’s hard to fight climate change. But if young people are mobilised and turn to healthy lifestyles, there is hope, according to scientists. EURACTIV.com reports from Lyon.> Speaking at the Biovision 2017- The World Life Sciences Forum in Lyon, environmentalists […]

Acidification of Oceans

We are heading for the warmest climate in half a billion years

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By Gavin Foster, Dana Royer, and Dan Lunt | (The Conversation) | – – Carbon dioxide concentrations are heading towards values not seen in the past 200m years. The sun has also been gradually getting stronger over time. Put together, these facts mean the climate may be heading towards warmth not seen in the past […]

Climate Change

Climate Change Solutions Can’t Wait for Trump

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By Desmond Brown | (Inter Press Service) | – – BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (IPS) – From tourism-dependent nations like Barbados to those rich with natural resources like Guyana, climate change poses one of the biggest challenges for the countries of the Caribbean. Nearly all of these countries are vulnerable to natural events like hurricanes. “Why is […]