Environment

by Basav Sen and Bob Lord | – ( Inequality.org) – On April 25, Twitter’s board of directors announced an agreement to sell the company to Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person, for $44 billion. That sounds like a lot of money. But Musk can afford it. One recent estimate of the Musk fortune puts […]

Climate Crisis

694 Milllion tons of Rare Earth Metals, Essential to Wind Turbines and EVs, found in Türkiye

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The green energy revolution so far is dependent on certain raw materials, including silicon for solar panels and lithium for lithium-ion batteries. Another group of such primary materials is rare earth minerals, essential to wind turbines. The largest producer of them is China, but Russia, Vietnam and Brazil also have […]

Climate Crisis

Extreme Life: Why the Climate Emergency is the Moral Equivalent of World War III

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com In recent weeks, a newly emboldened right-wing Supreme Court struck down a more than century-old New York law restricting the carrying of concealed weapons and a nearly 50-year-old precedent on abortion. Meanwhile, the January 6th Committee has been laying out in graphic televised detail how our last president tried to subvert the 2021 […]

Climate Crisis

European Union Ministers Agree on Climate Bills, the De Facto End of Gasoline Cars by 2035

Kerstine Appunn

By Kerstine Appunn | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – EU member states have approved the end of fossil fuelled passenger cars in 2035 and found compromises on emissions trading and a “Social Climate Fund”. The fund will be used to cushion the impacts of a new price on CO2 in the transport and heating […]

Australia

The clean energy revolution isn’t just a techno-fix– it’s about capturing hearts and minds

The Conversation

By Bjorn Sturmberg, Australian National University; Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Australian National University; Johannes Hendriks, Australian National University; Pierrick Chalaye, Australian National University | – The Black Summer bushfires devastated parts of the Eurobodalla region in New South Wales. Then earlier this year, the area was hit by floods. As climate change threatens to bring more severe […]

Climate Crisis

US Supreme Court Deals Blow to Climate Action: Ruling Limits Administration’s Ability to Restrict Carbon Emissions from Power Plants

Human Rights Watch

By Krista Shennum | – Fellow, Environment and Human Rights | – ( Human Rights Watch) – In a significant setback for climate action, the United States Supreme Court ruled yesterday to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ability to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The ruling prevents the EPA from using its […]

Bangladesh

Climate change and rapid Urbanization blamed for the worst Flood in over a Century in northeastern Bangladesh

Global Voices

By পান্থ রহমান রেজা (Pantha); Translated by Rezwan | – ( Globalvoices.org ) – Bangladesh is one of the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the world, as two-thirds of the country is less than 15 feet above sea level. Floods continue to be the biggest threat as each year about […]

Climate Crisis

Climate Crisis: even temporarily overshooting an Extra 3.6°F (2°C) would cause permanent Damage to Earth’s Species

The Conversation

By Joanne Bentley, University of Cape Town; Alex Pigot, UCL; Andreas L. S. Meyer, University of Cape Town, and Christopher Trisos, University of Cape Town | – The history of climate change is one of people slowly coming to terms with the truth. None but a small minority still question whether it’s real and caused […]

Climate Crisis

The Supreme Court has curtailed EPA’s power to regulate Carbon Pollution – and sent a Warning to other Regulators

The Conversation

By Patrick Parenteau, Vermont Law School | – In a highly anticipated but not unexpected 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled on June 30, 2022, that the Obama adminstration’s Clean Power Plan exceeded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s authority under the Clean Air Act. The ruling doesn’t take away the EPA’s power to regulate carbon […]