The planet is in peril. We’re building Congress’s strongest-ever climate bill - Bernie Sanders
More than any other legislation in US history it will transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and into sustainable energy
Solar panels are key to Biden's energy plan. But the global supply chain may rely on forced labor from China
China's Xinjiang region has evolved over the past two decades into a major production hub for many of the companies that supply the world with parts needed to build solar panels.
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
According to new data from the Rhodium Group analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures and changing rainfall will drive agriculture and temperate climates northward, while sea level rise will consume coastlines and dangerous levels of humidity will swamp the Mississippi River valley.
This wildly reinvented wind turbine generates five times more energy than its competitors
Renewable energy could power the world within the next 30 years, and wind power is one of the cheapest, most efficient ways to get there. Except 80% of the world’s offshore wind blows in deep waters, where it’s difficult to build wind farms. A new design for a radically different kind of wind turbine could […]
Millions on the Move in Their Own Countries: The Human Face of Climate Change
Over 216 million people could move within their countries by 2050 across six regions, according to the World Bank’s latest Groundswell report.
PROTECT INDIGENOUS SACRED SITES NOW
Tribal communities and Native peoples have been forced to defend the land, waters, and resources, from destruction and degradation for all of us. Sacred sites across Indian Country have been desecrated by development projects that move ahead without the consent of affected Native Nations or communities.
Study reveals effects of extreme heat on tens of millions of Americans
The summer of 2020 brought fear of Covid-19, social distancing – and heat-related health problems that affects tens of millions of Americans.
Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest warning yet
Human activity is changing the Earth’s climate in ways “unprecedented” in thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, with some of the changes now inevitable and “irreversible”, climate scientists have warned. Within the next two decades, temperatures are likely to rise by more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, breaching the ambition of the 2015 Paris […]
In aftermath of German floods, fires burn in southern Europe as rains drench London
Wildfires are spreading on the Italian island of Sardinia, and elsewhere in southern Europe, fueled by wind and dry weather — adding to a list of travails that have plagued the continent over the summer, including high temperatures, dry spells and drenching rains.
The Violent Cost of Conservation
Each year more people die while attempting to protect the world’s most biodiverse places. It’s a trend poised to devastate the planet itself. How can we stem the rising tide of attacks to ensure a safer future for us all?
Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse
Climate scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, one of the planet’s main potential tipping points.
Will Britannia rule the waves in shipping’s green revolution?
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants Britain to become a shipbuilding superpower, again. At his last annual party conference, conducted in cyberspace due to the pandemic, Johnson heralded a renaissance in a British industry that, in the 1890s, controlled more than 80% of the global ship manufacturing market but contracted sharply in the second […]
Pacific Northwest bakes under once-in-a-millennium heat dome
The heat wave baking the U.S. Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, Canada, is of an intensity never recorded by modern humans. By one measure it is more rare than a once in a 1,000 year event — which means that if you could live in this particular spot for 1,000 years, you'd likely only experience […]
Biden’s Clean Energy Plan Would Cut Emissions And Save 317,000 Lives | Fossil Fuels
A Biden administration plan to force the rapid uptake of renewable energy would swiftly cut planet-heating emissions and save hundreds of thousands of lives from deadly air pollution, a new report has found amid growing pressure on the White House to deliver a major blow against the climate crisis.
UN sets out Paris-style plan to slow extinction rate
Eliminating plastic pollution, reducing pesticide use by two-thirds, halving the rate of invasive species introduction and eliminating $500 billion of harmful environmental government subsidies a year are among the targets in a new draft of a Paris-style UN agreement on biodiversity loss.
Our climate change turning point is right here, right now
People are dying. Aquatic animals are baking in their shells. Fruit is being cooked on the tree. It’s time to act.
Leaked Climate Report: Devastating Effects of Warming World to Hit Far Sooner Than Previously Thought
A draft of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change document warns of sweeping impacts on weather events, food, ecosystems and disease unless global leaders act now.
Summer Reading: Planet on Fire A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown
A radical manifesto for how to deal with environmental breakdown In the age of environmental breakdown, breakdown, the political status quo has no answer to the devastating and inequitably distributed consequences of the climate emergency. We urgently need an alternative to bring about the rapid transformation of our social and economic systems. As we rebuild […]
We're at the Brink: Researchers Warn Greenland Ice Sheet May Have Already Passed Tipping Point
Researchers in Germany and Norway said Tuesday that a major portion of Greenland's ice sheet is "at the brink" of reaching a frightening "tipping point"—the latest sign that global heating is causing irreversible damage to the world's glaciers and that policymakers must halt fossil fuel emissions without further delay.
Lake Mead: largest US reservoir falls to historic low amid devastating drought
Levels in Lake Mead – the largest US reservoir by volume – fell to historic lows on Thursday, as the region continues to face the effects of a devastating prolonged drought.
