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Tornadoes. Earthquakes. Hurricanes. Mudslides. Floods. Blizzards. Droughts. Tsunamis. Wildfires. … And I’m sure that’s not even all the natural disasters world citizens have to be worried about! It sounds like fear-mongering, but it’s true: staying prepared for disasters can be lifesaving, so don’t get caught without a plan. Stay prepared … Stay alive. REPOSTED FROM […]
Samoa searching for plant-based alternatives to single-use plastics
To see how one of the most remote places on earth is being impacted by climate change, NewsHour Weekend traveled last fall to Rose Atoll, an uninhabited wildlife refuge in American Samoa. We had to get a special permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and then chartered a boat for an eight-hour ocean […]
Deb Haaland's ability, vision and ancestry would make her an ideal interior secretary Bill McKibben
Occasionally presidents have a chance to make choices that change the way we view things – one of those opportunities comes in the next few days, when Joe Biden is expected to name the next secretary of the interior.
The Making of Biden’s Superfast Push for Clean Electricity
In a net-zero future, there would be almost no power plants with uncontrolled emissions. But at the start of this year’s presidential campaign, way back in the spring of 2019, climate wonks and even activists assumed that future would remain a generation—and several technical innovations—away. That started to change this summer.
Wind & Solar Are Cheaper Than Everything, Lazard Reports
We recently saw the International Energy Agency (IEA) report that solar power offers the cheapest electricity in history. That was a global report. A US-focused report from Lazard recently reported something similar.
Letting Go and Embracing the New
This is the time that we let go of the previous year and embrace the new one. To wisely let go and then wisely join anew can be challenging. It is evident how difficult 2020 has been for many of us across the globe: cyclone-speed change, ongoing conflict and polarization, high uncertainty, and prolonged hyper-vigilance […]
Common Climate Misconceptions: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Understanding the carbon cycle is a key part of understanding the broader climate change issue. But a number of misconceptions floating around the blogosphere confuse basic concepts to argue that climate change is irrelevant because of the short residence time of carbon molecules in the atmosphere and the large overall carbon stock in the environment.
What’s even better than beer? Cement – at least in the fight against global warming
We told you recently how beer might save the planet (by helping to reduce the amount of CO2 (or if you prefer, carbon dioxide) which is going into the atmosphere, and warming up the planet) . Now, you can add cement to that list of planet-savers.
CLIMATE CHANGE & DROUGHT
Climate change is making droughts more likely to occur - and more severe when they do - in parts of the United States.
How Biden aims to amp up the government’s fight against climate change
A new administration would enlist departments like Transportation, Agriculture and Treasury to advance its climate goals
HIGHLIGHTS OF A VICTORY
To get more electric trucks on the road in California, the UCS Clean Transportation team skillfully combined science and advocacy. Here’s an inside look. BY JIAYU LIANG
Roger Penrose Interview
“I had this strange feeling of elation and I couldn’t quite work out why I was feeling like that” Telephone interview with Roger Penrose following the announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics on 6 October 2020. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media.
The disturbing truth about plastic recycling
Our oceans are now awash in at least 150 million tons of plastic, an amount that researchers say will soon surpass the weight of all the fish in the sea. Plastic pollution fouls the land too, and the air we breathe.
The tipping points at the heart of the climate crisis
The warning signs are flashing red. The California wildfires were surely made worse by the impacts of global heating. A study published in July warned that the Arctic is undergoing “an abrupt climate change event” that will probably lead to dramatic changes. As if to underline the point, on 14 September it was reported that […]
How Climate Migration Will Reshape America
Millions will be displaced in the coming decades by fires, hurricanes, extreme heat and rising seas. Where will they go?
Amid planet’s crisis, filmmaker Sir David Attenborough’s ‘vision for the future’
Filmmaker Sir David Attenborough has been documenting the natural world since the 1950s. In his latest book and film, “A Life on Our Planet,” he offers a grave and alarming assessment about the climate crisis Earth is facing. The 94-year-old Attenborough spoke with William Brangham recently as part of our ongoing arts and culture series, […]
How climate change ‘exacerbates’ wildfires in the American West
As large parts of California and the Pacific Northwest are beset by wildfires, the issue of climate change has taken on prominence in the national political conversation.
At least 33 dead as wildfires scorch millions of acres across Western U.S. — ‘It is apocalyptic’
Historic wildfires are burning millions of acres and destroying homes in California, Oregon and Washington state, as officials brace for more fatalities and evacuations.
WWF’s Living Planet Report 2020 sounds planetary health warning
Global populations* of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish have suffered an average two-thirds decline in less than half a century, due in large part to the very same environmental destruction which is contributing to the emergence of zoonotic diseases such as Covid-19, according to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2020, released today.
Extreme weather just devastated 10m acres in the midwest. Expect more of this
Unless we contain carbon, our food supply will be under threat. By 2050, US corn yields could decline by 30%
