Jessica Corbett: ‘When Rising Seas Hit Home’ — Hundreds of Towns Threatened by 2100
Daunting new report shows coastal communities are at-risk and unprepared for flooding caused by climate change. As an iceberg the size of Delaware broke away from an ice shelf in … Continue reading
Noam Chomsky: On Trump and the State of the Union
Over the past few months, as the disturbing prospect of a Trump administration became a disturbing reality, I decided to reach out to Noam Chomsky, the philosopher whose writing, speaking … Continue reading
Julia Conley: As Climate Threats Mount, Experts Say No Time Left for Deceitful “Debate”
As new and worrying evidence of global warming’s destructive impacts mount around the globe, climate experts are saying efforts by the Trump administration’s EPA chief to discredit decades of climate … Continue reading
Ellery Akers: 21 Kids Sue the Government for Not Protecting Them from Climate Change
–Trump Tries to Derail Our Children’s Trust Lawsuit We can do this. We can thread a needle with a river and stitch up the drought. We can dismantle the large, … Continue reading
Video: Noam Chomsky — Ticking Towards Midnight
. In this brief excerpt from a recent interview, the renowned public intellectual Noam Chomsky answers the question: Where in history are we now? According to Chomsky, climate change and nuclear … Continue reading
Lauren McCauley: Exxon and Tillerson Accused of Defrauding Investors Over Climate Risks
New York attorney general claims the oil giant used “secret, internal figures” to account for impacts of climate change. ExxonMobil is being accused of using “sham” accounting to “mislead” investors … Continue reading
Tim Radford: Urban heat islands leave cities sweltering
Many city dwellers face a hotter future than their suburban and rural peers. LONDON, 1 June, 2017 – Many of the world’s great cities are about to feel the heat. A … Continue reading
Paul Brown: Food industry is cooking the planet
One of the biggest contributors to climate change is the agricultural food industry, but the political will to tackle the issue is lacking.
Video: Worlds Apart (Heineken ad)
. You won’t find parties, loud music, or scantily-clothed women in Heineken’s latest ad campaign. Instead, the beer company went in a wonderfully different direction. The company’s #OpenYourWorld campaign is the exact … Continue reading
Lauren McCauley: Wilder Fires and Rising Waters, Climate Impacts Coming to America’s Door
Pair of new studies show how American climate refugees will ‘reshape’ population landscape of the nation. Americans in many cases have been slow to acknowledge the real threats posed by … Continue reading
Andrea Germanos: “Trump Forest” Blooms to Counter “Trump’s Monumental Stupidity”
“As the planet heats up towards critical tipping points, we simply can’t afford his ignorance.” Want to help counter President Donald Trump’s war on climate action and combat climate change? … Continue reading
George Monbiot: Make America Wait Again
Dirty industries spend more on politics, keeping us in the fossil age. Make America Wait Again. That’s what Donald Trump’s energy policy amounts to. Stop all the clocks, put the … Continue reading
Daniel R. Cobb: Trump and the Criminality of Climate Change
If someone threw buckets of gasoline on the front and back doors and the windows of a home and lit it on fire in the early morning, those sleeping inside … Continue reading
Tom Engelhardt: Empire of Chaos
With President Trump, Is the American Experiment Over? The one thing you could say about empires is that, at or near their height, they have always represented a principle of … Continue reading
