Teresa Coady: Rethinking Climate Action | A New Guideline for Planetary Health
A new framework for planetary health reveals that our Industrial Age mindset—not human needs—is the real driver of environmental collapse.
Olivia Rosane: World Bank Leads Development Giants in Investing $2.27 Billion in Factory Farms
Factory farming is a leading driver of greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation, biodiversity loss, animal cruelty, and water pollution.
Tom Engelhardt: The Candidate from Hell
As president, he would undoubtedly prove to be a first-class global heat machine and voting for him would be the slow-motion equivalent of putting an atomic weapon in the Oval Office.
Derrick Z. Jackson: Ripe for Disaster Declarations | Heat, Wildfire Smoke…and Death Data
It is clear that the opposition is willing to risk sacrificing lower-wage construction and farm workers to the sun’s brutality as executives count the cash in air conditioned offices.
Susan Yeargin: How to keep yourself safe during expected heat waves this summer
A heat wave can pose risks for anyone who spends time outside, whether they’re runners, people who walk or cycle to work, outdoor workers or kids playing sports.
John J. Berger: A National Climate Action Plan
Heat waves of exceptional severity and duration are now occurring simultaneously in many areas of the world.
Gary Belan: The Supreme Court’s Clean Water Act Decision Threatens the Nation’s Rivers
Leaving river protections to states doesn’t make sense when rivers cross state lines.
Rebecca Gordon: Trump Showed Us Who He Is the First Time Around
Trump 2.0 Would Be Even Worse
Julia Conley: ‘Climate Breakdown Has Begun.’ Summer 2023 Hottest on Record
Climate scientists across the world have been alarmed over the past three months by fast-spreading wildfires, prolonged and deadly heatwaves, and numerous shattered heat records across the northern hemisphere.
Mojtaba Sadegh: Maui wildfires burn through Lahaina – it’s a reminder of the growing risk to communities that once seemed safe
Thousands of people were evacuated along Maui’s popular west coast as wildfires spread through buildings and hillsides starting Aug. 8, 2023, powered by strong winds from an offshore hurricane.
Greg Lobas: 07:30 — Six Degrees of Separation
My best friend Dan helped pull the children
from the second story window,
little, smudged Raggedy Ann and Andy.
We had done every futile thing
we could.
Darrell Kaufman: Is it really hotter now than any time in 100,000 years?
Globally, 2023 has seen some of the hottest days in modern measurements, but what about farther back, before weather stations and satellites?
Andreas Karolas: The Climate Emergency is now. We must act.
How ready are we for the climate impacts that are here now and are on track to become scarily worse?
Paul Christensen: What the Heat Demands of Us
We may not make it through this crisis. But no one can say for sure it is too late.
