Florida International University Florida is a preview of our climate change futurePopular Science - PopSci StaffThe Florida Problem: A Special Report. Struggling crops. Salty aquifers. Invading wildlife. Piles of dead fish. The Sunshine State feels the squeeze of environmental change on its beaches, farms, wetlands,
California replacing 200 polluting diesel school buses with all-electric busesElectrek - Phil DzikiyThe California Energy Commission has awarded nearly $70 million to state schools to replace more than 200 diesel school buses with new, all-electric school buses. The commission approved the funding this
Climate Change July on course to be hottest month ever, say climate scientistsThe GuardianIf global trends continue for another fortnight, it will beat previous two-year-old record Record temperatures across much of the world over the past two weeks could make July the hottest month ever measured
Environment The U.S. Is Set to Roast This Week Under a Potentially Record-Setting Heat WaveGizmodo - Brian Kahn The only thing worse than the hottest time of summer is a heat wave on top of the hottest time of summer. And lo and behold, that’s exactly what the …
Play buttonClimate Change The counter-intuitive solution to getting people to care about climate changetheconversation.com - Kamyar Razavi In a May episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, Bill Nye the Science Guy took a blowtorch to a miniature globe. It was an effort to startle …
World Economic Forum Russia’s permafrost is melting and it could have a devastating global effectweforum.org - Emma Charlton An environmental vicious circle is taking hold in Russia and other parts of the Arctic as permafrost – the frozen ground beneath a quarter of the …
Environment ‘Off-the-charts’ heat to affect millions in U.S. in coming decadesNational Geographic - Stephen LeahyWithin 60 years, hot days in the U.S. could be so intense that the current heat index can’t measure them. In less than 20 years, millions of people in the United States could be exposed to dangerous “off-the-charts”
Salmon Farmed Salmon = Most Toxic Food in the Worldorganicconsumers.org - by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fish are an important part of the ecosystem and the human diet. Unfortunately, overfishing has depleted many fish stocks, and the proposed solution — …
Paris Agreement Southerners Are Scared of the Climate Crisis, and Their Politicians Are Ignoring Them - VICEVICE - Shayla LoveBack in 2017 when Donald Trump reneged on our national commitment to fight climate change by pulling out of the Paris Agreement, a bunch of U.S. states formed a coalition to push back. Called the United
Politics Now It's a Climate 'Emergency'The Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardWhen President Trump declared a national “emergency” in February to take money from the Pentagon to build his border wall, these columns warned he was setting a precedent that Democrats would exploit.
Melbourne's water supply at risk due to 'collapse' of forests caused by logging | Endangered habitats | The GuardianThe GuardianMelbourne’s water supply at risk due to ‘collapse’ of forests caused by logging Tree-felling helped trigger ‘hidden collapse’ of mountain ash forests, ecologists say Melbourne’s water supply is at risk
Energy Storage Energy storage market booms, with more growth to comeedf.org The market has its challenges, but nothing seems to stand in the way of its explosive growth. Falling costs and new deployment incentives are fueling …
Pain Researchers find insects feel chronic painslashgear.com - Shane McGlaun The next time you go to whack a fly with a fly swatter or book, keep in mind new research published by The University of Sydney. Researchers there …
Reforestation Planting ‘Billions of Trees’ Isn’t Going to Stop Climate Change - VICEVICE - Madeleine Gregory and Sarah EmersonPlanting billions of trees is the most effective way to combat climate change. At least that’s what a recent Science study claimed. Its findings were initially celebrated by a wave of articles, but the
Climate Change Climate Change Is Everywhere. Just Not on TV - VICEVICE - Geoff Dembicki,Hunter FrenchAll it took was a single mention of climate change on a hit TV show to cause a sensation. A June episode of HBO's Big Little Lies dove into the subject in an unexpected way when the young daughter of Dern's
Scotland Scotland just produced enough wind energy to power all its homes twice overCNBC - Anmar Frangoul The numbers, which were supplied by WeatherEnergy, mean that Scottish wind generated enough electricity to power the equivalent of 4.47 million homes …
Capitalism The end of capitalism has begunThe GuardianWithout us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long
World Economic Forum These 12 charts show how the world’s population has exploded in the last 200 yearsweforum.org - Bill Bostock There are currently more than seven and a half billion people on earth, with the UN projecting that number will hit 10 billion by 2056. It took …
Science Climate Change Fuels Wetter Storms — Storms Like BarryNPR - Rebecca HersherPeople across southern Louisiana are spending the weekend worried about flooding. The water is coming from every direction: the Mississippi River is swollen with rain that fell weeks ago farther north,
Scientific Research Here’s what happens when you try to replicate climate contrarian papersThe GuardianA new paper finds common errors among the 3% of climate papers that reject the global warming consensus Those who reject the 97% expert consensus on human-caused global warming often invoke Galileo as
Labour Party Blame the west for our climate emergencyThe GuardianRobin McKie left the crucial point about population to the very end of his otherwise excellent article (“Eight billion up: we can’t go on like this”, Focus). It is the lifestyle of a small proportion the
Science Has Your Doctor Talked To You About Climate Change?NPR - Martha BebingerWhen Michael Howard arrives for a checkup with his lung specialist, he's worried about how his body will cope with the heat and humidity of a Boston summer. "I lived in Florida for 14 years and I moved
World News Bangladesh Farmers Are Raising Ducks to Adapt to Climate ChangeThe Atlantic - Susannah SavageFarmers in Bangladesh are adapting to climate change, and it’s having an impact in faraway places—including on restaurant menus. DHAKA, Bangladesh—Here at Binni, a slightly run-down restaurant in one Dhaka’s
Bacteria There are diseases hidden in ice, and they are waking upBBC News - By Jasmin Fox-SkellyThroughout history, humans have existed side-by-side with bacteria and viruses. From the bubonic plague to smallpox, we have evolved to resist them, and in response they have developed new ways of infecting
The Arctic Unprecedented fires burn the ArcticMashable - Mark KaufmanSmoke is rising over the forests of Alaska and Siberia. The World Meteorological Organization called the wildfires now burning around the Arctic "unprecedented." The United Nations agency noted that over
Malcolm Turnbull 'Just a matter of when': the $20bn plan to power Singapore with Australian solarThe Guardian - Adam Morton Environment editorThis will be the channel through which Australian energy production will greatly reduce [global] emissions Ross Garnaut The desert outside Tennant Creek, deep in the Northern Territory, is not the most
Obesity We’re in a new age of obesity. How did it happen? You’d be surprised | Obesity | The GuardianThe GuardianWe’re in a new age of obesity. How did it happen? You’d be surprised It’s not that we’re eating more, that we exercise less, or that we lack willpower. The shaming of overweight people has to stop When
Environmentalism The most important thing you can do right now to fight climate change, according to scienceThinkProgress - Joe Romm It is "massively important" we all start talking about climate change, a Yale researcher explains. Americans rarely talk about climate change with …
Capitalism How compatible are democracy and capitalism?The Economist Economic stress and demographic change are weakening a symbiotic relationship OF LATE THE world’s older democracies have begun to look more vulnerable …
Recycling How you're recycling plastic wrong, from coffee cups to toothpaste | Recycling | The GuardianThe GuardianHow you’re recycling plastic wrong, from coffee cups to toothpaste If you don’t clean your recycling, it can harm more than it helps. And that icon with the arrows is virtually meaningless It’s a familiar
Florida International University Florida is a preview of our climate change futurePopular Science - PopSci StaffThe Florida Problem: A Special Report. Struggling crops. Salty aquifers. Invading wildlife. Piles of dead fish. The Sunshine State feels the squeeze of environmental change on its beaches, farms, wetlands,
California replacing 200 polluting diesel school buses with all-electric busesElectrek - Phil DzikiyThe California Energy Commission has awarded nearly $70 million to state schools to replace more than 200 diesel school buses with new, all-electric school buses. The commission approved the funding this
Climate Change July on course to be hottest month ever, say climate scientistsThe GuardianIf global trends continue for another fortnight, it will beat previous two-year-old record Record temperatures across much of the world over the past two weeks could make July the hottest month ever measured
Environment The U.S. Is Set to Roast This Week Under a Potentially Record-Setting Heat WaveGizmodo - Brian Kahn The only thing worse than the hottest time of summer is a heat wave on top of the hottest time of summer. And lo and behold, that’s exactly what the …
Play buttonClimate Change The counter-intuitive solution to getting people to care about climate changetheconversation.com - Kamyar Razavi In a May episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, Bill Nye the Science Guy took a blowtorch to a miniature globe. It was an effort to startle …
World Economic Forum Russia’s permafrost is melting and it could have a devastating global effectweforum.org - Emma Charlton An environmental vicious circle is taking hold in Russia and other parts of the Arctic as permafrost – the frozen ground beneath a quarter of the …
Environment ‘Off-the-charts’ heat to affect millions in U.S. in coming decadesNational Geographic - Stephen LeahyWithin 60 years, hot days in the U.S. could be so intense that the current heat index can’t measure them. In less than 20 years, millions of people in the United States could be exposed to dangerous “off-the-charts”
Salmon Farmed Salmon = Most Toxic Food in the Worldorganicconsumers.org - by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fish are an important part of the ecosystem and the human diet. Unfortunately, overfishing has depleted many fish stocks, and the proposed solution — …
Paris Agreement Southerners Are Scared of the Climate Crisis, and Their Politicians Are Ignoring Them - VICEVICE - Shayla LoveBack in 2017 when Donald Trump reneged on our national commitment to fight climate change by pulling out of the Paris Agreement, a bunch of U.S. states formed a coalition to push back. Called the United
Politics Now It's a Climate 'Emergency'The Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardWhen President Trump declared a national “emergency” in February to take money from the Pentagon to build his border wall, these columns warned he was setting a precedent that Democrats would exploit.
Melbourne's water supply at risk due to 'collapse' of forests caused by logging | Endangered habitats | The GuardianThe GuardianMelbourne’s water supply at risk due to ‘collapse’ of forests caused by logging Tree-felling helped trigger ‘hidden collapse’ of mountain ash forests, ecologists say Melbourne’s water supply is at risk
Energy Storage Energy storage market booms, with more growth to comeedf.org The market has its challenges, but nothing seems to stand in the way of its explosive growth. Falling costs and new deployment incentives are fueling …
Pain Researchers find insects feel chronic painslashgear.com - Shane McGlaun The next time you go to whack a fly with a fly swatter or book, keep in mind new research published by The University of Sydney. Researchers there …
Reforestation Planting ‘Billions of Trees’ Isn’t Going to Stop Climate Change - VICEVICE - Madeleine Gregory and Sarah EmersonPlanting billions of trees is the most effective way to combat climate change. At least that’s what a recent Science study claimed. Its findings were initially celebrated by a wave of articles, but the
Climate Change Climate Change Is Everywhere. Just Not on TV - VICEVICE - Geoff Dembicki,Hunter FrenchAll it took was a single mention of climate change on a hit TV show to cause a sensation. A June episode of HBO's Big Little Lies dove into the subject in an unexpected way when the young daughter of Dern's
Scotland Scotland just produced enough wind energy to power all its homes twice overCNBC - Anmar Frangoul The numbers, which were supplied by WeatherEnergy, mean that Scottish wind generated enough electricity to power the equivalent of 4.47 million homes …
Capitalism The end of capitalism has begunThe GuardianWithout us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long
World Economic Forum These 12 charts show how the world’s population has exploded in the last 200 yearsweforum.org - Bill Bostock There are currently more than seven and a half billion people on earth, with the UN projecting that number will hit 10 billion by 2056. It took …
Science Climate Change Fuels Wetter Storms — Storms Like BarryNPR - Rebecca HersherPeople across southern Louisiana are spending the weekend worried about flooding. The water is coming from every direction: the Mississippi River is swollen with rain that fell weeks ago farther north,
Scientific Research Here’s what happens when you try to replicate climate contrarian papersThe GuardianA new paper finds common errors among the 3% of climate papers that reject the global warming consensus Those who reject the 97% expert consensus on human-caused global warming often invoke Galileo as
Labour Party Blame the west for our climate emergencyThe GuardianRobin McKie left the crucial point about population to the very end of his otherwise excellent article (“Eight billion up: we can’t go on like this”, Focus). It is the lifestyle of a small proportion the
Science Has Your Doctor Talked To You About Climate Change?NPR - Martha BebingerWhen Michael Howard arrives for a checkup with his lung specialist, he's worried about how his body will cope with the heat and humidity of a Boston summer. "I lived in Florida for 14 years and I moved
World News Bangladesh Farmers Are Raising Ducks to Adapt to Climate ChangeThe Atlantic - Susannah SavageFarmers in Bangladesh are adapting to climate change, and it’s having an impact in faraway places—including on restaurant menus. DHAKA, Bangladesh—Here at Binni, a slightly run-down restaurant in one Dhaka’s
Bacteria There are diseases hidden in ice, and they are waking upBBC News - By Jasmin Fox-SkellyThroughout history, humans have existed side-by-side with bacteria and viruses. From the bubonic plague to smallpox, we have evolved to resist them, and in response they have developed new ways of infecting
The Arctic Unprecedented fires burn the ArcticMashable - Mark KaufmanSmoke is rising over the forests of Alaska and Siberia. The World Meteorological Organization called the wildfires now burning around the Arctic "unprecedented." The United Nations agency noted that over
Malcolm Turnbull 'Just a matter of when': the $20bn plan to power Singapore with Australian solarThe Guardian - Adam Morton Environment editorThis will be the channel through which Australian energy production will greatly reduce [global] emissions Ross Garnaut The desert outside Tennant Creek, deep in the Northern Territory, is not the most
Obesity We’re in a new age of obesity. How did it happen? You’d be surprised | Obesity | The GuardianThe GuardianWe’re in a new age of obesity. How did it happen? You’d be surprised It’s not that we’re eating more, that we exercise less, or that we lack willpower. The shaming of overweight people has to stop When
Environmentalism The most important thing you can do right now to fight climate change, according to scienceThinkProgress - Joe Romm It is "massively important" we all start talking about climate change, a Yale researcher explains. Americans rarely talk about climate change with …
Capitalism How compatible are democracy and capitalism?The Economist Economic stress and demographic change are weakening a symbiotic relationship OF LATE THE world’s older democracies have begun to look more vulnerable …
Recycling How you're recycling plastic wrong, from coffee cups to toothpaste | Recycling | The GuardianThe GuardianHow you’re recycling plastic wrong, from coffee cups to toothpaste If you don’t clean your recycling, it can harm more than it helps. And that icon with the arrows is virtually meaningless It’s a familiar
