Glaciers A Glacier Scientist Explains How to Deal With Climate Change AnxietyInverse - Sarah Sloat Michele Koppes, Ph.D., is a geographer and associate professor at the University of British Columbia, where she’s spent the last 20 years watching …
Climate Change Mind MeltOZY - Charu Sudan Kasturi The unprecedented heat wave burning Europe. Forest fires and ravaged crops. New diseases. Drying lakes and melting snowcaps. The disastrous physical …
Environment Air travellers may have to pay carbon charge to offset emissionsThe Guardian - Latifa YedroudjiAir passengers may have to pay an extra “carbon charge” on flights as part of a government initiative to reduce CO2 emissions and tackle the climate crisis. Passengers could choose to pay more for travel
Climate Change Tomorrow's Doctors Will Diagnose The Mental Toll of Climate ChangeOZY - Carly Stern First-year medical student Anna Goshua was interviewing an emergency room physician in March to learn more about the job when she heard about a …
Permafrost Matterhorn is cracking due to climate change in the Alps, experts warnthesun.co.uk - Tristan Grove ONE of the world’s best-known mountains is cracking due to climate change, say scientists. The 14,700ft Matterhorn is becoming more dangerous to climb …
North India Concentration of carbon dioxide over India is on the rise: Studyhindustantimes.com - Snehal Fernandes In May, CO2 levels in the Earth’s atmosphere crossed 415ppm (parts per million) for the first time in recorded history. The concentration of carbon …
Green Energy Growth opportunities aplenty for sustainable finance, Top Stories -businesstimes.com.sg - Elaine Lam Another area of growth we have witnessed is in renewable energy financing. It is an important pillar of support for nations' energy transition …
United Nations Global warming threatens to defeat effort to fix world ills, U.N saystrust.org - Thomson Reuters Foundation Climate change is "the greatest challenge to sustainable development" and threatens to "render many parts of the globe uninhabitable" NEW YORK, July 9 …
Opinion (UK) Let’s sort the Earth out first before reaching for other planetsThe Guardian - LettersMy husband and I felt a little discombobulated when we read “The moon was once a frontier. But new worlds now beckon” (Journal, 20 July). On the TV and in the press we are invited to get excited all over
Air Quality Air Quality Alert Issued In Rhode Island For Weekend Heat WavePatch - Rachel Nunes NARRAGANSETT, RI — With extremely high temperatures and humidity in the forecast throughout the weekend, air quality alerts have been issued for …
Tom Udall Udall, Heinrich urge action on climate crisisabqjournal.com - Theresa Davis / Journal Staff Writer New Mexico Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich were busy this week advocating for legislative action on what Democrats in Congress refer to as a …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDublin Activists block traffic in Dublin to urge air pollution measuresirishexaminer.com - IrishExaminer.com The action was organised by the Dublin Commuter Coalition, Dublin Cycling Campaign, the Irish Pedestrian Network and Extinction Rebellion Ireland.
Orangutans Hydro project versus rare orangutanthejakartapost.com - The Jakarta Post In a recent article, the government was commended on its effective efforts to protect the Tapanuli orangutans, but digging a little deeper indicates …
Plastic Exposed to extreme heat, plastic bottles may ultimately become unsafeNational Geographic - Sarah Gibbens“The hotter it gets, the more the stuff in plastic can move into food or drinking water.” Millions of people along the East Coast and in the Midwestern United States are under a heat watch this weekend
Air Quality Indonesia's environment ministry fails to communicate risk of air pollution to JakartansThe Conversation Indonesia - Juhri Selamet Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry has failed to communicate the risk of air pollution in the capital, Jakarta, and surrounding …
Cigarettes Cigarettes: Experts say cigarette butts — not plastic straws — are largest human-caused pollutantCBS News - Vanna Quiroz The plastic straw has been at the forefront of conversations about damaging man-made waste but cigarette butts have turned out to be an even bigger …
Deforestation French forests scarred as heatwaves bring bark beetle infestationReuters - Forrest Crellin(Reuters) - Long spells of hot, dry weather have brought the worst bark beetle infestation in two decades to eastern France, ruining conifer forests and causing timber prices to plummet as forestry firms
Soil Why soil is disappearing from farmsBBC FutureThe dirt beneath our feet is getting poorer and on many farms worldwide, there is less and less of it. Without sufficient soil, our ability to grow food is threatened. In Iowa they call it “black gold”
Meat The true cost of eating meat: if we want change, we have to pay for itThe Guardian - Matthew EvansFarmers are a business. If they make the same money or more, meeting higher animal welfare standards, they’ll oblige It’s easy to argue that the intensification of animal farming puts food on the average
Renewable Energy NextEra Energy: U.S. Can Hit 50% Renewable Energy by 2030The Motley Fool - Maxx Chatsko The world's largest producer of electricity from the wind and sun is surprisingly optimistic about the future of renewable energy. If you're anxious …
Glaciers Scientists Wrote a Eulogy for Iceland's First Glacier Lost to Climate ChangeGizmodo - Brian Kahn That may sound like an Onion headline, but alas, it is not. We’ve reached the point in our wild planetary experiment where humans are memorializing …
Cities Climate Emergency Declarations: How Cities Are Leading The ChargeForbes - James Ellsmoor822 (and counting) cities, councils and jurisdictions worldwide to have declared a climate emergency. With record temperatures gripping Europe, widespread drought in South America, and ever-decreasing
The Arctic A heatwave caused the northernmost settlement on Earth to reach 70 degrees earlier this weekBusiness Insider - Libby Torres, INSIDERAlert, Canada — the northernmost settlement on Earth — experienced a record heatwave on Tuesday, with temperatures reaching "unprecedented" 70 degrees Fahrenheit. According to the Daily Mail, this was
The Green New Deal Must Include Regenerative Agriculture and an Endorganicconsumers.org - by Kelsey Kruger A millennial perspective on why the way we farm and how we consume food must be part of the conversation when it comes to the climate crisis This …
Elsa Hosk Now your forever jeans don't have to cost the earth.graziadaily.co.uk - Natalie Hammond Jeans are, environmentally speaking, a nightmare. It can take up to 1,800 gallons of water to make a single pair and a lot end up in landfill. That's …
Cities Heatwaves like those being experienced in America are more dangerous in citiesThe Economist AMERICA HAS been baking this weekend. An estimated 128m people along the East Coast and in the Midwest were affected by excessive-heat warnings on …
Climate Climate, Courage and the Ambition We Need Nownature.org The voices of climate action are, now, being heard more broadly. We could be on the cusp of an unprecedented opportunity for courageous climate …
Unilever Ex-Unilever boss seeks 'heroic CEOs' to tackle climate change and inequalityThe Guardian - Sarah ButlerThe former boss of Unilever is seeking a team of “heroic chief executives” to drive a shift to a low-carbon, more inclusive way of doing business. Paul Polman, who stepped down from the Anglo-Dutch owner
U.S. Department of Agriculture The 9-Percent Lie: Why Are the USDA and EPA Hiding the Fact that Halforganicconsumers.org - by Ronnie Cummins “The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” Franklin D. Roosevelt 1943 The Climate Emergency is finally getting the attention of the media …
