Tag: climate crisis
Climate change isn’t just making cyclones worse, it’s making the floods...
Amphan Mark II need not be as destructive as we’ve projected if the world’s governments act now to meet Paris agreement climate goals.
Can we abandon pollutive fossil fuels and avoid an energy crisis?
When it comes to maintaining energy flows, there is a closing window to avert both climate catastrophe and economic peril.
Climate crisis is speeding the water cycle, satellite data reveals
“This higher amount of water circulating in the atmosphere could also explain the increase in rainfall that is being detected in some polar areas, where the fact that it is raining instead of snowing is speeding up the melting."
Climate emergency: India’s unprecedented heat wave blights wheat crops, adding to...
Oil is behind both catastrophes, war and the climate disaster.
Climate crisis and big agriculture threaten insects worldwide
A new study found that the combination of habitat loss caused by big agriculture and climate change are having a drastic impact on global insect populations.
Individuals are not to blame for the climate crisis
Generation Z has grown up in the shadow of the climate crisis. Global leaders promised they would act. But despite grave warnings...
2021: Year in review for climate change wins and losses
As the climate crisis worsens, the calls for more aggressive action grow louder. 2021 saw more business as usual, industry obfuscation and delay, but also some reasons for optimism.
Vicious cycle of increasing wealth gaps, disproportionate climate harms is worsening...
“Global inequalities seem to be about as great today as they were at the peak of western imperialism in the early 20th century.”
A future with little to no snow? What that means for...
A new study hopes to inspire water managers — and the rest of us — to begin planning for how climate change will dramatically reduce snowpack.
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China retaliates against Trump tariffs with sweeping countermeasures as global markets plummet
Beijing responds to Trump’s aggressive new tariffs with 34% duties on all U.S. goods, rare-earth export controls, and sanctions on U.S. firms, signaling a major escalation in the global trade war
Only 15 senators back effort to block arms to Israel as Gaza deaths surpass...
Despite an escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza and allegations of war crimes, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly rejected resolutions to halt $8.8 billion in weapons sales to Israel, with only 15 senators supporting the effort.
Ending militarism in America
Taking on the MICIMATT(SH)!
The Homeless Garden Project is opening new doors to helping the unhoused
This one-year program provides transitional employment, job training, and housing resources for people experiencing homelessness.
Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top...
Has this massive redistribution, driven by policies favoring corporations and the wealthy, reshaped the American economy?