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An Unforeseen Climate Beast Awakens!
An Unforeseen Climate Beast Awakens! Photo Source Peter Shanks | CC BY 2.0 East Antarctica is a big-time global warming player. Nothing is comparable. It is the world heavyweight, and nothing can impact the world with so much calamitous clout. As such, it would be a huge mistake to discount its capability to turn mean-spirited, […]
Monsanto’s Glyphosate Linked To Global Decline In Honey Bees
Monsanto’s Glyphosate Linked To Global Decline In Honey Bees Glyphosate, the world’s most common weed killer, has caused significant concerns over its potential risk to human health, animals, and the environment for several decades. Earlier this month, a US court awarded a groundskeeper $289 million who claimed Bayer AG unit Monsanto’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, gave […]
Florence is not the ‘new normal’. We’ve destroyed normal forever.
Florence is not the ‘new normal’. We’ve destroyed normal forever. If each new decade brings its own unique, ever-worsening climate disasters, there won’t be any new norms for a long, long time. HURRICANE FLORENCE FLOODS A LOCAL BUSINESS ON SEPTEMBER 16 IN WILMINGTON, NC. CREDIT: MARK WILSON/GETTY IMAGES You’ve probably seen the term “new normal” […]
Q&A: Why cement emissions matter for climate change
A builder directs wet concrete from a cement truck into the foundations of a large building. Credit: Peter Righteous/Alamy Stock Photo. Q&A: Why cement emissions matter for climate change If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest emitter in the world. In 2015, it generated around 2.8bn tonnes of CO2, […]
The Ecological Crisis is a Political Crisis
The Ecological Crisis is a Political Crisis Dakota Access Pipeline protestors by John Whathen With each passing day, reports on global climate change become increasingly bleak. Recent research has affirmed that the glaciers are melting faster than anticipated1, and that acidification, with its catastrophic effect on ocean ecosystems, is also proceeding faster than feared2. As […]
How radical municipalism can go beyond the local
How radical municipalism can go beyond the local Fighting for more affordable, accessible places to live means fighting for a less carbon-intensive future by the Symbiosis Research Collective Climate change, global finance, the neoliberal state: today’s crises require action on a big scale. And yet fighting for local democracy is – perhaps counter-intuitively – […]
Economic Damage Wrought By Hurricane Florence Nearly 10 Times Worse Than Expected
Economic Damage Wrought By Hurricane Florence Nearly 10 Times Worse Than Expected Rivers in the Carolinas are still rising and North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has warned that it still isn’t safe for displaced residents to return to their property. But that hasn’t stopped Moody’s from releasing the first estimate of the economic damage wrought […]
Is Yellowstone Going To Erupt? New Geysers Are Erupting And “Debris And Rocks” Are Being Hurle
Is Yellowstone Going To Erupt? New Geysers Are Erupting And “Debris And Rocks” Are Being Hurled Into The Sky… I watch Yellowstone very closely, because an eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano could end life as we know it in America in a single moment. A full-blown eruption of Yellowstone could potentially dump a suffocating layer […]
How To Have Zero Waste in Your Kitchen
How To Have Zero Waste in Your Kitchen How would you like to save a LOT of money, and benefit the environment while you are at it? There are many tricks and tips you can use to do both. Unfortunately, many of us generate a lot of waste – which damages our bank accounts and […]
Psychologists explain our climate change anxiety
Psychologists explain our climate change anxiety “You cannot have a healthy society that is scared.” A MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD IS SEEN REFLECTED IN THE WINDOW OF A HOUSE AS HE WADES THROUGH FLOOD WATERS FOR A WELLNESS CHECK ON CITIZENS WHO CHOOSE TO STAY IN THEIR HOME IN THE AFTERMATH OF […]
Is Paris 2015 Already Underwater?
Is Paris 2015 Already Underwater? Photo Source WeMeanBusiness | CC BY 2.0 The Paris Agreement of 2015 remarkably brought together all of the nations of the world, except for the United States after Trump cancelled, in a concerted effort to combat the dire consequences of global warming, which on a worst-worst-worst case basis could lead […]
The Next Big Geomagnetic Storm Poses An Astronomical Risk To Modern Man
The Next Big Geomagnetic Storm Poses An Astronomical Risk To Modern Man Scientists are concerned about the next significant “space weather” event, which begins at the sun in the center of the solar system. Severe space weather occurs less frequently than traditional weather on Earth but can be more destructive in nature. The sun is […]
Improving air quality with clover
Improving air quality with clover In August, the Sustainable Food Trust submitted a response to the Government’s new Clean Air Strategy consultation. Air pollution is a huge issue in the UK with more than 40 towns and cities at, or exceeding, air pollution limits set by the World Health Organization. This has significant public health […]
When we look at the crisis rationally, the only logical response is to declare a climate emergency
When we look at the crisis rationally, the only logical response is to declare a climate emergency Participants in this week’s Darebin Climate Emergency conference in Melboure. Photo: John Englart People engaged in the climate debate are often bewildered by society’s lack of response. How can we ignore such overwhelming evidence of an existential threat […]
