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NOAA Issues Geomagnetic Storm Warning: “A Crack Opened In Earth’s Magnetic Field & Plasma Started Pouring In”
NOAA Issues Geomagnetic Storm Warning: “A Crack Opened In Earth’s Magnetic Field & Plasma Started Pouring In” According to NOAA Space Weather forecasters, a powerful G3-class geomagnetic storm is in progress on August 26th as Earth passes through the wake of a coronal mass ejection (CME) that arrived with little notice approximately 24 hours ago. Strong […]
The 1.5 Generation
Grist / Amelia Bates The 1.5 Generation My generation is radically remaking climate activism. Will it be enough? My generation, the millennials, will never know a time when climate change wasn’t a grave threat. Back in 1988, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere crossed the 350 parts per million level when I was still watching Sesame […]
Disruptive Markets–What Sustainability Really Means For Business
Disruptive Markets–What Sustainability Really Means For Business Many look around at today’s crises – climate change spinning out of control, inequality driving political instability and our oceans filling with plastic – and despair at the prospects for serious change. Most then try to apportion blame or at least seek to understand why. Business blames consumers. […]
Ebola Deaths In DRC Spike 21% In Four Days, Bordering Countries On High Alert
Ebola Deaths In DRC Spike 21% In Four Days, Bordering Countries On High Alert The latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DNC) has claimed 67 lives, up from 55, according to Robert Redfield, director of the CDC. On Friday the WHO said that the virus has spread to an area of “high […]
Greenhouse Hothouse Firehouse
Greenhouse Hothouse Firehouse A scientific paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is getting a lot of attention. Written in the dry style of systems analysis—and throughout the text referring to the planet as the ‘Earth System’, it nevertheless brilliantly manages to present the looming dangers of extreme climate […]
Extreme Flash Floods Hit Hawaii As Dangerous Hurricane Lane Could Dump “30-40 Inches Of Rain”
Extreme Flash Floods Hit Hawaii As Dangerous Hurricane Lane Could Dump “30-40 Inches Of Rain” Dangerous Hurricane Lane is moving toward the main Hawaiian islands as a powerful Category 3 storm Friday. The hurricane could hit the isolated volcanic archipelago in the Central Pacific within 24 hours, and unleash torrential rain that may produce destructive flash […]
Is Renewable Energy As Clean As We Think?
Is Renewable Energy As Clean As We Think? Fossil fuel energy has understandably become the clay pigeon of environmentalists in the past decades – with oil & gas companies having lied too often about the impact of their activities on climate change or environmental pollution for the public to ignore. Oil spills have destroyed many […]
Are We Due for a Pandemic Flu? Here’s How to Prepare Just in Case
Are We Due for a Pandemic Flu? Here’s How to Prepare Just in Case It has been 100 years since the Spanish Flu (also known as the 1918 flu pandemic) spread across the globe, infecting 500 million people and causing the deaths of 50 million – which was three to five percent of the world’s […]
This small branch of Trans Mountain could derail Canada’s pipeline purchase
Trans Mountain and Puget Sound pipelines. Graphic: Carol Linnitt / The Narwhal This small branch of Trans Mountain could derail Canada’s pipeline purchase The vast majority of oilsands crude moving to the West Coast passes through the little regarded Puget Sound Pipeline, which is now heavily entangled in troubled Canada-U.S. relations Politicians and industry have […]
Exclusive: Shell Took 16 Years To Warn Shareholders of Climate Risks, Despite Knowing in Private All Along
Exclusive: Shell Took 16 Years To Warn Shareholders of Climate Risks, Despite Knowing in Private All Along It took oil company Shell more than 16 years to directly warn its shareholders that climate policy posed a financial risk to the company’s business model despite knowing — in private and for decades — about the relationship between its […]
“Worst Storm In A Quarter Century” Nears Hawaii, Gov Warns “Be Prepared To Shelter In Place”
“Worst Storm In A Quarter Century” Nears Hawaii, Gov Warns “Be Prepared To Shelter In Place” Overnight saw Hurricane Lane churn slowly toward Hawaii as 1.4 million people brace for the U.S. Pacific island state’s worst storm in a quarter century. Hurricane Lane in the early morning hours near Hawaii (Source/ The crew of the @Space_Station) […]
Extinction and Responsibility: Why Climate Disaster Might Heal Us Even As it Kills Us
Extinction and Responsibility: Why Climate Disaster Might Heal Us Even As it Kills Us If climate disaster has left us with no future do we still feel responsible to the earth that outlives us? Or do we say “who cares?” If we say “who cares?” then our sense of responsibility was never anything more than […]
Over The Last 7 Days Our Planet Has Been Violently Shaken By 144 Major Earthquakes
Over The Last 7 Days Our Planet Has Been Violently Shaken By 144 Major Earthquakes Within the past few days, we have seen an enormous magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit Venezuela and a giant magnitude 8.2 earthquake hit Fiji. Where will the next one strike? To many of us, it is becoming exceedingly clear that something […]
Hawaii Braces For Powerful Cat 4 Hurricane, Could See Direct Hit
Hawaii Braces For Powerful Cat 4 Hurricane, Could See Direct Hit A hurricane warning has been declared for Hawaii and Maui Counties as powerful Hurricane Lane continues moving west-northwestward towards the main Hawaiian islands as a Category 4 storm. The Central Pacific Hurricane Center issued the warning early Wednesday (500 AM HST Wed. Aug 22), […]
Ebola Death Toll Climbs To 55 As Number Of Infected Rise; Congo Authorities Lay Plans For Crisis
Ebola Death Toll Climbs To 55 As Number Of Infected Rise; Congo Authorities Lay Plans For Crisis Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DNC), South Africa, announced five new cases of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in the Mabalako hot zone of the North Kivu district, bringing the total number deaths to 55. Of the 69 currently […]
