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Stunning Drone Footage Of The Midwest Flooding Wreaking Havoc On US Oil
Stunning Drone Footage Of The Midwest Flooding Wreaking Havoc On US Oil After the first deadly winter storm this season, now come the floods: the near-record water level across the U.S. Midwest has disrupted everything from oil to agriculture, forcing pipelines, terminals and grain elevators to close. This is the worst flood in the region since […]
Coast Today, Toast Tomorrow
Coast Today, Toast Tomorrow Slumping shorelines, roving rivers, and exploding islands — five coastlines that I’m sure were here yesterday. Volcanic eruptions have repeatedly built and destroyed the island of Krakatau. Photo by buitenzorger, Creative Commons licensed. As sure as waves hitting a beach, coastlines are subjected to subtle changes. Sand shifts with each wave, tides […]
The Global Health Crisis Will Crush the Global Economy
The Global Health Crisis Will Crush the Global Economy The scale of the global epidemic of obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes are truly staggering. Though evidence of a looming global healthcare crisis is plainly visible, few seem to realize the consequences will be catastrophic to individuals, households and national economies. Here is a list—by no […]
Record-Breaking 2015 Temperatures Connected To Ongoing Fish Kill on Mississippi Beaches
Record-Breaking 2015 Temperatures Connected To Ongoing Fish Kill on Mississippi Beaches Cleanup crews were dispatched to beaches in Hancock County, Mississippi, on December 27th to remove over a thousand dead fish and the remains of other animals. Scientists attributed the fish kill to a “red tide” algae bloom that took hold in early December. It won’t go away until […]
Give Back to the Garden
GIVE BACK TO THE GARDEN: PAUL TAYLOR TEACHES “LIVING SOILS” For far too long, mankind has viewed soil as a dead substance, something to be sucked dry of its remaining vitality before moving on to cultivate another patch of land. At the same time, we’ve also viewed anything other than what we’ve defined as the […]
Inside the Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype?
Inside the Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype? It has become a predictable pattern at the annual UN climate conferences for participants to describe the outcome in widely divergent ways. This was first apparent after the high-profile Copenhagen conference in 2009, when a four-page non-agreement was praised by diplomats, but denounced by well-known critics as […]
One County’s Global Warming Failure
One County’s Global Warming Failure Exclusive: Even communities where many citizens agree that global warming is a threat to humankind – and have the money to take action – find that the politics of doing something can be complicated and seemingly insurmountable, like the case of Arlington, Virginia, reports Robert Parry. The difficulty of the United States and […]
The Rising Threats To Our Health
The Rising Threats To Our Health Around the world, general health is declining Though evidence of a looming global healthcare crisis is plainly visible, few seem to realize the consequences will be catastrophic to individuals, households and national economies. Here is a list—by no means exhaustive—of major health issues threatening hundreds of millions of people […]
Fukushima Today
Fukushima Today Throughout the world, the name Fukushima has become synonymous with nuclear disaster and running for the hills. Yet, Fukushima may be one of the least understood disasters in modern times, as nobody knows how to fix neither the problem nor the true dimension of the damage. Thus, Fukushima is in uncharted territory, a […]
A Shaky Promise on Global Warming
A Shaky Promise on Global Warming The Paris climate conference produced an international agreement for curtailing global warming, but resistance from some leaders, particularly Republicans in the U.S., makes the prospect for its implementation doubtful and thus dangerous, writes Lawrence Davidson. Paris was certainly 2015’s center for ticking bombs. The year was bracketed by major […]
A Cli-Fi Story: Winter Solstice in Antarctica
A Cli-Fi Story: Winter Solstice in Antarctica Antarctica deglaciated and uplifted, as it could appear ten thousand years after the Great Warming of the 21st century (from global warming art). The text below is part of my cli-fi novel “Queen of Antarctica” that one of these days I might be able to publish, somewhere. The novel […]
A State of Confusion
A State of Confusion In the wake of Paris and COP21 both sides are claiming victory. The Greens believe they finally have a treaty that will deliver the dismantling of the fossil fuel industries and capitalism propelling the human race into a renewable idyll. The Sceptics see Paris as toothless mush that will likely deliver […]
Cli-fi is all the rage
Cli-fi is all the rage The Four Horsemen: Eco-apocalypse appeals to writers – and readers. Image: Viktor M Vasnetsov via Wikimedia Commons Need a last-minute present? Stuck for some new year reading material? Then how about a thriller on a world in climate-caused turmoil? LONDON, 26 December, 2015 – It’s some time in the not too distant future. […]
As We Adapt to Climate Change, Who Gets Left Behind?
As We Adapt to Climate Change, Who Gets Left Behind? A new documentary shows planning options to mitigate a new climate, but questions about the global South are largely ignored. Climate change is a global process that plays out on the ground in dramatically different ways based on where, and how, we live on that […]
