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Arctic methane emissions persist in winter
Arctic methane emissions persist in winter Summer and winter, wet and dry, high and low, the Arctic tundra continues to emit methane. Image: Bureau of Land Management (Delta WSR) via Wikimedia Commons Methane, a key greenhouse gas, is released from Arctic soils not only in the short summer period but during the bitterly cold winters […]
Can We Have Our Climate and Eat It Too?
Can We Have Our Climate and Eat It Too? Download printable PDF version here (PDF, 180 KB) As much as world leaders would like to focus attention on their economies, terrorism, or winning the next election, the heat is rising. Each new release of data on melting glaciers and extreme weather seems more dire than […]
Warming lakes speed up methane emissions
Warming lakes speed up methane emissions A fishing trip on Lake Tanganyika ends: The reduced productivity caused by warming may cut the amount of food available to fish. Image: Worldtraveller via Wikimedia Commons The world’s lakes are heating up fast, threatening the fish on which millions depend and rapidly increasing greenhouse gas emissions. LONDON, 21 December, 2015 – […]
ExxonMobil, Peabody Coal Lobbying for Bill Preventing Climate Change Accounting in US Trade Deals
ExxonMobil, Peabody Coal Lobbying for Bill Preventing Climate Change Accounting in US Trade Deals The day before global leaders and diplomats passed a climate change deal in Paris at the United Nations climate summit, the U.S. House of Representatives — in a 256-158 vote — authorized the final text of a bill that has a provision preventing climate change to […]
Huge Fukushima Cover-Up Exposed, Government Scientists In Meltdown
Huge Fukushima Cover-Up Exposed, Government Scientists In Meltdown Fukushima radiation just off the North American coast is higher now than it has ever been, and government scientists and mainstream press are scrambling to cover-up and downplay the ever-increasing deadly threat that looms for millions of Americans. Following the March 2011 meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi […]
“It’s Hot Out There” – Here’s Why In One Visualization
“It’s Hot Out There” – Here’s Why In One Visualization It’s not just warm, but very warm,” exclaims one east coast ski resort owner, adding “I can’t remember it ever being like this here.” But why? As WSJ reports, two weather occurrences – the Arctic Oscillation and El Niño – are combining to shake up temperatures from coast to coast in […]
Indonesian Coal Mining Boom Is Leaving Trail of Destruction
Indonesian Coal Mining Boom Is Leaving Trail of Destruction Since 2000, Indonesian coal production has increased five-fold to meet growing domestic demand for electricity and feed export markets in Asia. The intensive mining is leading to the clearing of rainforest and the pollution of rivers and rice paddies. Standing on a hilltop in Kerta Buena, an […]
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 […]
They’re Killing the Peace River Valley Now
They’re Killing the Peace River Valley Now The $9 billion flaying, then drowning of a fertile zone has begun. We still don’t know why. Photos by Garth Lenz. Last month the B.C government commenced the destruction of the fertile Peace River Valley, awarding a civil works contract worth $1.5 billion as construction crews methodically denuded […]
Food Standards Australia and New Zealand on the Brink of GM Decision
FOOD STANDARDS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ON THE BRINK OF GM DECISION Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) is in the midst of making a critical decision that could impact what you know about your food in the future. The question at hand is whether or not certain new techniques used for plant propagation […]
State of Emergency Declared in Michigan City After Lead Found in Children’s Blood
State of Emergency Declared in Michigan City After Lead Found in Children’s Blood Flint, Michigan– “The City of Flint has experienced a Manmade disaster,” said the city’s mayor Monday evening, as she declared a state of emergency over evidently staggering levels of lead in the city’s tap water. Mayor Karen M. Weaver has requested federal assistance to deal with the fallout […]
Freak storm rips though Sydney with tornadoes, flooding, hail, 200kph winds (PHOTO, VIDEO)
Freak storm rips though Sydney with tornadoes, flooding, hail, 200kph winds (PHOTO, VIDEO) © Kang Seblak / YouTube A destructive storm has hit Sydney, Australia, bringing tornadoes, flooding, golf-sized hail stones, and up to 213 kilometer per hour winds, which caused serious damage, triggered evacuations, and trapped people indoors. A Sydney suburb was labeled a […]
Why Are People Cheering Alberta’s Climate Plan?
Why Are People Cheering Alberta’s Climate Plan? Notley didn’t slay province’s CO2 dragon. She blinked, aiding pipelines and bitumen. Albert Premier Rachel Notley: on close inspection, her NDP government’s plan is geared to warming public to new pipelines. Photo: Dave Cournoyer via Flickr. Creative Commons licensed. I had to do a bit of a personal […]
Brave New Food: GEs and Clones are Heading to the Dinner Table
Brave New Food: GEs and Clones are Heading to the Dinner Table Consumers, safety activists, Big Food, biotech companies and many of the US’s importing and exporting partners have been closely watching to see if the FDA would approve the genetically engineered AquAdvantage Salmon, which it did last month. Of course unlabeled GE crops are […]
Everyone is the Mother of Victory
Everyone is the Mother of Victory Everyone is the mother of victory; No one is the father of defeat. Do we claim COP21 as a success, and risk watching it being used by fossil fuel failures to carry on burning humanity, and so become complicit in defeat? Do we claim COP21 was a failure, and risk being […]
