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Fukushima disaster was preventable, new study claims
Fukushima disaster was preventable, new study claims © Kimimasa Mayama / Pool / Reuters Fukushima, the worst nuclear disaster in Japan’s history was preventable, a new USC study claims. Design problems, negligence and inadequate pre-tsunami surveys all contributed to the failure that led to the nuclear catastrophe, the study claims. According to the research carried […]
Groundwater Recharging
Groundwater Recharging It’s a rainy Monsoon day. Today, it’s water, water everywhere, but soon there will not be a drop to drink. Think forward to April & May. Dry times ahead. And for some, water problems could come as early as February & March. Every monsoon, Goa receives around 3000mm of Monsoon rainwater. That’s a […]
Land Degradation Could Create 50 Million Climate Refugees Within a Decade
Land Degradation Could Create 50 Million Climate Refugees Within a Decade Anti-desertification sand fences in Morocco. (Anderson Sady / CC BY-SA 3.0) Fifty million refugees fleeing hunger and poverty could be created in the next decade unless the world’s land degradation crisis is addressed, according to a new U.N.-backed study. The report, titled “The Value of Land,” estimates that […]
The state of the climate movement
The state of the climate movement This is the text of a talk I gave today at Save the Children as part of their #changehistory series, organised by Campaigns Director (and fellow GlobalDashboard contributor) Kirsty McNeill. Kirsty’s opening talk in the series is here; see also @changehistory on Twitter. I. It’s the afternoon of 28 June 1988. NASA […]
Why America’s Deadly Love Affair with Bottled Water Has to Stop
Why America’s Deadly Love Affair with Bottled Water Has to Stop Last year, Americans drank more than 10 billion gallons of bottled water. Wildlife and the environment paid. This spring, as California withered in its fourth year of drought and mandatory water restrictions were enacted for the first time in the state’s history, a news story broke revealing that […]
Food Tank Webinar Series With Dr. Roger Leakey on the Global Food Crisis
Food Tank Webinar Series With Dr. Roger Leakey on the Global Food Crisis This discussion features Dr. Roger Leakey, a crop physiologist and tree biologist who has worked in forestry and agroforestry aimed to reverse deforestation and desertification in the tropics. About Roger Leakey Vice Chair of International Tree Foundation Born and brought up in Kenya, […]
The Fukushima Fix
The Fukushima Fix Japan’s Abe government claims portions of Fukushima Prefecture (original population 2 million) are safe for habitation, radioactivity is acceptable; whereas scientific data by third-party NGOs indicates otherwise, stay away! PM Abe’s specific maneuvers towards rehabilitation give the appearance that the Fukushima full-blown nuclear meltdown is relatively minimal in comparison to Chernobyl’s disastrous […]
Will Washington state have the nation’s first carbon tax?
Will Washington state have the nation’s first carbon tax? Yoram Bauman is the world’s only “stand-up economist.” He makes his living poking fun at economics and economists. But he’s dead serious about fighting climate change, and he’s the intellectual force behind a climate-related initiative that seems likely to appear on Washington state’s November 2016 ballot. If voters […]
Politicians Still Fighting EPA Clean Power Plant Rules
Politicians Still Fighting EPA Clean Power Plant Rules U.S. Senator and Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio is, rightfully,taking a lot of criticism for his statement during the 2nd Republican debate that “America is not a planet.” This is actually the only factual statement that Rubio made about climate change during the debate, but the actual point that he […]
The Changing Climate on Climate Change
The Changing Climate on Climate Change In the early 1990s, when I was Prime Minister of Norway, I once found myself debating sustainable development with an opposition leader who insisted that I tell him the government’s single most important priority in that field. Frustrated, I replied that what he was asking was impossible to answer. […]
Securing a Sustainable Future
Securing a Sustainable Future When Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote that “All that is solid melts into air,” they intended it as a metaphor for the disruptive transformations that the Industrial Revolution implied for established social norms. Today, their words can be taken literally: Carbon-dioxide emissions and other industrial pollutants released into the atmosphere are changing […]
Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed the Role of Fossil Fuels in Global Warming Decades Ago
Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed the Role of Fossil Fuels in Global Warming Decades Ago Minale Tattersfield / CC BY 2.0 Oil giant Exxon conducted cutting-edge climate research in the 1970s, and then, without disclosing the findings of its scientists, worked to manufacture doubt about the scientific consensus of its own research. A groundbreaking investigation shows how the […]
Anthropocene climate, part two: Four degrees of devastation
Anthropocene climate, part two: Four degrees of devastation If greenhouse gas emissions aren’t stopped soon, unprecedented and deadly heat waves will become the new normal in most of the world Part one of this article discussed James Hansen’s demonstration that a relatively small increase in global average temperature – under 1°C – has already produced a significant […]
California Burning: Life on a Tinderbox Planet
California Burning: Life on a Tinderbox Planet The metaphors are too ripe. California, symbol of limitless abundance, material wealth, possibilities for personal transformation. California, the impossibly over-endowed beauty, who wins all the contests, to the bitter envy or sycophantic admiration of the average Joes and Janes. California, the consummate global destination for the millions of […]
Ecuador vs. Chevron, By Way of Canada
Ecuador vs. Chevron, By Way of Canada In the latest twist to a 22-year-old legal saga, Canada’s Supreme Court ruled on September 4th that Ecuadorian villagers can seek to enforce an Ecuadorian legal judgment in Canada for $9.5 billion against Chevron Corporation for polluting the Amazon rainforest. The plaintiffs were successful in arguing that since […]
