Climate change likely drove our ancestors to extinction, study finds
“Climate change made Homo vulnerable and hapless in the past, and this may just be happening again.”
British Airways nearly as polluting as all vans on UK roads combined, data shows
Possible is calling for a “progressive tax” on aviation such as a frequent flyer levy that would increase taxes on flights the more someone flies in a given year.
Could rights of nature laws help save endangered orcas?
In the face of the climate crisis imperiling endangered species, some activists and governments are turning to a radical, rights-based approach to protect nature.
Expert Warns Catastrophe Looms by Century’s End if Climate Change Isn’t Sharply Curtailed Now
Harold Wanless, a leading climatologist and geologist, predicts that global warming and sea level rising are going to be much more severe than the consensus predictions. Will we all struggle to breathe soon?
Evoking the Wrath of Nature
Capitalism has placed monetary profit above the maintenance of life. "Ignoring the warnings of native communities, we have evoked the deadly wrath of nature. And I fear we may not be able to find our way back."
A record 227 environmental defenders were killed in 2020
The study connected that rise in violence with the worsening of the climate crisis itself.
The final frontiers? A call to protect the biodiversity on the borders
Trump’s border wall is not alone. Similar structures and development on the lands between nations threaten biodiversity around the globe.
US electric bills could increase 8% this summer amid rising temperatures
Households could pay an average of $719 from June through September, according to a report.
Exposure to common herbicide potentially harms endangered species
“Finally the EPA has been forced to acknowledge atrazine’s far-reaching harms.”
California legislature climate watchdog committee has little bite
The California Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies met for the first time this session on July 9, just days before the California...