Environment

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?

They will ask the court to rule the U.S. energy system violates their constitutional rights to due process and equal protection under the law, and to order the U.S. government to establish a plan to transition off of fossil fuels.

The region is home to species that don’t exist anywhere else on earth.

One attorney said her environmental group is “deeply disappointed by the Biden administration’s failure to follow the law and to fulfill its promises. So we will see them in court.”

“We are at a point now where we are peaking every day as we try to battle this crisis, and I think any of the funds that we use need to be addressed to help us reduce the spread of this virus to help the lives and livelihoods of thousands of North Dakotans.”

“Climate change made Homo vulnerable and hapless in the past, and this may just be happening again.”

The world has enough water for 7 billion people, but not if countries waste, hoard, or weaponize it.

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.

By 2030, the report predicts that wind and solar along with other low-emission sources and clean energy technologies will generate more than half of the global electricity.

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.