Tag: climate change
Amazon rainforest will collapse by 2064, new study predicts
“A forest cannot survive if its canopy needs more than 4 years to recover from a yearly [drought] event.”
A groundbreaking court case argues U.S. climate denial policy violates Americans’...
Our broken environmental policy treats nature as a human resource. Here’s how it can be fixed.
Can fragile cities cope with an influx of climate migrants?
With the coming years, climate-induced migration to "urban hot spots" is likely to intensify.
US Court of Appeals rules against Arctic offshore oil drilling project,...
In a Dec. 7 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled against the Trump administration's approval of off-shore...
Eco-advocacy group urges Biden to reverse Trump environmental rollbacks
“By undoing the Trump administration’s rollbacks of environmental protections, the Biden administration will be able to protect our natural landscapes and give Americans cleaner air, cleaner water and a more livable climate.”
You don’t want to imagine an ocean without coral reefs—but you...
Scientists call the coral reefs the “rainforests of the sea,” because coral reefs—like rainforests—are highly diverse ecosystems; their destruction would lead to the extinction of a large number of species.
Overshadowed by COVID: The deadly extreme weather of 2020
So while attention was often focused elsewhere, perhaps understandably, here are some of the meteorological extremes recorded in 2020.
‘Disappointing’ decision from Norway’s Supreme Court in climate lawsuit challenging Arctic...
“The Court has let the government off the hook at this time, but leaves the door open for an assessment on climate impacts, including emissions after export, at the later production stage."
12 Trump attacks on the environment since the election
In its final days, the administration is rushing to cement its destructive legacy with attacks on clean air, wildlife and public lands that could be difficult to undo.
Greta Thunberg: 5 Years after Paris Agreement, world is ‘speeding in...
“The gap between what we need to do and what is actually being done is widening by the minute."
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Questions grow after analysis links US strike to water facilities serving 20,000 Iranians
Satellite imagery, bomb fragment analysis, and damage assessments have intensified scrutiny over whether U.S. forces struck civilian water infrastructure near the Strait of Hormuz, raising concerns about potential violations of international law.
Trump admin guts vital sea monitoring, ‘tears out the eyes and ears of science’:...
David Helvarg discusses the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, the “cutting-edge eyes [and] ears” of the ocean.
Study finds AI data centers could consume as much water as basic needs of...
The study highlighted that evaluating AI solely by carbon emissions overlooks devastating localized impacts on water and land systems.
Deviant Donald, self-destructive dictator
As explosive prices erase tax relief,/ Must one be rich to afford ground beef?