AUSTRALIA WILL NEED TO REMOVE CO2 FROM AIR TO KEEP WARMING BELOW 2C, CLIMATE BODY SAYS...
2C of global warming would move the world into ‘uncharted territory’, analysis by Climate Analytics found. Photograph: John Giles/PA
Climate Institute report says negative-emissions technology is imperative because risks of global temperature reaching 2C are ‘unmanageable’...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE: WARNING OF EXTREME EVENTS AND A MOVE INTO UNCHARTED TERRITORY...
Australia's climate will move into unpredictable territory if global warming reaches 2 degrees. Photo: Glenn Campbell
As the world endures a third straight year of record-breaking heat, a new study has given fresh insight into what global warming is likely to mean for Australians if it is not curbed...
Read moreFOUR ARRESTED IN PROTEST, BUT FEDS CONTINUE WITH PLAN TO SELL THE GULF TO OIL INTERESTS...
Activists deliver flood debris to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in New Orleans on Tuesday, the day before the agency leased more Gulf waters for oil extraction. CREDIT: COURTESY 350.ORG
Another 138,000 acres off Louisiana’s coasts will be explored for oil...
Read moreAS TEMPERATURES ROCKET, CITIES FIGHT HEAT WAVES...
A youngster takes a backward plunge into the Thomas Jefferson pool in East Harlem in New York during a citywide heat wave in July. Photo courtesy of AP Images.
NEW YORK — Outside her apartment, at the height of a midsummer heat wave in Harlem, Caroline Gwynn shared her tips for staying cool without air conditioning...
Read moreSEALS HELP SHOW HOW MELTING ICE SHELVES IN EAST ANTARCTICA AFFECT DEEP OCEAN...
Add your reaction ShareEXPOSE AND FIGHT ALEC'S CLIMATE DISINFORMATION!!!
Have you ever rented a car from Enterprise? Or Alamo, or National — which are part of Enterprise, the biggest car rental company in the world? There are so many costs involved in renting a car. You have to pay for the rental, the gas, the insurance...
Read moreTIME TO LISTEN TO THE ICE SCIENTISTS ABOUT THE ARCTIC DEATH SPIRAL...
Arctic sea ice melt in May. ‘The Arctic sea ice is declining by 13% a decade.’ Photograph: NOAA
The Arctic’s ice is disappearing. We must reduce emissions, fast, or the human castastrophe predicted by ocean scientist Peter Wadhams will become reality...
Read moreA RIFT IS SPEEDING UP ITS SPREAD ACROSS THE LARSEN C ICE SHELF IN ANTARCTICA...
Ice rift in Larsen Ice Shelf. Getty Images/Universal Images Group
A large rift is widening across an increasingly fragile Antarctic ice shelf, scientists found. The crack is spreading across the Larsen C Ice Shelf at an increased rate, threatening to carve out an iceberg the size of Delaware while destabilizing a larger area of ice roughly the size of Scotland...
Read moreGREEN PARTY CANDIDATE JILL STEIN CALLS FOR CLIMATE STATE OF EMERGENCY...
Jill Stein: ‘We need to acknowledge the true state of emergency we’re in.’ Photograph: MediaPunch/Rex/Shutterstock
Presidential hopeful points to California wildfires and Louisiana flooding in push for Green New Deal to address both environment and economy...
Read moreHOW MUCH IS ENOUGH...
Live more simply so others may simply live...
To sustain a livable environment, all basic human needs must be met as sufficient steady state stocks of natural capital are maintained. Guaranteeing a basic income as the greed of the billionaire class is tamed are keys to avoiding biosphere collapse and the end of being...
Read moreCRUEL SUMMER: FLOODS, FIRES AND HEAT...
Extreme summer: From wildfires to deadly floods, global warming is increasingly apparent...
Read moreOCEAN SLIME IS SPREADING QUICKLY ACROSS THE EARTH...
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Toxic algae blooms, perhaps accelerated by ocean warming and other climate shifts, are spreading, poisoning marine life and people...
Read moreFLOOD-WEARY LOUISIANA CLEANS HOUSE WHILE SEARCH CONTINUES...
Standing water closes roads in Sorrento, La., Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016. Louisiana continues to dig itself out from devastating floods, with search parties going door to door looking for survivors or bodies trapped by flooding. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
ST. AMANT, La. (AP) — Flood-weary residents cleaned out houses Saturday as search parties went door to door looking for survivors or bodies trapped by flooding so powerful in some cases it disturbed the dead and sent caskets floating from cemeteries...
Read moreAS THE WORLD BURNS, THE RICH CRUISE IN LUXURY THROUGH A MELTING ARCTIC...
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The Crystal Serenity has embarked on a 1000-mile voyage through the once un-navigable Northwest Passage...
ETHNIC BLOODSHED LINKED TO CLIMATE CHANGE...
Syrian refugee camp
That climate change seems to be a factor in social collapse is now fairly firmly established. Researchers have identified evidence of prolonged drought that preceded the collapse of Assyrian and Bronze Age civilizations in prehistory...
Read moreCLIMATE-SMART FARMING CAN EASE THE EARTH'S ENVIRONMENTAL DEFICITS...
A Rainforest Alliance trainer runs a session on climate-smart agriculture in Ghana. PHOTO/Rainforest Alliance
A sustainable approach to farming can boost yields while reducing damage to natural resources and the climate...
Read moreEPA WATCHDOG SAYS GOVERNMENT FAILS TO STUDY ETHANOL'S IMPACT...
FILE - In this July 20, 2013, file photo, an ethanol plant stands next to a cornfield near Nevada, Iowa. The Obama administration has failed to study as legally required the impact of requiring ethanol in gasoline and ensuring that new regulations intended to address one problem do not actually make other problems worse, the Environmental Protection Agency inspector general said Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016. The conclusion in the new audit confirmed findings of an Associated Press investigation in November 2013. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration has failed to study as legally required the impact of requiring ethanol in gasoline and ensuring that new regulations intended to address one problem do not actually make other problems worse, the Environmental Protection Agency inspector general said Thursday...
Read more'GREEN NEWS REPORT' - AUGUST 18, 2016
With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen...
IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Another massive new wildfire forces evacuations for 80,000 in Southern California; Obama Administration issues new rules for heavy duty trucks; New report finds eliminating fossil fuel subsidies won't raise gas prices; PLUS: America gets its first-ever offshore wind farm... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
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