WAR ON CLIMATE TERROR (II): FLEEING DISASTERS, ESCAPING DROUGHT, MIGRATING...
Young, new arrivals from Sudan’s Darfur region endure a sandstorm in the border town of Bamina, eastern Chad. Rainfall in this region has been in decline since 1950. This, coupled with deforestation, has had a devastating effect on the environment. Credit: ©UNHCR/H.Caux
- “No one can deny the terrible similarities between those running from the threat of guns and those fleeing creeping desertification, water shortages, floods and hurricanes.”Read more
THIS ISLAND IN RUSSIA'S ARCTIC IS VANISHING INTO THE SEA...
As the sea ice around Vize Island disappears, and the island's permafrost melts, its coastline has almost eroded out from under this Soviet-era weather station. (Photo: Ivan Mizin/WWF Russia)
Climate change is altering the map as sea ice and permafrost disappear, leaving Arctic coastlines vulnerable...
Read moreAMERICA'S FIRST OFFSHORE WIND FARM IS A BIG DEAL FOR THE U.S. ENERGY INDUSTRY...
The first of five U.S. offshore wind turbines at a new project near Block Island, Rhode Island, Aug. 4, 2016. Image: Deepwater wind
The pair of 600-foot towers rising off the eastern U.S. coast marks a historic achievement for the country’s energy industry..
Read moreTHE UNIQUE BURDEN OF COVERING CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST...
A herd of camels drinking a pool of polluted agricultural run-off in an otherwise dry riverbed near Jericho in the West Bank. (Photo: David Silverman/Getty Images)
Some of climate change’s earliest effects have desolated areas of the Middle East and destabilized regional governments. For local journalists to cover the problem, that requires finesse in navigating the tightly controlled press...
Read moreA DAM IS BUILT IN ‘PARADISE’...
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Despite warnings of earthquakes, leaks, and the destruction of an ecosystem, Lebanon is building a 300-foot-high hydroelectric project in one of the Middle East’s most biodiverse regions...
Read moreRISING OCEAN TEMPERATURES LEAD TO INCREASE IN MARINE PATHOGENS AND INFECTIONS...
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News circulated last week of an anthrax outbreak in a remote indigenous community in the Russian Arctic. Experts believe that rising temperatures have contributed to the outbreak, which led to a mass die-off of reindeer and left 72 nomadic herders, including 41 children, in the hospital...
Read moreHOW MUCH LAND IS NEEDED TO POWER THE U.S. WITH SOLAR? NOT THAT MUCH...
Last night, Tesla announced it had created one of the world’s cheapest home batteries, the the Powerwall, to be paired with a home’s solar panel generators...
Read moreLATEST CLIMATE REPORT: HEAT, MORE HEAT AND SIGNS OF WORSE TO COME...
India, like much of the world, experienced record heat and drought in 2015. Credit: Getty Images
2015 featured record warm temperatures on every inhabited continent as ice melted and the seas rose at alarming rates...
Read morePARIS AGREEMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE COULD GO INTO EFFECT THIS YEAR...
Boxberg Power Station is seen during sunset on March 17, 2016 in Boxberg, Germany. This coal-fired power station is the second largest in Germany. Image: Photothek via Getty Images
Many longtime climate activists were surprised when negotiators succeeded in crafting and adopting the Paris Agreement on climate change in December of 2015. After more than two decades of false starts, spectacular failures and all around frustration, suddenly a new era of global action had arrived...
Read moreSOUTH VIETNAMESE HAVE NEW JOBS THANKS TO RISING LEVELS OF SEAWATER...
Sea water rise and saline intrusion have damaged crops this year, but they have offered opportunities for farmers to breed shrimp on rice fields. Credit: VietNamNet Bridge
After several years of trying to breed shrimp on rice fields, locals in Nguyen Phich Commune are better off despite the influence of climate change...
Read moreVOLCANIC ERUPTIONS CAN 'MASK THE TRUE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE'...
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The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo may have skewed rising sea level readings...
Read morePROMINENT GLOBAL WARMING DOUBTER SAYS THERE WAS A “HIT LIST” APPARENTLY TARGETING CLIMATE SCIENTISTS...
Patrick Michaels, Director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. (Photo courtesy Cato Institute)
In a comment on an August 3rd post at the Wattsupwiththat website, Patrick J. Michaels of the conservative Cato Institute said that there has been a “hit list” apparently targeting climate scientists, and that he had influence over who was on it...
Read moreTHE WATERS OF THIS HUGE AFRICAN LAKE AREN’T MIXING — AND THE CONSEQUENCES COULD BE DEVASTATING...
Add your reaction ShareMICHIGAN SCIENTISTS SEE URGENCY FOR NEGATIVE EMISSIONS...
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — When Sarang Supekar describes how he thinks global warming will have to be stabilized, he talks in terms of sucking a lot of carbon dioxide out of the air and in a very short timeframe...
Read moreSTUDY LINKS GLOBAL WARMING TO RISE IN WATERBORNE ILLNESSES...
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Rising global temperatures are clearly linked to increasing waterborne food poisoning, particularly from eating raw oysters, along with other nasty infections, a new study shows...
Read moreHOW AMERICA RISING TIES THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT TO THE STALKERS HARASSING BILL MCKIBBEN AND TOM STEYER...
For the past few months, when they dare venture out to the supermarket, to church, or to a climate rally, Bill McKibben, Tom Steyer, and other climate activists are being stalked by a team of GOP-trained camera operators. The so-called “trackers” with the cameras are working for a group called America Rising Squared (aka America Rising Advanced Research or AR2), and publishing the occasional “embarrassing” display of alleged hypocrisy on a website called CoreNews.org...
Read moreANTHRAX OUTBREAK TRIGGERED BY CLIMATE CHANGE KILLS BOY IN ARCTIC CIRCLE...
A family is seen 150km from the town of Salekhard, Russia on 2 May 2016. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Seventy-two nomadic herders, including 41 children, were hospitalized in far north Russia after the region began experiencing abnormally high temperatures...
Read moreBIG OIL RENEWING EFFORT TO KILL CALIFORNIA'S LANDMARK CLIMATE LAW...
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As California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, AB-32, approaches its 10th birthday, Big Oil is renewing efforts to roll it back and the governor and pro-environmental lawmakers in Sacramento are racing against the clock to counter the onslaught...
Read moreAS PEAT BOGS BURN, A CLIMATE THREAT RISES...
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RED EARTH CREEK, Alberta — Kristyn Housman grabbed the end of a sampling auger, a steel tube that two colleagues had just drilled into a moss-covered hummock in a peat bog, and poked through a damp, fibrous plug of partly decomposed peat...
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