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

ROME, Aug 11 2016 (IPS) - “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.”

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...

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..

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...

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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...

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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...

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...

I’m reaching out today because my fellow scientists and I need your help...

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...

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...

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...

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The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo may have skewed rising sea level readings...

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...

A boy walks at sunset in Lake Tanganyika at sunset in town of Rumonge, Burundi. (Reuters/Goran Tomasevic)

New research has revealed some alarming insights about the effects of climate change on one of the world’s oldest and largest lakes...

Pollution from a power plant smoke stack. Credit: Ray Slakinski/flickr

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...

In this Monday, Sept. 12, 2013 file photo, an oyster cultivator holds oyster seed before spreading it into the waters of Duxbury Bay in Duxbury, Mass. A study published Monday, Aug. 8, 2016 connects rising temperatures to increasing rates of several waterborne diseases. About a dozen species of vibrio bacteria make people sick from eating raw or undercooked seafood, particularly oysters, or drinking or swimming in tainted water. Stephan Savoia AP Photo

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...

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...

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...

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As California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, AB-32, approaches its 10^th 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...

A lightning storm in Utikuma Lake, Alberta, in June. The area was burned from the 2011 wildfire. After each fire, peat moss grows and accumulates carbon, building a new layer on top of the previous one. Credit: Ed Ou for The New York Times

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...