Global Climate Movement: Darke...

Aug 28, 2019 by

Wild fires burning in the Amazon and Siberia, unrelenting heat waves,100 year floods happening yearly are signs of our times, the worst of times.

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For young people, restoring ou...

Aug 27, 2019 by

We’re mad,” says 14-year-old Alexandria Villaseñor. “We’re really mad.”

Fair enough. Along with the rest of her generation, Villaseñor is expected to face the brunt of human-caused climate change this century. It’s like her parents burned a box of pizza rolls and left her to clean up the mess — except instead of nuclearly hot tomato paste, the object of abuse is what remains of life on Earth.

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DNC Shuts Down Climate Debate ...

Aug 26, 2019 by

[Translate] ecowatch.com Olivia Rosane Politics DNC Chairman Tom Perez speaks prior to the start of the second night of the first...

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Climate Change Is Teaching Us ...

Aug 26, 2019 by

In most respects, climate change is a horror show. As the temperature rises, the conditions in which most of human civilization grew in fade away. The shorelines humans have almost always known are changing. Places we prefer to be wet are drying out, and some places we know to be dry are greening up a bit. Storms are getting more severe in some places, and they’re going away in others.

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When life hands you lemons, ca...

Aug 26, 2019 by

Poor polar bear. The long-time poster child for a warming world, it’s dying despite scientists’ direst warnings — and, lately, it’s become a symbol of how bear-hugging big green groups for too long ignored the humans living on the frontlinesof climate change.

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The Amazon Cannot Be Recovered...

Aug 26, 2019 by

The fires blazing in Brazil are part of a larger deforestation crisis, accelerated by President Jair Bolsonaro.

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Parts of California are too wi...

Aug 26, 2019 by

California is facing yet another real estate-related crisis, but we’re not talking about its sky-high home prices. According to newly released data, it’s simply become too risky to insure houses in big swaths of the wildfire-prone state.

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Exclusive: In a Devastated Tow...

Aug 23, 2019 by

The 2020 presidential contender tells Mother Jones about his $16 trillion proposal to save the planet.

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How plastics contribute to cli...

Aug 23, 2019 by

They generate heat-trapping gases at every stage of their life cycle.

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Climate strike organizers pled...

Aug 21, 2019 by

One year after Greta Thunberg began her protest in Sweden, millions of climate strikers will join her on Sept. 20

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Without Bees, We Are in Troubl...

Aug 21, 2019 by

Can an alliance of Germany’s political parties save them?

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Medications Can Raise Heat Str...

Aug 20, 2019 by

As climate change brings dangerous heat waves, too little is being done to better warn patients or physicians of the growing risk, medical experts say.

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The Thick Gray Line: Forest El...

Aug 20, 2019 by

If the species is wiped out by poachers, Africa’s vast rain forest will lose 7 percent of its carbon storage ability, scientists estimate.

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Iceland marks lost glacier wit...

Aug 19, 2019 by

Mourners gathered in Iceland yesterday to commemorate the loss of Ok, a glacier that is not longer a glacier because most of its ice has melted away due to climate change.

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California is gaining allies i...

Aug 19, 2019 by

A national divide is growing.

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Fracking and Shale Drilling Ca...

Aug 16, 2019 by

Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That’s both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, according to the U.S. government’s State of the Climate report, which was published this week with the American Meteorological Society.

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Top CDC Health and Climate Sci...

Aug 16, 2019 by

He’s one of several federal scientists working on climate change who say they have been silenced, sidelined or demoted under the Trump administration.

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The Trump administration tried...

Aug 16, 2019 by

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is supposed to use the “latest available science” to help the nation’s farmers avoid risk, according to its own mission.

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We’ve got another ozone proble...

Aug 15, 2019 by

Most of us know ozone as that benevolent stratospheric layer that absorbs the sun’s harmful UV light and keeps us safe.

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Could Restoring Soil Help Halt...

Aug 15, 2019 by

Land degradation represents “one of the biggest and most urgent challenges” that humanity faces.

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How One Billionaire Could Keep...

Aug 15, 2019 by

Australia — The vast, untapped coal reserve in northeastern Australia had for years been the object of desire for the Indian industrial giant Adani.

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Newark hands out bottled water...

Aug 14, 2019 by

Water issues are becoming more prevalent around the country even as the EPA says it is prioritizing the issue.

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WHAT REALLY GOES INTO YOUR MOR...

Aug 13, 2019 by

In the 15th century, Sufi mystics in Yemen brewed a hot, bitter drink to stay focused during late-night rituals.

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As Global Warming Increases, I...

Aug 13, 2019 by

I’m sure you’ve heard that old adage, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.”

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Trump Weakens Endangered Speci...

Aug 13, 2019 by

The changes also let the government consider economic interests and could open doors to oil and gas drilling and mining in sensitive areas, including the Arctic.

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Cooling Season

Aug 13, 2019 by

New York City has set out to protect people — and the planet — from the deadliest disaster: heat.

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States Sue Trump Administratio...

Aug 13, 2019 by

A coalition of 29 states and cities on Tuesday sued to block the Trump administration from easing restrictions on coal-burning power plants.

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Refugees and the real-life imp...

Aug 9, 2019 by

Climate change isn’t just about science. The migration spurred by extreme weather events is raising deep moral ​questions around access and equity for developed countries.

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Indonesian flooding disaster b...

Aug 8, 2019 by

TAPUWATU, Indonesia — Muhammad Arfa says he thinks a miracle saved his home.

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We must change food production...

Aug 7, 2019 by

Attempts to solve the climate crisis by cutting carbon emissions from only cars, factories and power plants are doomed to failure, scientists will warn this week.

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