A Key Climate Justice Question...
Environmental justice advocates and indigenous groups argue that emissions trading leaves the poor bearing the brunt of pollution.
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After decades of steadily declining, air pollution is once again on the rise in the United States. Between 2016 and 2018, pollution of fine particulate matter — tiny particles that are emitted whenever we burn anything — rose by more than 5 percent.
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Coral rely on a symbiotic relationship with colonies of algae that live inside their bodies to survive.
read moreIceland Fights Climate Change ...
What can you do if you’re a smallish island in the North Atlantic with a lot of snow and a melting economy? Quite a lot, it turns out, if you’re prepared to put local people’s needs first.
read moreGlobal Carbon Emissions Will H...
Global carbon emissions will hit a record high once again in 2019, despite climate scientists warning louder than ever of impending environmental disaster, according to a study published Wednesday.
read moreHumanity Is Riding Delusion to...
As the U.S. government, as well as far too many Americans, remain fixated on the decidedly minor threat of Islamist “terrorism,” two actual global existential perils persist and are hardly addressed.
read moreAtmospheric Rivers Fuel Most W...
As global temperatures rise, studies show there may be fewer atmospheric rivers, but they’ll tend to be bigger and more intense.
read morePoliticians knew the inconveni...
Earlier this year, the seven states that depend on the Colorado River made history.
read moreWhat’s ‘Fair’ When It Comes to...
The average American and Australian generates nearly 3½ times the global average of carbon dioxide pollution.
read moreThe Next Generation of Childre...
New study finds that hot weather increases the risk of early childbirth.
read more‘Climate chaos’ is displacing ...
Climate-fueled disasters such as wildfires, cyclones, and floods were the No. 1 reason that people were forced to flee their homes in the last decade, according to Oxfam, an international confederation of 19 organizations that focus on global poverty.
read moreWant to fight climate change e...
These are six of the most high-impact, cost-effective, evidence-based organizations. You may not have heard of them.
read moreWarming Waters, Moving Fish: H...
Before it became a “Game of Thrones” location, before Justin Bieber stalked the trails of Fjadrargljufur, and before hordes of tourists descended upon this small island nation, there were the fish.
read moreStudy confirms fear that inten...
The acidification of the Earth’s oceans, which climate scientists warn is a dangerous effect of continued carbon emissions, was behind a mass extinction event 66 million years ago, according to a new study.
read moreIndia’s Ominous Future: Too Li...
Decades of short-sighted government policies are leaving millions defenseless in the age of climate disruptions – especially the country’s poor.
read moreCoal Knew, Too
A newly unearthed journal from 1966 shows the coal industry was long aware of the threat of climate change.
read moreAppalachia’s Strip-Mined Mount...
A new analysis of satellite images shows how the area of West Virginia with the most strip-mine damage is also the most susceptible to increased stream flow.
read moreThe New York Times Won’t...
When Sen. Bernie Sanders announced his $16.3 trillion climate plan, corporate media were quick to throw cold water on it, arguing that the Democratic presidential candidate’s plan was too expensive, and logistically and politically impossible (FAIR.org, 9/6/19).
read moreA Wet Year Causes Farm Woes Fa...
The damage from the destructive spring flooding in the Midwest has been followed in parts of the country by a miserable autumn that is making a bad farming year worse, with effects that could be felt into next spring.
read moreA meteorologist bets his caree...
Climate change journalism is having a moment. Earlier this fall the flood gates opened as hundreds of international news outlets cranked out thousands of climate stories.
read moreGot flight shame? Would you pa...
Flight shame — that guilty feeling for traveling by air because of its large impact on the climate — is making some customers think twice before flying.
read moreHow to Save the Planet and Our...
If you read only one book this year, it should be Roger Hallam’s “Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown and Social Collapse.”
read more60% of Toxic Superfund Sites T...
Hundreds of polluted sites face an increased risk of inundation from sea level rise, flooding exacerbated by global warming, or wildfires, Congress’s watchdog warns.
read moreIt’s not just Venice. Climate ...
Saltwater rushed into St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice last week, submerging marble tombs, intricate mosaics, and centuries-old columns. A man was spotted swimming across St. Mark’s Square, normally bustling with tourists, as the highest tide in 50 years swept through.
read moreAs Climate Risk Grows, Cities ...
Glimpsed from a kayak on West Neck Creek, this swampy piece of land, a pocket of red maple and loblolly pine tucked behind growing subdivisions, doesn’t look like the stuff of existential debate.
read moreThis Pipeline Cuts Across a Re...
They could face fines of $10,000 and up to six years in jail.
read moreGiant Floating Solar Farms Cou...
Millions of solar panels clustered together to form an island could convert carbon dioxide in seawater into methanol, which can fuel airplanes and trucks, according to new research from Norway and Switzerland and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, PNAS, as NBC News reported.
read moreCap and Trade Is Supposed to S...
Countries have called California’s cap-and-trade program the answer to climate change. But it is just as vulnerable to lobbying as any other legislation. The result: The state’s biggest oil and gas companies have actually polluted more since it started.
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