Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration Has Passed the Point of No Return
Monday, 23 May 2016 By Dahr Jamail A recent trip up Washington State’s Mount Rainier brought home to me how rapidly things are changing, even…
Climate Change
Bee Active! Fight Against Climate Change
Buzz! Buzz! What’s the buzz about bees? In order for plants to reproduce, they must be pollinated, and honeybees are one of the most important…
Shrink the Pentagon’s massive contribution to climate change
Roads melting from a heatwave in India. Droughts. Floods in Bangladesh. Many scientists believe the dramatic increase in extreme weather is a result of global…
True lies?
The saga started last autumn. The allegations, however, of a huge corporate cover-up on the then emerging science of climate change date back around 40…
US and China agree to sign Climate Change agreement
The White House announced that the U.S. and China countries would sign the Paris Climate Agreement on April 22nd, the Earth-day.President Barack Obama and President…
Hijacking the Anthropocene
How the anti-green ‘Breakthrough Institute’ misrepresents science to advance a technocratic agenda and undermine grassroots environmentalism
9 reasons why the EU’s bank is no climate leader
As declarations emerge from Paris about the billions and trillions of dollars needed to combat the affects of climate change, the world’s largest public lender,…
Climate denialism: a brief history
In the late 1970s, scientists first came to a consensus that global warming was likely to result from increasing greenhouse gases released by the burning…
Welcome to a New Planet
Climate Change “Tipping Points” and the Fate of the Earth
The Paris Agreement: not great but still a good deal
“Perfect is the enemy of the good, so we don’t have a perfect agreement but a good agreement and this is an earth-shaking moment,” said…
Rifkin: ‘UN climate talks lack a new economic vision’
The good news is that European cities and regions are at the forefront of the internet revolution which can deliver this promise, he told EurActiv…
Winning ‘hearts and minds’ for the energy transition
For the past three years, the R&Dialogue project has been working on facilitating social acceptance for the transition to a low carbon society. Endorsed by…
Rise in CO2 could restrict growing days for crops
While plants in temperate zones may benefit from higher temperatures, global warming’s impact in the tropics threatens catastrophe for food security. LONDON, 20 June,…