What is Under One Sky? This September, world leaders will gather in New York to sign a once-in-a-generation agreement to tackle the most pressing issues of our time: poverty, inequality, and climate change. These ambitious “Global Goals” will mean a… Read more ›
Although some people in the general public remain skeptical about the impacts of ocean acidification, a growing number of professionals who make their living off the ocean have become believers. A newly published survey found that more than 80 percent… Read more ›
UC Berkeley chemists have made a major leap forward in carbon-capture technology with a material that can efficiently remove carbon from the ambient air of a submarine as readily as from the polluted emissions of a coal-fired power plant. The… Read more ›
Global action on climate change could cause insurers’ investments in fossil fuels to take a huge hit, says bank’s prudential regulation authority Insurance companies could suffer a “huge hit” if their investments in fossil fuel companies are rendered worthless by… Read more ›
The rising acidity of the world’s oceans could devastate coastal communities around the United States over the next century, according to a new analysis. And because ocean acidification is exacerbated by other water quality problems such as agriculture and urban… Read more ›
Preface The signs of a warming planet are all around us: rising seas, melting ice sheets, record setting temperatures, with impacts cascading to ecosystems, humans, and our economy. At the root ofthe problem, anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere… Read more ›
Christiana Figueres says there is evidence that fossil fuel investors are already being hit as projects become unviable The idea that investors may lose money sunk into fossil fuel projects is no longer just a theory—according to to UN climate… Read more ›
At the rate things are going, the Earth in the coming decades could cease to be a “safe operating space” for human beings. That is the conclusion of a new paper published Thursday in the journal Science by 18 researchers… Read more ›
Faculty members call on university to recognise urgency of climate change and divest from all oil, coal and gas companies Three hundred professors at Stanford, including Nobel laureates and this year’s Fields medal winner, are calling on the university… Read more ›
By Lawrence Summers January 4 Lawrence Summers is a professor at and past president of Harvard University. He was treasury secretary from 1999 to 2001 and economic adviser to President Obama from 2009 through 2010. The case for carbon taxes… Read more ›
Collapse guru Jared Diamond says we should heed the warning of the Greenland Vikings, whose record was nowhere near as good as their Minnesota namesakes. “If anyone tells you that there’s a single-factor explanation for societal collapse,” says collapse… Read more ›
The 2014 midterm elections saw a wave of Republican candidates elected and re-elected to federal office, many of whom are now rearing to make the environment their first casualty of the 114th Congress. As it turns out, the fossil fuel… Read more ›
It may be the timeliest — and most troubling — idea in climate science. Back in 2012, two researchers with a particular interest in the Arctic, Rutgers’ Jennifer Francis and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Stephen Vavrus, published a paper called… Read more ›
BURNABY, B.C. – Anti-pipeline activists camped out on a mountain near Vancouver clashed with police Thursday, as the RCMP enforced a court injunction ordering protesters to clear an encampment and allow work related to a proposed expansion project by Kinder… Read more ›
In this well prepared report you will find many links to articles that substantiate the situation we face, now: “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” – Native American proverb March through… Read more ›
The results are in. Yesterday the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released it final report crystallizing 13 months of work by more than 800 scientists. The “synthesis report” gives a no-nonsense assessment of how the climate is changing,… Read more ›
The following letter was written by Dr. David Bowering, retired Chief Medical Health Officer of Northern Health in British Columbia, in response to a review of This Changes Everything in the November 2014 issue of the Literary Review of Canada.… Read more ›
Oil profits are being tested. Crude prices have face-planted to their cheapest level since 2010, threatening the balance sheets of companies and the budgets of nations. Take Canada’s controversial oil sands. With crude prices teasing $80 a barrel for the… Read more ›
The business classes are constantly fighting a bitter class war to improve their power and diminish opposition. Journalist Matt Taibbi has suggested that the government is afraid to prosecute powerful bankers, referring to “an arrestable class and an unarrestable class.”… Read more ›
New report from B.C. think-tanks says elements are in place to allow for civil action Advances in climate change science could be creating a huge legal liability for major Canadian energy companies, especially from foreign judgments being enforced locally, a… Read more ›
Flooding during high tides, which used to be rare, is now common in some places and could worsen to the point that sections of coastal cities may flood so often they would become unusable in the near future, according to… Read more ›
October 6, 2014 — This summer, a 90-year-old water pipe burst under Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, sending a geyser 30 feet into the air and a flood of troubles over the UCLA campus. Raging water and mud trapped five… Read more ›
Pointless, joyless consumption is destroying our world of wonders. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 2nd October 2014 This is a moment at which anyone with the capacity for reflection should stop and wonder what we are doing. If… Read more ›
The Technology Roadmap: Solar PV 2014 shows that the IEA now expects solar to become the biggest single source of energy by 2050. The IEA has doubled its forecast capacity for solar PV compared to previous forecasts. Rooftop solar, it… Read more ›
Cutting the vast amounts of man-made pollution that feed global warming is an enormous challenge for societies that gobble up coal, oil and gas. But in “This Changes Everything,” Naomi Klein argues that those fuels aren’t the root problem —… Read more ›
