[Editor’s note: Twenty-one youth plaintiffs, as well as climate scientist Dr. James Hansen as guardian for future generations, is suing the federal government to cease conduct that promotes fossil fuel extraction and consumption, and instead develop and implement an actual science-based climate recovery plan. The complaint argues the youth have a fundamental constitutional right to […]
By Nick Surgey, The Center for Media & Democracy The Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal), a group best known for filing lawsuits seeking climate scientists’ personal emails, has secretly received funding from Arch Coal, one of the largest coal producers in the U.S. The funding is revealed in documents recently filed as part […]
This winter has been shockingly warm in the Arctic, producing one of the mildest winters on record for Alaska. According to the National Centers for Environmental Information, Alaska’s temperatures this winter have averaged about 10 degrees above normal, ranking third warmest since at least 1925. And snowfall has been 10 percent of normal in central, interior and southeast Alaska. Year-to-date […]
For the second month in a row, the Arctic has set a record for lowest ever sea ice extent, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Melting ice on the northern coast of Svalbard, Norway. Photo credit: Wolfgang Kaehler Ice extent is 448,000 square miles below average for February and 200,000 square miles […]
The impacts of climate change on the global food supply could lead to more than 500,000 deaths a year by 2050, according to a new study in the Lancet. Fresh produce in a market in Mumbai, India. Photo credit: David Brossard / Flickr Droughts, floods and other climate-related impacts will hurt crop yields and reduce […]
February shattered the global satellite temperature records to become the warmest above average month in recorded history. While not yet confirmed by official datasets, this new finding is particularly notable as it comes from one of the two satellite datasets frequently referenced by climate deniers. Temperature departure from normal over Earth in February 2016. Image credit: Roy Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville Last month was likely somewhere between 1.15°C and 1.4°C […]
The Democratic Party released a video on Sunday slamming the GOP presidential candidates for their stance on climate change. While Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have both laid out plans to address climate change, all five remaining Republican candidates have either denied man-made warming or “discounted the scope of the issue,” Reuters reported. The video […]
After six nominations, Leonardo DiCaprio won his first Oscar for Best Actor for his role in The Revenant at last night’s Academy Awards. The noted environmental activist devoted half of his acceptance speech to call for urgent collective action to fight climate change, calling it “the most urgent threat facing our species.” The 41-year-old actor, who was favored […]
Rising seas, severe droughts, catastrophic storms, people foraging for food … Sounds like a backdrop for a post-apocalyptic film but this is climate change and it’s the real-life blockbuster happening right now. Whether it’s Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth or Greenpeace’s How to Change the World, films have the ability to highlight environmental issues and empower a […]
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