You might have seen the news from NASA last week: Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf could disappear before the end of the decade. But even while the Antarctic land ice disintegrates down south, and Arctic ice contracts further up North, climate change deniers are touting the record extent of Antarctic ice and using that to […]
As California grapples with an epic drought, Pamela Anderson bared her … soul for the planet. The actress-turned-activist, who has bared all for PETA ad campaigns before, did so earlier this week to raise awareness about the meat industry’s water waste. In a play on Hitchcock’s classic movie Psycho, the ad is designed to show that the solution to the drought isn’t […]
California is in the fourth year of a severe drought and to address its very evident water shortage issues, the state started building a desalination plant in Southern California in partnership with Poseidon Water, which when complete will be the largest in the Western Hemisphere. With 13 more projects in under consideration, many are wondering […]
For the past three years, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island has been doing a weekly speech, “Time to Wake Up” on the Senate floor to urge his fellow members of Congress to take action on climate change. Yesterday’s speech was the 100th such speech in his weekly installment, which started on April 18, 2012. “Opponents […]
California is entering its fourth year of drought, with high temperatures, water shortages and increased wildfires. The state has taken some steps to address the impacts of that, including addressing greenhouse gas emissions and rationing its diminishing water supply. But there are signs that the impacts of drought on the state could get even worse. […]
Recent events in Canada have shown not only that change is possible, but that people won’t stand for having corporate interests put before their own. When plummeting oil prices late last year threw Alberta into financial crisis, people rightly asked, “Where’s the money?” They could see that an oil producer like Norway was able to […]
Morgan Sinclaire is a third-year math major at the University of Washington involved in Divest UW for the past two years. “If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, then it’s wrong to profit from that wreckage.” This quote by Bill McKibben has become the mantra of the fossil fuel divestment movement, the campaign which has […]
One of the hidden costs of climate change is its health costs. As more pollutants are pumped into the air we breathe, the health impacts mount. They include asthma, which has been increasing steadily especially in poorer neighborhoods, and allergies. Now the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has released a report, Sneezing and Wheezing: How […]
In a country reckoned to have the worst climate policies in the industrialized world, one big city is setting out to defy the central government and become 100 percent carbon neutral. Canada has been dubbed an international disgrace for its climate change policies, but now one of its major cities is aiming to be the greenest […]
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