Climate

Who Would You Nominate as Canada’s Top 25 Environmentalists Under 25?

Who Would You Nominate as Canada’s Top 25 Environmentalists Under 25?

More than half the world’s population is under 30 and young people today are driving the climate movement. They will have to deal with the dramatic impacts from climate change in their lifetime. The youth have the facts and they are voting, marching and leading the way to better and brighter future. The Starfish Canada celebrates and […]

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    Why Utilities Hate the Clean Power Rule

    Why Utilities Hate the Clean Power Rule

    This article is the first of a three-part series on the Future of Electricity. Read Part II and Part III. The vicious coal industry/right-wing attack on President Obama’s proposed Clean Power Rule is not fundamentally about the rule itself. Substantively, the proposal is simply the fulfillment of one of George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign promises—to clean up […]

    Ski Resorts Close as West Coast Drought Intensifies

    Ski Resorts Close as West Coast Drought Intensifies

    As we all know, California is experiencing its fourth year of extreme and exceptional drought. Scientists have confirmed it’s the worst drought in the region in the last 1,200 years. Thankfully, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced on Feb. 6 that the Bureau of Reclamation is “making $50 million in funds available for drought relief projects […]

    First Country in the World Dumps Fossil Fuels As Divestment Movement Heats Up

    First Country in the World Dumps Fossil Fuels As Divestment Movement Heats Up

    Back in 2012, Bill McKibben with fellow activists including Naomi Klein, Winona LaDuke, Josh Fox and Reverend Lennox Yearwood began a nationwide tour to promote fossil fuel divestment—that is, selling off your shares in fossil fuel companies–in an effort to combat climate change. “Norway made all its money on oil, but now it’s dumping its fossil fuel stocks. It’s the […]

    Climate Change Is Young People’s ‘Lunch Counter Moment’

    Climate Change Is Young People’s ‘Lunch Counter Moment’

    Fifty-five years ago Jibreel Khazan of the Greensboro Four sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth store on Feb. 1, 1960 with three other classmates from North Carolina A&T University to highlight racial injustices in America. At that time, Jibreel and his classmates were fighting for equality, and the goal to desegregate the […]

    10 Reasons to Join Global Divestment Day

    10 Reasons to Join Global Divestment Day

    1. It’s happening everywhere! This is going to be a global party—right now there are around 300 events happening on six continents for Global Divestment Day on Feb. 13 and Feb. 14. From South Africa to Mexico, Bangladesh to Benin, and Bulgaria, people are showing commitment to taking on the fossil fuel industry. If you would have Googled […]

    UN Confirms 2014 Was ‘Hottest Year on Record’

    UN Confirms 2014 Was ‘Hottest Year on Record’

    Not only was 2014 the hottest year ever recorded but 14 out of the 15 hottest years since 1850 have occurred in the 21st century, according to new data released today by the UN’s weather agency, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). With the evidence of climate change apparent, the pressure will be on governments to overcome their […]

    New Satellite Data Reveals Dramatic Shrinkage of Arctic Ice Cap

    New Satellite Data Reveals Dramatic Shrinkage of Arctic Ice Cap

    An ice cap in the high Arctic has lost what British scientists say is a significant amount of ice in an unusually short time. Ice caps and glaciers such as this one in Svalbard account for about a third of recent global sea level rise. Photo credit: Woodwalker via Wikimedia Commons It has thinned by […]