Climate

David Suzuki: The Realities of a Warming World

David Suzuki: The Realities of a Warming World

My hometown, Vancouver, is in a rainforest, so we celebrate sunny days. People I talk to are enjoying the recent warm, dry weather, but they invariably add, “This isn’t normal”—especially with all the smoke from nearby forest fires. With no mountain snowpack and almost no spring rain, rivers, creeks and reservoirs are at levels typically […]

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    Naomi Klein: People and Planet First

    Naomi Klein: People and Planet First

    Naomi Klein spoke at the Vatican yesterday introducing People and Planet First: the Imperative to Change Course at a high-level meeting to explore Pope Francis’ encyclical, which was released on June 18. Here’s the video of the full press conference. Other speakers included Prof. Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Bernd Nilles, secretary […]

    8 Major Cities Running Out of Water

    8 Major Cities Running Out of Water

    Earlier this year, an obscure United Nations document, the World Water Development Report, unexpectedly made headlines around the world. The report made the startling claim that the world would face a 40 percent shortfall in freshwater in as soon as 15 years. Crops would fail. Businesses dependent on water would fail. Illness would spread. A […]

    Extreme Heat Triggers Sex Change in Lizards

    Extreme Heat Triggers Sex Change in Lizards

    Climate change may cause gender switching. Now, there’s a line to motivate conservative politicians to cut carbon pollution. Extreme heat caused by climate change may eliminate male bearded dragons. Photo credit: Arthur Georges Let me explain. A team of ecologists has proven that temperature, not just genetics, plays a role in determining the sex of […]

    5 Reasons Environmentalists Distrust Hillary Clinton

    5 Reasons Environmentalists Distrust Hillary Clinton

    Dear Secretary Clinton, In your husband’s years in office, the greenhouse effect was still fairly novel science; even eight years ago, when you were first running for president, climate change was not yet really a top-tier issue. In a sense, then, this summer marks the first chance most Americans have to really find out what […]

    June 2015 Smashes Heat and Rainfall Records in U.S.

    June 2015 Smashes Heat and Rainfall Records in U.S.

    June has been a crazy weather month. Then again, so were the first five months of the year. Globally, it’s shaping up to be the hottest year on record by far. It’s not just heat either. Some parts of the U.S. have recently seen record rainfall. May was the wettest month ever recorded in the U.S., and many […]

    Q & A With Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein

    Q & A With Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein

    Green Party candidate Jill Stein officially announced she is running in the 2016 presidential race on June 22, during an interview on Democracy Now!. She held a campaign kickoff event the following day at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, where antiwar activist Medea Benjamin and racial justice activist Marsha Coleman-Adebayo introduced and endorsed […]

    Alaska’s Rapidly Melting Glaciers: A Major Driver of Global Sea Level Rise

    Alaska’s Rapidly Melting Glaciers: A Major Driver of Global Sea Level Rise

    The glaciers of Alaska are melting and retreating: the chief cause is climate change and the loss of ice is unlikely to slow, according to a new study by U.S. scientists. Alaska’s Columbia Glacier is almost 20 kilometers shorter than it was in 1980. Photo credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / Wikimedia Commons They calculate […]

    Pope or Kochs: Republicans, Who Do You Stand With?

    Pope or Kochs: Republicans, Who Do You Stand With?

    Pope Francis is shaking up the world with his activism on climate change. Fossil fuel billionaires Charles and David Koch have vowed to spend nearly $900 million to put a climate denier in the White House. And Republican candidates for president such as Jeb Bush and Rick Santorum have been telling the Pope to mind his […]