Climate

Flood Risk in Europe Expected to Double by 2050

Flood Risk in Europe Expected to Double by 2050

By Tim Radford The catastrophic floods that soaked Europe last summer and the United Kingdom this winter are part of the pattern of things to come. According to a new study of flood risk in Nature Climate Change annual average losses from extreme floods in Europe could increase fivefold by 2050. And the frequency of destructive […]

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    Major Antarctic Glacier Melting Irreversibly, Reaching Tipping Point

    Major Antarctic Glacier Melting Irreversibly, Reaching Tipping Point

    A major Antarctic ice mass, the Pine Island Glacier, is melting irreversibly and could add as much as a centimeter to global sea level rise over the next 20 years alone, according to new research published in Nature Climate Change. Ice flow velocities at the surface of Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica. Regions in red […]

    Harvard and Brown Fail Moral Leadership Exam

    Harvard and Brown Fail Moral Leadership Exam

    At a time when institutions of business and government continue to fail society, two of our leading academic institutions missed the opportunity to provide essential moral leadership on the most pressing challenge ever faced in the history of human civilization. Harvard President Drew Faust issued her October statement first: She and her colleagues on the […]

    A Year in the Life of Greenpeace

    A Year in the Life of Greenpeace

    With your help, Greenpeace has not only reached around the globe to push policy and take direct action, but we have engaged the imagination of a world which is not happy with business as usual and demands a sustainable future. Below is a gallery of a mere few of those moments in the last year: […]

    Tax Meat to Reduce Methane Emissions and Global Warming, Say Scientists

    Tax Meat to Reduce Methane Emissions and Global Warming, Say Scientists

    By Kristina Chew You’ve probably heard that methane from cows, sheep, goats and buffalo (that is, ruminant farts) has been linked to global warming. There are 50 percent more cows and similar animals today than half a century ago (3.6 billion) and methane released from their digestive systems is the biggest human-related source of this greenhouse gas. […]

    Students Escalate Divestment Campaign After Universities Refuse to Sell Fossil Fuel Stocks

    Students Escalate Divestment Campaign After Universities Refuse to Sell Fossil Fuel Stocks

    Students across the country are escalating their campaigns for fossil fuel divestment after a number of high profile colleges and universities have rejected measures demanding they sell their stocks. Schools that have rejected requests for divestment include Harvard University, Cornell University, Middlebury College, Boston College, Vassar College, the City University of New York, Brown University and […]

    Mass Walk-Out at UN Climate Talks Protests Lack of Progress

    Mass Walk-Out at UN Climate Talks Protests Lack of Progress

    By Paul Brown It is first time in 19 years of tortuous annual negotiations over targets and timetables for saving the Earth’s climate from overheating that the non-governmental organizations have felt sufficiently frustrated to take such a step. Organizations frustrated with the pace and progress of the UN climate talks in Warsaw, Poland, staged a […]

    Help Free the Arctic 30 and Stand Up Against Fossil Fuel Extraction Everywhere

    Help Free the Arctic 30 and Stand Up Against Fossil Fuel Extraction Everywhere

    By Daryl Hannah and Phil Radford All around the globe, record numbers of people from all walks of life are being thrown into jails because they are standing up to protect the most basic of human needs—uncontaminated water, unpolluted lands and a liveable climate free from the ramifications of extreme fossil fuel extraction. If the greed-driven fossil fuel […]

    Election Results Signal Growing Concern for the Environment

    Election Results Signal Growing Concern for the Environment

    Yesterday’s election results are shaping up to be a mixed bag of victories and defeats for environmentalists and concerned citizens across the country. In the Virginia gubernatorial race, Democrat Terry McAuliffe defeated Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, a Tea Party favorite.  McAuliffe’s victory comes after he became the first statewide candidate in the nation to hold his opponent accountable […]