Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced that Japan will become country carbon neutral by 2050, Bloomberg reported. As the world’s third-largest economy, this will require a “fundamental shift” away from coal, The Washington Post reported. Suga replaced former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last month, after he resigned due to health issues. This was Suga’s first […]
By Tim Schauenberg Whether they smoked a joint on the couch or sniffed a line in a club, some 269 million people around the world indulged in drugs in 2018, according to the United Nations. Cocaine production is at record levels, opium has been on an upward trend for the past decade, the market for […]
By Gero Rueter The world is, on average, 1.1 degrees Celsius warmer today than it was in 1850. If this trend continues, our planet will be 2 – 3 degrees hotter by the end of this century, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The main reason for this temperature rise is higher […]
The wildfires that ignited in the Arctic this year started earlier and emitted more carbon dioxide than ever before. Now, a group of researchers is warning that the nature of Arctic fires may be changing, and it’s important to understand how in order to better predict the future of the global climate. “It’s not just […]
By Andrea Germanos A white paper out Friday declares that “there is hope right beneath our feet” to address the climate crisis as it touts regenerative agriculture as a “win-win-win” solution to tackling runaway carbon emissions. “Humans broke the planet with grave agricultural malpractice,” Tom Newmark, chairman of The Carbon Underground and a contributor to […]
By Oliver Milman Art Sullivan is considered something of a political heretic by other coal miners in south-western Pennsylvania, where a wave of support for Donald Trump based upon his flamboyant promises of a resurgence in coal helped propel the Republican to the U.S. presidency. “Many of my coal miner friends voted for him,” said […]
By Simon Montlake For more than a decade, Susan Jane Brown has been battling to stop a natural gas pipeline and export terminal from being built in the backcountry of Oregon. As an attorney at the nonprofit Western Environmental Law Center, she has repeatedly argued that the project’s environmental, social, and health costs are too […]
By Alexandra Villarreal As West coast wildfires color the skies dystopian red and orange and an aggressive hurricane season batters the U.S. Gulf coast, college students are demanding their schools take bold action to address the climate crisis. Caitlyn Daas is among them. The senior at Appalachian State University and organizer with the Appalachian Climate […]
A new report from Oxfam found that the wealthiest one percent of the world produced a carbon footprint that was more than double that of the bottom 50 percent of the world, The Guardian reported. The study examined 25 years of carbon dioxide emissions and wealth inequality from 1990 to 2015. The findings, Confronting Carbon […]
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