climate change

New Zealanders Bury Heads in Sand … Just Like Their Government

New Zealanders Bury Heads in Sand … Just Like Their Government

Yesterday hundreds of people across New Zealand buried their heads in sand to send a clear message to the New Zealand Government—get your head out of the sand and do something useful on climate change. With 12 events spanning the length of the country, and timed to coincide with the United Nations climate talks in Lima, Peru […]

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    Water Wars of the 21st Century

    Water Wars of the 21st Century

    “Its been said that the wars of the 21st century may well be fought over water. The Earth’s population has more than doubled over the last a 50 years and the demand for fresh water—to drink and to grow food—has surged along with it. But sources of water like rainfall, rivers, streams, reservoirs certainly haven’t […]

    Interactive Map: Find Out How Your State Ranks on Renewable Energy

    Interactive Map: Find Out How Your State Ranks on Renewable Energy

    What states are moving ahead on clean energy and what states are lagging behind? A new interactive map released by Earthjustice lets you see at a glance. This map lets you find out where any state stands on clean energy. Image credit: Earthjustice The map is part of an Earthjustice report Coming Clean: The State of […]

    Extraordinary Photos From Inside the Siberian Methane Blowhole

    Extraordinary Photos From Inside the Siberian Methane Blowhole

    Remember those mysterious blowholes that appeared last summer in the Siberian tundra? The ones with the high methane content that some observers said signaled Armageddon for the climate, a sign of runaway climate change? Scientists from the Russian Centre of Arctic Exploration and other scientific institutes descended into the largest of the three craters to […]

    Disappearing Islands: How Sea Level Rise Impacts Communities

    Disappearing Islands: How Sea Level Rise Impacts Communities

    Scientists predict that Kiribati—a remote Island Republic in the Central Pacific—could be lost to rising sea levels in the next 50 years. A recent study by researchers at the University of California Irvine and NASA finds that six massive glaciers in the Amundsen Sea sector “have passed the point of no return,” clearly showing how melting glaciers greatly impact low-lying islands like Kiribati. […]

    Pope Francis: ‘Unbridled Consumerism’ Is Destroying Our Planet

    Pope Francis: ‘Unbridled Consumerism’ Is Destroying Our Planet

    In what has become an annual tradition, Pope Francis wrote a letter to Tony Abbott, the Prime Minister of Australia and this year’s leader of the G20 Summit, which will take place Nov. 15-16 in Brisbane, Australia. On the heels of a report by the Overseas Development Institute and Oil Change International, which is the first detailed breakdown of […]

    Groups Sue U.S. State Dept. to Stop Alberta Clipper Tar Sands Pipeline

    Groups Sue U.S. State Dept. to Stop Alberta Clipper Tar Sands Pipeline

    Yesterday the Washington Spectator ran an investigative piece tearing the veil of secrecy from the Alberta Clipper pipeline project, a plan by Canadian mining company Enbridge to build a pipeline nearly equal in length and capacity to the Keystone XL to transport tar sands crude oil to the Gulf of Mexico for refining and exporting. […]

    The $88 Billion Fossil Fuel Bailout for Oil, Gas and Coal Exploration

    The $88 Billion Fossil Fuel Bailout for Oil, Gas and Coal Exploration

    In the debate over climate change and the transition to a clean energy economy, there remains an elephant in the room. Many developed nations talk about ending our addiction on fossil fuels, about the need for radical cuts in carbon dioxide in order to avoid catastrophic climate change and yet, at the same time, they […]

    Lawsuit Filed to Protect Struggling Walruses from Arctic Oil Drilling

    Lawsuit Filed to Protect Struggling Walruses from Arctic Oil Drilling

    Threats to walruses in the Arctic are in the spotlight again, as six environmental and conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) challenging a rule that would allow oil companies to begin drilling in key walrus feeding areas in the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea by next year. Shell has […]