By Kate Martyr Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest last month jumped to the highest level since records began in 2015, according to government data. A total of 563 square kilometers (217.38 square miles) of the world’s largest rainforest was destroyed in November, 103% more than in the same month last year, according to Brazil’s space […]
By Andrea Germanos Young activists took over and occupied the main stage at the COP25 climate conference in Madrid, Spain Wednesday and demanded world leaders commit to far more ambitious action to address the ecological emergency. “Nobody has ever done an action like this before,” said youth climate striker Dylan Hamilton of Scotland. “The times […]
The Montreal Protocol, a 1987 international treaty prohibiting the production of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) to save the ozone layer, was the first successful multilateral agreement to successfully slow the rate of global warming, according to new research. Now, experts argue that similar measures may lend hope to the climate crisis. “By mass CFCs are thousands of […]
The rate that Greenland‘s ice sheet is melting surpassed scientists’ expectations and has raised concerns that their worst-case scenario predictions are coming true, Business Insider reported. A new study published in the journal Nature from a team of scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency looked at satellite imagery from 1992 to 2018 from […]
By Julia Conley Sen. Elizabeth Warren expanded her vision for combating the climate crisis on Tuesday with the release of her Blue New Deal — a new component of the Green New Deal focusing on protecting and restoring the world’s oceans after decades of pollution and industry-caused warming. The plan includes proposals for an array […]
A judge in New York’s Supreme Court sided with Exxon in a case that accused the fossil fuel giant of lying to investors about the true cost of the climate crisis. The judge did not absolve Exxon from its contribution to the climate crisis, but insisted that New York State failed to prove that the […]
By Eoin Higgins The climate crisis is hurting the New England fishing industry, claims a new report published Monday, with a decline of 16% in fishing jobs in the northeastern U.S. region from 1996 to 2017 and more instability ahead. University of Delaware researcher Kimberly Oremus’ paper, “Climate variability reduces employment in New England fisheries,” […]
Greta Thunberg is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, the magazine announced this morning. “Thunberg is not a leader of any political party or advocacy group,” the magazine’s article on Thunberg lays out. “She is neither the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis nor the most qualified to fix it. She is […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its 14th annual Arctic Report Card Tuesday, and the results are grim. The average land temperature between October 2018 and August 2019 was the second-warmest on record since 1900, sea ice extent at the end of the summer was at its second lowest since satellite observations began […]
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