We are almost certainly living through the hottest decade on record, according to a provisional report from the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The WMO’s Provisional Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2019 was released Tuesday on the second day of the COP25 UN climate change conference in Madrid. The report found […]
Black Friday is one of the busiest shopping days of the year, and the consumption it encourages can take a toll on human and planetary health. “For people who don’t have purchasing power, the ability to be able to buy something that is a necessity at a discounted price is obviously a benefit,” MIT professor […]
New documents show that government officials for New South Wales were warned six months ago that Sydney’s water levels would reach emergency levels after the Australian summer and they should act immediately, as The Guardian reported. Officials who saw the document looked at historical trends and used the 1939 drought as a model course of […]
Lewis, the koala who stole the world’s heart when a video of his rescue from Australian wildfires went viral, has died. The koala rose to fame when Australian grandmother Toni Doherty was filmed risking her life to carry him out of the flames using the shirt off her back. Doherty named him Ellenborough Lewis after […]
The salient reality of the climate crisis is undeniable to many Americans. We have seen record heat waves from Alaska to Mississippi, record flooding, beaches closed due to algal blooms, increased storm intensity and devastating wildfires in 2019. Now, most Americans say the climate crisis is bearing down on them, and the government needs to […]
A new report from the United Nations found that the world is headed toward climate catastrophe if countries around the world do not reduce their greenhouse emissions drastically and quickly. It came out one week before the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP25, opens in Madrid. The Emissions Gap Report released […]
Students, staff and alumni from Yale and Harvard put aside a famous rivalry Saturday to call for action on the climate crisis when hundreds of them interrupted the annual football game between the two Ivy League schools, delaying it for nearly an hour. The protesters called on the two universities to divest their combined endowment […]
The recent Australian brushfires and extended drought have decimated the koala population to the point where it may be “functionally extinct,” according to an expert at the Australian Koala Foundation, as the Daily Mail in the UK reported. Functionally extinct means the population has become so limited that koalas no longer play a significant role […]
While most of the world is reducing its dependence on coal-fired power because of the enormous amount of greenhouse gases associated with it, China raised its coal fired capacity over 2018 and half of 2019, according to a new study. Over the 18-month period that ended in June, China bucked the international trend and raised […]
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