At least seven people were killed when a gas pipeline exploded in Bangladesh Sunday, and another 25 were injured, the Associated Press reported. The blast collapsed portions of the boundary wall of a building in the city of Chittagong while residents were getting ready for work in the morning, according to local police chief Mohammed […]
By Paul Brown When countries run short of food, they need to find solutions fast, and one answer can be urban farming. That was the remedy Cuba seized with both hands 30 years ago when it was confronted with the dilemma of an end to its vital food imports. And what worked then for Cuba […]
By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope Some good news, for a change, about climate change: When hundreds of newsrooms focus their attention on the climate crisis, all at the same time, the public conversation about the problem gets better: more prominent, more informative, more urgent. In September, 323 news outlets from across the U.S. and […]
The U.S. Senate’s bipartisan climate caucus started with just two members, a Republican from Indiana and a Democrat from Delaware. Now it’s up to eight members after two Democrats, one Independent and three more Republicans joined the caucus last week, as The Hill reported. In unsurprising fashion, the eight senators who joined the caucus acknowledged […]
The most destructive hurricanes are three times more frequent than they were a century ago, new research has found, and this can be “unequivocally” linked to the climate crisis. The research, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, used a new method to calculate hurricane damage that makes it easier to […]
It seems the reality of the climate crisis is too much for the Federal Reserve to ignore anymore. For the first time, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, one of its 12 branches, held the system’s first climate-related economic conference last week. By hosting “The Economics of Climate Change” conference the Federal Reserve signaled […]
Passengers trying to reach Berlin’s Tegel Airport on Sunday were hit with delays after police blocked roads and enacted tighter security controls in response to a climate protest. Around 50 members of the group “Am Boden Bleiben,” which means “stay grounded” in German, gathered in the main entrance of Terminal A to hold a sit-in. […]
More than 130 wildfires were burning on Australia’s East Coast Sunday, The Guardian reported. The blazes have killed three and destroyed at least 150 structures so far, and conditions are expected to worsen Tuesday, when the greater Sydney area will face “catastrophic fire danger” for the first time. “Everybody has to be on alert no […]
By Jeff Peterson A century from now, the U.S. coastline will look very different from how it looks today. In the coming decades our beaches, wetlands and estuaries along the shore will be lost or degraded by a one-two punch of more severe storms and rising seas. This combination will drive communities inland and force […]
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