By Jared Brey When Hurricane Michael tore through the Florida panhandle last October, it killed at least 43 people, caused an estimated $25 billion in damage and destroyed thousands of homes. In Mexico Beach, Florida, where the storm made landfall and the damage was concentrated, nearly half the homes were destroyed and almost all of […]
By Natalie Hanman Why are you publishing this book now? I still feel that the way that we talk about climate change is too compartmentalised, too siloed from the other crises we face. A really strong theme running through the book is the links between it and the crisis of rising white supremacy, the various […]
As the climate crisis takes on more urgency, psychologists around the world are seeing an increase in the number of children sitting in their offices suffering from ‘eco-anxiety,’ which the American Psychological Association described as a “chronic fear of environmental doom,” as EcoWatch reported. The Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) told the Daily Telegraph that they […]
By Oliver Milman Two-thirds of Americans believe climate change is either a crisis or a serious problem, with a majority wanting immediate action to address global heating and its damaging consequences, major new polling has found. Amid a Democratic primary shaped by unprecedented alarm over the climate crisis and an insurgent youth climate movement that […]
Record rainfall and flooding in southeastern Spain killed six people as of Saturday, The New York Times reported. More than 3,000 people had to be rescued from the storm that drenched Murcia, Valencia and eastern Andalusia on Spain’s Mediterranean coast last week. Some towns recorded their highest rainfall on record. While it is normal for […]
By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope It’s been 30 years since Bill McKibben rang the warning bells about the threat of man-made climate change — first in a piece in The New Yorker, and then in his book, The End of Nature. For most of that time, the response from most quarters of the media, […]
Thousands of protestors marched in front of Frankfurt’s International Motor Show (IAA) on Saturday to show their disgust with the auto industry’s role in the climate crisis. The protestors demanded an end to combustion engines and a shift to more environmentally friendly emissions-free vehicles, as Reuters reported. Hundreds donned white hazmat suits and blocked the […]
In another sign of the climate crisis, a record seven million people were displaced from their homes by extreme weather events during the first half of 2019, The New York Times reported Thursday. The number comes from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), which has been using data from governments, UN humanitarian agencies and news […]
The Trump administration will not grant temporary protected status to people evacuating the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian, the White House announced Wednesday. On the same day, Bahamian authorities said that around 2,500 people are listed as missing after the strongest storm to ever hit the country. Temporary protected status would have allowed Bahamians displaced by […]
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