The Democratic National Committee (DNC) voted down a resolution calling for an official, party-sanctioned debate on the climate crisis, ABC News reported Thursday. Activists have been leaning on the party to sanction such a debate as part of the 2020 Democratic primary, but DNC’s resolutions committee voted 17-8 Thursday against the measure authored by Washington […]
By Jake Johnson Calling the global climate crisis both the greatest threat facing the U.S. and the greatest opportunity for transformative change, Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled today a comprehensive Green New Deal proposal that would transition the U.S. economy to 100 percent renewable energy and create 20 million well-paying union jobs over a decade. “This […]
There are a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil‘s space agency has said. Their smoke is visible from space and shrouded the city of São Paulo in darkness for about an hour Monday afternoon, CBS news reported. “It was as if the day had turned into night,” São Paulo resident Gianvitor […]
By Stuart Braun A year after activist Greta Thunberg first stood in the rain outside the Swedish parliament with her now iconic “Skolstrejk för klimatet” — school strike for the climate — placard, the movement she spawned has set the tone for environmental protest action around the world. In the space of just 12 months, […]
Wildfires raging on Gran Canaria, the second most populous of Spain’s Canary Islands, have forced around 9,000 people to evacuate. The fires, which started Saturday, have entered the Tamadaba Natural Park, where some of the island’s oldest pine forests grow. Authorities called it an “an unprecedented environmental tragedy,” as BBC News reported Monday. We have […]
By Nicole Greenfield Kristan Porter grew up in a fishing family in the fishing community of Cutler, Maine, where he says all roads lead to one career path: fishing. (Porter’s father was the family’s lone exception. He suffered from terrible seasickness, and so became a carpenter.) The 49-year-old, who has been working on boats since […]
The climate crisis is getting costly. Some of the world’s largest companies expect to take over one trillion in losses due to climate change. Insurers are increasingly jittery and the world’s largest firm has warned that the cost of premiums may soon be unaffordable for most people. Historic flooding has wiped out farmers in the […]
Officials, activists and scientists gathered in Iceland Sunday for the funeral of the nation’s first glacier to fall victim to the climate crisis. Iceland’s Okjokull glacier lost its glacier status in 2014, as AFP reported, and scientists fear it will only be the first of many to melt away. The country could lose all of […]
Humanity faced its hottest month in at least 140 years in July, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Thursday. The finding confirms similar analysis provided by its EU counterparts. “Much of the planet sweltered in unprecedented heat,” NOAA said on its website. “The record warmth also shrank Arctic and Antarctic sea […]
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