By Brett Wilkins “Climate warming is awakening the ‘sleeping giants’ of the carbon cycle,” warned one researcher. An international team of researchers aboard a Russian research ship...
Archive for tag: Climate Change
Chase Climate Pledge ‘Shows the Power of Relentless Environmental Activism’ But ‘Not Aggressive Enough’
By Jessica Corbett “Chase must move much farther and much faster, and we will do our best to prod them in that direction!” declared...
Biden-Harris Victory: A Win for the Planet
By DR. MIRIAM ACZEL (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Rejoining the Paris Agreement On June 1, 2017, in a blow to climate action, Donald Trump announced that...
Greta Thunberg Tells US Voters on Election Day Their Choice ‘Will Affect Countless Generations to Come’
By Julia Conley “Every election is a climate election.” With the very future of the planet at stake, international climate leader Greta Thunberg on Tuesday...
Bolstering Public Health Fears, Harvard Study Finds Elevated Airborne Radiation Levels Downwind of US Fracking Sites
By Jake Johnson “If you asked me to go and live downwind [of fracking sites], I would not go,” said the lead author...
‘No Time to Lose’: New Study Shows 50% Coral Decline on Great Barrier Reef
By Brett Wilkins “We expect this decline to continue,” predicted one of the study’s authors, who said that unless urgent climate action is taken, “the...
Public Lands Are Key to Fighting Climate Change
By Tim Whitehouse Existing gas and oil development in the Plateau Creek Drainage, near where BLM leases were sold in December 2016 and December...
As Amazon and California Burn, New Analysis Warns Human Activity Driving Global Wildfire Surge
By Jessica Corbett Given estimates that humans are responsible for around 75% of fires, “this means solutions are in our grasp too.” While devastating fires...
‘Sudden Collapse’: Study Suggests 60% of Antarctic Ice Shelves Face Fracture Risk
By Brett Wilkins Massive southern shelves split by climate-induced hydofracturing can collapse in hours—or even minutes—fueling dangerous sea level rise and coastal flooding. More than...
‘Warning Sign of Major Proportions’: Number of Siberian Forest Fires Increase Fivefold Since Record High Temperature
By Eoin Higgins This photo taken on Friday, June 19, 2020 and provided by ECMWF Copernicus Climate Change Service shows the land surface temperature in the...