Climate scientist Robert Koop argues for national investment in universities analogous to that of long-standing cooperative extension programs but applied to scientific climate risk management.
Read more...New study finds ocean plastic pollution costs $2.5 trillion dollars annually – and that estimate fails to account for direct and indirect impacts on human health, or the fisheries, transport, and tourism industries.
Read more...The US recycling approach of using the rest of the world as it garbage barge has come to an end. What next?
Read more...The policy options to solve or ameliorate flooding on the Missouri River are not obvious (at least to me).
Read more...Human rights are well established in constitutional and international law. But in the face of dangerous climate change and ecosystem collapse, do we need ‘rights of nature’?
Read more...Review of the Midwest flooding, history of the New Deal and flood control, and the Green New Deal and flood control.
Read more...A report from the U.S. central bank cautions that rising temperatures and extreme storms could eventually trigger a financial collapse.
Read more...“Warm” is not scary. That’s a problem.
Read more...Unicef reports diarrhea causes more childhood deaths in conflict zones than outright violence. Bangladesh’s recent history shows even the poorest countries can reduce fatalities from diarrheal disease.
Read more...A San Francisco jury found last Tuesday that Roundup – the glyphosate-based weedkiller – was “a substantial cause “ of the plaintiff Edwin Hardeman’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, in the first of a three-stage process, which focused only on scientific evidence.
Read more...Climate change is a tough topic to present to children. Some ideas.
Read more...Oil production as a source of political advantage will no doubt keep official US climate change denialism alive and well.
Read more...President Trump’s claim that the Green New Deal would cost $100 trillion can be traced back to the Manhattan Institute, a think tank backed by fossil fuel investor Paul Singer and companies like ExxonMobil.
Read more...A high-level discussion of some of the operational issues posed by a Green New Deal.
Read more...The latest installment in Justin Mikulka’s excellent series on fracking. The industry continues to promote new and improved saviors – this time, it’s Microsoft – to rescue it from an inconvenient truth: no one’s making any money, despite the high environmental costs incurred.
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