New Study Highlights Collapse of Insect Populations
Very sobering news on the insect front. Species die-off is progressing faster than you probably thought.
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Gaius Publius: IPCC Releases Climate Report — First Thoughts
The latest IPCC report says we are cooking our collective goose, and hardly anyone seems to react.
Read more...Michael Mann: We Are Even Closer To Climate Disaster Than IPCC Predicts
Why the already-scary new IPCC report isn’t scary enough.
Read more...Nobel Prizes in Economics, Awarded and Withheld (Climate Change Politics Edition)
How the Swedish Riksbank just put its finger on the scales of the climate change debate in a big way.
Read more...Waste Watch: US Dumps Plastic Rubbish in Southeast Asia
Now that China has banned imports of plastic waste for recycling, US plastic waste exports to southeast Asia surge.
Read more...With the World on the Line, Scientists Outline the Paths to Survival
Scientists will deliver an urgent warning with the issuance of the latest IPCC reports, starting next week. But will politicians and the public respond?
Read more...Death by Fertilizer
Why nitrogen fertilizer is a disaster and whether there is a way to get over modern dependence on it.
Read more...Weathering the Next Florence
How should we prepare for a future filled with many Florences? Grist talked to experts for ideas on building resilient communities.
Read more...Q & A: Why Switching to Renewable Energy Sources is No Longer a Matter of Morality, But of Economics
Interview with Dr. Frank Rijsberman of the Global Green Growth Institute, discussing the implications of renewable energies now costing less than fossil fuels.
Read more...The Fracking Industry’s Water Nightmare: Injection Wells Damage Production Wells, Rising Disposal Costs Will Increase Industry Losses
The fracking industry’s wastewater disposal is an unrecognized production and economic problem that is going from bad to worse.
Read more...Hard-Brexit Lobbyists Demand UK Roll-Back Environmental Standards to Strike Free Trade Deals with India, China and US
Another ugly but far-from-secret element of what was in store with a Glorious Brexit.
Read more...IPCC Manipulating Climate Report Summary to Favor Wealthy Nations
The upcoming IPCC report overview is being airbrushed so as to cut unwarranted slack to developed economies.
Read more...First Set of High Seas Treaty Negotiations Concludes in New York
The first set of of four negotiating sessions to produce a UN treaty on the high seas by 2020 concluded last week in New York; this would extend the existing law of the sea framework beyond each nation’s territorial waters.
Read more...Why the “Green New Deal” Is a Headfake
How “Green New Deal” proponents repeat the intellectual errors made by the critics of the 1970s Limits to Growth studies.
Read more...How Climate Change Is Increasing Global Hunger
New bad facts on world hunger.
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