Unless drastic changes are made to halt deforestation and encourage forests to regrow, the Amazon cannot fulfil its potential to mitigate climate change.
Read more...Water Waste report discusses how textile production pollutes Africa’s rivers – and what must be done to correct this fashion problem.
Read more...The U.S. West may be in a climate-fueled megadrought, but willingness to admit that, let alone address it, is awfully slow in coming.
Read more...Forests are far superior to tree plantations at carbon removal. Unfortunately, the world is planning for tree plantations.
Read more...Banks fund new oil pipelines that will generate climate pollution for decades. They are greenswahing their loans as ‘sustainability’ measures
Read more...Biden’s infrastructure plan includes defending flood and hurricane vulnerable areas, when saving all of them may not be the right answer.
Read more...So much for concerns about climate change. The Biden Administration is doing what it can to lower oil and gas prices.
Read more...A data-oriented overview of the IPCC report.
Read more...Accusations of pessimism (and why is pessimism bad anyhow?) is a cheap shot at well-founded criticism of Team Dem.
Read more...Environmentalists decry the role of corporate polluters and the state of Florida in the state’s red tide mess.
Read more...The latest IPCC report gives a Defcon 1 climate emergency alarm. But are any of the right people paying attention?
Read more...The Biden administration recently announced new policies to protect the Tongass National Forest, the largest intact temperate rainforest in the world.
Read more...The Gulf Stream is already slowing, and its breakdown would be an umitigated climate disaster. Yet as always, complacency reigns.
Read more...Yves here. It’s nice to see a discussion of a concrete measure (pun not intended) to slow climate change. We need way more approaches that can be executed at a local level. By Emma Foehringer Merchant. Originally published at Undark On September 9, 2020, California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild opened a scheduled meeting with […]
Read more...A prominent example of Serious People giving lip service to the disastrous consequences of climate change, with no urgent call to action.
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