Climate change is a major factor forcing Central Americans, left with no other option, to flee their homes, as the dual threats of drought and extreme weather have destroyed crops and productive farmland, Bloomberg reports. Central America is responsible for less than 1% of global carbon pollution, yet is one … [continued]
More and more Republicans accept that climate change is happening and they blame it on immigrants. How deliciously ironic that one of their heroes is himself the son of a single mother who fled her native country to find safety in the United States.
Current US distaste for foreign aid will be an impediment for the US to pay its part for the climate crisis.
A company in Houston is pivoting from making table cloths and napkins to making face masks for health care workers.
The incredible story of Berta Cáceres, courageous campaigner for indigenous, environmental, and gender rights: her life and assassination, as told by her nephew Silvio Carillo.
Preserving and restoring forests is an effective step toward mitigating climate change, and comes with a host of other benefits.
A new survey says people in the US admit that they don’t do enough to reduce their carbon footprints.
The Extinction Rebellion is calling for a global campaign of civil disobedience to force governments to confront climate change. You can join the cause. But should you?
Ormat Technologies, the world leader in geothermal energy, is once again going hybrid, adding solar energy to a geothermal plants to raise efficiency and to boost income from the energy off-taker, Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA). The 18 megawatt photovoltaic solar installation will cover the geothermal plant’s parasitic, or operational energy consumption, freeing up power that SCPPA agreed last year to purchase at a hefty rate of $75.50/MW-hour.
Women and girls are among the most negatively impacted by disasters: not due to any inherent vulnerability, but as a result of social construction of gender norms and the related power imbalance in which women often have limited access to and control over resources.
