A report from the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health finds that young people are most at risk for impaired physical and mental health as a result of air pollution. If we won’t protect our planet, can we at least protect our kids?
The Paris Agreement per se is useful but only if the countries recognize that this doesn’t really do anything, it doesn’t actually reduce emissions. But it is useful for all the country to say “yeah, we agree, there is a problem, we need to do something.” So that is useful. But it’s not the actions that are needed.
Climate advocates James Hansen and Bill McKibben are still committed to effective policies that will address global warming. One is pessimistic while one is cautiously optimistic.
Temperatures in northern Greenland are 50 degrees F higher then normal and have been for 10 days. Is this a sign the Earth is in trouble and if so, what are we prepared to do about it?
Researchers at the University of Sheffield and around the world are exploring whether adding crushed basaltic rock to fields can increase yields, lower costs, and absorb some of the excess carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere.
Courts are poorly equipped to deal with public policy considerations like climate change. But at a time when the executive and legislative branches of American government are bought and paid for by fossil fuel interests, they may be the last, best option for climate activists. That’s the opinion of climate scientist James Hansen, who has been sounding the alarm about climate change for more than 30 years.
James Hansen has published a new report in which he claims it is already too late to simply reduce carbon emissions. The nations of the world must now consider active measures to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, a process he says will place an enormous financial burden on young people and generations to come.
This week, a Massachusetts Superior Court judge ruled in favor of Attorney General Maura Healey and ordered ExxonMobil to turn over 40 years of records which Healey believes will show the company is part of “the most consequential lie in human history.”
Led by Nature and Youth, the largest youth-led organization in Norway, and joined by Greenpeace Norway, they filed suit this week against the Norwegian government.
A group of 67 scientists have penned an open letter to the US Department of the Interior calling on the government to end coal leasing on public lands in an effort to protect the climate, public health, and biodiversity. “We are scientists writing to urge the Department of the Interior to … [continued]
