Growing demand for sustainable goods is driving carbon labels into the market The world is littered with labels — markers that tell you how many calories are in a candy bar or if a tomato is organic. Now, companies are creating labels to show consumers the environmental costs of their daily habits. Carbon labels have... Continue Reading →
New research suggests social transformations that prompt “degrowth” could cut humanity’s climate footprint in time to meet the Paris climate agreement target. Existing plans to limit global warming rely too much on “increasingly unrealistic assumptions” that societies will be able to remove huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere while simultaneously maintaining incessant economic growth... Continue Reading →
Is the Controlled Shrinking of Economies a Better Bet to Slow Climate Change Than Unproven Technologies?
Bangladesh faces a worsening climate migration crisis as intensifying floods send waves of displaced residents from low lying coastal zones to Dhaka each year. "We cannot absorb a potential 10 million climate refugees or climates that might occur over the next 10 to 20 years," Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and... Continue Reading →
Bangladesh Offers a Model for Climate Migration
Previous periods of rapid warming millions of years ago drastically altered plants and forests on Earth. Now, scientists see the beginnings of a more sudden, disruptive rearrangement of the world’s flora — a trend that will intensify if greenhouse gas emissions are not reined in. Some 56 million years ago, just after the Paleocene epoch... Continue Reading →
As Climate Warms, a Rearrangement of World’s Plant Life Looms
Who We Are Outdoor Afro has become the nation’s leading, cutting edge network that celebrates and inspires Black connections and leadership in nature. We are a national not for profit organization with leadership networks around the country. With more than 100 leaders in 56 cities around the country, we connect thousands of people to nature experiences,... Continue Reading →
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The Pine Island ice shelf lost a fifth of its area between 2017 and 2020, and retreated by 19 kilometers (approximately 12 miles) during that time. Welcome to EarthWatch, the environmental news and opinion newsletter for people who think you should never turn your back on Mother Earth—written by me, Jerry Bowles, an ancient scribbler... Continue Reading →
Pace of Antarctic glacier collapsing into sea accelerates
Evergreen Action and Sunrise Movement are tracking Democratic Members of Congress’ opposition to any infrastructure bill that fails to include robust investment in clean energy, environmental justice and climate solutions. We can’t afford to negotiate away our future. Transformative investments in climate, jobs, and justice are non-negotiable for any infrastructure package to pass the U.S.... Continue Reading →
No Climate, No Deal: Congressional Tracker and Action Hub
A new article, published as a Perspective in the journal Conservation Science and Practice, introduces a rapid assessment framework that can be used as a guide to make conservation and nature-based solutions more robust to future climate. Climate change poses risks to conservation efforts, if practitioners assume a future climate similar to the past or present.... Continue Reading →
A new rapid assessment to promote climate-informed conservation and nature-based solutions
Move comes after Climate Commission recommended banning petrol and diesel cars by 2023 The New Zealand government is introducing subsidies to make electric vehicles thousands of dollars cheaper and new petrol and diesel cars more expensive, as the country tries transition to an emissions-free fleet. The changes follow New Zealand’s Climate Commission recommendations which laid out sweeping changes required... Continue Reading →
New Zealand unveils $8,600 subsidy for electric vehicles to reduce emissions
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed state regulators’ key approvals of Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project, in a dispute that drew over 1,000 protesters to northern Minnesota last week. A three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that the state’s independent Public Utilities Commission correctly granted Enbridge the... Continue Reading →
Minnesota court affirms approval of Line 3 oil pipeline
Climate activists march in California to demand action
Around 100 young activists, carrying banners calling for a Green New Deal, marched across San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge demanding more action on climate change. Source... (Thank you Sunrise Movement...)
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