If you've got millions to spare and want to make space travel history, then now is your chance to book a flight to the International Space Station (ISS) - and perhaps even a spacewalk, too. That's something no private individual has ever done before, according to Tom Shelley, who heads the US company Space Adventures,... Continue Reading →
It’s tempting to draw lines on a map, but we can’t forget that cities should be designed for the people who live there (This is definitely something you'll want to see. Please visit this link (The Guardian) and go through the comic strips. A must read!
Cities need to be redesigned for the climate crisis. Can they make us happy, too?
At every step of his political career, Joe Manchin helped a West Virginia power plant that is the sole customer of his private coal business. Along the way, he blocked ambitious climate action. GRANT TOWN, W.Va. — On a hilltop overlooking Paw Paw Creek, 15 miles south of the Pennsylvania border, looms a fortresslike structure... Continue Reading →
How Joe Manchin Aided Coal, and Earned Millions
US will Soon Face Mass Internal Migration
Persistent extreme drought, drying reservoirs and eventual lack of water will create a crisis of internal migration within the US in the near future as people are driven out of California and the southwest. Source...
Since the start of the 2020s, humanity has faced worldwide calamity after worldwide calamity, all of them raising questions about our survival as a species. The COVID-19 pandemic has already claimed millions of lives and not yet finished its rampage. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has raised the specter of nuclear holocaust, which many assumed has subsided... Continue Reading →
Plastic pollution could make much of humanity infertile, experts fear
Apollo Beach, Florida, is a maze of canals lined with hundreds of houses perched right near the water’s edge. The whole community, just south of Tampa, is only about 3 feet above sea level, meaning it’s at risk from storm surge as sea levels rise. Homebuyers along the U.S. coasts can check each property’s flood... Continue Reading →
Coastal home buyers are ignoring rising flood risks, despite clear warnings and rising insurance premiums
Satellite imagery showing the recent "complete collapse" of the Conger Ice Shelf in East Antarctica sparked fresh alarm over the climate emergency on Friday. "While humans are killing humans, and governments are spending on weaponry as if there is no tomorrow, the environment is collapsing—so that there will be no tomorrow," said former Greek finance... Continue Reading →
‘The environment is collapsing’: an ice shelf the size of Los Angeles just broke off of Antarctica
“We cannot continue to use the sky as an open sewer in a way that is absolutely destroying the future,” Gore said before an audience at the Kennedy Center. . Al Gore is fired up. The environmentalist and former vice president appeared on stage Wednesday evening in Washington, D.C., speaking to young activists from Georgetown... Continue Reading →
Al Gore looks to youth to spark action on climate change
LONDON (Reuters) - Thirty of the world's largest financial institutions are undermining their commitment to cutting carbon emissions by lobbying against climate regulation and by funding new fossil fuel projects, according to a report published on Friday. The report, from London-based energy and climate think-tank InfluenceMap, found that all 30 institutions are members of industry... Continue Reading →
Banks undermine their ‘net zero’ pledges through lobbying – report
António Guterres says entire planet should be covered by early warning systems within five years Everyone on the planet should be covered by an early warning system against extreme weather and climate-related disasters within five years, the UN secretary general has said. About a third of people around the world are not now covered by... Continue Reading →
UN chief calls for extreme weather warning systems for everyone on Earth
New video opens window on understanding the explanations for the worst drought in 12 centuries, a ‘megadrought’ with no end in sight. The term “megadrought” is now fully ensconced in the popular vernacular when it comes to the punishing drought sweeping across much of the western U.S. over the past 22 years. So too is... Continue Reading →
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