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YouTube Video for this post! Climate change remains one of the most pressing issues facing humanity, and recent developments suggest that global efforts to curb temperature rise may be failing. The article from EcoWatch titled "The 2-Degree Climate Warming Target Is Dead" outlines why the long-standing goal of limiting warming to 2°C is increasingly out... Continue Reading →
Earth's soils are degrading into deserts at an unprecedented rate, with catastrophic consequences. The good news is that humans can turn them into fertile land. We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our channel explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas... Continue Reading →
The boreal forest stretches over billions of acres of the northern hemisphere on three continents. It's also key to holding up to half of all the soil-based carbon in the whole world. Scientists are using a futuristic-looking outdoor lab in Minnesota to understand it better. Ben Tracy has more. SOURCE
It’s time to call out the “Billionaire Money Hoarders” for their harmful and antisocial behaviour It was still dark yesterday morning as I sipped my coffee and somehow found myself watching the show “Hoarders”. It made me think of an article that I read last week about a billionaire who was charged for doing essentially... Continue Reading →
The Environmental Voter Project identifies millions of non-voting environmentalists and turns them into consistent voters. We estimate that over 8 million environmentalists did not vote in the 2020 presidential election and over 12 million skipped the 2018 midterms. We are a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on a simple, high-leverage solution to this problem: with a 5-year... Continue Reading →
As we face the urgent crises of climate and extinction, we need every tool available — including the law — to fight for life on Earth. By identifying “ecocide” as a prosecutable crime, as a panel of 12 lawyers recently proposed to the International Criminal Court, we can set up a practical framework for tackling... Continue Reading →
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 →
The rate at which ice is disappearing across the planet is speeding up, according to new research. And the findings also reveal that the Earth lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017 – equivalent to a sheet of ice 100 metres thick covering the whole of the UK. The research is the... Continue Reading →
AMY GOODMAN: Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?BILL McKIBBEN: You know, 30 years ago, when I started writing about this, it was a distant threat. We were issuing a warning. Scientists knew that as we burned coal and gas and oil, we were putting carbon in the atmosphere. They knew the... Continue Reading →
Research investigator Michael Hendryx studies mountaintop removal, an explosive type of surface coal mining used in Appalachia that comes with unexpected health hazards. In this data-packed talk, Hendryx presents his research and tells the story of the pushback he’s received from the coal industry, advocating for the ethical obligation scientists have to speak the truth.... Continue Reading →
Human-induced climate change was first identified in 1800 and again in 1831 by the same scientist, Alexander von Humboldt. Though little known and studied today, Alexander von Humboldt (b. September 14, 1769) was a legend in his lifetime, and remains one of the most important scientists in history. More places and species are named after... Continue Reading →
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