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YOUTUBE (Sometimes the podcast is more descriptive and sometimes the blog post is due to my editing one after another...) Deep beneath our oceans lies a vast reservoir of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. As global temperatures rise, these submerged time capsules threaten to accelerate climate change beyond our control. Introduction: A Silent Menace Beneath... Continue Reading →
Just like the IPCC reports themselves, the way IPCC authors engage with the public should be based on the best available evidence. This is the first time such guidance has been produced for the world’s leading scientific body on climate change, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). The handbook sets out six principles for... Continue Reading →
Establishing a “right to repair” could offer a lifeline to independent shops — and save consumers money. On Friday, President Biden issued a sweeping executive order promising action on various fronts — from drug prices to fees charged by airlines — to improve competition within the American economy. Among the most consequential if often-overlooked issues... Continue Reading →
The United States is hurtling toward a half-trillion dollars' worth of annual economic losses in a do-nothing scenario on emissions. Mindy Lubber, the CEO of Ceres, a nonprofit known for galvanizing the investment community around climate change risk, chuckled to remember how puzzled many attendees were at her organization’s first summit on the subject in 2003... Continue Reading →
We speak with leading climate scientist Michael Mann about the catastrophic impact of the climate crisis around the world. He says he and other scientists predicted the extreme weather events now wreaking havoc. “We said that if we don’t stop burning fossil fuels and elevating the levels of carbon pollution in the atmosphere and we... Continue Reading →
Thousands of youth climate activists marched through the streets of Milan last week demanding world leaders meet their pledges to the Paris Climate Agreement and keep global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. The protest came at the end of a three-day youth climate conference, ahead of the United Nations’ COP26 climate... Continue Reading →
Why is it so hard to imagine something better than capitalism? Canada’s recent heat records, wildfires, and over 450 deaths are the tip of a quickly melting iceberg. And only a week earlier someone leaked an IPCC draft report which warns of just how close we are to a cascading failure of our precious ecosystems.... Continue Reading →
If the US doesn’t get this right before November’s climate summit, it’ll severely limit the country’s power to influence global climate action. This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration cofounded by The Nation and Columbia Journalism Review to strengthen coverage of the climate story. In November, world leaders will meet... Continue Reading →
This film shows ways to tackle the drought on both political and social levels. We take a closer look at European forestry and agricultural policy in Brussels. Is the agricultural lobby, with its EU subsidies for large-scale enterprises, exacerbating the problem? Could it even be one of the causes? Source...
Dr. Thomas Goldsby, a professor of supply chain management at the University of Tennessee — Knoxville's Haslam College of Business, assigns his undergraduate student a "routine exercise" that frequently proves revelatory. Its purpose is to illustrate the complexity of the various trade routes that bring products from all over the world to consumers. The assignment... Continue Reading →
The dire warnings on global warming in the report released on Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sent shockwaves around the globe and was described as a code red for humanity by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres. The report warns that limiting warming to close to 1.5°C or even 2°C will be... Continue Reading →
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