For many viewers, watching Chernobyl crystallized parallels between widespread cultural panic around the nuclear threat and what we’re feeling now in the face of climate change. For veteran activists and therapists, the link has been clear for some time. Max St John, 41, had experienced symptoms of anxiety in the past. After reading the global... Continue Reading →
After Britt Wray married in 2017, she and her husband began discussing whether or not they were going to have children. The conversation quickly turned to climate change and to the planet those children might inherit. “It was very, very heavy,” said Dr. Wray, now a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and the London School... Continue Reading →
Got Climate Anxiety? These People Are Doing Something About It
There has been much controversy surrounding the COVID-19 mask requirements for the past year. Particularly given that Dr. Anthony Fauci and the World Health Organization (WHO) originally stated masks were not only unnecessary but potentially unhealthy, only to reverse course. This would be one of many examples of Dr. Fauci contradicting himself, a more recent... Continue Reading →
Is Carbon Dioxide Trapped By Masks Hazardous To Your Health?
The U.S. and UK produce more plastic waste per person than any other country in the world, according to a study published in the journal Science Advances. The peer-reviewed study shows the U.S. is the largest producer of plastic waste. The study notes that American citizens may rank as high as third globally when it... Continue Reading →
U.S. and UK Rank Highest in Per Person Plastic Waste Production
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A new review of the scientific literature confirms that anthropogenic noise is becoming unbearable for undersea life. Although clown fish are conceived on coral reefs, they spend the first part of their lives as larvae drifting in the open ocean. The fish are not yet orange, striped or even capable of swimming. They are still... Continue Reading →
In the Oceans, the Volume Is Rising as Never Before
Introduction Big Tobacco’s Master Settlement Agreement in 1998 was the largest civil settlement in the nation’s history and a transformative moment in the industry’s control. The accord reached by 46 states, five United States territories, and the District of Columbia required tobacco manufacturers to pay the states billions of dollars annually in compensation for the... Continue Reading →
The Climate Change Lawsuits Against Big Oil, Explained
A 30-year high in East African rainfall during 2018 and 2019 resulted in rising water levels and widespread flooding. The new study shows that emissions of methane - the second most important greenhouse gas - from flooded East African wetlands were substantially larger following these extreme rainfall events. The study, led by Dr Mark Lunt... Continue Reading →
Huge methane emission rise follows extreme rainfall in East Africa
New measures of success needed to avoid catastrophic breakdown, landmark review finds The world is being put at “extreme risk” by the failure of economics to take account of the rapid depletion of the natural world and needs to find new measures of success to avoid a catastrophic breakdown, a landmark review has concluded. Prosperity... Continue Reading →
Economics’ failure over destruction of nature presents ‘extreme risks’
A landmark review has called for transformational change in our economic approach to nature. The long-awaited review by Prof Sir Partha Dasgupta, of the University of Cambridge, says prosperity has come at a "devastating" cost to the natural world. The report proposes recognising nature as an asset and reconsidering our measures of economic prosperity. It... Continue Reading →
Prosperity comes at ‘devastating’ cost to nature
Nothing is won without a fight. With Democratic control of Congress and the White House, the possibilities of what we can achieve together are limited only by the optimism of our imagination and our will to build a movement so big and powerful our demands are impossible to ignore. For the past few years we’ve... Continue Reading →
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