Headlines related to recent extreme weather appear to come out of a science fiction book: Even the richest countries in the world can’t control widespread fires — they’re even burning in the Arctic. Deadly flooding in Germany and Belgium in July 2021 completely washed away buildings and cars, and more than 1,000 people remain missing. Hundreds died in flooding in China. The U.S.... Continue Reading →
Getting Unstuck: How We Accelerate Climate Action
Speaker: Jonathan Foley, Executive Director, Project Drawdown . Video Source
Gravitas: Climate change could sink entire nations
Accelerating climate change could sink entire nations by the end of this century. Low-lying nations are clubbing together and demanding action. Is it too late to prevent a generation of climate refugees? Palki Sharma tells you. Source!
There’s a hard truth about climate change: Meeting the Paris Accords—and limiting global warming to 1.5˚C or “well below” 2˚C—requires we stabilize emissions and then cut them nearly in half by the end of the decade. Unfortunately, we’re falling behind. And many climate solutions can’t be deployed quickly enough to help. But some can. We... Continue Reading →
Hitting the “Emergency Brake” on Climate
Researchers from NASA monitor, using airborne observations, the levels of carbon monoxide and ozone in wildfire plumes (a) The distribution of ΔO3/ΔCO ratio along the longitude within the wildfire plume and (b) the estimated longitudinal CO plume age distribution based on the NAST-I measurements. Credit: The Authors doi 10.1117/1.JRS.16.034522 Wildfires, characterized by unplanned, uncontrolled, and... Continue Reading →
Understanding the effect of wildfires on air quality: a NASA initiative
One of the most confounding realities of the climate crisis is that two seemingly contradictory facts are simultaneously true: that humanity has at our fingertips the solutions to fix it at the very same time that global greenhouse gas emissions soar higher than ever. By now the world has a solid understanding of what the solutions to... Continue Reading →
Decisive Climate Moments Call for Bold New Tactics
WION Climate Change: E-Waste to skyrocket due to scrapped cells | Latest News | WION
Experts say that more than 5 billion out of the estimated 16 billion mobile phones possessed worldwide will likely be discarded in 2022. Despite containing valuable elements like Gold, Silver and several other recyclable components, more than 5 billion unwanted cellphones will be dumped. . Continue watching on WION YouTube Channel
Election ’22: What Matters: How is Climate Change Impacting the Midterm Vote
This week, Election ’22: What Matters examines how climate change is impacting the midterm vote. A new Washington Post – ABC News poll finds 51% of voters now say climate change is one of the most important issues driving their vote. And though the environment is not getting as much attention as things like the... Continue Reading →
Malcolm Turnbull on the Anti-democratic Forces Opposing Climate Action
Malcolm Turnbull, the 29th Prime Minister of Australia, joins the show this week to discuss the growing threat of misinformation to liberal democracy, the role Rupert Murdoch and News Corp are playing to exacerbate the problem, the obstacles to international cooperation on reducing emissions, and his hopes for what can be accomplished in 2021 to... Continue Reading →
Nearly a decade ago, a political outsider helped catapult the idea of a “climate emergency” to the forefront of U.S. politics. Now her activism is on the brink of paying off. Margaret Klein Salamon, a clinical psychologist by training, became alarmed by climate change after Superstorm Sandy battered New York City in 2012, leaving a... Continue Reading →
How activists put the ‘climate emergency’ on the map
Emma Murphy | US Correspondent Since 1970, populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians plummeted by an average of 69 percent. ITV News US Correspondent Emma Murphy reports Flying over the Amazon you go for hours seeing only pristine forest and, at times, can wonder just how serious its challenges are. And then you... Continue Reading →