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Planes on the brain
‘Ministry’ says follow scientific advice and stop advertising the fastest way to fry the planet as peak heat meets peak holiday flights.
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Africa is burning! DRC in environmental crisis
Much attention is paid to the ongoing environmental crises engulfing the regions of South Asia, North America, and Europe, and rightfully so. The global climate crisis—as well as environmental injustice generally—is contiguous and virulent. But much less attention, however, is paid to the ongoing ecological crisis of Africa; the mother of all civilization.
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Extreme heat prompts issue of safety warnings across several countries
Safety warnings have been issued in France where temperature levels on Wednesday reached 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Catching heat from Big Brother: Education and climate in MAGAland
“In Real Time” is a monthly series on our blog by Stan Cox, author of The Path to a Livable Future and The Green New Deal and Beyond. The series follows the climate, voting rights, and justice movements as they navigate America’s unfolding crisis of democracy. Read previous “In Real Time” dispatches here. Listen to the “In Real Time” […]
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June 2023 was the world’s warmest June on record
June featured unprecedented Canadian heat and wildfires, record-low Antarctic sea ice, and a strengthening El Niño.
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Study shows methane leaks put climate risk from gas ‘on par with coal’
If fracked gas leaks, even a little, “it’s as bad as coal,” said the lead author. “It can’t be considered a good bridge, or substitute.”
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They must think we’re stupid
The fox is in charge of the chook house. Dracula is guarding the blood bank. And the CEO of one of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world will preside over the big United Nations climate conference at the end of this year.
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Deadly hazards of capitalist profit system
The beginning of July saw the hottest days on record globally.
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Canada’s political elites are climate criminals in the pocket of Big Oil
The promises of environmental stewardship from Canada’s political establishment clash with its support for fossil fuel interests.
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33,147,744 people in the United States currently face extreme weather alerts
Climate change is making weather more extreme. This tool shows how many people across the United States face risks right now from wildfires, flooding, tropical storms, or extreme heat.
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Climate collapse threatens slide to fascism and war
More and more, desperate people seeking refuge in Europe are not just fleeing from economic disaster and war. Many are also refugees from climate collapse.
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Beyond the Greece Boat Disaster: Tracing the Roots of the Migration Crisis
Today’s immigrant policies and political discourses across most parts of the Global North are reminiscent of a colonial Othering.
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Global warming and water privatization
Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou recently declared a state of emergency in the capital, Montevideo, due to water shortages.
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Insurance industry refuses policies to those most in need as climate change unfolds
State Farm recently announced that it is halting new insurance policies for homeowners in the state of California, where the agency is currently the top insurance provider, due to rising “catastrophe exposure” coupled with inflating construction costs.
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Europe – fastest warming continent in world since 1980s, says WMO
Temperatures over Europe have warmed significantly over the 1991-2021 period, at an average rate of about +0.5 °C per decade, making it the fastest warming region of all the WMO Regions
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Canada is burning. Capitalism stoked the flames
Wildfires are tearing through the Canadian province of Alberta, the heart of Canada’s lucrative oil and gas industry.
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Sabotage in the time of the Anthropocene
A review of Daniel Goldhaber’s film adaptation of Swedish author Andreas Malm’s polarizing book ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’.
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How a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius impacts billions
Under current climate change policies, billions will face life-threatening heat. But a global network of heat officers are tackling the problem in their own cities.
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions hit Q1 record high after 4% rise in early 2023
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions grew 4% in the first quarter of 2023, reaching a record high for the first three months of the year.
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Climate change increasing La Niña & El Niño severity
During La Nina events, sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific are lower than the long-term average, causing cooler global temperatures and vice-versa for El Nino.