Subjects Archives: Ecology

This accumulation of tragic evidence, against all the denialist narratives, makes it undeniable that the climate crisis is already here, among us.

“Real relief won’t come until Biden confronts the culprit of deadly oil and gas,” said one campaigner.

The most recent report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has revealed positive news for Venezuela.

Record temperatures in much of the U.S. threatening more people in prisons.

The framework of our civilization is premised on the destruction of the planet.

‘Ministry’ says follow scientific advice and stop advertising the fastest way to fry the planet as peak heat meets peak holiday flights.

Study looks at the real diets of over 55,000 people in the UK.

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.

Safety warnings have been issued in France where temperature levels on Wednesday reached 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit).

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I think top leaders in Washington are using green-energy pipe dreams to distract us from the reality that they have given up altogether on reducing U.S. fossil fuel use.

June featured unprecedented Canadian heat and wildfires, record-low Antarctic sea ice, and a strengthening El Niño.

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.”

The air is plasticized, and we are no better protected from it outdoors than indoors.

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. 

There’s a photovoltaic war to prove it-but China’s won it for now.

The beginning of July saw the hottest days on record globally.

“Piping water into the sea is an outrage. The sea is not a garbage dump,” said one local fisherman earlier this year.

The promises of environmental stewardship from Canada’s political establishment clash with its support for fossil fuel interests.

In 2017, the World Bank determined that the income threshold for poverty, which had been set at $1.90 per day, was far too low. They set the new poverty line at $2.15 per day, which accounted for over 700 million people.