Subjects Archives: Environment

Last year, an EU study estimated that more than 60,000 people across Europe died due to heat. This year is likely to be even worse.

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.

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).

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.

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.

“Nothing less than a just global transformation… is required to ensure human well-being,” researchers wrote.

The USA and its allies pose themselves as “Global Leaders”. They could and should be, as they are the countries with the greatest concentrations of wealth, power and technical know how, communications and education, but they are falling horribly short; because they see leadership as the same thing as dominance–and subordinate everything else to that.