A palm oil farm in Belem, Brazil. (Photo: iStock/via Getty Images) Climate finance must be redirected away from greenwashing and towards real solutions like a just transition, helping frontline communities, conservation, protection of land and […]
John Kerry, special presidential envoy for climate, testifies during a House hearing on July 13, 2023. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Inc. via Getty Images) “This is unfair and goes against what was agreed upon at […]
– At least 17 people have died from heat-related illnesses as a heat wave continues baking Texas while spreading into other parts of the southern United States. RELATED: Paris Climate Summit Ends with Disappointing Results […]
BY JUDITH DEUTSCH Image by Agustín Lautaro. How many people are dying due to climate change? How does climate cause death, and what are the omissions, deceptions, and confusions about this interaction of climate and death? […]
BY CHLOE ATKINSON Image by Markus Spiske. Why are America’s streets devoid of climate protesters? The internet was set ablaze by a viral video featuring a German woman forcefully removing a climate change protester from the […]
BY JOSÉ SEOANE Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In 2023, different climatic anomalies have been recorded that set new historical records in the tragic progression of climate change at the global level. Thus, in June, the […]
BY DAN BOSCOV-ELLEN Image by Frédéric Paulussen. Debates on the ecosocialist left are raging, from advocates of degrowth to a new crop of ecomodernists. Many in this latter camp have begun to push nuclear power as […]
BY JOHN LAFORGE Image by Fukushima Central Television. From the Fukushima-Daiichi triple-reactor meltdown wreckage, Japan’s government and “Tepco,” the owner, are rushing plans to pump 1.37 million tons (about 3 billion pounds) of radioactive wastewater into […]
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by henrique setim. In the dead of winter, the Antarctic Peninsula, an 800-mile extension of the Antarctic continent, temperatures hit 32°F. (Source: It’s Even Hot in Antarctica, Where it’s Winter, Vox, July 13, 2023) […]
BY STEPHEN F. EISENMAN Andrea Bowers, Step It Up Activist, Sand Key Reef, Key West, Florida, Part of North America’s Only Remaining Coral Barrier Reef, (drawing), 2009. Photo: The author. The origins of the Anthropocene Two […]