Accelerating Our Ocean’s Protection
WASHINGTON, DC – Since 1971, the ocean has absorbed more than 90% of the excess heat caused by human-generated climate change, pushing it to the brink of collapse. The fact…
Climate Change
Climate Action Requires Debt Relief
WASHINGTON, DC – Today’s global economic turmoil is not just about trade. As G20 finance ministers gather in Washington this week during the annual spring meetings of the International Monetary…
Climate Change Kills Capitalism
Capitalism, like Antarctica and like the Amazon rainforest, is under threat of destruction by excessive levels of CO2 emissions which cause radical climate change. Risk of some level of extinction…
Synchronized Global Climate Breakdown
The world has entered a new climate era that threatens the fabric of civilization because it’s the reverse of the climate system that society was built upon. As it happens,…
The EPA’s Rejection of Climate Science Threatens Everyone
MIDDLETOWN – In mid-March, Lee Zeldin, President Donald Trump’s newly confirmed administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, announced that the EPA was undertaking a formal reconsideration of its “endangerment…
Silent Dehydration: The Hidden Killer
Silent dehydration is a condition in which the body gradually loses water and essential electrolytes without triggering the usual thirst signals. Unlike acute dehydration—which manifests through symptoms like dizziness, dry…
Climate Change and Deforestation: A Dangerous Warning
Currently, India is witnessing an increase in heat and heatwaves, especially in several northern states including Gujarat, Rajasthan, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Odisha. By early April, the rising heatwaves…
EPA Torches Home Insurance Coverage
The Trump administration’s EPA has put the home insurance industry, home mortgage industry, real estate industry, and individual homeownership on notice that the rules are changing against their best interests.…
Dumping Biomass in the Ocean Is Not a Climate Solution
WÄDENSWIL/SAN DIEGO – Puro.earth, a self-appointed “carbon-removal certifier,” is seeking to establish a new accredited means of carbon sequestration: dumping bundled biomass (wood or crop waste) into the ocean. At…
Will the U.S. Build Seawalls?
Antarctica is coming apart, crumbling into the sea, much, much faster than anybody ever thought possible. After all, it was only a couple of months ago when polar scientists called…
Climate Change and Heat Stress on Informal Workers
Interview with Dr. Santasabuj Das, (Director of National Institute for Occupational Health), regarding increasing impact of heat stress on informal workers’ life and livelihoods Bhargav: Could you give a brief…
Insurers Must Embrace Geospatial AI
PARIS – Over the past year and a half, insurers have been pulling out of high-risk areas at an alarming rate. Nowhere has this been more obvious than in California,…
Environmental Instability and the Changing Rural Lifestyle
Climate change has become the greatest global challenge of the 21st century. Its effects are being felt worldwide, but its impact is particularly severe in developing countries like India. India's…
UN Must Provide Compensation For Wayanad Disaster
To: Dr Ibrahim Cheikh DiongExecutive DirectorUNFCCC Loss and Damage Fund Mr Simon StiellExecutive SecretaryUNFCCC Secretariat Chief Secretary|Govt of Kerala Dear Dr Ibrahim Diong, The outset please accept my congratulations on your appointment…
Discovery of Immense Methane Leaks in Antarctica
A new discovery of methane leaks in Antarctica could be a game-changer and potential near-term threat that’s difficult to characterize without sounding overly negative. Of course, situations like this that…
The Spark of Rising Temperatures: Impact on Food Security, Health, and Lifestyle
Even before the end of March, several parts of India are experiencing a heatwave. On March 16, Odisha recorded a temperature of 43°C, while Jharsuguda touched 42°C. In more than…
A Defining Moment for Energy Security and Economic Prosperity
SAINT JOHN’S – Last week, heads of state, ministers of finance and energy, investors, civil-society groups, and energy-industry leaders convened in Barbados for the Sustainable Energy for All (SEforAll) Forum.…
The Biofuel Sham Could Worsen Global Hunger and Inequality
WATERLOO/BRUSSELS – Another major source of greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions is poised to use biofuels to “decarbonize.” The shipping industry has now joined the auto and aviation industries in viewing this “cleaner”…
When the Earth Heats Up: Zunaira Baloch and the Human Cost of Climate Change in Balochistan
They say only bad news from Balochistan makes the headlines___Pakistan's largest and most impoverished province marred in a decades long insurgency. The local newspapers are flooded with the news of…
“Destroying the Amazon to Save the Planet”: The Grotesque Irony of the 2025 Climate Summit
“Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit” —BBC News. This jarring headline, published three days ago, encapsulates the absurdity of modern climate governance. To host the 2025 United…
Amazon Rainforest Cleared for Climate Conference
This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past two COPs (UN Conference of the Parties) that were held by,…
Climate Change and Biodiversity Crisis: What Does the Future Hold?
Mark McCrindle coined the term 'Generation Beta' to refer to those born on or after January 1, 2025. In every aspect of their life A.I and digital connectivity will play…
Empty Promises Won’t Save Marine Ecosystems
DERAWAN – In the turquoise waters of Indonesia’s Derawan Archipelago, a deafening dynamite blast shatters the morning calm, trumpeting the ongoing destruction of one of the world’s most biodiverse marine…
Canada Must Learn From the Green Backlash
TORONTO – As Canadians prepare to elect a new government, the rapid deterioration in relations with the United States will be front of mind. But the slow pace of decarbonization…
Why can’t I sleep? 4 ways climate change could be keeping you up at night and what you can do about it
by Ty Ferguson and Carol Maher Tossing and turning on sweltering summer nights? You’re not alone. As temperatures rise due to climate change, our sleep is becoming shorter and more disrupted. But…
Impacts of Climate Change: Agriculture, Health, and Increasing Displacement
Climate change has now become the biggest threat to the entire world. The reckless exploitation of natural resources, deforestation, increasing materialistic desires, and pollution in various sectors have further intensified…
Worldwide Glacier Meltdown Underway
“We are running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.” (Elon…
Environmental Imbalance and Climate Change: The Growing Threat
Decisive climate action is crucial to preventing the dangerous decline of sea ice. Favorable policies and improved polar monitoring will enhance climate resilience. Reducing emissions and protecting the planet's fragile…
Climate Change: Today’s Challenge, Tomorrow’s Consequences
Climate change is considered one of the most serious global crises of our time. The increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters such as rising temperatures, unseasonal rainfall, wildfires, floods,…
Capitalism’s Frankenstein Climate
“Climate change is the monster we made. We are Victor Frankenstein.” (Climate Change: The Monster of our own Making, WashU, October 16, 2017, Michael Wysession, Professor Earth & Planetary Sciences,…
Meltdown at the Top of the World
MANILA – The United Nations has declared 2025 to be the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, making it a fitting moment to confront the stark reality that the world’s ice…
Nice little economy you’ve got there, be a shame…
In the last few days, Taiwan, India and Japan made clear they will be buying exported American LNG in the months and years ahead. Why? Entirely in an effort to hold off tariffs from the…
Climate Upheaval, Mild or Severe, Who Really Cares?
The onset of some level of climate upheaval or widespread destruction of biomes and human lives, mild or severe, has essentially been forecast by the world’s leading climate scientist James…
Getting Green Investment Where It’s Needed Most
by Serge Ekué and Javier Díaz Fajardo LOMÉ/BOGOTÁ – The devastating effects of global warming are unfolding before our eyes. Uncontrollable fires ravage the Amazon. Rising sea levels threaten to…
Climate Politics: What Would Donald Trump Do?
Recent scientific data shows that global temperatures exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius (above pre-industrial levels) for the first time. Dr. James Hansen, the godfather of the modern-day climate movement, believes the global rise…
The Future of Sea Level Rise with Professor Peter Wadhams
“All of these changes, we can plot them and if we look exponentially, we see really catastrophic effects in the next few years, certainly in the next decade or two…
Three-quarters of the world’s land is drying out, ‘redefining life on Earth’
As Earth grows warmer, its ground is becoming drier and saltier, with profound consequences for the planet’s 8 billion inhabitants — nearly a third of whom already live in places…
Killing The Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef has been seriously damaged by too much ocean heat. According to University of Sydney: The damage is at catastrophic levels. And as stated by the National…
Impact of Global Warming on Children: Educational and Health Challenges
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has raised alarming concerns about the effect of climate change on children's education and health through its 2024 report, Learning Interrupted: Global Snapshot of…
Electing Donald Trump Was a Suicidal Act
Let’s face it: Electing Donald Trump was nothing short of a suicidal act. And that’s something we humans seem to have a genuine knack for these days. If you don’t believe…
Deniers & Insurance Premiums Both Surge
Climate change deniers are experiencing a renaissance, especially on social media. In concert with this upswing in denialism, home insurance premiums are skyrocketing, or coverage is dropped altogether, a problem…
Human use of fire has produced an era of uncontrolled burning: Welcome to the Pyrocene
Los Angeles is burning, but it isn’t alone. In recent years, fires have blasted through cities in Colorado, the southern Appalachians and the island of Maui, along with Canada, Australia, Portugal and Greece. What wasn’t burned was smoked in.…
Trumpocalypse
A Time Capsule from 2048- What Turbocharged Carbon Will Do to Our Children My name isn’t important, only what I have to say. I’m writing with a pencil because I…
Trump’s Pull Out from Paris Climate Agreement is a Crime against Humanity
On 20th January evening , soon after his swearing in ceremony, President Donald Trump signed an order to withdraw from the Paris climate accord and immediately dispatched a letter to…
As Trump Takes Office, It’s Time for a Mass Climate Movement
This is a jarring time for our country: A far-right autocrat is taking office on a holiday many misrepresent and trivialize as vacation day, obscuring the revolutionary actions of one…
Frightening Memories of ‘Project Iceworm’ and recent disturbing trends raise serious questions regarding the future of the Arctic Region
Increasing militarization and resource exploitation is not good news for any ecologically sensitive and vulnerable region, all the more so for the Arctic region which is reported to be warming…
Risks of Ecosystem Crash-Landings
Biomes as well as individual ecosystems throughout the globe are experiencing considerable stress. As a researcher/writer since 2010 of more than 400 scientific-based articles, I am aware of what science…
Turning the Financial Tide for Small Island States
by Maya Delaney and Aminath Shauna NASSAU/MALÉ – Small island developing states (SIDS) are on the front lines of climate change, threatened by rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and…
2024’s extreme ocean heat breaks records again, leaving 2 mysteries to solve
The oceans are heating up as the planet warms. This past year, 2024, was the warmest ever measured for the global ocean, following a record-breaking 2023. In fact, every decade…
As the World Heats Up, FERC Cools Regulations
For the past 10 years a group of resolute environmental activists from Beyond Extreme Energy, Third Act and others have been attending and protesting at the monthly public meetings of…
The Climate Policy Pendulum
NEW YORK – It is tough to be optimistic about the climate these days. While the costs of extreme weather events like the Los Angeles wildfires pile up, the US…
Welcome to the Pyrocene
The apocalyptic wildfires that have erupted in the boreal forest in Siberia, the Russian Far East and Canada, climate scientists repeatedly warned, would inevitably move southwards as rising global temperatures created hotter, more fire-prone landscapes.…
Learning from the Los Angeles fires for future safety
The biggest immediate need is for rescue and rehabilitation, but at the same time the right lessons should be learnt from the Los Angeles (LA) fires. This in turn must…
Net Zero/2050 Fantasy or Reality?
Net Zero/2050 Fantasy or Reality may be the most significant issue of the 21st century. Net Zero refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG), such as…
The Big Bang, Horrifying LA Fires, and Our Self-Destructive Species
What’s happening right now in Los Angeles is almost too painful to write about. I’ve spent much of the day writing and calling back and forth with friends and colleagues.…
The Los Angeles inferno: A historic crime of capitalism
California is facing what could be its most devastating wildfire in history, with fires burning uncontrolled throughout Los Angeles County. Images shared widely on social media show whole neighborhoods and…
What Climate Justice Means for Latin America and the Caribbean
by Thiago Barral and Woochong Um RIO DE JANEIRO/NEW YORK – November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, dubbed the “Finance COP,” left many deeply disappointed – for…
Arresting and Killing Greenies: Targeting Climate Change Protests
Climate change, like any crisis afflicting earth and humanity, is bound to bring out the best and the worst of a species that soils its nest, salts the earth, and…
Breaking the continuous cycles of crisis with commoning care-A Feminist reflection on climate action
It is 2025 and while I share the joy of many who celebrate the newness and the hope of things to be different and better that comes with every new…
Amazon’s Global Warming Counterweight Threatened
Since the start of the 21st century, major planetary ecosystems, like the Amazon rainforest and Antarctica have consistently deteriorated, but within only the past two years, these two major ecosystems…
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