5 ways you can personally fight the climate crisis
As we watch the youth take to the streets over climate change, and read daily news reports on sea-level rise, glacier melt rates and the alarming amount of carbon in the...
Trump Admin Escalates Multi-Pronged Attack on Climate Science
The New York Times is reporting the Trump administration is ramping up its assault on climate science through a coordinated multi-agency effort. The National Climate Assessment will reportedly remove any worst-case...
Two steps forward, yes. But it’s a change in mindset that is needed.
In November 2017, a slave auction was broadcast around the world.
CNN journalists travelled to a town not far from Tripoli, Libya and captured shocking video footage of the sale of 12...
The Conundrum of Corporate Power
The first episode of Capitalisn’t, a new economics podcast by Kate Waldock, of Georgetown University, and Luigi Zingales, of the University of Chicago, contemplates a future in which Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg becomes...
Robots conduct daily health inspections of schoolchildren in China
Wow! Via: New Scientist: Please stand in front of Walklake for your examination. This health checking robot takes just 3 seconds to diagnose a variety of ailments in children, including conjunctivitis,...
Sea level rise could hit 2 metres by 2100 – much worse than feared
The world’s coastal cities have been warned to prepare for the possibility of a sea level rise exceeding 2 metres by the end of the century, with “profound consequences for humanity.”
A...
7 QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CLIMATE CRISIS YOU MIGHT BE EMBARRASSED TO ASK
Thanks to all the different voices claiming this and that – including fossil fuel interests and deniers spreading all kinds of myths – many people don’t know the truth of what’s...
Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice: How Are They Different?
We often get questions from readers about Earth’s sea ice in the Arctic and the Antarctic, and the differences between those areas. Arctic sea ice has declined over the past five...