Image by Getty Images Article by Martin Vennard via BBC News Ziggy Marley has given his backing to environmental campaign groups like Extinction Rebellion. The reggae singer says politicians and business are not listening to the public's concerns about climate change and pollution. "I feel things like Extinction Rebellion...
Article via RJR News Ziggy Marley has given his backing to environmental campaign groups like Extinction Rebellion, a socio-political movement to protest against climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse. The reggae singer says politicians and businesses are not listening...
Photo by Lorie Shaull via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Article by Laura M. Holson, via The New York Times Hollywood has produced quite a few fictionalized depictions of dramatic climate change. Scores of people die after Manhattan freezes in 2004’s “The Day After Tomorrow.” In “Geostorm,” released...
Photo by Dennis van Zuijlekom via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Article by Millicent Dent and Chris Martin, via Bloomberg Nearly half the world’s electricity will come from renewable energy by 2050 as costs of wind, solar and battery storage continue to plummet. That titanic shift over the next...
Photo by Tech Sgt. Patrick Evenson/US Air National Guard Article via civileats.com The rain and floods that have plagued the Midwest since March have wreaked havoc on agriculture. In Nebraska alone, farmers lost an estimated $440 million of cattle. They’re still recovering from the blizzard–flood combination, as well as the sand left...
Photo by AMAZON EMPLOYEES FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE Article via forbes.com An open letter from these employees called for CEO Jeff Bezos and Amazon’s Board of Directors to adopt a climate plan shareholder resolution that included setting goals for emission reductions, moving away from fossil fuels and prioritizing climate change in future...
Photo by Ajikumar/BCCL/Hyderabad Article via Weather.com Fungi are said to be grand recyclers of the planet and are considered vanguard species in habitat restoration. Now Indian scientists have found that they may also be the answer to one of the biggest environmental problems – plastic pollution. They have...
Photo By Guillermo Legaria / AFP / Getty Images Article via CNN.com Tom Crowther is a climate change ecologist at Swiss university ETH Zurich. Four years ago he found there are about 3 trillion trees already on earth -- much higher than NASA's previous estimate of 400...
Photo by Axel Heimken (AFP Photo) Article viaYahoo! News Greta Thunberg, the Swedish schoolgirl climate campaigner who has inspired worldwide protests, should be awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize, Norwegian lawmakers said Thursday. "We have proposed Greta Thunberg because if we do nothing to halt climate change it will...
Photo by David Iliff (Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA 3.0) Article by Darlene Superville, via Associated Press President Donald Trump signed a wide-ranging public lands bill Tuesday that creates five new national monuments and expands several national parks. The new law also adds 1.3 million acres of new wilderness and permanently...