Photo by Markus Schreiber (AP) Article by Shannon Van Sant, via NPR A Swedish teenager had a stark message for global elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg spoke about climate change during a Thursday luncheon at the forum to an audience which included...
Photo by G.M.B. Akash (Panos Pictures/Redux) Article by Tim McDonnell, via National Geographic DHAKA, BANGLADESH -- Golam Mostafa Sarder starts every day before dawn, rising from a thin reed mat in the shed that he shares with fifteen roommates. Each has just enough space to lie flat. He dresses...
Every product purchased funds the removal of one pound of trash from the ocean and coastlines. HISTORY The story begins when Alex and Andrew take a surf trip to Bali Indonesia that would inevitably change their lives and the fate of the ocean. Devastated by the amount...
Photo by Richard Vevers (The Ocean Agency / XL Catlin Seaview Survey, CC 2.0) Article by Vishwa Mohan, via The Weather Channel Rising sea temperature due to climate change affected corals in India during the global coral bleaching events between 2014-17. Though most sites with coral reefs...
Photo by AP Photo/John Locher, File Article by Tom Murray and Environmental Defense Fund, via Forbes Business leaders can no longer afford to look the other way on climate change. The recent National Climate Assessment revealed that regional economies and industries dependent on natural resources are increasingly vulnerable to the...
Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post/Getty Images Article by Megan Molteni, via WIRED TUESDAY’S MIDTERM ELECTIONS offered voters across the US the chance to move decisively to slow down the global ecological disaster of climate change. As the votes were tallied, however, one thing became clear: Americans remain as divided...
Photo by Heather Kim/NPR Article by Dan Charles, via NPR Climate change is coming like a freight train, or a rising tide. And our food, so dependent on rain and suitable temperatures, sits right in its path. The plants that nourish us won't disappear entirely. But they may...
Photo by Anthony Albright, CC Article by Mckinley Corbley, via Good News Network The government of Denmark may soon require grocery stores and packaging manufacturers to grade foods based on their environmental impact. The ambitious initiative would calculate the grade based on the amount of transportation the product required...
Photo by Ringo HW Chiu/AP Article by Jonathan Watts, via The Guardian The world’s leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly worsen the risks of...
Photo by Orjan F. Ellingvag/Corbis via Getty Images Article by Christopher Koopman and Brian Isomf, via The Hill From modularized nuclear reactors to renewable natural gas systems to facilities that convert energy from ocean waves into electricity, the potential for clean technology to reshape our energy sector...