BBC Asks: ‘What Will I Tell My Grandkids About The Summer of ’26?’ How Much I Miss It
Jonathan Cook Substack The BBC suggests 2026 will replace 1976 as the ‘benchmark’ for a hot summer. It could not be more wrong. We will look back on this year’s…
UNEP: World will Exceed 1.5º C., Bringing Catastrophes and Unknowable Risks
Juan Cole Informed Comment The UN Environmental Programme has issued a new report that admits that the world will almost certainly exceed the Paris Treaty goal of limiting global heating…
Study Suggests Climate Crisis Is Supercharging ‘Godzilla’ El Niños
“We are seeing a trend of stronger El Niños, and the one we have now is consistent with that trend,” said the lead author. “That is bad news for climate…
Climate Breakdown: Nepal Flash Flood and the Looming Extinction of the Himalayan Glaciers
Juan Cole Informed Comment Climate change devastated towns and villages of Nepal on August 26 with enormous flash floods that were produced by a melting glacier. The size, speed and…
War and Climate Breakdown: We owe Children More
H. Patricia Hynes Informed Comment Children attending Amani primary school in Nairobi, Kenya, are first given warm water, bathing soap and a seaweed-based body gel for washing before entering their…
White Supremacy And Climate Change: A Sinister Symbiosis
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. The climate movement will never be effective as long as it refuses to confront white supremacy within its own organizations. And as a belief…
People Are Taking Power For Climate Action Through Green Amendments
Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. As the climate crisis intensifies, bringing extreme weather events, fires, droughts and flooding to our communities, and governments refuse to take effective action, a growing…
How Climate Change Is Making Bad Working Conditions Even Worse
Sarah Lazare, In These Times. Smoke, heat, storms. As wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes intensify, workers are increasingly fighting for basic protections on top of everything else. One morning, when…
Europeans Flock To Chinese EVs Amid Heat Waves, Iran Crisis
Neil Thompson Informed Comment Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) have continued to make inroads into Western European markets in the first five months of this year according to data from Schmidt…
Thatcher Warned In 1989 Of A Climate Crisis. She Did Nothing. Nor Will Her Successors
Governments knew what was coming. They failed to act because the political costs of taking on the corporate sector were too immense. Those corporations are now more powerful than ever…
The Floods Of The Future Won’t come One At A Time
Jeff Masters, Yale Climate Connections When a weak 45-mph tropical storm named Harvey moved through the Lesser Antilles Islands in August 2017 and then petered out in the central Caribbean…
Marco Rubio Represents A Clear And Present Threat To Global Climate Liberation
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report. So Why is the U.S. Climate “Movement” Ignoring Him? The climate crisis is first and foremost a crisis caused by the U.S. denying other…
No Tree Stands alone: Climate Disaster, Gaza Genocide were Preventable
H. Patricia Hynes Informed Comment The methodical destruction of Gaza and its people – in little over 1000 days – has taken the crime of genocide to an extreme unprecedented…
Democracy Necessitates Resistance (w/ Roger Hallam) | The Chris Hedges Report
In his new book, Roger Hallam of Extinction Rebellion provides tools for effective resistance to climate collapse under repressive systems. Chris Hedges We are living in an age of climate…
Cut the Pentagon, Save the Planet: The $1.5 Trillion Climate Solution We Can’t Ignore
Aaron Kirshenbaum Last week, millions of people around the world were subjected to record-breaking heatwaves. At least 25 deaths in the U.S. from this heat dome were reported. The French…