On Isla Grande, Afro-Colombian residents discuss the urgent need for a sustainable electricity plant. Their efforts echo President Petro’s push for solar energy, with the aim of addressing broader regional…
By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As the temperature in Mecca reached 125.24° F. (51.8° C.) on Tuesday, word leaked out that nearly 600 pilgrims…
Many people seeking asylum are fleeing climate disasters. Biden's latest border move puts them even more at risk.
Developments reported by researchers could influence other sustainability challenges around the world.
Can They Survive the News Desert?
Some scientists in the region said many of the effects seen today weren’t expected until the second half of the century.
Despite Hellish Heat Waves and Epic Floods, the Middle East Gets Failing Grades on Climate Action.
"The science is clear: No new oil and gas fields, or the planet gets pushed past what it can handle," said one analyst.
The 2016 Fort McMurray Fire forced 88,000 people to evacuate in a single day and let off temperatures hotter than Venus. It’s just the beginning of the future Big Oil…
Is There a Place for Hydropower in a Warming World?
The youth-led Sunrise Movement warns Biden that he’ll lose the votes of the young people he needs to win the presidency without decisive action on global warming and Gaza.
With heat deaths surging in Texas, Arizona and across the nation, researchers model a myriad of heat effects on the human body and focus on the disproportionate impacts suffered by…
The onrush of other crises is no excuse for ignoring climate change.
By Binoy Kampmark / CounterPunch The time has come to treat the sequence of UN Climate Change Conferences, the latest concluding in Dubai, as a series of the failed and…
Or How to Carbonize Planet Earth
