Climate Migrants in a Hell on Earth
If emissions continue, will we all be migrants someday?
A New Bill in Oregon Could Target Environmental Protesters as Terrorists
The blue state could become the 20th in the U.S. to enact a so-called critical infrastructure law.
With Climate Indicators ‘Off the Charts,’ UN Chief Calls Policies of Rich Nations a ‘Death Sentence’
"We have the tools, the knowledge, and the solutions," said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. "But we must pick up the pace."
Documents Reveal Oil Giant Shell Knew About Climate Impacts Even Earlier
"Despite internal awareness, the company systematically downplayed the problem to the public, instead promoting more and more fossil fuel use despite the dangers," said one expert. "Now, five decades later,…
Tinpot Legislators
Their One-Party Rule Will Be Ruinous for the Earth.
A Looming El Niño Could Give Us a Preview of Life at 1.5C of Warming
The hotter weather pattern might push the Earth into unprecedented territory next year.
Southern California Regulators Let Industrial Polluters Exceed U.S. EPA Guidelines
Critics slam SoCal air regulator for adopting weak emissions rules for the potent carcinogen ethylene oxide.
It Is 90 Seconds to Midnight
This year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward, largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting…
Why California’s Climate Change and Housing Crises Hit Women Hardest
An advocate explains how gender equity goes beyond Roe v. Wade.
The Fading of Washington’s Global Dreams and the Coming of a New World
Alfred McCoy suggests what a United States that remains a significant regional power might do in its own hemisphere to come to grips with the decline of our own country,…
Markets and Technology Won’t Solve Climate Crisis. We Must End Capitalism.
It’s the accumulation of capital that’s destroying the Earth System as a place of human habitability.
Climate Disaster Is Turning the Planet Into a Tinderbox
As a United Nations report put it, we’re experiencing “a global wildfire crisis… turning landscapes into tinderboxes.”
The Biggest Criminal Enterprise in History
By Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch Author’s note: I wrote this piece in May 2013, with a helping hand from the invaluable Nick Turse who came up with the word “terracide.”…
Does Claiming 1.5° Is Unachievable Serve Fossil Fuel Interests?
By Mitchell Beer | The Energy Mix It’s “factually incorrect and politically very wrong” to say a 1.5°C limit on average global warming is no longer possible, International Energy Agency…
Who Will Pay for an Overheating Earth
Unlike the northern powers largely responsible for the greenhouse gases that created this growing set of disasters, as Stan and Priti Gulati Cox explain, the countries of the Global South…