Hockey features glove saves, skate saves and stick saves — though these are nothing, really, next to the most audacious save on which the NHL has set its sights: Save the planet. This may sound like a joke, at first. What does hockey have to do with...
Jennifer Afshar and her husband, John, pushed their bikes across the grass and paused to savor the sunshine, while their two boys went to look at the duck pond. Other kids were playing soccer or doing tricks in the skate park, and families picnicked on...
Climate change soon to cause movement of 140m people, World Bank warns Tens of millions in three regions of the developing world expected to migrate before 2050 unless the environment is improvedLalmonirhat in Bangladesh was flooded last year. It is one of the areas likely to...
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Rose Last Year. Here Are the Top 5 Reasons By Brad Plumer March 22, 2018 WASHINGTON — If the world wants to avoid drastic global warming this century, we’ll need to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions sharply in the years ahead. For now, however, we’re still moving in the...
Republished From Marketwatch By Robert Schroeder Hillary Clinton called out Donald Trump at their first debate on Monday night for labeling climate change a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. Trump denied saying that. But his own Twitter feed contradicts him, with the real-estate magnate tweeting back in 2012 that...
Republished From TriplePundit By Leon Kaye New York City was proactive on tackling climate change risks long before Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc across the boroughs in autumn 2012. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his successor, Bill De Blasio, have shown leadership on climate change resilience that inspired other cities to launch similar...
Republished From Yale Environment 360 By Bill McKibben It feels as if we may be getting close, or at least closer, as a nation to putting some kind of price on global warming pollution. Bernie Sanders campaigned all year on a straight-up carbon tax, and though Hillary Clinton...
Republished From Mother Jones By KANYAKRIT VONGKIATKAJORN Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill calling for a massive reduction in carbon pollution. California governor Jerry Brown signed historic legislation Thursday, establishing one of the most ambitious carbon reduction goals in the world. The bill, SB 32, has enormous implications for...
Republished From New York Magazine By Andrew Rice Even locals who believe climate change is real have a hard time grasping that their city will almost certainly be flooded beyond recognition. Klaus Jacob, a German professor affiliated with Columbia’s University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is a geophysicist by profession and...
Republished From The Guardian By Adam Vaughan Experts warn there may be no unspoilt places left within a century as report shows an area twice the size of Alaska has been lost since 1993 Humans have destroyed a tenth of Earth’s remaining wilderness in the last 25 years...