Tag: Climate Crisis
COP25 Was Moved to Spain to Conceal Chilean Government’s Human Rights Violations
The concept of “loss and damage” and carbon markets are a sticking point at the UN’s climate summit, and protests are continuing in Chile, the…
Melting Greenland Could Displace 400M People; UN Climate Deal Does Little to Help
A new study says that Greenland is melting at a pace far faster than previously estimated and could displace 400 million people due to global…
Fossil Fuel Production Plans Could Push Earth off a Climate Cliff
The United Nations is beginning its climate summit in Madrid. Their new report says that if all booked fossil fuel reserves are burned, it could…
Climate Change Fuels Hellfire in the City of Angels
California’s fire season isn’t over yet, but megafire events have already taken a major toll on the state and its inhabitants, forcing the evacuation of…
Climate Change Will Alter Sports Forever
Australian Open competitors had to fight through wildfire smoke in their qualifying rounds. Political sportswriter Dave Zirin says we’re about to see how the climate…
Climate Activists Sound Alarm on Mediterranean Natural Gas Pipelines
Activists say the environmental risks of natural gas drilling are being ignored in the rush to challenge Russia’s control of the European energy market. Producer:…
Australian Wildfires Prove Denying Climate Change Won’t Save You From It
Climate scientist Michael Mann is in Australia, where the bushfire crisis is unfolding in real time. He says voters there need to look for ‘climate…
‘Parasite’ Is a Class-Conscious Climate Parable
Audiences are used to thinking of apocalyptic stories as fantasy. But “Parasite” resonates because it merges themes of class warfare and climate crisis to show…
Study: Methane Emissions from Fossil Fuels Vastly Underestimated
A new Rochester University study raises new grave questions about fossil fuel production and climate change. The author of the first major study on methane…
Argentina’s Fracking Boom Is Creating Climate Justice Concerns
Big Oil hopes Argentina’s shale oil and gas boom can rival the United States’. Backed by US dollar diplomacy, the boom has come at the…
Coronavirus: Is the Climate Plague Here?
Journalists Bryn Nelson and Jane C. Hu talk about how the climate crisis means we could see more deadly outbreaks, plus the rise of xenophobia…
NATO’s Arctic War Exercise Unites Climate Change and WWIII
NATO will hold war games in Norway’s Arctic Circle in March, where it will be supporting climate change-induced resource extraction and increasing the military tension…
Obama Laid the Foundation for Trump’s Attack on Bedrock Environmental Law
The Trump administration doesn’t want to consider climate impact when issuing infrastructure permits, but this isn’t a new attack on the environment—it builds on Obama’s…
Noam Chomsky On COVID-19 And His New Book: Internationalism Or Extinction
Noam Chomsky analyzes the coronavirus pandemic in the context of neoliberal capitalism’s failures, climate change, potential nuclear disaster, and Donald Trump’s authoritarianism. Subscribe to our…
