Stop Telling Kids They’ll Die From Climate Change
Is climate change the biggest threat to humanity? Many people would say so. Young people in particular feel hopeless. A recent survey asked 10,000 16- to 25-year-olds in 10 countries…
Climate Stress Was Getting Me Down, So I Made a Clicker Game
On cue, a flood came. We had prepared with long plastic gutter extenders that snaked away from the house, but water seeped into the basement anyway. I have a small…
The Future Is Bleak. Pondering Pangaea Gives Me Hope
The human passion for gouging burnable stuff out of the earth and reducing it to ashes may well be the end of us. But it’s not clear who the “us”…
How ‘Big Funeral’ Made the Afterlife So Expensive
“You can’t die these days because it’s too expensive,” Randy Hinojosa told Time last year. Hinojosa had just paid $15,000 for a funeral for his wife of 26 years, after…
Environmental Law Is Getting in the Way of Climate Action
The decades-long failure to act shows that many existing environmental laws “are made for very old problems,” Wood says. In Nixon’s day, Americans were concerned with issues like smog, acid…
Joe Biden Asks World Leaders To Cut Methane In Climate Fight
Biden made the remarks during a virtual meeting of the Major Economies Forum (FILE)Washington: US President Joe Biden urged world leaders on Friday to join the United States and European…
Florida’s Condo Collapse Foreshadows the Concrete Crack-Up
It will likely be many months before we know for sure what caused the catastrophic collapse of the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside, Florida, last week, which killed at…
UK Mandates Companies To Disclose Their Impact On Climate
Bigger companies are already reporting such climate-related exposure. (File)London: The UK government on Thursday will detail plans to safeguard the City of London’s future under a post-Brexit agenda that requires…
Wildlife populations are seeing ‘catastrophic’ rapid declines
By Donna Lu Wildlife populations across the world have declined drastically over the past 50 yearsMartin Harvey / WWF Global wildlife populations are declining rapidly, according to the 2020 Living…
Aviation’s contribution to global warming has doubled since 2000
By Michael Le Page Flying’s contribution to global warming has nearly doubled since 2000motive56/Shutterstock The most comprehensive analysis so far of how much warming is caused by aeroplanes has found…