Tag: Environment

  • Deadly Heat in a Political Jungle

    World heat is worse than ever. The entire planet is sweating. Every summer is hot but never like this. In America, it’s a national election year in the face of global record heat. What are candidates’ positions on CO2-infused heat? Graph by Brian Brettschneider, PhD, Climatologist It’s extremely significant that global heat is just as […]

  • Amazon Rainforest Collapse?

    Amazon Rainforest Collapse?

    Photo Credit: Rainforest Trust “A major question is whether a large-scale collapse of the Amazon forest system could actually happen within the twenty-first century.” (Source: Bernardo M. Flores, et al, “Critical Transitions in the Amazon Forest System”, Nature, February 14, 2024). It may seem absurd to consider collapse of the Amazon rainforest (65-million-years-old) which seems […]

  • Ocean Heat Pummels the Great Barrier Reef, Again

    It’s never been so bad. The Great Barrier Reef, which is one of nature’s most iconic mosaics of biodiversity, is on the ropes because of extreme global warming. Coral bleaching at the World Heritage-listed reef is “experiencing its worst mass bleaching event on record.” — Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is ‘Transforming’ from Repeated Coral Bleaching, […]

  • WMO Bright Red Alert

    The World Meteorological Organization (Geneva, Switzerland) State of Climate 2023 Report by Celste Saulo, secretary general, was issued on March 19th, 2024. “As secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization, I am now sounding the Red Alert about the state of the climate.” The WMO has issued an annual State of the Climate Report for […]

  • Thousands Have Lived without Love, but Not One without Water

    Diego Rivera (Mexico), El Agua, Origen de la Vida (‘Water, Origin of Life’), 1951. By November 2023, it was already clear that the Israeli government had begun to deny Palestinians in Gaza access to water. ‘Every hour that passes with Israel preventing the provision of safe drinking water in the Gaza strip, in brazen breach […]

  • Carbon Capture, too Little too Late?

    Will carbon capture technology bail society out of the latest version of greenhouse gas emissions, CO2 suddenly doubling its rate of increase when compared to the past decade, in breathtaking fashion, thus overheating the ocean and the Arctic and Antarctica and hammering Greenland? The relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and carbon capture technology is best […]

  • COP28: Where Fossil Fuel Industries Go to Gloat

    The sequence of COP meetings, ostensibly a United Nations forum to discuss dramatic climate change measures in the face of galloping emissions, has now been shown for what it is: a luxurious, pampered bazaar for the very industries that fear a dip in their profits and ultimate obsolescence.  Call it a drugs summit for narcotics […]

  • Gaza Water Salinity

    Gaza Water Salinity

    Palestinians in Gaza are resorting to drinking from polluted agricultural wells that are almost as salty as seawater, posing an immediate health risk. Special thanks to 10Tooba for their work and partnership on this visual. The post Gaza Water Salinity first appeared on Dissident Voice.

  • Showdown at COP28

    $200 trillion is needed to stop global warming. — Bloomberg New Energy Finance Buckle up, fireworks will be going off in a couple weeks in the pristine complex known as Dubai. World leaders, climate scientists, environmentalists, and fossil fuel producers will clash over the outlook for climate change and the impact of global warming, or […]

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