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We Need to Talk About Meat Consumption and Climate Change

As negotiators in the Peruvian capital of Lima engage in the latest round of multinational talks aimed at finding ways of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, one issue will be conspicuous in its...

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Disaster Looms If Loss of Amazon Rainforest Continues

By Jan Rocha, Climate News Network SAO PAULO—The relentless destruction of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest will endanger the global climate unless it can be stopped and restored, says a new report by a...

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Watch this guy explain the science behind climate deniers

By Amelia Urry A lot of people people still don’t believe in climate change. But WHY?! We’ve got facts, we’ve got figures, we’ve got freaking superstorms swamping major cities every couple of years....

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Playing Dumb on Climate Change

By Naomi Oreskes Scientists have often been accused of exaggerating the threat of climate change, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that they ought to be more emphatic about the risk. The year just...

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‘Climate hacking’ would be easy – that doesn’t mean we should do it

By Erik van Sebille and Katelijn Van Hende Some people might argue that the greatest moral challenge of our time is serious enough to justify deliberately tampering with our climate to stave off the...

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Gluttony and Global Warming: We’re Eating Ourselves to a Warmer Planet

By James McWilliams To deny the impact of dairy and livestock production on climate change is to deny climate change. The facts, as summarized in a recent study from The Royal Institute’s Chatham...

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As Climate Disruption Advances, 26 Percent of Mammals Face Extinction

By Dahr Jamail Two recently released studies brought bad news for those living near coastlines around the world. One published in the peer-reviewed Nature Climate Change, the other in the Proceedings...

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Human rights – help or hindrance to combatting climate change?

By Usha Natarajan Each year, state representatives congregate in a chosen city to negotiate what they will do collectively to combat climate change. In December 2014 it was Lima; at the end of 2015 it...

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Climate and population are linked — but maybe not the way you thought

By Robert Engelman and Alexander Ochs It’s not a topic that comes up in high-level international negotiations on climate change. Yet who would disagree that when individuals and couples use modern...

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Ethics: Looking down the rabbit hole

Andrew Fiala The earth’s climate is changing. Last year was among the hottest on record. And human population continues to grow. Current projections estimate that the human population will grow to...

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Species Extinctions, Human Chronic Disease on the Rise, as Climate Disruption...

By Dahr Jamail I’m graced to live adjacent to Olympic National Park and have it as my backyard sanctuary. Recently, I hiked up to an alpine lake at 5,000 feet, where my friend John and I pitched camp...

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Can Grass-Fed Beef Be a Better Option for People, Animals and the Planet?

By Kate Good Livestock production is easily one of the most environmentally destructive processes on the planet. Between the deforestation that occurs to grow billions of pounds of soy and corn for...

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Oceans Facing Carbon Rates Which Spurred Mass Die-Off 250 Million Years Ago

By Sarah Lazare In case you weren’t already worried about the current and rapid acidification of the world’s oceans, a new report by leading scientists finds that this very phenomenon is to blame for...

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We Must Refuse to Participate in the Destruction of the Planet

By Chris Hedges The charade of the 21st United Nations climate summit will end, as past climate summits have ended, with lofty rhetoric and ineffectual cosmetic reforms. Since the first summit more...

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