Tag: Climate Change
Saudi officials have announced a massive initiative aimed at protecting the Middle East from climate change by taking on the world’s largest tree-planting effort—50 billion across the Arab state #treeplanting #climateaction #SaudiArabia
The waters surrounding the equator are one of the most biodiverse areas on the globe, rich in marine life. However, rampant rises in temperate have led to a mass exodus of marine species from the sensitive #MarineLife #MassExtinction
A misguided technological revolution is about to sweep through food systems, but civil society and social movements can stop it in its tracks. #longfoodmovement
A new report from Navdanya International calls for rejecting Bill Gates’ fake solutions and instead supports an ecological approach to food and agriculture which can provide a long-lasting solution to climate change. #climatechange
Anyone with even a passing interest in the global environment knows all is not well. But just how bad is the situation? Our new paper shows the outlook for life on Earth is more dire than is generally understood. #earthfuture
Melting icebergs in the Antarctic are the key, say the team from Cardiff University, triggering a series of chain reactions that plunges Earth into a prolonged period of cold temperatures. #iceage #climatechange
Two reports detail how failure to reduce fossil fuel use and curb emissions are driving catastrophic global warming. #nature #waronnature
We can listen to Greta, without fear, without reproach, without adulation, without cynicism. Or we can carry on with our insane games until the bubble explodes. #IAmGreta
Between Oct 20 and Oct 26, the United States set 3,434 new DAILY low temp records, 234 new MONTHLY low temp records, as well as 114 ALL-TIME low temp records. #climatechange #grandsolarminimum
Leaders of climate and conservation groups on Tuesday welcomed House Democrats’ introduction of landmark Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act legislation that aims to address the ocean impacts of human-caused global heating and reform federal ocean management #climatesolutions #climatechange #OceanClimateAction
The way of the earth is to use elements that produce carbon dioxide that can cause damage to the atmosphere. In this speech Elon Musk looks at the dangers of this phenomenon and climate change.
“The rules today incent people to create carbon and this is madness. And whatever you incent will happen.” Elon Musk
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed a precarious world economy over the edge. This moment offers a rare opportunity to rethink the path that led us here and chart a new course out a Global Green New Deal. #globalgreennewdeal
A small Siberian town north of the Arctic Circle reached 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday, a figure that—if verified—would be the highest temperature reading in the region since record-keeping began in 1885. #recordheat
After an analysis revealed Tuesday that lockdowns from the coronavirus pandemic caused planet-heating emissions to drop in early April by an unprecedented 17%, climate scientists and activists warned that progress will quickly be erased if the world returns to business as usual and called for systemic changes in the global energy, food, and transportation sectors. #emissions
We are all struggling to find hope in the midst of the incredibly dark times of the coronavirus pandemic. Post pandemic we will need to fight for a green and just recovery that brings together addressing climate change and caring for those hurt by the crisis. #ecofriendly
