Human life “as we know it” could be threatened by climate change, economists at JP Morgan have warned. In a hard-hitting report to clients, the economists said that without action being taken there could be MORE
Swarms of locusts ravaging crops and grazing land across east Africa have reached South Sudan, already reeling from widespread hunger and years of civil war, the country’s agriculture minister said on Tuesday. Kenya, Somalia, Eritrea and MORE
What’s more impressive than the margin of warmth itself is that it occurred without any assistance from an official El Niño event. El Niño tends to produce warmer global temperatures, as the warm sea-surface temperatures slathered across the central and eastern tropical Pacific transfer ocean-stored heat into the atmosphere. MORE
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday pledged that the U.S. would contribute $1 billion to help support the energy independence of European allies. The support to the Three Seas Initiative, an effort that aims to promote dialogue among 12 MORE
It’s a natural fit for an administration as chaotic and corrupt as President Donald Trump’s that William Perry Pendley, who loathes America’s public lands, was picked last September, and reappointed in January, to manage them. The Bureau MORE
Hard Rock Stadium has a problem: It sits on canal C-9, which has been flagged as particularly vulnerable to this issue. (Flooding, rising sea levels, overburdened flood protection) ……Not that it’ll be a problem this MORE
The Trump administration was expected to announce completion as soon as Thursday of one of its most momentous environmental rollbacks, removing federal protections for millions of miles of the country’s streams, arroyos and wetlands. Replacement MORE
“When looking at the status of planet Earth and the influence of current global agriculture practices upon it, there’s a lot of reason to worry, but also reason for hope […]” “Currently, almost half of MORE
“Our house is still on fire. Your inaction is fueling the flames by the hour. And we are telling you to act as if you loved your children above all else.” -Greta Thunberg Greta Thunberg took MORE
By end of 2020, the restaurant industry will be banned from using single-use straws. By 2025, towns and cities across China must reduce the consumption of single-use plastic items in the restaurant industry by 30 percent. MORE
About 62,000 dead or dying common murres (Uria aalge), the trophically dominant fish-eating seabird of the North Pacific, washed ashore between summer 2015 and spring 2016 on beaches from California to Alaska. Most birds were MORE
The Army Corps of Engineers has proposed building a $119 billion dollar, six mile sea wall “to protect the New York area as storms become more frequent, and destructive, on a warming Earth.” “The Corps’s MORE
China isn’t the only nation at risk of losing its biodiversity. An explosive United Nations report released this past May found that up to a million species are at risk of extinction because of human activities. About 66% of the global marine environment has been significantly altered by humans, and more than a third of all marine mammals are threatened, the report said. MORE
“Trump’s NAFTA 2.0 is a climate failure any way you slice it,” the Sierra Club’s Ben Beachy told me. Beyond continuing to allow companies to seek lax climate and environmental rules outside the United States, MORE
It was a lifesaving mission as dramatic as any in the months-long battle against the wildfires that have torn through the Australian bush. But instead of a race to save humans or animals, a specialized MORE