Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed has told his cabinet members to get ready for an underwater cabinet meeting later this month. Maldives is a collection of islands and atolls in the Indian Ocean that is less than 2 meters above sea…
Apple is Next to Leave US Chamber of Commerce, Forcefully
Following action by Nike, the nation’s leading utility company, and others, Apple resigned from the US Chamber of Commerce this week, and in force. [social_buttons]
WATER: #1 Global Security & Health Concern
Water scarcity resulting from climate change is the number one issue the world will have to grapple with in the future, according to chief climate scientist and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri. On the one hand, we will…
700 Naked People in France for Climate Change Action
700 people stripped naked in French vineyards this week. Why? To try to influence world leaders to do more regarding climate change.
Nike Opposes US Chamber of Commerce & Leaves Board, over Climate Change
Nike just announced that it is leaving its position on the US Chamber of Commerce board of directors because of the business organization’s opposition to climate action. Nike doesn’t beat around the bush on why it is leaving the board.
Is the US Climate Illiterate?
“The United States is in a sense climate illiterate still,” Hans Schellnhuber, the director of Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said earlier this week. He wasn’t just comparing the US to the EU, however. Even developing nations seem…
Amazon Says Goodbye to World’s Largest Meat Exporter
Last month, I wrote about the world’s largest leather exporter leaving the Amazon. This week there is even bigger news. The world’s largest meat exporter is leaving.
Lasers from Space Show Ice Sheets Thinning — Greenland and Antarctica
This week in the journal Nature scientists give the most comprehensive view of thinning ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica to date. Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the University of Bristol analyzed 50 million satellite measurements (from NASA)…
Global Collapse, Human Survival & the Planet’s Boundaries
A new study by nearly 30 of the world’s best scientists concludes that we have crossed three of the world’s nine thresholds. It is not only about climate change.