Tag: climate change

Imperial gigantism and the decline of planet Earth.

How resource scarcity and climate change could produce a global explosion.

There is no such thing as an environmental refugee, yet displacement as the result of climate change is growing exponentially. A personal look at the crisis in East Africa.

We are long past coal mine canaries.

Why it’s so tough to get your head around climate change.

Increasingly frequent disasters like Hurricane Sandy and Typhoon Bopha raise the question of global sharing.

Why climate change won’t wait for the president.

One of the world’s leading climate activists on the science of dangerous weather, the imperative to organize, and how to get out of bed in the morning on a planet in peril.

Aerial photos from Greenland take climate change out of the realm of abstraction.

Getting the commons into school curriculum will help students understand climate change (and a lot more).

Human rights abusers who help stop climate change, and the global system that keeps them in business

The award-winning author on why he loves to write fiction and talk politics, and how nationalism fuels climate change.

Activists are waging a secret war, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

How not to change the world.

Hurricane Sandy rides in.

Our political language is in desperate need of a change.

The problem may not be their lack of integrity, but how we frame the issue.

The scientific community is largely united on the dangers of climate change, so why is no one listening?

To find out how fast, and how much, polar ice might melt in the future, scientists are looking to ancient rocks for clues of what happened in the past.

Is it time to think about a different economic system, for the sake of the planet?

Heat, drought, rising food costs, and the chaos that could ensue.

Has the fight against climate change just taken a monumental step forward?

China’s voracious appetite for resources isn’t something to be feared—it should be emulated.

To solve global problems, we have to start thinking in terms of civilizations instead of than nation-states.  A dispatch from the recent Istanbul Partners Forum.

Climate change denial is facing significant new challenges, but the fight is nowhere close to over.

How Texas managed to export its energy policy to the rest of America.

“The Island President,” a new film about the crisis in the Maldives, wants to change the way we talk about climate change.

Skeptics cite 700 “scientists” who doubt global warming. Except few are climatologists. And Joseph Romm says they’re conducting the greatest disinformation campaign in history.