It doesn't look good.
Seven months ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an alarming report stating the world has 12 years to halt coal consumption and slash carbon dioxide emissions to prevent the atmosphere from warming more...
In case you haven't noticed, the weather has been--shall we say--unusual.
We needn't look any further than what occurred last week in the Midwest, where it was colder than in Antarctica and on Mount Everest.
The average...
Apparently we don't have to fear climate change anymore.
That is if we go by a move the Trump administration made this week when it dropped climate change from a list of global threats.
Instead, President Trump's National...
When President Donald Trump announced Monday he would be reducing the sizes of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah, he delivered the following message:
“The families and communities of Utah know and love this land...
Last spring, when President Donald Trump was considering withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate accords, other nations' leaders pleaded with him to reconsider, appealing to a sense of responsibility and prudence.
He was reminded of the...
Perhaps people thought it was "fake news."
Two years ago, an article appeared in the Miami Herald about Florida Department of Environmental Protection officials being barred from using the terms "climate change" or "global warming" in official communications, emails,...
“If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be...
815 million people around the world went hungry last year.
This, according to the latest data from the United Nations, is the first increase in global hunger in more than 15 years.
Sweeping initiatives from nations all...
If there's anything consistent about the right, it's that it believes economics are at the crux of every political, professional, personal, social, and environmental decision.
The "free market," they say, "will solve all that ails us."
Of...
Here is something you will not hear in the American mainstream media:
"The chance of 'catastrophic' climate change completely wiping out humanity by 2100 is now 1-in-20."
That is a headline from the British Daily Mail, reporting a recent...
With Hurricanes Irma and Harvey devastating the Gulf Coast in recent weeks, most Americans are recognizing these new “super storms” for what they are: evidence of climate change negatively impacting our world.
Scientists warned that these...
Conservatives on social media are freaking out because Jennifer Lawrence reportedly said that the recent hurricanes that have hit the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean are the result of Mother Nature's "wrath" against American voting...
A former policy advisor to the Interior Department has become, in his words, a “whistleblower” on the Trump administration’s treatment of climate scientists.
Joel Clement was director of the Office of Policy Analysis at the Interior...
According to a new report from Bloomberg, the U.S. will seek to use money intended for climate change adaptation to promote the construction of new coal plants.
The plan, according to an anonymous official inside the...
A federal court ruled this week that the Trump Administration cannot delay implementation of an Environmental Protection Agency rule requiring oil and gas companies to fix methane leaks from their equipment.
Methane is a greenhouse gas...
It’s no surprise that if everyone in America recycled, the country would be a lot cleaner. But recycling offers significant opportunities for economic growth, too. A recent feature in USA Today underscores how recycling can...
In the wake of America’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, U.S. states are moving to combat climate change without the help of the federal government.
This week, Minnesota joined a growing list of states committed to...
If you've got plans to see the Grand Canyon, do it soon, because if the Trump Administration gets its way, a lift on the ban on uranium mining might be in the near future.
According to...
This article was prepared by Bridget Stack and Lindsey Pasieka with ConsumerSafety.org.
If you watched President Donald Trump’s first hundred days speed by, you’re no doubt familiar with the enormous scope of changes he is bringing forward....
Despite vocal opposition from businesses, advisers, and prominent members of his own party, President Donald Trump announced today that he would take America out of the Paris Agreement. The historic climate deal was developed in...
