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The Trump administration has entered Stage 5 climate denial.
This article discusses how the Trump administration has entered Stage 5 climate denial – if we’re already doomed to disastrous climate change, then there’s no reason to cut carbon pollution, argues the Trump administration.
To date, the Trump administration has pinballed between Stages 1, 2, and 3, calling climate change
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Study: What can you do if you are overwhelmed by climate change?
This article discusses what you can do if you are overwhelmed by climate change. From campaigning to installing insulation and solar panels, some practical steps you can take to help avoid climate breakdown.
The challenge of avoiding catastrophic climate breakdown requires “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society”,
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Report: What Can I Actually Do About Climate Change? Your Choices Really Do Add Up
This article discusses what you can do about climate change? Your choices really do add up.
The latest report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change said the world will reach an environmental crisis by 2040 if immediate action isn’t taken to slow global warming. While the report […]
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Little changes can make a big difference in climate change
This Nature Conservancy article discusses how Little changes can make a big difference in climate change.
There is mounting evidence that climate change affects us all. Unfortunately, in the Pacific Northwest we need look no further than this summer’s smoke-filled air from forest fires caused by hotter, drier conditions.
The good news […]
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Young Activists’ Lawsuit Seeks to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Emissions
This article discusses a lawsuit that seeks to phase out fossil fuel emissions. Environmentalists are hoping that a trial, due to begin October 29, will explain to the public how the government has known for decades about the dangers of fossil fuels but failed to act on this knowledge.
The lawsuit […]
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Opinion: No more BBC platform for climate change deniers? It’d be about time
This opinion piece discusses recent developments in news reporting – no more BBC platform for climate change deniers? It’d be about time.
From time to time the BBC gets itself into an awful mess over climate change. Unnecessarily so, given that it has visited and revisited principles of […]
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Rise for Climate: thousands march across US to protest environment crisis
This article discusses protests spearheaded by a march in San Francisco ahead of climate change summit in the city.
Tens of thousands of people took part in marches and other events across the US on Saturday, calling for a swift transition to renewable energy in order to stave off the […]
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Will Judges Have the Last Word on Climate Change?
This article discusses how some activists are taking the fossil fuel industry to court over their part in causing climate change.
In the fight against climate change, one tool is proving increasingly popular: litigation. From the U.S. to India, […]
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Maine City’s Oil Export Ban Survives Pipeline Co. Challenge
This article discusses a recent win for Maine – its oil export ban survived a pipeline company’s court challenge. A federal judge on Friday upheld South Portland, Maine’s ordinance barring the export and bulk loading of Canadian crude oil onto marine tank vessels from the city’s waterfront, rejecting Portland […]
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DeSmogBlog-Another set of environmental stories
This blog post addresses multiple issues and is well worth subscribing to:
What Shell knew (and when) about fossil fuels and its impact on climate.
Felony arrests of activists fighting against a Louisiana pipeline.
Virginia environmental regulators and their financial relationship with Dominion Energy.
The Koch brothers fight against electric buses.
Florida’s problems with […]
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