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More dogs are getting sick as climate change pushes diseases into new parts of the US
This article discusses how climate change is making dogs sicker.
As if this year’s storms, floods and heat waves weren’t enough to worry you, some experts fear climate change is also expanding the distribution of […]
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Back-to-back historic floods in Atlantic Canada force a climate reckoning
This article discusses how back-to-back historic floods in Atlantic Canada force a climate reckoning. With once-in-a-century floods two years in a row, residents and communities grapple with a new reality and tough choices: rebuild or pack up and leave?
There are no buildings left on the road to Darlings Island, […]
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Sobering Climate Risks
This podcast discusses a report by the the Australia-based Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration. If carbon emissions keep going up until 2030 it will be too late to avoid a ‘hot house’ Earth with a billion climate refugees starting in 2050. These researchers warn the climate is changing […]
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Study: Forget colonizing Mars. We can all move to Russia when the world heats up.
This Grist article discusses a study that shows how Russia will benefit from global warming.
For the study, the authors looked at two different warming scenarios. By the 2080s, average January temperatures in Siberia will increase either by 3.4 degrees C (6.12 degrees F) in the milder scenario or by […]
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Mobil sought to fight environmental regulation, documents show
This The Guardian article discusses documents that show how Mobil sought to fight environmental regulation. Oil giant looked to make tax-exempt donations to universities and civic groups in the early 1990s to promote the company’s interests.
Oil giant Mobil sought to make tax-exempt donations to leading universities, […]
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Study and multiple articles on children’s health
This Yale Climate Connection article discusses why climate change could make children’s allergies worse. More kids could wind up in emergency rooms, new research finds. Some 35,000 to 60,000 U.S. emergency department visits for asthma each year may be linked to oak, birch, and grass pollen, according to
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Understanding the human side of climate change relocation
This article discusses the human side of climate change relocation.
Climate change is expected to have a striking impact on vulnerable communities, especially in coastal regions where sea-level rise and increased climatic events will make it impossible for some people to remain on their land.
In Papua New Guinea (PNG), […]
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Report: End of civilization: climate change apocalypse could start by 2050 if we don’t act
This article discusses the a report that warns that the end of civilization could start by 2050 if we don’t act.
A chilling Australian policy paper outlining a doomsday scenario for humans if we don’t start dealing with climate change suggests that […]
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Study: Climate change threatens to water down Brazil’s Cerrado’s rich biodiversity
This article discusses how climate change threatens to water down Cerrado’s rich biodiversity.
The new study by researchers in Brazil shows that climate change will lead to local extinctions of several mammal species throughout the Cerrado, the vast tropical savanna biome.
Immigration of species from other biomes, including the Amazon and […]
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Latest data shows steep rises in CO2 for seventh year
This The Guardian article discusses the latest data which shows steep rises in CO2 for seventh year. Readings from Hawaii observatory bring threshold of 450ppm closer sooner than had been anticipated.
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by the second highest annual rise in the past […]
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