ECHR ruling and climate crisis – The Irish Times

The Irish Times— Sir, – Amid the disconcerting developments in European environmental policy, the recent decision by the European Court of Human Rights...

Hindustan Times—Focus on climate crisis over wars: Climate scientist on Earth Day. Addressing the climate crisis, not wars, should be on top of world’s to-do list, one of the world’s top climate scientists said on Sunday. India should be prepared to face killing heat and related disasters, Friederike Otto, senior lecturer at the Grantham Institute of Climate Change and the Environment at London’s Imperial College, said in an interview with Jayashree Nandi. The climate emergency is supercharging floods, droughts and heavy rain across the world, said the leading climate...

Envirotech Online—How just 57 companies caused the climate crisis. The influence of just a small number of companies on global warming is stark and disproportionate. Recent data reveals that only 57 companies, primarily in the oil, gas, coal, and cement industries

NBC News—For cicadas, it's safety in numbers. Is climate change throwing off their timing?. A cicada in sync with its brood is a cicada with a chance. The insects’ synchronized emergence is an evolutionary strategy, scientists say. Birds, raccoons and other predators can eat only so many of them. So the more cicadas emerge together, the better the odds that more will live on to reproduce and pass along their genes. “They have the safety-in-numbers strategy,” said Chris Simon, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut who studies the insects. The...