• How Hearst's 'Weather Wonks' invisibilize climate crisis

    Hearst Newspapers’ ‘science-informed’ weather reporting initiative promised to help keep readers safe, but the ‘Texas Weather Wonks’ have entirely ignored the primary driver of recent extreme heat — human fossil-fueled industry.

  • West Africa heatwave was supercharged by climate crisis, study finds

    High temperatures in February affected millions of people and put further pressure on chocolate pricesA searing heatwave that struck west Africa in February was made 4C hotter and 10 times more likely by human-caused global heating, a study has found.The heat affected millions of people but the number of early deaths or cases of illness are unknown, due to a lack of reporting. Continue reading

  • The Guardian asks people to share how the 'climate crisis' has impacted their relationships

    The Guardian is inviting people to detail how the "climate crisis" has impacted their relationships."As the climate crisis increases the frequency and severity of extreme weather events like floods, heatwaves and storms in Europe, it is also having an emotional impact on people," the outlet claimed. "We would like to hear how climate change has affected your relationships – with romantic partners, family or friends.""Perhaps the stress of fleeing extreme weather events like wildfires or floods...

  • Scientists divided over whether record heat is acceleration of climate crisis

    Some believe global anomalies are in line with predictions but others are more concerned by speed of changeRecord temperatures in 2024 on land and at sea have prompted scientists to question whether these anomalies are in line with predicted global heating patterns or if they represent a concerning acceleration of climate breakdown.Heat above the oceans remains persistently, freakishly high, despite a weakening of El Niño, which has been one of the major drivers of record global temperatures...

  • Opinion: Storytellers can inspire climate action without killing hope

    “We Loved It All” is Lydia Millet’s “anti-memoir.” In previous interviews, Millet has rejected memoir in its traditional form for its emphasis on a single person and their overcoming of obstacles as individual achievement. Preferring to situate each of us in relation to the amalgam of culture, environment and social structures that contain us, Millet emphasizes her role as observer in pointing to our environmental future. Memoirs steeped in the natural world have tended toward personal...

  • Andean alarm: climate crisis increases fears of glacial lake flood in Peru

    In 1941, thousands of people died in Huaraz when the natural dam on a lake above the city gave way. Now, melting glaciers are raising the chances of it happening again• Photographs by Harriet BarberLake Palcacocha is high in the Cordillera Blanca range of the Peruvian Andes, sitting above the city of Huaraz at an altitude of about 4,500 metres. When the lake broke through the extensive moraines, or natural dams, holding it in place on 13 December 1941, it sent nearly 10m cubic metres of water...

  • ‘Tone-deaf’ fossil gas growth in Europe is speeding climate crisis, say activists

    Just 2% of continent’s gas capacity has planned retirement date despite pledges to decarbonise, study showsEurope’s “tone-deaf” expansion of fossil gas is accelerating climate breakdown and increasing reliance on hostile regimes, campaigners have warned.Just four of Europe’s gas-fired power plants have a retirement plan and new projects will increase the continent’s gas generation capacity by 27%, according to analysis from the campaign group Beyond Fossil Fuels. Continue reading

  • Editorial: Hold the applause. Biden's new EV rules don't go fast enough for the climate crisis

    It may be tempting to look at new rules finalized Wednesday by the Biden administration boosting sales of electric vehicles as a big step toward slashing climate-changing pollution. But the Environmental Protection Agency rules are more an incremental move, too weak and slow to respond appropriately to the gravity of the unfolding environmental crisis. And that’s a shame, because with a divided Congress, administrative action is the only way for the federal government to do big things such as...

    • CNBC

    How the climate crisis will affect the U.S. economy: Top economists Jeffrey Sachs, Nouriel Roubini and Mark Zandi discuss

    Top economists discuss how climate change may affect the U.S. economy.

  • [OPINION] Taking up our cross

    The cross is a symbol of love and sacrifice for Christians

  • Climate Agreements Suck

    Global CO2 is on a rampage, skyrocketing upwards like never before, double-to-triple rates of only one year ago, see: CO2 Bursting into the Atmosphere. This is not supposed to be happening. It is twisting the planet’s climate system into a pretzel that doesn’t know which way to turn next. There are plenty of reasons to believe it is going to get much, much worse. The planet’s climate system is already so far whacked-out that it’s breathing fire. More

    • WNYC

    The Crisis Unfolding in Haiti

    Garry Pierre-Pierre, founder and publisher of The Haitian Times, discusses the unfolding crisis in Haiti, where gangs have ousted the president and wreaked havoc on the population.