Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), site of the COP28 conference at the end of the month, where government representatives from all UN countries will discuss global efforts to limit climate change and adapt to its effects. Photo credit: Frank Peters / Alamy. By Kashmala Kakakhel COP28 will be judged on its solutions to questions of climate finance – for mitigation, […]
Everything is connected. One change leads to 10,000 others. When we talk about quality of life, it’s not just about one of us or our communities, but the entire world. Today’s quote comes from English-American stage actor George Holland, “Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.” Earth911 inspiration posters: […]
climate change Photo credit: Make My Money Matter. By Anders Lorenzen Olivia Colman, the British film and TV star whom readers outside the UK might best know for her role portraying the Queen in the Netflix blockbuster The Crown, takes on an entirely different role in a campaign film released by the campaign group Make My Money Matter. In the […]
The monsoon season in Bangladesh typically runs from May to September, with rainfall peaking in July and sputtering out in early October. This year, however, there was more rain than usual in October and even some showers in normally dry November. The extra rain, along with overall warmer temperatures, contributed to a surge in cases of dengue fever, prolonging the […]
Of the many climate struggles going on today, the great one, played out in hundreds of arenas around the world, is the struggle to rein in and then halt the buildup of greenhouse gases. Gaining ever-more attention is the struggle to adapt to the climate impacts already upon us. But there is a new struggle that needs to be joined […]
By Anders Lorenzen On the eve of the COP28 climate summit, scientists at the United Nations (UN) warned that the world is on track for 3 degrees C of warming by the end of this decade. This is double the target that world leaders agreed to in 2015 when the Paris Agreement deal was struck and subsequently implemented. But with […]
Shoppers rush into a store as the door opens for the Black Friday sale. Photo credit: By Powhusku from Laramie, WY, USA CC BY-SA 2.0 – via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen Today the frenzy consumerist festival Black Friday officially begins, that to begin with was held on the last Friday of November, and has now grown far beyond this with […]