By Omair Ahmad Journalist Akshat Rathi’s new book, Climate Capitalism, looks at how businesses are embracing climate-positive practices, providing extensive insights and plenty of optimism, but missing out on developing countries and important details. Akshat Rathi’s Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions, is a book heavy on hope, data and examples. Despite its vast scope – telling […]
By Anders Lorenzen One of the world’s largest tech companies, Google (owned by Alphabet), has often come under criticism, partly for its commitment to tackling climate change and its overall sustainability goals, but also for double standards. Its platform hosts climate-denying content, and the company seems unable to crack down on it. But the latest initiative by Google will be […]
By Anders Lorenzen Scientists have said that the world has just experienced its warmest January ever recorded and for the first time, the world has experienced a 12-month period where temperature increases averaged more than 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial. This is according to data from the European Union’s climate change monitoring satellite Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) which was […]
Peter Frankopan’s The Earth Transformed: An Untold Story, explores the relationship between climate and human civilizations. He points out that over millennia, people have responded to climate changes by fighting over limited resources. This weeks inspiration quote calls for a new approach to conflict: “Climate change won’t kill us, we’ll kill each other over the remaining scraps of civilization. We […]
By James Arnott and Shannon Stirone Recent research shows that the unfolding crises in climate change and social isolation may actually be connected. The climate crisis isn’t just altering our physical environments. It could even be transforming our minds and how we connect to each other. Many people are experiencing escalating anxiety levels about the potential for extreme weather events […]
The impacts of climate change are complicated, but we can all feel the changing seasons and how winter is becoming shorter. Summer is longer, hotter, and drier, while Winter is getting shorter. One study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that by 2100, winters may last only two months while summer heat could go on for six months. […]
Author Margaret Atwood picks words to matter, and she thinks humans are still soft-pedaling the impact of global warming. “I think calling it climate change is rather limited,” Atwood wrote. “I would rather call it the everything change.” Post and share Earth911 posters to help people think of the planet first, every day. Click the poster to get a larger […]
By Jeremy Williams There’s a scene in Kenneth Grahame’s classic children’s book The Wind in the Willows where the wise Mr Badger rebukes the wayward Mr Toad. Badger takes him into the smoking room for a lecture, and then brings the repentant Toad out to tell his friends that he has seen the error of his ways: “Toad, I want […]
2023 was the hottest year in history, and the the U.S. experienced more $1-billion disasters due to extreme than any previous year. There’s no question that Climate Change’s impact are being felt across the nation and around the world — and you can make a difference. Cut your climate-warming emissions to contribute to reducing the severity of extreme weather in […]
People watching the sunset during a London 2018 heatwave. By Anders Lorenzen An independent report commissioned by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, titled The London Climate Resilience Review and led by the former chair of the Environment Agency, Emma Howard Boyd, has warned that the UK’s capital is unprepared for climate-fuelled risks. As the world continues to warm in […]