By Jeremy Williams If I step outside my front door and look down the street, I can see planes coming into land in one direction, and a water tower across the street in the other. The airport is a major source of climate pollution, and aviation is a growing concern for climate campaigners as it continues to grow unchecked. So […]
Lawsuits have always been a useful strategy for the environmental movement. But historically, environmental nonprofits like Earthjustice usually brought those lawsuits against the government. They often hinged on government’s failure to enforce its own laws or negligence in protecting citizens. Now cash-strapped governments dealing with unprecedented natural disaster recovery costs are suing corporations for damages, opening another front in the […]
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe at a press conference at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Image credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY By Anders Lorenzen Sebastian Coe, the head of World Athletics has warned that in the wake of the climate crisis athletics face an uncertain future and the sport needs to adapt. He explained that already now athletes are suffering […]
By Jeremy Williams This Changes Everything was the title of Naomi Klein’s big climate book a few years ago. This book echoes that in both the title and its blue design, striking a cautionary note – other things matter too, and there are consequences to forgetting that. And no, as Hulme says in pretty much every chapter, that isn’t a […]
The fire seen from the distance when it started on the 8th of August. Photo credit: Michael Johnson via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen A wildfire that broke out in Hawaii last week has so far killed 93 people making it the worst natural disaster to ever hit the island state. In addition to the 93 casualties, a 1,000 people have […]
A proposed tipping cascade where the AMOC would mediate a connection between the other tipping elements. Graphic credit: Nico Wunderling, Jonathan F. Donges, Jürgen Kurths, and Ricarda Winkelmann – Earth System Dynamics paper – Interacting tipping elements increase risk of climate domino effects under global warming, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen In a recent study, Danish researchers […]
Stopping climate change is the top environmental priority, but it’s too late to focus exclusively on prevention. From heat waves to hurricanes, communities are already experiencing the extreme weather impacts of our changing climate. Around the world, civic leaders are working to make their communities more resilient in the face of climate change and increasingly common environmental disasters. Resilience planning […]
A burning shipyard in Mandra, west of Athens pictured on the 18th of July 2023. Photo credit: Petros Giannakouris, AP By Anders Lorenzen The tragic and unprecedented wildfires in many parts of Greece seem to have no end in sight as they escalated on Sunday and have now burned for a week – painting the country as a key climate […]
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A satellite image from Copernicus shows the land-surface temperatures in Spain. Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-3 imagery. By Anders Lorenzen Much of southern Europe and in particular Spain is experiencing record-breaking temperatures and an extreme unprecedented heatwave named Cerberus. The temperatures exceeding 40 Degrees C and land temperatures for the first time ever exceeding 60 Degrees C l is unprecedented […]