Cannon Ball, North Dakota, 4 December 2016 (Stand With Standing Rock) – The department of the Army will not approve an easement that will allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe. The following statement was released by Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II. Today, the U.S. Army Corps of […]
11 November 2016 (Reuters) – Brazil’s Amazon guardians: fallen trees are seen during an operation to combat illegal mining and logging conducted by agents of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, or Ibama, supported by military police, in the municipality of Novo Progresso, Para State, northern Brazil, 11 November 2016. Photo: […]
[cf. Australia’s One Nation party vs. science] By Jessica Shankleman21 November 2016 (Bloomberg) – Populism is drawing momentum from environmentalism in the U.S. and Europe, threatening the world’s effort to rein in climate change. Donald Trump’s election in the U.S., the U.K. Independence Party and Marine Le Pen’s ascent in France all represent a break […]
By Jordan Fermanis1 December 2016 (Crikey) – When One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts delivered his maiden speech to the Senate on September 13 of this year, he used the occasion to attack the science of climate change. In his speech, Roberts labelled climate change a “scam”, said it was prone to “hyperbolic predictions” and accused […]
[Who needs NASA scientists when you have misleading opinions from the platform of the fascist Right? –Des] By Phil McCausland2 December 2016 (NBC News) – The House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology’s Twitter account retweeted a Breitbart News article that is unscientific and steeped in opinion on Thursday. The article claims the […]
By Jan Rocha26 November 2016 SÃO PAOLO (Climate News Network) – The government of Bolivia, a landlocked country in the heart of South America, has been forced to declare a state of emergency as it faces its worst drought for at least 25 years. Much of the water supply to La Paz, the highest capital […]
By Eric Sorensen28 September 2016 VANCOUVER, Washington (WSU News) – Washington State University researchers say the world’s reservoirs are an underappreciated source of greenhouse gases, producing the equivalent of roughly 1 gigaton of carbon dioxide a year, or 1.3 percent of all greenhouse gases produced by humans. That’s more greenhouse gas production than all of […]
OAKLAND, California, 26 October 2016 (Global Footprint Network) – The overexploitation of ecological resources by humanity is directly contributing to the 67 percent plunge in wild vertebrate populations scientists forecast for the 50-year period ending in 2020, according to WWF’s Living Planet Report 2016. The top threats to species identified in the report are directly […]
By Frank Jordans27 October 2016 (PhysOrg) – Southern Spain will become desert and deciduous forests will vanish from much of the Mediterranean basin unless global warming is reined in sharply, according to a study released Thursday. Researchers used historical data and computer models to forecast the likely impact of climate change on the Mediterranean region, […]
By Phil Plait 23 November 2016 (Slate) – In a month where it’s easy to get outrage fatigue at the incoming Donald Trump administration, he still finds a way to be brazenly awful and make terrible, dangerous decisions. In an interview with the Guardian, Bob Walker, a senior Trump adviser, said that Trump will eliminate […]
