By Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners20 May 2014 (TIME) – To ignore climate change is to abuse the moral call to care for the environment, and generations to come will suffer Some of the most inspiring words in the entire Bible are found in the opening pages of Genesis. Here we are told that humans […]
By Michael Jon Jensen23 May 2014 (Facebook) – An astonishing speech from YesMan Mike Bonnano as commencement speaker at his alma mater, Reed College — including a perfect YesMan event embedded within it. Worth the 25 mins of listening. So smart, so funny. “Graduating Reed College students and their parents gave a standing ovation Monday […]
By Terry Macalister 21 May 2014 (theguardian.com) – BP last night mounted a last ditch attempt to limit the costs of its settlement for the victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill by lodging an appeal to the US supreme court to make a final ruling. Earlier this week the British oil […]
By Aida Cerkez and Jovana Gec21 May 2014 SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (Associated Press) – Floodwaters receded Wednesday in Bosnia and Serbia, just enough to reveal the next shock: recovery from the historic flood will probably cost billions of euros that neither of the countries has. Bosnian Foreign Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija said the flood affected 23,000 square […]
21 May 2014 (Sydney Morning Herald) – Mountaineering tourism in Nepal faces a threat from global warming as melting glaciers feed the risk of more deadly disasters such as the avalanche on Mount Everest that killed 16 people last month, scientists said on Tuesday. More than 2,000 foreign mountaineers flock to the Himalayan nation sandwiched […]
20 May 2014 (UCS) – The growing consequences of climate change are putting many of the country’s most iconic and historic sites at risk. From Ellis Island to the Everglades, Cape Canaveral to California’s César Chávez National Monument, these sites symbolize values that unite all Americans — patriotism, freedom, democracy, and more — and together […]
By Damian Carrington 19 May 2014 (theguardian.com) – Antarctica is shedding 160 billion tonnes a year of ice into the ocean, twice the amount of a few years ago, according to new satellite observations. The ice loss is adding to the rising sea levels driven by climate change and even east Antarctica is now losing […]
By SIMON ROMERO and CHRISTOPHER CLAREY18 May 2014 RIO DE JANEIRO (The New York Times) – Nico Delle Karth, an Austrian sailor preparing for the 2016 Summer Olympics, said it was the foulest place he had ever trained. Garbage bobbed on the surface, everything from car tires to floating mattresses. The water reeked so badly […]
By By Becky Oskin, Senior Writer 12 May 2014 (LiveScience.com) – The biggest glaciers in West Antarctica are hemorrhaging ice without any way to stem the loss, according to two independent studies. The unstoppable retreat is the likely start of a long-feared domino effect that could cause the entire ice sheet to melt, whether or […]
18 May 2014 (Associated Press) – Floodwaters triggered more than 3,000 landslides across the Balkans on Sunday, laying waste to entire towns and villages and disturbing land mines leftover from the region’s 1990s war, along with warning signs that marked the unexploded weapons. The Balkans’ worst flooding since record keeping began forced tens of thousands […]
