By Karen Chávez 11 November 2017 CODRINGTON, Barbuda (The Citizen-Times) – Carl Francis is a ghost of a man, shuffling slowly, sadly down the roads of a ghost town. Francis, a father of seven, barely lived through the historic rains and winds of Hurricane Irma, which two months ago landed like a bomb on Barbuda, […]
By Louis Sahagun 9 November 2017 (Los Angeles Times) – For Sharon Ditmore, the signs of the holidays showing up in this city devastated by fire are both comforting and depressing.Ditmore lost her home in the working-class neighborhood of Coffey Park and has been living in a friend’s guesthouse. She can’t help but think back […]
By Bobby Magill 6 November 2017 (Climate Liability News) – An environmental group and two Pennsylvania children filed suit against the Trump administration Monday, accusing the federal government of using “junk science” to reverse federal climate policies and knowingly increasing the “damages, death and destruction” that result from climate change.The suit, filed by Philadelphia’s Clean […]
By Damian Carrington and Michael Safi 6 November 2017 RAJGHAT (The Guardian) – “It’s a lucky charm,” says Rajesh, pointing to the solar-powered battery in his window that he has smeared with turmeric as a blessing. “It has changed our life.” He lives in Rajghat, a village on the border of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh […]
By Umair Irfan 7 November 2017 (Vox) – Kevin Pluck has a cool hobby: turning climate trend data into stunning graphics.The Manchester, England-based software engineer’s latest is an animated “barrel graph”comparing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and temperature variations relative to the average between 1951 and 1980, drawing on data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
6 November 2017 (WMO) – It is very likely that 2017 will be one of the three hottest years on record, with many high-impact events including catastrophic hurricanes and floods, debilitating heatwaves and drought. Long-term indicators of climate change such as increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, sea level rise and ocean acidification continue unabated. Arctic sea […]
By Brady Dennis and Chris Mooney 5 November 2017 (The Washington Post) – A year ago, the election of Donald Trump sent shock waves through a United Nations conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, where delegates from more than 190 countries had gathered to push forward with a landmark climate accord signed in Paris the previous year.The […]
By Fredreka Schouten 9 November 2017 St. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands (USA TODAY) – I first glimpse the damage to my home island from afar: A line of beaches pounded clean of sand by hurricane-driven waves. Blue tarps covering scores of roofless homes as my small commuter plane heads for a landing at the airport […]
By Ray Sanchez 11 November 2017 (CNN) – Puerto Rico’s emergency management director resigned Friday as the island’s slowly recovers nearly two months after Hurricane Maria made landfall. In announcing the resignation of Abner Gómez, effective Saturday, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló praised the work of his emergency management chief following Hurricanes Irma and Maria, which both […]
Some islands may see large strips of territory disappear by the end of the century By Jean Chemnick, ClimateWire on 9 November 2017 (E&E News) – The world’s small islands have more to lose from runaway climate change than perhaps anywhere else on Earth. Pacific and Caribbean islands have been battered recently by historically destructive […]
