Category Archives: Global warming

Alaska: Log, Mine, Drill, Despoil

While fires rage in the Amazon and Anchorage, Alaska, registers record high temperatures, the Trump administration makes plans to open the world’s largest intact temperate rain forest for exploitation.

Flood the Market

Buyouts can save Houston’s flood-soaked homeowners — if they can get one. Instead, ordinary homeowners fail to qualify, and real estate speculators make out.

Waste Watch: Big Fashion Embraces Sustainability? Ha!

Thirty-two fashion companies present the Fashion Pact to G7; the feeble pledges raise the question: why bother?

The Amazon is Burning at a Record Rate

This Real News Network interview with Amazon Watch’s Christian Poirier discusses Bolsonaro’s policies that prioritize agribusiness over people – especially indigenous people.

It’s Official: Parts of California Are Too Wildfire-Prone To Insure

California is leading a trend of climate-change-induced insurance redlining.

Who Will Pay for the Huge Costs of Holding Back Rising Seas?

Combatting rising seas is a big ticket item, and one beyond the meane even of prosperous cities.

How New York City Has Worked to Protect People from the Deadliest Disaster: Heat

New York City has set out to protect people — and the planet — from heat.

Example of ‘Unknown Unknowns,’ Study Detailing ‘Almost Instant Mortality of Corals’ Suggests Crisis Worse Than Previously Understood

New study published by Current Biology reveals that warming waters are an even bigger threat to coral reefs than experts previously realized.

New IPCC Report Warns of Vicious Cycle Between Soil Degradation and Climate Change

This Real News Network interview with Diana Ruiz of Greenpeace covers yet another dangerous effect of global warming: soil degradation and its knock-on effects.

Tightening Nickel Supply Threatens Electric Vehicle Boom

Nickel supplies are a new electronic vehice maker worry.

Low on Water, California Farmers Turn to Solar Farming

Some California farmers are shifting their “crops” to reduce water use. But is it too little, too late?

Michael Hudson: Global Warming and U.S. National Security Diplomacy

The fatal combination of the national security state’s mentality and oil industry lobbying threatens to destroy the planet’s climate.

Why We Need Publicly Owned Energy for a Green New Deal

Moving to zero carbon output requires a decentralized, publicly-owned energy system.

Why Consumers Aren’t Buying Electric Cars

Press and affluenza enthusiasm for electric vehicles is ahead of mass consumer appetite.