On Thin Ice: Big Northern Lakes Are Being Rapidly Transformed
As temperatures rise, the world’s iconic northern lakes are undergoing major changes that include swiftly warming waters, diminished ice cover, and outbreaks of harmful algae.
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The Elephant in Paris – the Military and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
In the aftermath of the terrible killings in Paris, military responses are again taking central stage
‘This Changes Everything’: What the Paris Attacks Mean for the Climate Protests
Now is not the time to stay silent.
Explainer: The Legal Form of the Paris Climate Agreement
The aim of the UN summit in Paris is to seal a universal, international agreement on avoiding dangerous climate change, that has legal force
It’s Already Happening: A Message to COP 21
With fewer than three weeks to go until the start of COP21, the UN’s climate negotiations in Paris, a question arises: Will this gathering make the slightest difference?
Is the Paris Climate Conference Designed to Fail?
The last time this much public attention was focused on the climate talks was in the lead-up to the Copenhagen conference in 2009. We should not forget how that turned out.
Beyond Keystone: Why Climate Movement Must Keep Heat On
It took a committed coalition and the increasingly harsh reality of climate change to push President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. But sustained public pressure will now be needed to force politicians to take the next critical actions on climate.
A History of the Climate Negotiations in Six Videos
A few days ago, the topic for my undergraduate class, Earth in Crisis, taught to 150 students, half in Sociology and half in Environmental Studies at UC Santa Barbara, was “What a COP is Really Like, and What the Treaty Looks Like.”
The Global Oil Supply: Implications for Biodiversity?
The link between the global oil supply and biodiversity is not directly causal; rather, the two are elements of a broader and more integrated picture.
The Next Tango in Paris
Carbon-neutral is so 20th century. We really need to get beyond zero. That is what ecovillages can offer.
What Does Climate Change Look Like?
Extreme weather events will, of course, become more common as the planet warms. But the disruption and suffering of climate change will be largely hidden in the form of events like the war in Syria, the rise of extremists, even civil unrest like that of the “Arab Spring” which we, in the West, view favorably.
Living in the Anthropocene – a Frame for New Activism
We have emerged from the geological epoch of the Holocene into a new epoch designated as the Anthropocene.
