After the deluge
By Sanaa Alimia, Red Pepper
Thirty-three million people have been affected by the floods in Pakistan. The disaster has left more than 1,700 dead, displaced millions and put one-third of the country under water.
By Sanaa Alimia, Red Pepper
Thirty-three million people have been affected by the floods in Pakistan. The disaster has left more than 1,700 dead, displaced millions and put one-third of the country under water.
By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium.com
If the research is correct and we did suffer a total breakdown of the microlayer, even massive carbon emissions mitigation would do little to staunch the earth's climate unraveling.
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
either attention to climate change will leave all else in the dust or climate change itself will leave us all in the dust, and how truly sad that would be!
By Amitav Ghosh, Green European Journal
Looking around at the energy crisis, the drift to the extreme right and the mounting climate disasters that the world is facing, the common thread of colonial exploitation may not be obvious
By John McLeod, Esperanza Project
By carrying both grief and gratitude, we seem to be transforming at a rate matching the surrounding land.
By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification
Why are the effects of warming so extreme in the Arctic, and what are the implications for weather events and average temperatures on the rest of the planet? Do runaway arctic feedback loops mean disaster ‘Blue Ocean’ scenarios?
By Beatriz Arellano-Nava, Paul Halloran, Chris A Boulton, Carbon Brief
To identify those components of the Earth system that might exhibit tipping behaviour in the future, we can look for abrupt changes in the past.
By Cheryl Katz, Hakai Magazine
As the coastline changes rapidly—reshaping the marine landscape and jeopardizing the hunt—Inuit youth are charting ways to preserve the hunt, and their identity.
By David B Lauterwasser, An Animist’s Ramblings
I would rather live in a society that remembers a time before the overabundance of fossil fuels that caused this mess, in a place where the favorite pastime of people is basically hunting, fishing, gathering and napping, and where every home has a small, diverse, multi-layered garden in the backyard.
By Nneoma Nwachuku Ojiaku, Urban Resilience Project
Yes, Sacramento is heat sick, but we have an effective treatment plan. This treatment plan requires an all-hands-on-deck, holistic approach to addressing the issues of climate change and human health.
By Anam Rathor, 350.org
As Pakistan mourns the destruction and devastation caused by the recent extreme climatic events, the industrialized and post-industrialized countries of the global north responsible for these catastrophes need to be held accountable.
By Olivia Box, The Revelator
Stories about these forests and villages can help connect people to these old-growth systems and their irreplaceable worth and inspire people to continue to work to protect them.