Experiencing the Wrath of Ida and the Bliss of Gaia

By Bart Everson, Gaianism

I am Gaia. So are you. It’s just a matter of remembering. And strangely enough it felt like remembering was a little easier during the power outage.

The last climate warning: heatwaves and the IPCC leak

By Juan Bordera Romá, Fastlove Studios

The companies that used to spend millions to deny that climate change even existed, now, since it is no longer possible to cover up the elephant in the room, seek to promote these doubts about the origin of it, emphasizing that the earth has always changed, that it is no big deal, etc.

Media reaction: Texas ‘deep freeze’, power blackouts and the role of global warming

By Josh Gabbatiss, Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief

In this article, Carbon Brief summarises how the media has covered the storm, but, particularly, its repercussions across the energy sector and potential links to climate change.

Forget Ted Cruz, What’s Really Missing in Texas Is the Green New Deal

By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams

As climate campaigners and the congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doubled down on their support for the Green New Deal, frontline organizations issued a demand for a just recovery...

Hurricane Laura’s Aftermath: Miles of Oil Sheen in Louisiana’s Wetlands

By Julie Dermansky, DeSmog Blog

Almost a week after Hurricane Laura struck Louisiana's coast, which is studded with oil and gas industry pipes, tanks, wells, and rigs, I photographed from the sky oil sheen along at least 20 miles of marsh and bayous that absorbed the full strength of the storm.

‘That’s the Way It Is’: Trump’s Dismissal of Hurricane Laura and Climate Crisis Echoes Remarks on COVID-19 Deaths

By Sharon Kelly, DeSmog Blog

Already, 2020 is shaping up to be a record-breaking year for powerful storms and other impacts of the climate crisis. The most important unknown element, when it comes to how bad things could get, scientists say, is what actions we take today to curb the worst effects of climate change down the road.

Extreme Weather Just Devastated 10m Acres in the Midwest. Expect More of This

By Art Cullen, The Guardian blog

The derecho is yet another destructive reminder that heat leading to extreme storms will destroy our very food sources if we don’t face the climate crisis now.

100 degrees in Siberia? 5 Ways the Extreme Arctic Heat Wave Follows a Disturbing Pattern

By Mark Serreze, The Conversation

The Arctic heat wave that sent Siberian temperatures soaring to around 100 degrees Fahrenheit on the first day of summer put an exclamation point on an astonishing transformation of the Arctic environment that’s been underway for about 30 years.

Paradise Lost

By Rachel Ramirez, Grist

Super Typhoon Yutu made history as the worst storm to hit United States soil since 1935. The Category 5 storm, with sustained winds of 180 mph, wreaked havoc on the islands of Saipan and Tinian, which are part of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The storm left thousands of residents without homes.

More than Half the World could See ‘Record-Setting Heat’ Every Year by 2100

By Daisy Dunne, Carbon Brief

More than half of the world could see new temperature records set in every single year by the end of the century if global warming is not curbed, a study finds.

Mozambique Is Drowning. Nebraska Has Flooded. We Need a Green New Deal.

By William Rivers Pitt, TruthOut

For years, stories of massive climate disasters such as these may have felt distant to many U.S. readers, but the climate crisis has arrived here, too.

Cyclone Idai Lays Bare the Fundamental Injustice of Climate Change

By Eric Holthaus, Grist

A humanitarian catastrophe is underway in Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe as the full scale of devastation from Cyclone Idai becomes more clear.