Scientists at the University of Hamburg in Germany argued Wednesday that meeting the 2015 Paris climate agreement’s goal of limiting planetary heating to 1.5°C is “currently not plausible”—but warned that despairing over climate “tipping points” risks taking attention away from “the best hope for shaping a positive climate future… the ability of society to make […]
It was the year 2028, and I was hiding with eco-terrorists in a cabin deep in the woods. We were trying to avoid detection by the surveillance state, which was tracking activists after attacks on oil and gas infrastructure. Birds were dropping dead from the sky, and a dust storm raged around us, turning the […]
Last year I was fortunate (thanks to my republicEn colleagues’ blessing) to work the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. And last week I wrapped up a week and a half helping out at the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games in Lake Placid, N.Y. By Price Atkinson EcoRight News/ RepublicEN Over 1,400 athletes from more than […]
Last week, Fox News (and The New York Post) ran a piece about “a TikToker… who claims to be an ‘intersectional climate scientist’” and who made a video last year about climate, capitalism, colonialism, and white supremacy. But Dr. Chandler Puritty isn’t just “a TikToker,” and she doesn’t just claim to be a climate scientist, she definitely is one! By Climate Denier Roundup […]
The planet continued its warming trend in 2022, with last year ranking as the sixth-warmest year on record since 1880, according to an analysis by scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). By NOAA Below are highlights from NOAA’s 2022 annual global climate report: Climate by the numbers Earth’s average land and ocean […]
In last year’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Congress included about $20 billion earmarked for natural climate solutions. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is responsible for deciding how those funds should be allocated to meet the climate goals outlined in the text of the IRA, which include projects that will “reduce, […]
Yes, you read that straight. Exxon’s scientists were really, really good at their jobs. Way back in the 1970s, they knew precisely how much global warming would result from fossil fuel use. They just didn’t actually care about anything but their profits. By RL Miller Climate Hawks Vote I’m writing from coastal California, where we’re halfway through […]
California has seen so much rain over the past few weeks that farm fields are inundated and normally dry creeks and drainage ditches have become torrents of water racing toward the ocean. Yet, most of the state remains in severe drought. Andrew Fisher, University of California, Santa Cruz The Conversation The L.A. River was wild […]
Happy New Year! I hope that this start to 2023 finds you feeling energized for the year ahead. There is much work to do, but in our typical style, we hope to make it fun and fulfilling as well. By Chelsea Henderson EcoRight News/ RepublicEN This week’s must read: Here’s what’s to expect from Congress on […]
We all know that person who did something mildly interesting once and then never shuts up about it for the rest of their life: the semester-abroad student who came home with a cheesy forced accent they refuse to drop, the former athlete who still wears their letter jacket well into middle age, or the once-viral […]
In the early hours of Dec. 19 — the last day of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) conference in Montréal — the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted their new post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. The goals and targets agreed within this framework, including the widely discussed Target 3, will guide […]
At the United Nations biodiversity conference that opened in Montreal on Dec. 7, 2022, nations came together to create a new global framework for transforming humanity’s relationship with nature. The conference logo features a human reaching to embrace a panda – but from an ecological perspective, a weasel or badger would be a more appropriate […]
In the summer of 2001, Ben Saunders, then just 23 years old, tried together with a friend to reach the North Pole. It was rough going over the ice, and they eventually turned back. But in 2003, Saunders made it to the Pole on his own. And in the spring of 2004, the freelance adventurer […]
In the Arctic, the freedom to travel, hunt and make day-to-day decisions is profoundly tied to cold and frozen conditions for much of the year. These conditions are rapidly changing as the Arctic warms. Matthew L. Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder; Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Twila Moon, University of Colorado Boulder The […]
There are a lot of great ways to talk about climate change. Framing it as a national security threat and telling Americans that they should take climate action to prevent a flood of climate migrants is not one of them. That’s the very short version of a new brief from Common Defense, one of the […]