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“Unless we find a way to overcome anti-science, humankind will face its gravest threat yet — the collapse of civilization as we know it… There...
Hektoria Glacier (Antarctica) retreated 8 kilometers (5 miles) in only two months; one-half of the structure collapsing in record time. This is the...
According to Professor Kevin Anderson, one of the world’s most respected climate scientists, and based upon a 30-year uninterrupted trendline: “We...
Earth’s climate system has suddenly shifted to a new phase of global warming acceleration that few saw coming. This ups the ante for risks of severe...
Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, and University of Chicago scientists founded the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1945. The famous Doomsday...
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (an agency that is subject to drastic cuts in Trump’s FY2026 budget) from October...
The Trump administration has issued a death warrant for science. This kills one of America’s greatest most productive avenues to GDP growth....
The United States of America was unofficially represented at COP30, the annual UN climate conference (November 10-21) in Belem, Brazil by Senator...
Antarctica has moved to “the front of the line” as a global warming threat that’s already well beyond expectations, and it’s happening fast....
Leonid Pshenichov, a 70-year-old biologist, has been arrested by the Kremlin for “undermining Russia’s industrial trawling for krill in...
It’s the largest living structure on Earth, 3,000 individual reefs, 900 islands, 1,430 miles, and it may be collapsing. Alas, The Great Barrier Reef...
Climate change has a new partner in its quest to alter life as we know it: Nuclear, the power buzzword for the AI Holy Grail of human submission to...
A new report by EAT-Lancet Commission (EAT 2.0) explains how we are eating global warming, and what to do about it. This is the second go around by...
In the sharpest possible contrast to the US approach to climate change, in a very grown-up adult fashion, the EU has publicly stated: “EU officials...
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It May Be Too Late is a climate change idiom that is gaining recognition because global warming is bringing the threat of irreversible climate system...
“The continents are drying, freshwater availability is shrinking, and sea level rise is accelerating… Combined, they send perhaps the direst...
“We can have a world that runs on a resource that’s available to everyone everywhere.” – Bill McKibben There’s a renaissance of nature...
Over the past year, several studies about highly dangerous signals of Antarctica on the edge of major abrupt change have appeared in scholarly...
Devastating widespread flooding and flash floods are becoming normal. Try spinning a globe and stop at any continent, other than Antarctica,...
Global Warming (“GW”) is winning, and it is gaining. Obstacles to hotter temperatures are falling to the wayside, allowing GW to go for more...
This figure shows changes in heat content of the top 700 meters of the world’s oceans between 1955 and 2023 (US EPA) A new study published in...
A new study published in Earth’s Future by researchers from Uppsala University with Belgian, French, and German universities have shown that climate...
Insects are vanishing from pristine rainforests. “Around the world many insect populations are crashing.” (Natural History Museum, April 2025)...
“But truth’s a menace. Science is a public danger.” (Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932). Huxley’s “World State” promotes stability and...
America is targeting a hotter planet… Bring it on! That’s the only plausible explanation for the Trump administration’s gung-ho push for 100%...
“A few years ago, no one would have imagined that one of the biggest democracies in the world would cancel research programs under the pretext that...
In a major blow to the Paris ’15 climate agreement, last year witnessed one more nail in the coffin of the celebrated agreement to slow down CO2...
Capitalism, like Antarctica and like the Amazon rainforest, is under threat of destruction by excessive levels of CO2 emissions which cause radical...
The world has entered a new climate era that threatens the fabric of civilization because it’s the reverse of the climate system that society was...
Real estate has become climate change’s biggest victim. Climate change is attacking America’s most valuable, biggest asset class. For the first...
This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past two COPs (UN Conference...
“Climate change is the monster we made. We are Victor Frankenstein.” (Climate Change: The Monster of our own Making, WashU, October 16, 2017,...
The onset of some level of climate upheaval or widespread destruction of biomes and human lives, mild or severe, has essentially been forecast by the...
Climate change deniers are experiencing a renaissance, especially on social media. In concert with this upswing in denialism, home insurance premiums...
Biomes as well as individual ecosystems throughout the globe are experiencing considerable stress. As a researcher/writer since 2010 of more than 400...
Net Zero/2050 Fantasy or Reality may be the most significant issue of the 21st century. Net Zero refers to the balance between the amount of...
Major portions of the Arabian Peninsula are already exceeding 2°C above pre-industrial and likely headed for a staggering temperature rise over...
The definition of alarm: “A warning of danger” (Merriam-Webster) according to The State of the Climate Report 2024, 25 of 35 vital signs are at...