Fiji’s prime minister has called on the U.S. to allow Marshall Islanders to emigrate freely to America if their islands are swamped by rising seas. Fiji has offered sanctuary to climate refugees from its neighbors, Kiribati (pronounced Kiribas in case you ever need to say it out loud!) and Tuvalu, but says the U.S. owes…
By Renee Lewis / Source TRT World Leading climate scientist Michael E. Mann wasn’t looking for proof of man-made climate change while he worked on his PhD at Yale University in the late 1990s — but he and his co-authors found exactly that. Mann was actually just looking into natural climate variability, but one part…
By Renee Lewis / Source Fusion.net The Pacific Northwest is proving that grassroots action against the fossil fuel industry can work, and the strategies they’re using can be used anywhere. The region has seen a tsunami of fossil fuel infrastructure proposals in the last few years—from coal export, oil-by-rail, liquefied natural gas, and more. “And…
I care about climate change and I don’t care that President Trump left the Paris deal. In fact, I’m happy he left it. Trump’s leaving the deal (supposedly to protect American workers/businesses) is finally raising some questions about what climate benefits would’ve actually come from the Paris agreement (some, but not nearly enough). And it comes…
By Renee Lewis / Source Fusion.net Since President Donald Trump’s election, conservationists have been worried about the potential for wildlife protections to be scaled back in the name of economic growth. Also worried is a Native American tribe in northern California that has been working for over a decade to reintroduce the nearly extinct California…
I have to admit when I read the headlines for this one I skipped over it. “Climate change makes entire river disappear” sounded too sensationalized. Maybe the river disappeared, but it must have been part of a long term process put in motion by other factors — right? Wrong. It is as crazy as it…
Artist Hanah Rothstein created the “National Parks 2050” poster series to show how climate change will impact seven of the U.S.’s most famous parks. With the “safe” temperature rise threshold of 2 degrees Celsius set to be surpassed by 2050 if current emissions continue unchanged, our world could look very different in the coming decades. The…
The number of Americans who worry “a great deal” about climate change rose from 37 percent in 2016 to 45 percent in 2017, a recent Gallup poll found. Not only that, record percentages of Americans consider global warming a serious threat and believe that it is caused by human activities. In 2015, 57 percent of…
When I worked for Al Jazeera America in New York City (2013-2016) I read that Santo Domingo – the capital of the Dominican Republic – will be among the worst-hit cities in the world because of sea level rise. I traveled there in 2015 to investigate and wrote an article about it. In February of…
When the news broke in February that the West’s largest coal plant,located on Navajo land near Page, Arizona, was slated to close in 2019, years earlier than expected, environmentalists celebrated. But Navajo leaders scrambled to work out a deal to keep the plant open — arguing it employed hundreds of Navajo members and bolstered the…
By Renee Lewis / Source Fusion.net An Oregon man could face decades behind bars for his part in a coordinated direct action that disrupted the flow of millions of gallons of tar sands oil from Canada to refineries in the United States. Ken Ward, founder of the Climate Disobedience Center—which serves as a catalyst for…
“Monsanto helped to create the problem and should be a part of the solution,” said Marlene Feist, utilities director of strategic development in Spokane, WA. The problem is contamination from Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which were used to insulate electric equipment and in numerous products, including paint, for much of the 20th century. The chemicals were…
