A new report finds that drastic changes are approaching if risks to our fundamental socioecological systems are not addressed.  The Interconnected Disaster Risks Report 2023 warns of six risk tipping points ahead of us: Accelerating extinctions; Groundwater d…

Debris orbiting Earth could render space “unusable” and many areas could become uninsurable due to the increasing costs of weather-related disasters, UN researchers warned.

This year broke records in all the wrong ways. That’s the chilling conclusion of a special report on climate change published in the journal Bioscience.

Brad Swanson In the corporation's version of Newspeak, "carbon emissions" means whatever it wants—and any investment in renewables is just a facade. The post In Exxon’s Orwellian World, Lower Emissions Means More Oil Production appeared first on The …

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost [tossed] upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of the castle and to see the battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage groun…

Figuring out the global climate before thermometers involves an understanding of geology and chemistry to decode the temperature of the planet — a study known as paleoclimatology. Scientists use everything from mud to ice to determine climates from thousands …

Consider all of this, then, the deepest form of human madness and just hope that somehow, from the Middle East to Ukraine, Beijing to Washington, we can wake up to what we’re doing to ourselves before it’s too late.

( Tomdispatch.com) - Let’s admit it: We are indeed mad creatures. This should truly have been the time of our discontent. The northern hemisphere just experienced the hottest summer in recorded history, including month by month the warmest June, July, August,…