Ocean acidification may create an impact similar to extinction on marine ecosystems, according to a study published Monday.
Category: World
[OPINION] The Climate Crisis Needs Obama’s Attention
WOODS HOLE, Mass. – A seemingly permanent sense of crisis has engulfed our political world – Benghazi, the sequester, the hunt for rogue IRS agents. President Obama must break free if he is to govern effectively. He can do so by speaking forcefully on the most profound crisis confronting this nation:
[OPINION] Global Capital and the Nation State
As global capital becomes ever more powerful, giant corporations are holding governments and citizens up for ransom — eliciting subsidies and tax breaks from countries concerned about their nation’s “competitiveness” — while sheltering their profits in the lowest-tax jurisdictions they can find. Major advanced countries — and their citizens — need a comprehensive tax agreement that won’t allow global corporations to get away with this.
Survey Finds Consensus Among Scientists On Global Warming’s Cause
A new survey finds near-unanimous consensus among scientists that climate change is caused by human activity.
Australia’s Wildfires Visible From Space
The face of climate change comes in many shapes these days: A roller coaster sitting in the surf, post-Hurricane Sandy. A farmer tilling in a drought-stressed crop, for a total loss.
[OPINION] No More Business As Usual
My family and I live in Lower Manhattan. Hurricane Sandy left us, as it did so many other families and businesses, without power, heat, hot water and refrigeration. Out heartfelt best goes out to all who were affected. Recovery hasn’t been easy – not for any of us.
Inaction Threatens The World
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new World Bank report warns that time may be running out to temper the rising risks of undesirable climate change.
Opinion: We Can Slow Near-Term Climate Change
Much within Amy Luers’ recent Daily Climate essay on extreme weather and the climate crisis is to be commended. Indeed, cutting emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) today won’t eliminate a climate change-induced pattern favoring more severe storms and extreme weather.
[Opinion] John Lennon: The Last Great Anti-War Activist
Despite the moving tributes that were paid to John Lennon’s lyrical vision of a world without war, racial or religious divisions or hunger at the conclusion of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, there’s really very little real talk of peace anymore.
NASA Lands “Curiosity” Rover Beside Martian Mountain
PASADENA, Calif. – Just after 1:30 a.m. this morning, NASA’s most advanced Mars rover has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton “Curiosity,” hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation.