Tag Archives: climate-change

Wildfire smoke from Canada is now blanketing the East Coast, creating some of the worst air quality in the world. The official explanation for these strange conflagrations — lightning strikes across unusually dry forests, igniting more than 100 out-of-control blazes in Quebec alone — hits many smooth-brained denizens of the …

Arnold Schwarzenegger is on a crusade to tackle climate change, but first he believes the phrase needs a rebranding. “As long as they keep talking about global climate change, they are not gonna go anywhere. ‘Cause no one gives a shit about that,” he said in a Sunday Morning segment …

United Nations representatives from Kenya, Sudan, Guatemala, and the Netherlands traveled to Coachella Valley during its historic festival to meet artists and build support to combat climate-induced hunger. According to CORE, a crisis response non-profit founded by CEO Ann Lee and actor Sean Penn following the Haiti earthquake of 2010, …

Electric cars are awesome.Now, thanks to new vehicle-emissions standards proposed this week by the Biden administration that aim to accelerate the adoption of electric cars, it’s pretty obvious the internal-combustion engine is the dodo bird of energy technology, soon to exist only in the memories of aging car buffs and …

“We found love in a hopeless place,” Rihanna famously sang. And there’s nowhere quite as hopeless as the anthropocene — our current geological era, in which humans have begun to have an adverse impact on Earth’s climate. Fatalism about the future of our planet can certainly kill the mood, but, …

G race Gibson-Snyder takes a sip of chai from her reusable mug in the crowded coffee shop. She grew up here in Missoula, she says, “with a love of nature untainted by worry.” Every year on her birthday, her family took her to Yellowstone to hike and backpack. She rafted …

IN THE CORNER of IndieBio NY’s open workspace sit four guitars. Well, technically they’re acoustic and electric hollow-body and solid-body guitars — and a keytar. The instruments aren’t there just to keep the startup founders who come through IndieBio’s six-month program entertained. They also represent a culture of progressive thinking. …

T he climate crisis is many things: a test of whether we can overcome the vast gulfs between the Global North and the Global South, a challenge to a political system geared toward short-term thinking, a lens that magnifies past injustice and future deprivation. But it’s also, at heart, a …

A T THE EDGE of the Okavango Delta in northern Namibia, the land is so flat that I could see the top of ReconAfrica’s drill rig when we were about a mile away. ReconAfrica is a small Canadian oil-and-gas-exploration company that claimed to have discovered an oil-and-gas basin rivaling anything …

The towering voice of film director Oliver Stone opens the trailer of Nuclear Now with the words: “We may have come to a point in time when Earth is asking us: ‘Do you know what you’re doing?’” It’s a valid question Mother Earth may have as the climate crisis continues …