Despite the global trend of record temperatures and the increasing number of disasters caused by extreme weather events, the political impetus to combat global warming is weakening all over Europe. Not only far-right forces want to stop ambitious climate policy, but also other political parties tend to neglect this […] Click here to view original […]

Smoke from bushfires at Coolagite on the New South Wales coast on Oct. 3, 2023.Photographer: James Brickwood/Sydney Morning Herald/Getty Images/Fairfax Media Australia’s worsening climate change may see insurance companies and banks withdraw their services from communities vulnerable to extreme events, potentially triggering “cascading effects” across the economy, a new […] Click here to view original

President Joe Biden during a State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Thursday, March 7, 2024. President Joe Biden is asking Congress for $8 billion to hire hundreds of thousands of workers for a New Deal-inspired jobs program to fight climate change around […] Click here to view original

Over the last several weeks, California has been subjected to a series of extreme weather events. Los Angeles, which averages 14 inches of rain a year, received over 12.5 inches in February. A series of torrential storms flooded sections of the city, causing over 500 mudslides and the destruction […] Click here to view original

“Climate change is not a tragedy, it’s a crime.” This refrain, increasingly common among climate activists, encapsulates rising moral outrage at major fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP as more information has come to light about their knowledge and conduct regarding global warming. The essential fact […] Click here to view original

Bryce Phillips, founder and CEO of Evo, at the companyǃÙs flagship store in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood. (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times/TNS) Bryce Phillips doesn’t remember a winter as warm as this one. Phillips, who lives in Seattle’s Lakewood neighborhood, is something of a winter connoisseur. Founder and CEO of fast-growing […] Click here to view original