Climate Change Impacts

Disappearing slave history 1
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago James Island’s grisly connections with the slave trade draw thousands of tourists to this shrinking patch of Gambia each year. The historically significant place is now threatened by rising sea levels.
A whole new world

New interactive map shows devastating effects of global temperature rise 0
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago No need to waste your money on the new apocalyptic thrillers coming soon to theaters. A new world map released Thursday by the British government, and unveiled at the Science Museum in London, provides plenty of real life doom and gloom -- and it's free!
Tipping toward disaster

At SEJ, doom and gloom without the sense of humor 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Climate change panels at the annual Society for Environmental Journalists meeting are rarely cheerful events. But this afternoon's session on global warming as a national security issue was an even darker affair than usual.
PONZICONOMY

Our global pyramid scheme 3
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Today's mismanaged world economy is like a giant global illusion. If we keep overpumping, overgrazing, overplowing, overfishing, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, how long before our pumped up Ponzi-conomy unravels and collapses?
...as if we needed even more of a wakeup call

U.N. Climate Talks Bangkok day 3: Filipino activists call for justice as Manila floods 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago Filipino groups are in Bangkok calling for the solutions their communities need. On Tuesday, The Peasant Movement of the Philippines and the National Federation of Peasant Women in the Philippines held a demonstration in front of the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations.
Google Earth Climate Change Tour 0
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Atlantic Rising

Morocco’s beaches may become launching point for climate refugees 0
Posted 2 months ago Climate change is likely to only increase the amount of people willing to risk the dangerous voyage from Morocco to the Canary Islands.
Up in Rupert's business

Yes Men pranksters make fake New York Post about real climate emergency 0
Posted 2 months ago
More culture jamming fun from The Yes Men: A fake (but true!) edition of the New York Post helps kick off Climate Week NYC.
It won’t stop burning, Doc

Burning Embers climate design contest has a winner [UPDATED] 3
Posted 2 months ago
Here's the winner of a contest to create better climate change art.
Around a rising sea

Expedition to link students in support of climate action 1
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Atlantic Rising is an educational expedition around the Atlantic rim tracing the 1-meter contour line -- the Atlantic coastline as it will look in 100 years if sea levels rise as predicted.
Heat in August

Hotter summers will pose public health challenges 0
Posted 3 months ago
The real threat of more intense heat waves tied to climate change isn't higher power bills and sweaty armpits; it's the cascading set of health impacts they would inflict upon the vulnerable populations of American cities.
Change we should avoid

Global warming set to intensify August heat, Climate Central study finds 8
Posted 3 months ago
Hot enough for you? Maybe not. Climate Central crunched the numbers, and your Augusts are going to get hotter and hotter. By the 2050s, Houston, Sacramento, Tampa Bay, and Orlando could have as many August days over 95 degrees F as Phoenix and Dallas experience today. Northern cities won't escape either.
It's not a vacation, we swear!

Reps take expensive trip to learn about climate, but still block action 1
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
Seven of the 10 representatives who spent about half a million taxpayer bucks to go see climate-change-addled penguins actually voted against the House climate bill.
Update: We're Still Screwed!

‘The Great Squeeze’ joins long list of doomsaying eco-films 3
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Great Squeeze, a documentary by director Christophe Fauchere (of 2007's film Energy Crossroads), is full of apocalyptic observations, none of which should surprise anyone even vaguely environmentally-minded.
Fired up

Audio slideshow: Facing climate change—and wildfire 1
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Photographer/writer duo Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele have traveled to the Arctic and back to record the impacts of climate change. And while they realize we are facing a global problem, they've found that every community has a local story. Through their multimedia project "Facing Climate Change," they aim to tell those stories via striking images, frank interviews, and alarming facts.
Letter from Europe

Bordering on Chaos: Climate change melts lines drawn in ice 1
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Climate change is increasingly emerging as a cause of changes in national boundaries, something traditionally achieved by warring armies or the stroke of a colonial bureaucrat's pen.
Fools Russian

Why some Russians look forward to global warming 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Brad Plumer walks through a dispatch from the Abu Dhabi newspaper The National that outlines what Russia stands to gain from a warming climate, and why it may have little interest in curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
Security blanket

National security emphasis could inspire more support for climate bill, says former Sen. John Warner 4
Posted 4 months ago
More senators and citizens might support a climate bill if it emphasized the national security challenges presented by climate change, says former Virginia Sen. John Warner (R).
Surf's going up

Hawaii invests in climate change task force 0
Posted 4 months ago
Hawaii’s state legislature established a climate change task force last week to study the potential impacts of rising sea levels, eroding coast lines, ocean acidification, fiercer storms, and other expected effects of climate change, and to suggest response strategies.
A bird in the hand...

Calif. Audubon: Putting birders to work to build a case for climate action 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
While climate change could cause significant range declines in up to a third of California's birds, these impacts can be greatly lessened for many species if we take immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.