The full article from New Scientist BY 2055, climate change is likely to have warmed the world by a dangerous 4 °C unless we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere the way we do now. This is the startling conclusion of a study by the UK Met Office, unveiled at a conference in Oxford [...]

Read the full thought provoking article from New Scientist WHEN Nobel prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen coined the word Anthropocene around 10 years ago, he gave birth to a powerful idea: that human activity is now affecting the Earth so profoundly that we are entering a new geological epoch. The Anthropocene has yet to be [...]

Confronting the challenge Google has launched an interesting tool in preparation for GOP15 that allows users to explore what the world might look like if various levels of warming, sea rises, and so forth occur. You’re able to see played out some of the what-if scenarios you’re hearing about as the Copenhagen date approaches. And [...]

Read the full White House Statement Climate is changing all across the globe. The air and the oceans are warming, mountain glaciers are disappearing, sea ice is shrinking, the great ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica are slipping, and sea level is rising. And the consequences for human well-being are already being felt: more heat [...]

September 28, 2009 read the full story here Finally, some of the top climate modelers in the world have done a “plausible worst case scenario,” as Dr Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts at the Met Office Hadley Centre, put it today in a terrific and terrifying talk (audio here). No, I’m not taking about [...]

NEW ORLEANS – One year after the murder of Kirsten Brydum and answers are still hard to come by for her family and loved ones. The 25-year-old activist from San Francisco was on a nationwide tour, working for non-profit collectives. She arrived in New Orleans on September 25, 2008. Two days later she was found shot in [...]

FACEBOOK, Twitter, blogs. These forms of new media are part of the modern activist’s arsenal of weapons today. Many who have a cause to promote – such as reducing the use of styrofoam packaging, or petitioning for lower transport costs – are turning to these platforms to publicise them and drum up support. Best of [...]

MANILA, Philippines (AP) – Rescuers pulled more bodies from swollen rivers Monday as residents started to dig out their homes from under carpets of mud after flooding left 140 people dead in the Philippine capital and surrounding towns. Overwhelmed officials called for international help, warning they may not have sufficient resources to withstand another storm [...]

After reading this article by Paul Kruger in the New York Times, I felt compelled to share it here. You may read the full article at the link below, but following is an extract of what Paul wrote Paul Krugman of the New York Times Every once in a while I feel despair over the [...]

Can one woman save Africa? Wangari Maathai saw trees being chopped down in her backyard in Kenya and dedicated her life to saving Africa’s rainforests. Now it’s time for the rest of the world to face some hard truths, the Nobel laureate tells Johann Hari When does planting a tree become a revolutionary act – [...]