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 [...]