Six Portuguese children and young adults cleared a major legal hurdle on Monday in a climate litigation case they brought against 33 European countries, claiming government climate inaction jeopardized their…
Category: Climate
Treat global nature declines as an emergency, scientists tell world leaders
Scientists and environmental lobbyists alike are calling on world leaders to treat the annihilation of wildlife and plants as a global emergency as UN experts sound the alarm in a…
Delay is the new denial: How to spot and respond to climate deniers
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: “The UK and many other rich countries have set ambitious targets for emissions cuts to tackle climate change, and have already made…
U.S. vote to shape how world warms as climate pact exit looms
What happens on election day will to some degree determine how much more hot and nasty the world’s climate will likely get, experts say. The day after the presidential election,…
New footage reveals Netflix FAKED death of walruses: Climate change did not cause the deaths, polar bears did
New footage revealed that polar bears, not climate change, caused the deaths of walruses shown in the 2019 Netflix documentary Our Planet. The British lobby group Global Warming Policy Forum…
Tropical Birds Differ in Their Responses to Drought
Thomas Martin was studying parenting behavior among wild birds in Venezuela when a drought hit in 2008. In one species, the gray-breasted wood wren (Henicorhina leucophrys), the number of active…
CO2 to the rescue: Elevated carbon dioxide concentrations can reduce the negative effects of drought on crops, study finds
American and Brazilian researchers evaluated the possibility of elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations reducing the negative effect of drought on physiological parameters and the growth of Manihot esculenta (cassava). They…
Climate fanatics say much warmer planets are more “habitable” than Earth, but slight warming trends here on ours are unacceptable
A new study put out by the climate lobby has concluded that a warmer planet than ours would be a far more “inhabitable” place to live, even as climate “scientists”…
German environmental scientist says so-called “climate catastrophe” not taking place
The so-called climate catastrophe projected to peak in 12 years is simply “not taking place,” according to Fritz Vahrenholt, one of the founders of Germany’s modern environmental movement. On the…
China’s 10-year effort to fight aerosol pollution may be linked to warming in the northern hemisphere
Country-wide efforts to address pollution are necessary for ensuring public health wherever you live in the world. But according to experts, China’s decade-long strategies to fight aerosol could be linked…