Tag: Droughts
September 23: the Mother-of-All Climate Strikes
The September 23 global climate strike will arguably be the mother-of-all climate strikes. Not because of the number of people who will take to...
Are You Scared Scat-less About Climate Change?
Does the climate crisis scare you? Does it keep you up at night? Grant Linney is an environmental educator trained by the Al Gore...
Global Heating. Do We Finally Get It Now?
Scorching heatwaves are wreaking havoc across the globe causing wildfires, droughts and thousands of deaths. High temperatures are shattering records, wildfires are raging and...
Climate Change: Famines and the Food Crisis
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), roughly 750,000 people around the world are facing a food security “catastrophe,” meaning that “starvation,...
Alarm Bells Over Canada’s Extreme Heat In Red Zones
"Canada is warming, on average, at twice the global rate," says a recent Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation (University of Waterloo) report. "Urgent action...
IPCC: Limits to Climate Adaptation
"Humans are adapting to climate change, but it’s not even close to enough — and what little is being done becomes less effective as...
Beyond Safe Limits: We Will Not Escape the Ravages of Climate Change
Many of the coming ravages of climate change are already baked in to the global heating our planet has already absorbed since the beginning...
“Atlas of Human Suffering” Says UN Secretary General
United Nations secretary general António Guterres calls the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report “an atlas of human suffering”. "The report is a...
2021: Year of Unprecedented Climate Impacts
This year, extreme weather and other disasters made it clearer than ever that the climate crisis will only worsen unless we act. 2021 will...
California, North America’s Garden, In Severe Drought
'Persistent ‘severe’ drought is having widespread negative impacts on California and other western states," writes Dana Nuccitelli in a recent article previously published in Yale...
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