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Asking for More: Additional Carbon Cuts Please

"Our results suggest that achieving any given global temperature stabilization target will require steeper greenhouse gas emissions reductions than previously calculated." Continue reading →

The Time is Growing Short

Climate change is just one of the approaching disasters. Continue reading →

15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Warn Humanity of Environmental Catastrophe

More than 15,000 scientists have signed a chilling article titled “World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice," urging global leaders to save the planet from environmental catastrophe. Continue reading →

Global CO2 Emissions Are Rising in 2017 After Three-Year ‘Plateau’

Hopes that global emissions had peaked during the past three years were likely premature. However, Global Carbon Project researchers say that global emissions are unlikely to return to the high growth rates seen during the 2000s. Continue reading →

Should We Look on the Bright Side of the 6th Mass Extinction? – Animalista Untamed

". . . I’m afraid I cannot echo the Professor’s optimism. The future of the Earth he foresees where only the toughest few survive is a planet desperately diminished in richness and complexity. Species at threat right now have their own unique and vital roles within the complex web of life. We do not know all the ways their loss will impair our own survival. But we do know we will lose our delight, our constant surprise at their dazzling beauty, their awesome abilities, from the humblest woodlouse to the blue whale, king of the oceans.
"Above all, they too have a right to their life and a place to live it, untrammelled and free." --Animalista Untamed. Continue reading →

Republicans Seek to Use Tax Bill to Suppress Climate and Clean Air Saving Electrical Vehicles

Originally posted on robertscribbler:
Republicans in Congress seem more concerned with cutting taxes for the rich than dealing with present and worsening problems like Russian interference in U.S. democracy or the ever-escalating damages coming from human-caused climate change related to…

Time of Great Dying: Population Bomb Bursts, the End of Old-Growth Forests, and the Great Awakening

The campaign to maintain large old-growth forests is lost. What old forests remain are emasculated fragments of their former ecological and evolutionary brilliance. Earth’s old-growth forest heritage has been dismembered through logging, saturated in nitrogen, cleansed of large wildlife, and have become sources rather than sinks of carbon pollution." --Dr. Glen Barry Continue reading →

National Forests, Endangered Species Under Attack as House Republicans Pass Reckless Logging Bill

HR 2936, sponsored by Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), limits public comment and environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act. Under the guise of reducing forest fires, the bill would increase unfettered logging across national forests and public lands, increase fire risk and harm forest health, while doing nothing to protect communities. Continue reading →

When the Global Wildlife Decline Reaches Zero

Animal numbers will probably continue to fall for at least the next three years. So, by 2020, roughly only three out of the ten animals around us in 1970 will remain. The number will continue to fall, but probably at a slower rate.  Continue reading →

Global Tree Cover Loss Rose 51 Percent in 2016

Global tree cover loss reached a record 29.7 million hectares (73.4 million acres) in 2016, according to new data from the University of Maryland released today on Global Forest Watch. The loss is 51 percent higher than the previous year, totaling an area about the size of New Zealand. Continue reading →