This is How a Mudslide Can Kill So Many People in Sierra Leone Kimberly Curtis August 15, 2017 Rainy season is currently upon Sierra Leone but this year the rains brought more than the country can handle. Heavy rains over the weekend around the capitol Freetown resulted in flash flooding and several maj...
In Somalia, there is a dangerous nexus between climate change and violent conflict Mark Leon Goldberg August 8, 2017 Somalia is ground zero for an emerging trend in global affairs-- the nexus between climate change and conflict. Journalist Laura Heaton with The GroundTruth Project spent years reporting on how climate c...
Map of the Day: Where it Will Be Too Hot To Live By 2100 Mark Leon Goldberg August 3, 2017 Today's map comes from scientists at MIT, who found that significant portions of Southeast Asia, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh could be uninhabitable in 73 years. Using climate modeling scenarios, th...
Solar is booming in India, but the country’s solar panel industry could be facing a dimmer future John Light August 1, 2017 Solar is booming in India, but the country’s solar panel industry could be facing a dimmer future. At the end of this year, India will end its “domestic content requirement” for solar projects that are part ...
Map of the Day: The Most Dangerous Countries For Environmental Activists John Light July 19, 2017 The UK-based non-profit Global Witness put out their annual tally of those murdered protecting land, water and wildlife in their communities, and the news is not good. The world is getting more dangerous for ...
Why the Larsen C Ice Shelf Break is Such a Big Deal John Light July 12, 2017 Something is very wrong on our planet’s poles. Temperatures soared in the Arctic over the weekend as the storm system that brought snow and freezing rain to the US’s east coast this week pushed warm air into...
The G20 is going to be…awkward John Light July 6, 2017 The G20 is going to be all about the Paris Agreement. And that will make for some potentially very isolating moments for the United States. When Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement last mon...
PODCAST: The UN just wrapped up Its first-ever oceans conference. Here’s What happened. Mark Leon Goldberg June 19, 2017 Gregory Stone once lived underwater for 30 days. He is an ocean scientist and author who has spent a career studying and advocating on behalf of our oceans. He's now with an executive vice president with C...
Climate Change Will Cause 250,000 Additional Deaths Per Year. Here’s How It Will Kill US Alanna Shaikh, MPH June 9, 2017 President Trump announced last week that he will be pulling the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord, the world’s best shot at keeping climate change to survivable levels. It is a short-sighted decisio...
