CLIMATE

WILDFIRES - The Fresno Bee’s Editorial Board has gone on record opposing the lawsuit, by the John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute, against a huge commercial logging project in Yosemite National Park.

SCOTUS AMONG US - It appears that Republicans on the Supreme Court are preparing to light our planet on fire

THE ENVIRONMENT - The moment may be at hand for Californians to turn the tide on a sea of plastic waste that environmentalists say is destroying life in the ocean, contaminating drinking water and stuffing state landfills.

THE CLIMATE - The Arctic is turning into a dream come true for doomsayers. It’s heating way too fast! Nostradamus is dancing in the street. 

CLIMATE WATCH - Climate change and global warming, which is the largest part of the ‘change’ aspect, is suddenly getting the kind of special treatment that’s reserved for national tragedies.

GREEN POLITICS - The color green has long been associated with envy, but increasingly it’s becoming a pigment of mass delusion.

CLIMATE WATCH - Ted Scambos, a polar scientist with 20 trips to Antarctica under his belt, makes a living trekking across glaciers,

CLIMATE WATCH - “I’m absolutely convinced we will get a low-carbon, no-carbon economy at some point in time.

CLIMATE WATCH - Australia’s federal election May 18th turned left with a new power broker named climate change.

CLIMATE WATCH - In case you have lingering doubts about the reality of human-caused global warming, hop on an airplane to parts of India or Pakistan and spend a few days.

GUEST COMMENTARY - This November, the Massachusetts electorate will vote on a ballot initiative that will have profound consequences:

CLIMATE WATCH - Woody biomass, or burning trees to produce renewable energy, is spreading beyond the shores of Europe, where it’s wildly popular and outpacing solar and wind.

CLIMATE WATCH - The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently dropped a bombshell announcement that should have garnered news headlines in the major global and U.S. media, but did not.

CLIMATE WATCH - Deaths from exposure to emissions from vehicles, smokestacks, and wildfires have increased by more than 50 percent this century, with poorer countries bearing the brunt of the impacts.

DRINKABLE WATER - The California Coastal Commission tonight rejected the proposed construction of a desalination plant in Huntington Beach, sealing the controversial project’s fate after more than 20 years of debate.

CLIMATE WATCH - The planet is wheezing, coughing and sputtering because of vicious attacks by worldwide droughts aided and abetted by global warming at only 1.2C above baseline.

CLIMATE POLITICS - As energy- and climate-related legislation passes through committees in the California legislature, some lawmakers are refusing to vote on bills critical to the state’s transition from fossil fuels.

CLIMATE WATCH - America’s western metropolises are thriving in the midst of the fiercest drought in over 1,000 years.

THE ENVIRONMENT - The Japanese government’s decision one year ago to dump radioactive water from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant storage tanks into the Pacific Ocean,

CLIMATE WATCH - This month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its starkest assessment of prospects for climate mitigation to date.

CLEAN ENERGY - Over 520 organizations told President Joe Biden on Wednesday to urgently "end the fossil fuel era" and commit to a rapid renewable energy transition rooted in justice and a more peaceful world.

CLIMATE WATCH - The United States is facing two grim prospects in 2022:

CLIMATE WATCH - It ought to be clear by now that President Biden’s commitment to combating climate change comes with some brutal caveats.

GLOBAL WARMING - The most upending event of the past 10,000 years is the advent of engineered food as fermentation farms displace factory farms.

PLANNING WATCH -  The new report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) could not have been starker. 

GREEN ENERGY - It is no surprise that capitalism, a system that prioritizes private profit before all else, is destroying our planet.

CLIMATE WATCH - Recognizing the existential threat posed by climate change, California resolved to become carbon neutral by 2045,

CALIFORNIA GREEN - California’s energy mix was powered 97% by renewable energy on Sunday, April 3 at at 3:39 p.m.,

CLIMATE CHANGE - As I write this, it’s 83 degrees Fahrenheit in Washington, DC, and I can’t help but long for those years when I was a kid, when spring felt like spring and seasons were demarcated.

CLIMATE WATCH - The  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released April 4, warns that global emissions must peak in just three years to stay below the 1.5°C warming ceiling for a livable future.