Deadly Weather: ‘This Is Just the Beginning’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 3, 2012 Recent weeks have seen the worst wildfires in Colorado history, the breaking of 2,000 temperature records, a mid-Atlantic storm that killed 23 and left millions without power, and a heat wave that sent the East Coast and the Midwest back to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But few mainstream meteorologists are talking about climate change. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Feeling the Heat

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Jul 3, 2012 Still don't believe in climate change? Then you're either deep in denial or delirious from the heat. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Colorado Wildfire: Taste of Things to Come

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 29, 2012 The wildfire that raged through Colorado’s Waldo Canyon, just one of the many that lit up the state in recent weeks, consumed 346 homes and claimed at least one life. The event is consistent with predictions made by the world's top climate scientists. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Carbon Emissions

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Failure in Rio — Now What?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 26, 2012 The Rio+20 Earth Summit produced nothing in the way of international reforms to counteract the destruction of the planet, confirming that governments cannot be relied upon to solve the environmental crisis collectively Some people will give up Others will breathe a sigh of relief and get to work restoring their natural surroundings themselves. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Scientists Urge Earth Summit to Act on Population Growth

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 14, 2012 Finally, someone in the mainstream is talking about Earth’s population problem. Talk falls short of action, of course, and it’s unlikely anyone with power will listen. But nevertheless the world’s leading scientists warned at the Rio+20 Earth Summit on Thursday that unchecked population growth and overconsumption could be civilization’s undoing. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

China’s CO2 Emissions Higher Than They Seemed

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 13, 2012 A paper published this week in Nature Climate Change shows China’s carbon emissions could be 20 percent higher than previous estimates, a disparity that would cast doubts on current predictions of the pace of climate change. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Scientists Paint a Grim Picture of Earth’s Condition

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 8, 2012 A group of scientists is warning that the Earth -- beset by environmental destruction, climate change and unbridled population growth -- is heading for a tipping point that, once passed, will unleash a catastrophic breakdown in the planet’s biosphere that will bode ill for all creatures -- including man -- that call it home. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Time to Remake the Climate

Staff / Truthdig May 31, 2012 Scientists are telling us we can engineer our way out of the climate crisis, and with the intellectual property behind most of the solutions sitting in the public domain, any person or country with a few billion dollars could do it.Scientists are telling us we can engineer our way out of the climate crisis, and any person or country with a few billion dollars could do it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Ernest Callenbach: Last Words to an America in Decline

Staff / Truthdig May 7, 2012 Ernest Callenbach, author of the beloved 1975 utopian novel "Ecotopia," died of cancer last month at the age of 83. Days later, a sort of farewell detailing his hopes for the world he left behind was discovered on his computer. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

Study Raises New Concerns About Fracking

By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica May 3, 2012 A study into the safety of gas drilling in New York state's Marcellus Shale concludes that natural faults and fractures, exacerbated by the effects of fracking, could allow chemicals to reach the surface and contaminate drinking water supplies much sooner than experts previously predicted. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Welcome to the Asylum

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Apr 30, 2012 The World Health Organization calculates that one in four people in the United States suffers from chronic anxiety, a mood disorder or depression -- which seems to me to be a normal reaction to our march toward collective suicide.The World Health Organization calculates that one in four people in the United States suffers from chronic anxiety, a mood disorder or depression—which seems to me to be a normal reaction. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )