Scientists Post Extreme Weather Warning

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Dec 7, 2015 Climate change means that temperate Europe faces the twin threat of life-threatening heat waves and periods of bitter cold over the next 20 years. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Apocalyptic Capitalism

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Dec 7, 2015 The Paris climate summit, dominated by the economic and political forces that are driving us toward destruction, will end with the usual empty rhetoric and a continued assault on the ecosystem. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Uruguay Now Gets Nearly 95 Percent of Its Electricity From Renewable Sources

Staff / Truthdig Dec 6, 2015 Less than 10 years after instituting a new energy policy, the country has slashed its carbon footprint without government subsidies or higher consumer costs, reports the country’s head of climate change policy. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

VIDEO: James Hansen: United Nations’ Plans to Limit Emissions Are ‘Half-Arsed’

Staff / Truthdig Dec 5, 2015 One of the world’s leading atmospheric scientists has warned U.N. negotiators that their current attempt to prevent global temperatures from rising is “half-arsed and half-baked” and risks giving future generations a climate system that is uncontrollably destructive. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Positive Vibes Flow at Climate Talks

By Alex Kirby / Climate News Network Dec 5, 2015 At the midway point of the U.N. climate conference, a rare optimism pervades the negotiations -- tempered only by those who say the hard decisions still lie ahead. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Why Are We Not Doing All We Can to Prevent Climate-Related Deaths?

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Dec 4, 2015 Global warming is a form of terror, perhaps the worst form. The finality of death is the same, whether we are gunned down in the streets or drown in the floods. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Secret Trade Talks Could Weaken Climate Targets Set in Paris

Staff / Truthdig Dec 3, 2015 Secret trade negotiations in Geneva could outlaw public subsidies for renewable energy across the world, undermining climate talks in Paris that aim to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to unions and anti-poverty campaigners. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Paris—and the World—Is Burning

By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Dec 3, 2015 A fitting honor to those who died in Paris, and to the countless victims of climate change, would be a fair, ambitious and binding agreement at the climate summit. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

VIDEO: ‘Democracy Now!’ Kicks Off Full Coverage of Paris Climate Talks

Staff / Truthdig Nov 30, 2015 Amy Goodman and her team are on the streets of Paris and in the meeting halls of COP21, the United Nations’ fraught, highly policed attempt to craft a global, intergovernmental solution to the existential problem of climate change. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Two-Thirds of Americans Want the U.S. to Join a Global Climate Pact

Staff / Truthdig Nov 30, 2015 A New York Times/CBS News poll shows that a solid majority of Americans say the United States should join an international treaty to limit the impact of global warming. Most of those who say otherwise identify as conservative. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Forest Destruction Can Be Cut by Half

By Paul Brown / Climate News Network Nov 30, 2015 A new study shows that political will is all that is needed to stop the chainsaws and bulldozers that are destroying tropical forests and contributing to global warming. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Records Reveal Warming’s First Warning

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Nov 28, 2015 Scientists have identified a worldwide pattern of climate change in the late 1980s as the early signpost on the path that has led to next month's crucial U.N. summit in Paris. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )