Learning How to Say Goodbye to Our Broken Planet

Dahr Jamail / TomDispatch Jan 16, 2019 We have a finite amount of time left to coexist with large parts of the biosphere, including thousands of species of plants and animals. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Mass Extinction 252 Million Years Ago May Be Warning for Today

Tim Radford / Climate News Network Dec 29, 2018 Ocean temperatures are beginning to approach levels that occurred during the Permian Era, when the majority of animals on earth were killed. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Extinction Rates Could Be 10 Times Worse Than We Thought

Tim Radford / Climate News Network Dec 27, 2018 Yet again, researchers confirm that climate change threatens the natural world with a soaring extinction toll. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Ultra-Deep Life Forms May Survive Climate Change, Even If We Don’t

Tim Radford / Climate News Network Dec 26, 2018 Even in the worst climate scenario, this huge and diverse community of living things may ensure that life as we now know it continues. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Most Challenging Ethical Obligation of Our Precarious Time

Subhankar Banerjee / TomDispatch Dec 16, 2018 Something’s going on in the natural world that may prove more devastating than a mass of species extinctions, and it's our job to address it. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

How Ordinary People Can Help Ailing Oceans

By John Hawthorne / MoBox Marine Dec 20, 2017 The more acidic our oceans become, the harder it is for sea life to survive. As sea life dies off, entire ecosystems will begin to collapse, resulting in other ecosystems collapsing. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Book Suggests That as a Result of Our Environmental Actions, We Are Contemplating Our Own Extinction

By Kieran Cooke / Climate News Network Apr 3, 2017 Human mistreatment of the planet is ushering in a new geological era—one that will not be pleasant, according to public ethics professor Clive Hamilton's "Defiant Earth." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Berniecrats Are Making More Progress This Election Than Skeptics Expected

Staff / Truthdig Oct 11, 2016 Bernie Sanders' Our Revolution movement is prolonging the Vermont senator's legacy; we should be more concerned with the decline in wild animal populations, not solely with extinction; meanwhile, a journalist delves into the reasons behind the explosion of the bottled water business. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

We Live in an Age of Disintegration

By Patrick Cockburn / TomDispatch Jun 30, 2016 Nowhere is the process of destabilization more evident than in the Greater Middle East and Africa, in places where it is possible to doubt that civilization will ever return. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

At 70, Baby Boomers Face a New Acid Test

Harvey Wasserman / Truthdig Dec 30, 2015 Can a generation that turned the world on its ear in so many ways conquer the cancer of corporate domination? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Trees Face Global Extinction Threat

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Nov 25, 2015 Field scientists warn that damage being done to the Amazon rain forest indicates that most of the world’s 40,000 tropical tree species now qualify as being at risk. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Loss of Seabirds Highlights Double Danger for Species

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network Jul 17, 2015 Scientists say increasing human impacts on habitat are combining with climate change to put serious survival stresses on species and ecosystems. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )