Tim Radford / Climate News NetworkDec 27, 2018
Yet again, researchers confirm that climate change threatens the natural world with a soaring extinction toll. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Tim Radford / Climate News NetworkDec 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 )
Subhankar Banerjee / TomDispatchDec 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 )
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By John Hawthorne / MoBox MarineDec 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 )
By Kieran Cooke / Climate News NetworkApr 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 )
Staff / TruthdigOct 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 )
By Patrick Cockburn / TomDispatchJun 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 )
Harvey Wasserman / TruthdigDec 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 )
By Tim Radford / Climate News NetworkNov 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 )
By Tim Radford, Climate News NetworkJul 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 )
By Tim Radford, Climate News NetworkJun 25, 2015
Human-induced climate change adds to threats vertebrates face from hunting and habitat loss, as researchers warn that modern extinction rates are exceptionally high. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Tim Radford, Climate News NetworkMay 4, 2015
New research warns that the survival of a sizeable proportion of life on Earth is in doubt as fossil fuel emissions push up global temperatures. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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