Climate Change

Time To Take The Blinders Off, Climate Change Is A Clear Threat To The Bottom Line

Photo by AP Photo/John Locher, File Article by Tom Murray and Environmental Defense Fund, via Forbes Business leaders can no longer afford to look the other way on climate change. The recent National Climate Assessment revealed that regional economies and industries dependent on natural resources are increasingly vulnerable to the...

Our Climate Is Headed For Disaster, But Voters Still Shrug

Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post/Getty Images Article by Megan Molteni, via WIRED TUESDAY’S MIDTERM ELECTIONS offered voters across the US the chance to move decisively to slow down the global ecological disaster of climate change. As the votes were tallied, however, one thing became clear: Americans remain as divided...

5 Major Crops In The Crosshairs Of Climate Change

Photo by Heather Kim/NPR Article by Dan Charles, via NPR Climate change is coming like a freight train, or a rising tide. And our food, so dependent on rain and suitable temperatures, sits right in its path. The plants that nourish us won't disappear entirely. But they may...

Shark migration and movement

Photo by Wikimedia Commons Article by Rowena Fletcher-Wood, via Things We Don't Know There is no doubt that climate change affects many species – their food sources, their behavioural patterns, and the environments in which they are happy to live. Sharks are cartilaginous fish related to rays...

Denmark May Begin Labeling Food According to Effect on Climate Change

Photo by Anthony Albright, CC Article by Mckinley Corbley, via Good News Network The government of Denmark may soon require grocery stores and packaging manufacturers to grade foods based on their environmental impact. The ambitious initiative would calculate the grade based on the amount of transportation the product required...

We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN

Photo by Ringo HW Chiu/AP Article by Jonathan Watts, via The Guardian The world’s leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly worsen the risks of...

Don’t Lock Out The Next Generation Of Green Tech

Photo by Orjan F. Ellingvag/Corbis via Getty Images Article by Christopher Koopman and Brian Isomf, via The Hill From modularized nuclear reactors to renewable natural gas systems to facilities that convert energy from ocean waves into electricity, the potential for clean technology to reshape our energy sector...