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Climate Crisis

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The People’s Climate March Is Over: What Now?
Here are eight reasons to be hopeful for climate action post-New York, and eight ways to stay active in movements for climate justice.

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Empty Nests of the North: “Massive Chick Deaths” in Seabird Colonies; Climate, Oceanic Changes Blamed
Warming oceans and earlier thaws are driving away the seabirds' prey, unleashing deadly, unseasonal storms and knocking tight breeding schedules off-kilter.

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Energy Efficient Buildings – Beware Possible Health Risks
Global climate change has been called the biggest global public health threat of the 21st century - and energy efficiency is a key tool in our efforts to reduce …

A Change in the Climate: The Climate Movement Steps Up
Less than two weeks have passed and yet it isn't too early to say it: the People's Climate March changed the social map.

Risk Assessment Reigns in Budgeting, Except When it Comes to Climate
Climate change and defense spending are not mutually exclusive.

Why an Unequal Planet Can Never Be Green
The more wealth concentrates, the greater the strain on our biosphere. Top environmentalists get that connection. Now our societies must.

Dahr Jamail | Climate Disruption’s “Confederacy of Dunces“
Given that over 97 percent of climate scientists agree on the matter, the fact that anyone is questioning the reality of human-caused climate disruption remains an amazing phenomenon.

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War and Climate Change: Time to Connect the Dots
There has been a general failure of everyone concerned about war and climate change to connect the dots between them. That must change.

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Winged Warnings: Built for Survival, Birds in Trouble From Pole to Pole
Globally, one in eight - more than 1,300 species of birds - are threatened with extinction, and the status of most of those is deteriorating.

East Asia: A Farewell to Arms
With climate change upon us, it's time to bury the hatchet in one of the world's most volatile regions.