Climate Crisis

Students at Washington University in St. Louis (Wash U) show connection between climate crisis and global human rights violations through provocative art exhibit and demand change in school investments.

Subhankar Banerjee: The Obama administration's focus on oil extraction and emphasis on fracking is not addressing climate change.

Subhankar Banerjee: The media has utterly failed its responsibility to inform the public of the link between climate change and worsening natural disasters.

McKibben argues that Obama's pending decision on whether to approve or reject the Keystone XL's construction is a historic opportunity.

The long-awaited Environmental Defense Fund-sponsored fracking fugitive methane emissions study is finally out. Unfortunately, it's another case of “frackademia.”

Tthe 485-mile southern leg of Keystone XL will give TransCanada strategic access to these US coastal ports.

If we wanted to, we could begin to get global warming under control and manage its consequences for as long as it takes to minimize the threat.

Colorado was plagued with devastating wildfires this summer. Now come the floods.

Common Ground offers a model of how volunteers of good will working with affected communities can make a difference.

Less predictable are the insane human behavior feedback loops, where the warming climate triggers a self-destructive pathological greed within corporate culture.