Climate Adaptation and Inequality: Lessons from Cape Town’s Drought
Cape Town’s drought illustrated that when climate crises become acute, the rich care for themselves irrespective of bigger effects.
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China’s Rare Earths Weapon Could Kill Europe’s Auto Industry
More on US and European car-makers’ vulnerability to China’s new rare earths licensing regime.
Read more...How Tourism Pushed Barcelona to Breaking Point, and How Social Movements Are Fighting Back
Barcelona features locals turning activists to curb tourism levels that hurt everyday life, particulalry for lower income. residents
Read more...Plastic Mulch Promised Better Harvests. It May Be Hurting the Soil Instead.
Plastic mulch pollution may linger for centuries
Read more...China Is on Its Way to Becoming World’s First ‘Electrostate’
The implications of China leading in the proportion of electricity its energy use and pursuing even more electrification.
Read more...Rising Seas From Fossil Fuels Threaten Inland Migration ‘Never Witnessed in Modern Civilization’
A new study in Nature looks at one of the baked-in effects from just our current level of temperature increases: mass migration.
Read more...Abundance vs. Degrowth in a Time of Climate Catastrophe
While Trump’s Liberation Day policies might bring about accidental degrowth, Democrats embrace DOGE-style Abundance. Is there another way?
Read more...Coffee Break: More on the Disruption of American Science and Good News on Intranasal Viruses to Combat Respiratory Viruses
Part the First. A Few Words in Response to the Excellent Commentariat of Naked Capitalism. No one knows better than I that funding of science in the United States is hit or miss. My overall average flirts with the Mendoza Line, which is not so bad. For most I do not miss the grant treadmill/lottery, […]
Read more...What Are the Health Impacts of Plastic?
Scientists are investigating how plastic additives and microplastics affect our bodies, and are worried about what they’ve learned so far
Read more...Imagine You Are a Poor Nation, Trapped by Debt and Strangled by Climate Change—What Are Your Options?
Climate change, debt, and development have a caustic relationship, hindering economic justice and national advancement, but solutions exist.
Read more...Tensions Over Kashmir and a Warming Planet Have Placed the Indus Waters Treaty on Life Support
More than 300 million people rely on the Indus River Basin for their survival. The treaty governing its use is falling apart.
Read more...‘We Deserve to Breathe Clean Air’: Southwest Memphians Take On Elon Musk’s xAI
Having faced decades of environmental racism, community members are in the middle of their greatest fight yet.
Read more...The Dangerous Illusion of Climate Resilience
The latest floods, wildfires, and other disasters reveal the flaws of adaptation as the main response to climate change.
Read more...AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers
An AI-fossil fuel axis is forming in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as AI advocates pledge an endless need for energy — spelling disaster for the climate.
Read more...Embracing Climate Change to Hurt China
The U.S. goes all in on the burn-it-all-down strategy.
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