Almost 2,000 lives in a single city could be saved in a 1-in-30-year extreme heat wave event by limiting global heating to 2 degrees Celsius as opposed to 3, according to a Science Advances study of 15 US cities by University of Bristol researchers.
April 11, 2019
There’s a saying: “Statistics are human beings with the tears dried off. As somebody who is responsible for building empathy for people forced to flee their homes, I really don’t like statistics,” Melissa Fleming, chief spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees…
April 4, 2019
Hospitals focused on saving lives undermine their mission with their excessive waste and contributions to harmful fossil fuel emissions, writes Pats Oliva of Health Care Without Harm Asia. “Hospitals contribute to climate change, and climate change is threatening to undo…
February 22, 2019
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, scored a major victory yesterday. EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker unveiled a proposal to spend hundreds of billions of euros on mitigating climate change beginning in 2021, Reuters reports.
January 31, 2019
The idyllic Micronesian island of Kiribati, next door to French Polynesia (Tahiti) and boasting one of the largest marine sanctuaries in the world, is a tropical paradise. It’s hard to believe that its people are expected to become some of the world’s first climate change…
January 24, 2019
“Climate gentrification,” coined by Harvard’s Jesse Keenan, refers to the accelerated swell of housing costs after a storm or fire razes lower-income communities and developers rush in to erect “resilient luxury housing.” It’s also when residents of expensive coastal…
January 4, 2019
A few days into 2019, ClimateAdam is in the early stages of Veganuary
December 10, 2018
The US teamed up with Saudi Arabia and Russia to challenge language embracing a landmark global warming report at the COP24 global climate summit in Poland this weekend. The outlying countries wanted to “note” the report’s existence, rather than “welcome” the report,…
December 6, 2018
Greenhouse gas emissions are accelerating like a “speeding freight train” in 2018, rising for the 5 straight years, according to 1 of 2 new studies published this week as climate talks continue in Poland.
December 4, 2018
This week's UN climate talks in Katowice, Poland have kicked off with some sobering statements.