Opinion

Many people, including me, expected Greta Thunberg to win this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali was deservedly awarded for ending more than 20 years of con...
Youth climate activist Hannah Cartlidge visited the European Parliament in Brussels scared for the future of the planet, but returned hopeful that the institution could make a difference โ€“ while it...
Like in so much of public debate, the Prime Minister sets the tone. As a fortnight of peaceful protest started in London, Boris Johnson called the Extinction Rebellion protestors โ€œimportunate nose-...
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climateย story.ย ย  In 2019, I think it's safe to say that humans are ca...
The burning of the Amazonย rainforest has unified the public in shock and fear like no other eventย in recent times. It has becomeย a symbol of where ecocide meets humanย suffering. Dismay at the dest...
Six yearsย after the oil train derailment and explosionย in Lac-Mรฉgantic, Quebec โ€” which claimed 47 lives and destroyed the downtownย of this small lakeside town โ€” The New York Times reviewed what pro...
England recently experienced its most severe blackout in more than a decade, leading to a cacophony of calls from the usual suspects to scrap windfarms and abandon plans to turn the countryโ€™s elect...
After a three year wait, the UNโ€™s official scientific advisory panelโ€™s verdict on land and climate is here. The report is about as glum as you might have come to expect from a body tasked with docu...

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Opinion
onOct 17, 2019 @ 14:44 PDT

Many people, including me, expected Greta Thunberg to win this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali was deservedly awarded for ending more than 20 years of con...
Opinion
onOct 17, 2019 @ 04:19 PDT

Youth climate activist Hannah Cartlidge visited the European Parliament in Brussels scared for the future of the planet, but returned hopeful that the institution could make a difference โ€“ while it...
Opinion
onOct 8, 2019 @ 09:21 PDT

Like in so much of public debate, the Prime Minister sets the tone. As a fortnight of peaceful protest started in London, Boris Johnson called the Extinction Rebellion protestors โ€œimportunate nose-...
Opinion
onSep 17, 2019 @ 00:01 PDT

This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climateย story.ย ย  In 2019, I think it's safe to say that humans are ca...
Opinion
onSep 3, 2019 @ 06:58 PDT

The burning of the Amazonย rainforest has unified the public in shock and fear like no other eventย in recent times. It has becomeย a symbol of where ecocide meets humanย suffering. Dismay at the dest...
Opinion
onAug 26, 2019 @ 15:57 PDT

Six yearsย after the oil train derailment and explosionย in Lac-Mรฉgantic, Quebec โ€” which claimed 47 lives and destroyed the downtownย of this small lakeside town โ€” The New York Times reviewed what pro...
Opinion
onAug 14, 2019 @ 00:02 PDT

England recently experienced its most severe blackout in more than a decade, leading to a cacophony of calls from the usual suspects to scrap windfarms and abandon plans to turn the countryโ€™s elect...
Opinion
onAug 9, 2019 @ 01:40 PDT

After a three year wait, the UNโ€™s official scientific advisory panelโ€™s verdict on land and climate is here. The report is about as glum as you might have come to expect from a body tasked with docu...