Climate scientists predict that low-lying coastal cities will experience destructive flooding from rising oceans as a result of climate change by mid century. While that image of neighborhoods underwater is alarming, especially to Florida’s vulnerable coastal population, one of the most dangerous, but little talked about, effects of climate change will be the adverse effects…

It’s almost 7 AM and the morning shift is arriving at the hospital emergency room. The departing doctors, nurses, therapists and lab technicians are completely exhausted but have to brief the incoming staff on the most critical patients. For months now, the beds have been full and overflowing. Cots jam the hallways and on the third floor…

Since October, more than one hundred wildfires have consumed sixteen million acres across Australia, an area the size of Denmark. Twenty-seven people have been killed, three thousand homes have been destroyed and hundreds of thousands have fled to the beaches of Victoria awaiting rescue by the Australian navy.  More than one billion animals, Kangaroos, Wallabies, Koalas…

Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison recently traveled to New South Wales where dangerous wild fires the size of Switzerland are burning out of control. Morrison was approached by a local resident who harshly criticized his lack of a national policy to reduce the country’s carbon emissions that are directly linked to climate change-induced wild fires,…

The World Bank issued a frightening report in 2018 that 147 million people who live in coastal zones on the world’s continents are threatened with inundation from sea level rise caused by climate change. But new findings released this month by scientists at Nature Communications reveal that the World Bank study grossly underestimated the threat of sea…

The COP 25, Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, met in Madrid from December 2 through 15 to hammer out new agreements for compliance with the goals set forth in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The goals of the Paris Accord are to  limit greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the most dangerous impacts of global…

The journal, Science, just published an alarming study that there has been a decline of 29 percent, or 3 billion birds in the United States and Canada since 1970. Experts who have studied bird populations for years were astounded by the new study.  David Yarnold, president of the National Audubon Society, said the findings are a “full-blown crisis.† More…

The United Nations Climate Change Summit held in New York September 21 through 23 began with hopes for commitments by the world’s biggest polluters of dangerous greenhouse gas emissions, including China, the US and India, to announce sharp reductions in emissions to keep global warming below the dangerous threshold of 1.5 C.  But the Summit ended…

The UN Climate Action Summit took place in New York City from September 21st to 23rd against a backdrop of massive youth climate strikes around the world, a hoped-for announcement by large industrialized nations of further reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and a planet that is warming at an alarming rate, even exceeding the projections of recent…

The UN Climate Action Summit is convening over  a three-day-period, September 21st – September 23rd.   UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in advance of the summit that, his generation has largely failed until now to preserve both justice in  the world and to preserve the planet. Representatives of about 60 countries have been invited to address the world body…