Monthly Archives: July 2015

You don’t always see high hosannas to Catholic popes in The New York Review of Books, a literary intellectual magazine once dubbed the ground zero of Radical Chic. Source: The pope’s eco-bedfellows | Crux

The two-day conference was the first time the Vatican specifically invited local officials to address the issue, hoping to keep pressure on world leaders. Source: At Vatican, Mayors Pledge Climate Change Fight – The New York Times

No, the sun isn’t going to save us from global warmingA solar minimum would offset no more than a decade’s worth of human-caused global warming Source: No, the sun isn’t going to save us from global warming | Dana Nuccitelli … Continue reading →

Eight member states including US, Russia, Canada, Norway and Denmark sign accord to protect central Arctic Ocean from commercial fishing Source: Arctic nations to bar fishing fleets from fast-thawing seas around the north pole

‘The age of carbon is over’ and a transition to a greener economy is inevitable, says Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, adviser to the German government and Pope Francis Source: Fossil fuel industry must ‘implode’ to avoid climate disaster, says top scientist … Continue reading →

One-third of Earth’s largest groundwater basins are under threat because humans are draining so much water from them, according to two new studies. Source: Earth’s Groundwater Basins Are Running Out of Water

Pope Francis is issuing an encyclical focusing on an issue of grand scope, the care of the planet. And though he sees the poor as most affected by the economic and political systems underlying the crisis, his 184-page document is … Continue reading →

Source: Conference People and Planet First: the Imperative to Change course

Why a Leading Indian Politician Is Now an Environmental Hawk by christian schwagerl Former Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh believes the “cult” of unfettered economic growth has been ruinous for India’s environment. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he talks … Continue reading →