Climate change is nothing to take lightly. Learn why it is imperative to make societal changes immediately to save our planet
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Why Does California Have So Many Wildfires?
There are four key ingredients to the disastrous wildfire seasons in the West, and climate change is a key culprit.
As of Tuesday, more than two million acres have burned across the state so far in 2020, which makes this a record year, surpassing 2018, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. About 200 Labor Day visitors to the Sierra National Forest had to be evacuated by helicopter after being trapped by the Creek Fire, and Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in five counties.
The ‘Straightforward’ Link Between Climate and California’s Fires
California is on fire. Almost 2.5 million acres of land have burned there so far this year — nearly 20 times what had burned at this time last year — and the wildfire season is far from over.
Earth Overshoot Day 2018 falls on August 1st
Happy Earth Overshoot Day! There is nothing happy about it really. This year Earth Overshoot Day falls on August 1, the earliest day ever! Never heard of Earth Overshoot Day? Or the Ecological Footprint? This video explains it briefly with illustrations.
Looking, Quickly, for the Fingerprints of Climate Change
For years, most meteorologists and climate scientists would answer that question with a disclaimer, one that was repeated so often it became like a mantra: It is not possible to attribute individual weather events like storms, heat waves or droughts to climate change.
Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’
Statement sets out ‘vital signs’ as indicators of magnitude of the climate emergency
Global Environment Outlook 6
UN Environment’s sixth Global Environment Outlook (2019) calls on decision makers to take immediate action to address pressing environmental issues to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals as well as other Internationally Agreed Environment Goals, such as the Paris Agreement.
What is the outlook for humanity?
We’ve made progress, but we have a long way to go. It’s time for us all to comprehend the transformations that will be required to protect our planet’s health.
Seven Biggest Environmental Threats
The seven biggest environmental threats to the Earth are issues every person should understand.
TACKLING THREATS THAT IMPACT THE EARTH
WWF’s work addresses direct and indirect threats—and the forces that drive them—to conserve biodiversity and reduce humanity’s ecological footprint.
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Tracking Earth’s Limits in a World of Ecological Overshoot
How much productive land and sea area does it take to support your lifestyle?
Most Americans might be surprised to discover that it would take the ecosystems of 1.9 United States to regenerate the ecological resources U.S. residents use annually.
Earth Overshoot Day: Humans are using Earth's resources faster than ever, group warns
“There are consequences of busting the ecological budget of our one and only planet," the CEO of the Global Footprint Network network said.
Earth Overshoot Day May Seriously Underestimate Humanity's Ecological Footprint
On August 1, humans will have consumed more natural resources in 2018 than the Earth can regenerate this year, according to the California-based Global Footprint Network.
What is the Ecological Overshoot?
The Ecological Footprint shows that people are using the capacity of 1.5 Earths – but how can this be when there is only one Earth
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Report details how ExxonMobil and fossil fuel firms sowed seeds of doubt on climate change
For 60 years, the fossil fuel industry has known about the potential global warming dangers of their products.
Watch the US stall on climate change for 12 years
It was once a bipartisan issue, but now one of America's major parties acts like climate science doesn't exist.
Climate change became a burning issue in the past decade, but also an opportunity
Addressing the danger of climate change has gone from being a political liability to an economic opening.
Scientists Have Been Talking About Climate Change for More Than a Century. Here's Why It Took So Long for the World to Listen
The girl got up to speak before a crowd of global leaders. “Coming here today, I have no hidden agenda. I am fighting for my future.
Climate Time Machine
This series of visualizations shows how some of Earth's key climate indicators are changing over time.
Half a century of dither and denial – a climate crisis timeline
Fossil fuel companies have been aware of their impact on the planet since at least the 1950s
How will everything change under climate change?
The alarm bells of the climate crisis have been ringing in our ears for years and are getting louder all the time - yet humanity has failed to change course. What is wrong with us?
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
This narrative by Nathaniel Rich is a work of history, addressing the 10-year period from 1979 to 1989: the decisive decade when humankind first came to a broad understanding of the causes and dangers of climate change.