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The Seafloor Is Dissolving Because of Climate Change
2023-08-11 (or before) in VICEAccording to a new study, ocean acidification is setting off a dangerous feedback loop that’s dissolving the very bottom of the ocean.
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Ocean Acidification
Scientists Raise Alarm Over Risk of 'Synchronized' Global Crop Failures
2023-07-07 (or before) in VICENew research exposes an underestimated risk of simultaneous global food supply shocks due to climate change.
Tagged under: Climate Change
What Happens When the Food Runs Out?
2023-04-26 (or before) in VICEBy the second part of this century wars won’t be fought over land or oil, but rather food. Or more specifically, the lack of it.
What We Heard at a Climate Change Deniers' Meeting at Parliament
2023-04-09 (or before) in VICE"Children are completely indoctrinated into one point of view at schools up and down the country," said one of the speakers from the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Women and Children
The Kochs’ Dream of Smashing Climate Action May Be About to Come True
2022-05-09 (or before) in VICEThe Supreme Court will decide in June whether to gut the EPA’s ability to fight global heating, and you can thank Charles Koch for that.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Extreme Heat is the ‘New Normal’ in Earth’s Oceans, Study Warns
2022-02-01 (or before) in VICE“It's telling us, right now, that it is out of balance. It is extremely hot," said the study's co-author.
Tagged under: Oceans
Doomsday Scientists Announce Apocalypse Is Nigh, Not Here Yet
2022-01-23 (or before) in VICEOn the 75th anniversary of the Doomsday Clock, we’re still closer to the destruction of the entire human race than ever before.
Shell’s Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It’s Capturing
2022-01-22 (or before) in VICEA new Global Witness report found that it has the same carbon footprint per year as 1.2 million gas-powered cars.
How a Married Undercover Cop Having Sex With Activists Killed a Climate Movement
2022-01-20 (or before) in VICEMark Kennedy spent seven years pretending to be a climate activist. People he deceived are still rebuilding their lives.
Tagged under: Activism
Scientists Warn that Sixth Mass Extinction Has ‘Probably Started’
2022-01-19 in VICEA human-driven mass extinction “has begun on land and in freshwater seems increasingly likely,” according to a new article.
Rupert Murdoch Has Known We’ve Been in a Climate Emergency Since 2006, Documents Show
2021-09-24 (or before) in VICEMurdoch’s News Corp has spent the past 15 years mitigating its own climate risk while giving media outlets like Fox News carte blanche to deny climate change altogether.
Tagged under: Climate Change
5% of Earth's Power Plants Create 73% of the Energy Sector's Emissions
2021-07-28 (or before) in VICEA handful of "super emitters" are responsible for the vast majority of all emissions in the energy sector.
MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We’re on Schedule.
2021-07-19 (or before) in VICEA 1972 MIT study predicted that rapid economic growth would lead to societal collapse in the mid 21st century. A new paper shows we’re unfortunately right on schedule.
Tagged under: Predictions | Economic Growth | Collapse
Colorado Denied Its Citizens the Right-to-Repair After Riveting Testimony
2021-04-05 (or before) in VICEStories of environmental disaster and wheelchairs on fire weren’t enough to move legislators to pass right-to-repair.
Tagged under: Colorado State | Right to Repair
Alberta Inquiry Paid $28K for a Report Smearing Hundreds of Climate Journalists
2021-01-26 (or before) in VICEThe report, paid for by the Alberta government, suggests climate reporters are part of a coordinated ploy by George Soros and other progressive elites to quash capitalism and distribute climate change propaganda.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Capitalism
How to Persuade Workers It's Time to Move on From Oil and Gas
2020-04-15 (or before) in VICEWith crude prices crashing and companies looking to government bailouts, climate change activists are sharpening their pitch to hard-hit industry workers.
Tagged under: Climate Change
The Great Barrier Reef Is Heading for a Mass Bleaching of Unprecedented Scale
2020-03-04 (or before) in VICEForecasts for the largest living structure on Earth have become "devastating," scientists say, and the coral carnage will be even more widespread than the last mass bleaching in 2016-2017.
Tagged under: Great Barrier Reef | Coral Reefs
Government Agency Warns Global Oil Industry Is on the Brink of a Meltdown
2020-02-04 in VICEWe are not running out of oil, but it's becoming uneconomical to exploit it—another reason we need to move to renewables as quickly as possible.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Economics | Oil Industry | Fossil Fuels | Carbon Bubble | Climate Change
The Collapse of Civilization May Have Already Begun
2019-11-23 (or before) in VICEScientists disagree on the timeline of collapse and whether it's imminent. But can we afford to be wrong? And what comes after?
Tagged under: Collapse
This Is Why California Will Keep Burning
2019-10-09 (or before) in VICECan we make our infrastructure stop killing us?
Tagged under: California
AirPods Are a Tragedy
2019-07-15 (or before) in VICEApple claims that AirPods are building a “wireless future.” Many people think they're a symbol of disposable wealth. The truth is bleaker.
The Radical Plan to Save the Planet by Working Less
2019-05-31 (or before) in VICEThe degrowth movement wants to intentionally shrink the economy to address climate change, and create lives with less stuff, less work, and better well-being. But is it a utopian fantasy?
Tagged under: Climate Change | Degrowth
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