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The Seafloor Is Dissolving Because of Climate Change

  2023-08-11 (or before) in VICE

According 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 VICE

New 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 VICE

By 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 VICE

The 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 VICE

On 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 VICE

A new Global Witness report found that it has the same carbon footprint per year as 1.2 million gas-powered cars.

  Tagged under: Shell | Cars | Carbon Capture and Storage


How a Married Undercover Cop Having Sex With Activists Killed a Climate Movement

  2022-01-20 (or before) in VICE

Mark 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 VICE

A human-driven mass extinction “has begun on land and in freshwater seems increasingly likely,” according to a new article.

  Tagged under: Extinction


Rupert Murdoch Has Known We’ve Been in a Climate Emergency Since 2006, Documents Show

  2021-09-24 (or before) in VICE

Murdoch’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 VICE

A 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 VICE

A 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: Economics | Predictions | Economic Growth | Collapse


Colorado Denied Its Citizens the Right-to-Repair After Riveting Testimony

  2021-04-05 (or before) in VICE

Stories 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 VICE

The 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 VICE

With 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 | Activism


The Great Barrier Reef Is Heading for a Mass Bleaching of Unprecedented Scale

  2020-03-04 (or before) in VICE

Forecasts 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 VICE

We 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 VICE

Scientists 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 VICE

Can we make our infrastructure stop killing us?

  Tagged under: California


AirPods Are a Tragedy

  2019-07-15 (or before) in VICE

Apple 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 VICE

The 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: Economics | Climate Change | Degrowth


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