“Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than four feet (1.25 meters) of water. “ This report was alarming for many who relied on experts’ findings, particularly regarding climate change. It was not scary for…

The forests of the U.S. Northeast are in peril. Global warming has raised temperatures, improving conditions for insects such as the emerald ash borer, to ravage trees already stressed due to drought and scorching summers. Massachusetts forests experienced 97 wildfires across the state during the summer of 2022. Keeping pace…

Wednesday January 11 at 6 pm, we’ll gather before First Parish Church at the monthly 11th Hour Calling. Now is the eleventh hour for climate action. It is also a time of hope and opportunity to tread more gently, emit less greenhouse gases, draw down and store more carbon, restore…

This is very interesting: Even the original 1972 report “on the exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources”, the Club of Rome does not speak of “Degrowth” but of “The Limits to Growth”. A fundamental difference… as these authors probably knew only too well that since…

Perhaps the biggest success coming out of the UN Climate Talks, COP27, was the one least likely to succeed — the creation of a Loss and Damage Fund. To be held responsible for another’s loss and damages, such a fund should have been a nonstarter in a society quick to…

Yes, They just started fulfilling orders this year. Please urge UK decision-makers to advocate for clean locomotives. https://www.goerie.com/story/business/2022/01/31/wabtec-locomotives-erie-pa-union-pacific-flxdrive/9259650002/

Pollinators like bees, butterflies, birds, and bats are essential to our ecosystems. Most plants — including crops — need to be pollinated. Pollinators are crucial to the life of plants, biodiversity, and farming. But many pollinators are endangered, in part due to exposure to pesticides. One culprit: neonicotinoids. …