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By Jon Christensen, University of California, Los Angeles There’s been no shortage of pessimistic news on climate change lately. A group of climate scientists and policy experts recently declared that we have just three years left to dramatically turn around carbon emissions, or else. Meanwhile a widely circulated New York magazine article detailed some of the […]

By Amy Myers Jaffe, University of California, Davis and Lewis Fulton, University of California, Davis When will cars powered by gas-guzzling internal combustion engines become obsolete? Not as soon as it seems, even with the latest automotive news out of Europe. First, Volvo announced it would begin to phase out the production of cars that

Nicholas F. Stump, West Virginia University Do we have a fundamental right to breathe clean air, drink clean water and eat safe food? The idea of environmental human rights is receiving growing attention worldwide, driven by our global ecological crisis. But the United States has lagged behind in codifying these rights into laws and in

July 6, 2017 By Sean Nealon RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — Under business-as-usual greenhouse gas emissions, climate models predict California will get warmer during the rest of the century and most also predict the state will get drier. But, new research, published today in the journal Nature Communications, predicts that California will actually get wetter. The scientists

By Mitch Hedlund, Founder and Executive Director of Recycle Across America You probably know this already, but it’s worth repeating. Recycling is truly the #1 action society can do to simultaneously improve the environment and the economy, create jobs, improve manufacturing, conserve fresh water, reduce CO2 levels, reduce energy use, mitigate climate change, protect finite resources as the human population continues to

September 30, 2016 Author Andrew Glikson Earth and paleo-climate scientist, Australian National University Current greenhouse gas concentrations could warm the world 3-7? (and on average 5?) over coming millennia. That’s the finding of a paper published in Nature today. The research, by Carolyn Snyder, reconstructed temperatures over the past 2 million years. By investigating the link

March 3, 2017 Matthew Kahn Professor of Economics, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences President Trump has made it clear he intends to dismantle the Obama administration’s policies for reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. But California Governor Jerry Brown has declared that his state – which would be the sixth-largest economy in

March 18, 2016 By John Perlin John Perlin is an analyst in the physics department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He oversees solar installations at the university, and he writes, speaks, and lectures about solar energy. Many people believe that solar energy is a twentieth century phenomenon, untried and untested. But I discovered through writing

November 13, 2016 By Femke Wijdekop, Institute for Environmental Security Source: Great Transition Network The current legal regime allows states and corporations to despoil the environment with impunity. This injustice has inspired a new movement of legal experts and citizens calling for the codification of ecocide as a fifth crime against peace, joining genocide, crimes

January 13, 2017 Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, U.S. President Barack Obama and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon shake hands during a joint ratification of the Paris climate change agreement in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, Sept. 3, 2016. How Hwee Young/Pool Photo via AP In mid-November, while Americans were preoccupied with election returns, China sent some of