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The Stream, August 11, 2021: Piazza San Marco Underwater In Rare Summer Flood

Circle of Blue

Heat waves aren’t just uncomfortable, they’re also deadly to humans, and to animals.” – Nerilie Abram, a climate scientists at Australian National University. The move comes amid India’s push to reduce their own carbon emissions. Livestock are dying off in Kazakhstan amid historic drought.

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On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare

Environmental Progress

I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for Rainforest Action Network. The invitations from IPCC and Congress are signs of a growing openness to new thinking about climate change and the environment. In my early 20s I lived in the semi-Amazon doing research with small farmers fighting land invasions.