Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Yvonne Su
The 2018 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body that assesses climate change science, says the world needs to limit global temperature increases to below 1.5C this century.
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- Written by: Pete Smith
In my day job, I am a scientist at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland studying things such as how agriculture contributes to climate change and what we can do about it.
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- Written by: Chloe Lucas, et al
Contrary to opinion polls predicting a groundswell of support for Labor’s relatively progressive agenda on climate and economics, the election results revealed that Australians are more divided on climate change than we thought.
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- Written by: Robert B. Talisse
Politicians and pundits from all quarters often lament democracy’s polarized condition.
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- Written by: Jessica Corbett
Despite calls for a fifth convention two decades ago, military conflict continues to destroy megafauna, push species to extinction, and poison water resources.
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- Written by: Jessica Corbett
We all need to work together to nurture a habitable planet for future generations and to play our part in building a greener and cleaner future for all.
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- Written by: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez remarks on the Green New Deal at an event hosted by the Sunrise Movement.
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- Written by: Cameron Brick
Environmentalism can feel like a drag. People trying to reduce their environmental impact often feel stressed and inadequate, and those who aren’t can feel judged and resentful.
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- Written by: The Guardian
The inside story of Extinction Rebellion, the direct action group that paralysed central London to protest against what it see as the government's inaction on climate change. After a week of protests,
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
It seems that extreme weather is becoming more extreme and increasingly common. We can't pick up one of the few remaining papers, visit a news website, turn on the radio, without hearing of another hurricane, tornado, mudslide, nor'easter, or common everyday snow storm called Billy Bob, Wilma May, or a cyclopoop.
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- Written by: Milenko Martinovich, Stanford University
While Americans support action on climate change, many don’t see the issue as an immediate threat and so the issue does not elicit the powerful responses necessary for Americans to mobilize, argues sociologist Doug McAdam.
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- Written by: Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Hamilton, University of Sydney
Until recently, weather talk was an easy filler for any awkward silence. But tragically for polite conversationalists everywhere, the weather is no longer mundane.
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- Written by: Matthew Kelly, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Towns and villages along the east coast of England were put on red alert on Friday 13 January.
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- Written by: Nora Drake, University of California, Santa Barbara, Yale University
A new detailed, easily navigable opinion map clarifies what people in each county, city, and even congressional district in the United States believe about climate change.
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- Written by: Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams
New York Attorney General's office discovers secondary email while investigating company's climate science cover-up
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- Written by: Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams
"Scientists are right to preserve data and archive websites before those who want to dismantle federal climate change research programs storm the castle"
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- Written by: Andrew Revkin ProPublica
The wonders of NASA — Mars rovers, astronaut Instagram feeds, audacious missions probing distant galactic mysteries — have long enthralled the American public.
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- Written by: Richard Heinberg
Movie buffs will recognize this title as the most memorable line from “A Few Good Men” (1992), spoken by the character Colonel Jessep, played by Jack Nicholson (“You can’t handle the truth!” is #29 in the American Film Institute’s list of 100 top movie quotes).
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- Written by: Jan Rocha, Climate News Network
Forest fires in the Amazon region are reaching record levels as Brazil’s government fails to tackle the deforestation that fuels the country’s high rate of emissions.
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- Written by: Eelco Rohling, Australian National University
The Paris climate agreement set a “safe” global warming limit of below 2?, aiming below 1.5? by 2100. The world has already warmed about a degree since the Industrial Revolution, and on our current emissions trajectory we will likely breach these limits within decades.
