How many deaths could result from failure to act on climate change?

A recent OECD study concludes that outdoor air pollution is killing more than 3.5 million people a year globally. The OECD estimates that p...

Escalating extreme weather events to hammer humanity

By Paul Beckwith Extreme weather events are rocketing upwards in their frequency of occurrence, intensity, and duration and are impacting ne...

The Threat of Wildfires in the North

NASA/NOAA image based on Suomi NPP satellite  data from April 2012 to April 2013, with grid added A new map has been issued by NOAA/NASA. T...

How to avoid mass-scale death, destruction and extinction

The FAO Food Price Index shows that high food prices have been around for the past few years. The FAO, in its recent Cereal Supply and Dema...

Threat to global food supply makes comprehensive action imperative

Climate change is strongly affecting the Arctic and the resulting changes to the polar vortex and jet stream are in turn contributing to ext...