Record flooding spread from Texas to Vermont
Once again, flood records are being re-broken in a short period of time, this time during the Winter. Video courtesy Associated Press
Louisiana preparing for evacuation of up to 59,000 residents in near future
From Bloomberg News’ Christopher Flavelle: Louisiana is finalizing a plan to move thousands of people from areas threatened by the rising Gulf of Mexico, effectively declaring uninhabitable a coastal area larger than Delaware. A draft of the plan, the most aggressive response to climate-linked flooding in the U.S., calls for prohibitions on building new …
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Sea level rise greatly underestimated
It’s been awhile since last I posted, but this is the kind of information that is too important to ignore…. Ice Apocalypse Rapid collapse of Antarctic glaciers could flood coastal cities by the end of this century. By Eric Holthaus on Nov 21, 2017 (Grist) ….Antarctica is a giant landmass — about half the size …
Native American Tribe in Louisiana soon to become Environmental Refugees
It seems that a second Native Tribe is going to have to be located. First it was the Alaskan Kivalina, whose Island was not so much destroyed by sea level rise, but through loss of Sea Ice. The frozen Sea Ice normally surrounds the Island in the Winter and Spring months, during times of stormy …
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No region in the world stands to suffer climate change more than the countries of the Caribbean
Thanks to Pakalolo for this great article! Bill Fletcher, Jr. of the Global African, discussed the looming disaster in the Caribbean with climate and development scientist Ramon Bueno and Caribbean climate change activists Stina Herberg and Empress Modupe Olufunmi-Jacobs to talk mitigation and the activism behind the threat. The Transcript and video of the interviews …
Leonardo DiCaprio speaks for First Nations and Indigenous cultures
Towards the end of his acceptance speech for “Revenant” at the Golden Globes Award Actor and Environmentalist spoke out on behalf of Indigenous cultures and preserving the Planet for future generations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncgFQAISaGo