- Climate Change
- & the State of Our Planet
Suggested reading & research
Articles:
- "Will Composting Save Us All?" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," March 5, 2020
- "Methane Emissions Crisis and Rapid Global Heating: It is all Fossil Fuel Drilling and Fracking" by Juan Cole ob "Informed Comment," Feb 20, 2020
- "Australia fires: 'Widespread devastation across the ecosystem'" by Rebecca Falconer on "Axios," Feb 1, 2020
- "100 Seconds to Midnight" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Jan 24, 2020
- "Clean or green?" by Valerie Pavilonis & Mary Chen in "Yale Daily News," Nov, 22, 2019
- "Shale 2.0?" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Jan 10, 2020
- "We Can Do it: In 10 Years, even Tory Britain Dumped Coal and went to 21% Wind" by Grant Wilson, Iain Staffell and Noah Godfrey on "Informed Comment," Jan 10, 2020
- "Australia and the ‘Pyrocene Era’" on Fareed's Global Briefing," Jan 7, 2020
- "Australia: Bushfire crisis triggers mass protests" on "DW (Deutsche Welle)," Jan 10, 2020
- "Australia’s Climate Apocalypse: Wildfires Kill half a Billion Animals, produce Smoke Cloud as Big as United States" by By Teo Blašković on "Informed Comment," Jan 5, 2020
- "See How the World’s Most Polluted Air Compares With Your City’s" by Nadja Popovich, Blacki Migliozzi, Karthik Patanjali, Anjali Singhvi and Jon Huang in "The New York Times," Dec 2, 2019
- "Greenland’s ice losses have septupled and are now in line with its highest sea-level scenario, scientists say" by Chris Mooney in "The Washington Post," Dec 10, 2019
- "‘Bleak’ U.N. Report on a Planet in Peril Looms Over New Climate Talks" by Somini Sengupta in "The New York Times," Nov 26, 2019
- "We Don’t Know How Much Global Warming Will Cost" on Fareed's Global Briefing," Oct 23, 2019
- "Radical warming in Siberia leaves millions on unstable ground" by Anton Troianovski & Chris Mooney with photo & video by Michael Robinson Chavez in "The Washington Post," Oct 3, 2019
- "Climate change: UN panel signals red alert on 'Blue Planet'" by Matt McGrath on "BBC News," Sept 25, 2019
- "Greta Thunberg's Speech At The U.N. Climate Action Summit" on "NPR," Sept 23, 2019
- "The Next Wave of Climate Action: Pressure the Banks" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Sept 20, 2019
- "IPCC to World: Eat Less Meat" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Aug 9, 2019
- "Extreme water stress affects a quarter of the world's population, say experts" by Emily Holden & Vidhi Doshi in "The Guardian," Aug 6, 2019
- "Democracy Desperately Needs A Reboot" by John Feffer on "Lobe Log Update," June 19, 2019
- "Rivalry in the Far North" on David Lawler's "Axios World," June 10, 2019
- "White House blocked intelligence agency’s written testimony calling climate change ‘possibly catastrophic’" by Juliet Eilperin, Josh Dawsey & Brady Dennis in "The Washington Post," June 8, 2019
- "How countries can learn from Jordan’s renewable energy pivot" by Robin Mills on "The National," June 10, 2019
- "Selling Climate Action to the Right" on "Fareed' Global Briefing," May 8, 2019
- "Climate Denialism Goes to Germany" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," May 7, 2019
- "Earth hurtles toward extinction crisis — 1 million species at risk" by Andrew Freedman on "Axios," May 6, 2019
- "The Race for the Arctic" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," April 29, 2019
- "Climate 101: Deforestation" by Christina Nunez in "National Geographic," Feb 7, 2019
- "8 ways climate change is already affecting Africa" on "350Africa.org," Dec 12, 2014
- "Deforestation: Tropical tree losses persist at high levels" by Matt McGrath on "BBC News," April 25 2019
- "Central American Farmers Head to the U.S., Fleeing Climate Change" by Kirk Semple in "The New York Times," April 13, 2019
- "Are Female Leaders the Answer to Climate Change?" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," March 8, 2019
- "Answering the Attacks on the Green New Deal: *Not* Implementing it is too Expensive" by John Feffer on "Informed Comment," Feb 28, 2019
- "Good News for Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population" by David Mizejewski on "National Wildlife Federation's Blog," Jan 30, 2019
- "The 'imminent mini ice age' myth is back, and it's still wrong" by Dana Nuccitelli in "The Guardian," Jan 9, 2018
- "Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds" by Kendra Pierre-Louis at "The New York Times," Jan 10, 2019
- "French Food Waste Law Changing How Grocery Stores Approach Excess Food" by Eleanor Beardsley on "All Things Considered (NPR)," Feb 24, 2018
- "Climate change: Where we are in seven charts and what you can do to help" on BBC News," Dec 2, 2018
- "The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything." by Carl Zimmer in "The New York Times," Dec 7, 2018
- "Earth's ozone layer is finally healing, says UN" by Adam Forrest on "Independent," Nov 6, 2018
- "Startling new research finds large buildup of heat in the oceans, suggesting a faster rate of global warming" by Chris Mooney & Brady Dennis in "The Washington Post," Oct 31, 2018
- "Why India needs to worry about climate change" on "BBC News," Oct 25, 2018
- "We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN" by Jonathan Watts in "The Guardian," Oct 8, 2018
- "Summary for Policymakers of IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC approved by governments" press release from the "United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" with statistical data and link to report, Oct 8, 2018
- "Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040" by Coral Davenport in "The New York Times," Oct 7, 2018
- "Why the Wilder Storms? It’s a ‘Loaded Dice’ Problem" by Somini Sengupta in "The New York Times," Oct 5, 2018
- "Arctic Cauldron: Across the Arctic, lakes are leaking dangerous greenhouse gases. And one lake is behaving very strangely." by Chris Mooney withpPhotos and video by Jonathan Newton in "The Washington Post," Sept 22, 2018
- "The Fish Fights Are Coming" by Kate Higgins-Bloom (in "Foreign Policy") on "Fareed's Global Briefing," Sept 14, 2018
- "U.N. Chief Warns of a Dangerous Tipping Point on Climate Change" by Somini Sengupta in "The New York Times," Sept 10, 2018
- "Axios AM: Mike's Top 10" by Mike Allen on "Axios," Aug 4, 2018
- "Burning Fossil Fuels risks Tipping Earth into ‘Hothouse’ State: Study" by Kerry Sheridan on "Informed Comment," Aug 7, 2018
- "Earth Will Survive. We May Not." by Adam Frank in "The New York Times, June 12, 2018
- "Some places flourished in the Little Ice Age. There are lessons for us now." by Dagomar Degroot in "The Washington Post," Feb 19, 2018
- "Morocco Establishes Water Commission amid Climate Concerns" by Amal Kandeel on "Middle East Institute: Weekly Briefing," Oct 10, 2017
- "G19 outmaneuvers climate Rogue Trump, ignores Donald & Ivanka" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," July 9, 2017
- "95-Degree Days: How Extreme Heat Could Spread Across the World" by Brad Plummer & Nadja Popovich in "The New York Times," June 22, 2017
- "Top 5 Climate Catastrophes to which Trump just Doomed his own Supporters" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," June 2, 2017
- "Gulf of Maine will become too warm for many key fish, report says" by Colin Woodard in "Portland Press Herald," May 21, 2017
- "Norway to boost protection of Arctic seed vault from climate change" on "BBC News," May 20, 2017
- "Antarctic Dispatches, Part 1: Miles of Ice Collapsing into the Sea" by Justin Gillis in "The New York Times," May 18, 2017
- "Antarctic Dispatches, Part 2: Looming Floods, Threatened Cities" by Justin Gillis in "The New York Times," May 18, 2017
- "Antarctic Dispatches, Part 3: Racing to Find the Answers in the Ice" by Justin Gillis in "The New York Times," May 18, 2017
- "What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss" by Andrew Bacevich on "LobeLog Foreign Policy, May 8, 2017
- "To Be Great Again, America Needs Immigrants" by Ruchir Sharma in "The New York Times," May 6, 2017
- "The Necessary Empire" by Robert D. Kaplan in "The New York Times," May 5, 2017
- "Trump Is Turning Other Countries Against the United States" by Fareed Zakarian on "FareedZakaria.com," May 4, 2017
- "Russia’s Military Buildup in Arctic Has U.S. Watching Closely" by Lucy Kafanov on "NBC News.com," May 1, 2017
- "Oman’s mountains may hold clues for reversing climate change" by Sam McNeil on "APnews.com," April 13, 2017
- "Climate Change as Genocide: Inaction Equals Annihilation" by Michael T. Klare on "TomDispatch.com," April 20, 2017
- "How a Warming Planet Drives Human Migration" by Jessica Benko in "The New York Times Magazine," April 19, 2017
- "Air pollution: New attempts to tackle Cairo’s black cloud" by Mariam Rizk on "BBC News," March 7, 2017
- "Trump Prepares Orders Aiming at Global Funding and Treaties" by Max Fisher in "The New York Times," Jan 25, 2017
- "Facing Water Challenges in the Middle East" by Aysegul Kibaroglu on "Middle East Institute, Sept 14, 2016
- "What is Eurasianism?" by Graham E. Fuller on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Sept 18, 2016
- "His Grip Still Secure, Bashar al-Assad Smiles as Syria Burns" by Ben Hubbard in "The New York Times," Sept 17, 2016
- "England's Forgotten Muslim History" by Jerry Brotton in "The New York Times," Sept 17, 2016
- "The Afghan War Quagmire" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times," Sept 17, 2016
- "Turks See Purge as Witch Hunt of 'Medieval' Darkness" by Tim Arango, Ceylan Yeginsu & Safak Timur in "The New York Times," Sept 16, 2016
- "A Russian-Iranian Axis" by Vali R. Nasr in "The New York Times," Sept 16, 2016
- "The Contest Over Israel Aid" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times," Sept 16, 2016
- "Facing Water Challenges in the Middle East" by Aysegul Kibaroglu on "Middle East Institute, Sept 14, 2016
- "The United Nations: What’s the Point?" by Uri Friedman in "The Atlantic," Sept 2, 2016
- "How Many Guns Did the U.S. Lose Track of in Iraq and Afghanistan? Hundreds of Thousands." by C.J. Chivers in "The New York Times Magazine," Aug 24, 2016
- "America's Mr. Diplomacy" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times," Sept 14, 2016
- "Crisis and Climate Change Driving Unprecedented Migration" by Manipadma Jena on "Informed Comment," June 7, 2016
- "How Venezuela Fell Into Crisis, and What Could Happen Next" by Rick Gladstone in "The New York Times," May 27, 2016
- "Will Climate change make the Middle East Uninhabitable?" by Baher Kamal on "Informed Comment," by April 19, 2016
- "A New Dark Age Looms" by William B. Gail in "The New York Times," April 19, 2016
- "Out of Africa" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," April 13, 2016
- "3 Surprising reasons Saudi Arabia may be getting out of the Oil Business" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," April 2, 2016
- "Our Water System: What a Waste" by Michael E. Webber in "The New York Times," March 22, 2016
- "Decline of Pollinators Poses Threat to World Food Supply, Report Says" by John Schwartz in "The New York Times," Feb 26, 2016
- "What You Get When You Mix Chickens, China and Climate Change" by Sonia Shah in "The New York Times," Feb 5, 2016
- "Scarred Riverbeds and Dead Pistachio Trees in a Parched Iran" by Thomas Erdbrink in "The New York Times," Dec 18, 2015
- "A brief guide to Climate Change, COP21 and the Middle East" by Lina Eklund on "Informed Comment," Dec 7, 2015
- "Alexandria Flooded Again, Much of Egypt's Delta as Well, as Yemen, Oman Get a Cyclone" on "Middle East Eye" editor's blog, Nov 4, 2015
- "A Mass Migration Crisis, and It May Yet Get Worse" by Rod Nordland in "The New York Times," Oct 31, 2015
- "Deadly Heat is Forecast in Persian Gulf by 2100" by John Schwartz in "The New York Times," Oct 26, 2015
- "Stuff Happens to the Environment, Like Climate Change" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," Oct 5, 2015
- "The Pope and the Planet" by Bill McKibben in "The New York Review of Books," Aug 13, 2015
- "The World’s Hot Spot" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York Times," Aug 19, 2015
- "How Climate Change Sparked the Crisis in Syria" by Michael Shank & Emily Wirzba in "US News & World Report," Sept 13, 2014.
- "Climate Change, Dirty Natural Gas, and the Gaza War" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Aug 5, 2014
- "Without Water, Revolution" by Thomas L. Friedman in "The New York TImes," May 18, 2013
- "Three Divergent Visions of Our Future Under Climate Change" a review by Nathaniel Rich of The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us by Diane Ackerman in "The New York Times," Sept 22, 2014
- "All the News Is Bad" by Francis Gooding, a review of The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future (a/k/a The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming) by David Wallace-Wells, in the "London Review of Books," Aug 1, 2019
- Diane Ackerman, The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us
- Wallace-Wells, David, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, 2019
- Yergin, Daniel, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, 1991
- King Corn (2007) - a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation
- "Aquaculture's Next Wave" series on Maine Public Radio (90.1 FM-Lewiston) - it may be possible to stream some of the episodes on a computer or smart phone
- ClimateReanalyzer.org - a teaching sub-site of NOAA's Climate.gov website