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1 week ago | 
countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |James Kerry |Lisa Levin |Bhargav Oza
The Trump administration’s EPA has put the home insurance industry, home mortgage industry, real estate industry, and individual homeownership on notice that the rules are changing against their best interests. Already, before these negative changes to EPA policy, radical climate change has forced insurance companies to eliminate home coverage in regions of America.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Zeeshan Nasir |Robert Hunziker |Binoy Kampmark |Jonathan D. Ostry
They say only bad news from Balochistan makes the headlines___Pakistan’s largest and most impoverished province marred in a decades long insurgency. The local newspapers are flooded with the news of people being killed in bomb blasts, target killings and the loss of lives in incidents of terrorism. However, amid this backdrop of turmoil, a problem that is just as terrible is subtly developing: climate change.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Binoy Kampmark |Jonathan D. Ostry |Ty Ferguson
“Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit” —BBC News. This jarring headline, published three days ago, encapsulates the absurdity of modern climate governance. To host the 2025 United Nations Climate Summit (COP30), the Brazilian government has razed approximately 500 hectares of the Amazon rainforest—a carbon sink critical to stabilizing the global climate—to construct roads, a conference complex, and luxury accommodations for delegates.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Binoy Kampmark |Jonathan D. Ostry |Ty Ferguson
This year’s annual UN climate conference COP30 with 50,000 expected attendees held in Belém, Brazil is one-upping the past two COPs (UN Conference of the Parties) that were held by, and dictated by, Middle Eastern fossil fuel countries, eye-openers that many eco-minded people, still to this day, cannot stomach.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Vikas Meshram |Robert Hunziker |Masatsugu Asakawa |Bill McKibben
Climate change has now become the biggest threat to the entire world. The reckless exploitation of natural resources, deforestation, increasing materialistic desires, and pollution in various sectors have further intensified this crisis. Rising global temperatures and unpredictable climate changes are affecting every aspect of life, severely impacting the environment, livelihoods, lifestyle, food, water, and health. No aspect of life remains untouched by its consequences.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Vikas Meshram |Masatsugu Asakawa |Bill McKibben
“We are running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.” (Elon Musk interview, Icons: Elon Muck Doesn’t Let Up at Tesla, SpaceX,USA Today, April 17, 2013)Dear Elon, it has started.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Vikas Meshram |Robert Hunziker |Masatsugu Asakawa |Bill McKibben
Decisive climate action is crucial to preventing the dangerous decline of sea ice. Favorable policies and improved polar monitoring will enhance climate resilience. Reducing emissions and protecting the planet’s fragile cryosphere depend on collective determination. Many communities are not prepared to face climate change threats. Investing in resilient infrastructure that can withstand future climate risks is essential. Sea ice plays a crucial role in regulating the Earth’s climate.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Vikas Meshram |Robert Hunziker |Masatsugu Asakawa |Bill McKibben
Climate change is considered one of the most serious global crises of our time. The increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters such as rising temperatures, unseasonal rainfall, wildfires, floods, droughts, and cyclones are evident. India is among the countries most affected by climate change. According to the Climate Risk Index published by Germanwatch, India was the seventh most affected country in the world in 2019.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Masatsugu Asakawa |Robert Hunziker |Bharat Dogra |Bill McKibben
MANILA – The United Nations has declared 2025 to be the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation, making it a fitting moment to confront the stark reality that the world’s ice sheets are melting. Climate change is accelerating this trend, particularly in the Hindu Kush Himalayas – a region known as the Earth’s Third Pole because it contains the largest volume of ice outside of the Arctic and Antarctica.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Kim Scipes |Ayurella Horn-Muller |Vikas Meshram
“All of these changes, we can plot them and if we look exponentially, we see really catastrophic effects in the next few years, certainly in the next decade or two the world will be completely different… I think we’re at the last minute now.” (Peter Wadhams) PM Margaret Thatcher’s 1989 speech to the UN General Assembly made reference to Peter Wadhams, Head of Polar Ocean Physics, Cambridge as her British scientist on board a ship in the Arctic Ocean: “The lesson of these Polar processes is...
