Greenland’s Shrinking Ice Sheet May Accelerate Global Climate Crisis
This article is part of an editorial collaboration with Earth.Org. The Earth.Org Series can be found here. The original publication can be found here. Greenland is the world’s largest island with a vast body of ice covering 1,710,000 sq km, roughly 80% of the
Is Oil Really Worth More Than The Planet?
In the fall of 2006, former presidential candidate Al Gore called global decision-makers to action: “It is your time to seize this issue. It is our time to rise again, to secure our future.” Over more than a decade since
Climate Change in the Arctic for Dummies — the Basic Facts We Need to Know to Care
We don’t have to be climatologists to acknowledge that climate change is real. Nowhere is it more noticeable than in the Arctic, where temperatures have risen two times as the global average. A quick Google search is enough to find
What Can Outlander Teach Us About Sustainability?
Editor's Note: In order to respect the author's long career, the Impakter team has not intervened with any edits for this opinion piece. The morning after the US 2016 election I awoke in a panic gasping for breath. The reason, apart from
Shrinking the environmental footprint of mining
Almost every element in the periodic table has a use in modern society, and we are consuming them in larger volumes because of growing economies and technological innovations. Exotic elements from the periodic table like Neodymium, one of the rare
Climate Change: Too Late?
Will climate change and global warming eradicate humans? This summer, the worst scorcher to date, has become a season for panic: wildfires across the Western United States, Greece and Sweden, record temperatures in China, unprecedented floods in India and Japan,
What is Climate Resilience?
I work in climate resilience. And, when I tell people that, the next question they tend to ask is, “What is climate resilience?” It’s a fair question, and it deserves a fair answer. Let’s start with the facts, which I will state
WORLD OF WONDER, WORLD OF REASON
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Climate Action: The Foundation of Sustainable Development
The climate crisis is undoubtedly the single greatest threat to humanity. Despite the fierce debate in the United States surrounding the reality staring us square in the face, much of the rest of the world acknowledges the severity of this
Earth Day 2020: Celebrating 50 years of fighting for our Planet
The view from my hotel window was something out of a science fiction tale. A shroud of thick haze hung over New Delhi, blanketing India’s capital city and its more than 21 million people, and close to 8 million children,
Peat Swamps: The Forgotten Fix for Climate Change
“Drain the swamp!” It was Donald Trump’s campaign metaphor for purging everything bad in Washington DC. But he got his metaphor all wrong. Swamps are good. And, while Trump may not believe much in climate change, the UN climate conference
U.S. Action on Climate Change Will Continue
President Donald Trump’s announcement that he wants to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement was a mistake of historic proportions, not only because such a move is the antithesis of Sustainable Development Goal 13 — to “take urgent