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Environmental Refugees

Tuvalu: The First Country In The World To Become Unlivable?

Mother Jones | Rachel Morris | Posted 11.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Tuvalu Climate Change, Global Warming Hot Spots, Auckland Tuvaluans, Tuvalu Christian Church, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, New Zealand Tuvaluans, Maldives, Funafuti, Kiribati, United Nations Development Programme, Environmental Refugees, Climate Change, Tuvalu Global Warming, Reverend Elisala Selu, Copenhagen, Tuvalu, Green News

This is the Tuvalu Christian Church, the heart of a migrant community from what may be the first country to be rendered unlivable by global warming....

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Help Send A Citizen Journalist To Copenhagen

Wade Norris | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Tuvalu, Erosion, Copenhagen, Climate Refugees, Maldives, Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, Fiji, Climate Change, Environmental Refugees, Carterets, Green News
Wade Norris

Huffington Post is holding a contest to send a citizen journalist to Copenhagen as part of its Hopenhagen platform. This contest will provide a unique...

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"Failure Is Not an Option..."

Wade Norris | Posted 11.09.2009 | Denver

Read More: Tesla, Electric Conversion, Geothermal, Copenhagen, Solar Panels, Electric Car, Colorado, Fossil Fuels, Oil, Environmental Refugees, Windmills, Denver News
Wade Norris

What if we approached global warming the way we approached confronting the Nazis in World War II or the way NASA approached Apollo 13?

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A Human Rights Petition to President Barack Obama

Wade Norris | Posted 10.28.2009 | Denver

Read More: Human Rights, Executive Order, Environmental Refugees, United Nations, US Senate, Copenhagen, Climate Change, Petition, Barack Obama, Ban-Ki Moon, 350.Org, Denver News
Wade Norris

For environmental refugees both within the United States and internationally, climate change means losing their homes, land and culture.

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Rejoice! Ice Free Arctic Summers Within a Decade!

Wade Norris | Posted 10.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Glaciers, Indonesia, Sumatra, Fossil Fuels, Arctic, Oil, Samoa, Erosion, Earthquakes, Sea Level Rise, Environmental Refugees, Ice Quakes, Ice Free Summers, Denver News
Wade Norris

Great news here! Oil companies are going to have a great opportunity to drill in the Arctic Sea floor to find more fossil fuels, because the Arctic Circle will soon be ice-free in the summers.

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Defining Justice for Environmental Refugees

Wade Norris | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver

Read More: Climate Refugees, Tuvalu, Carbon Emission, United Nations, Copenhagen, European Union, United States, Maldives, Carteret Islands, Barack Obama, Relocation, Legal Status, Fossil Fuels, Environmental Refugees, Vanuatu, Industrialized Countries, Fiji, Senate, Kivalina, Kirabiti, Denver News
Wade Norris

There is a growing group of people in our world who are in a legal limbo: environmental refugees. And this problem is only going to get bigger as time goes on.

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I Love Denver, But This Has Got to Change

Wade Norris | Posted 11.24.2009 | Denver

Read More: Rocky Mountains, Aces, Denver Broncos, Environmental-Refugees, Colorado, Denver, Pollution, Pine Beetles, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Mile High City, Denver News
Wade Norris

What if a city's reputation for pollution was reflected in the sports team's names? Instead of the Denver Broncos would we be the Denver Bronchitis?

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Environmental Warfare in 10 years

Diane Francis | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Geostrategy, Australia, Migration, Geoengineering, Latin America, Environmental Refugees, Environment, Green, Geopolitics, Mexico, Spain, Degradation, Greece, Green News
Diane Francis

Oil company CEOs and Canadian, U.S. and British government officials attending the Global Business Forum in Banff last week heard a chilling forecast of military clashes if there is an environmental meltdown due to climate change.

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