Tuvalu

'Green News Report' - October 4, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 12.04.2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Koch Indu...

From Island Paradise To 'Dire' Emergency: South Pacific Faces Water Shortages Linked To Climate Change

AP | By NICK PERRY | Posted 12.04.2011

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Crops are wilting, schools have shut their bathrooms and government officials are bathing in lagoons because of a severe sh...

Ethical Responsibility And Climate Change: We're All In The Same Boat

Rabbi Lawrence Troster | Posted 10.25.2011

Rabbi Lawrence Troster

As Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, "Above all, the prophets remind us of the moral state of a people: Few are guilty, but all are responsible."

South Sudan Reminds Us What It Takes to Become a New Nation

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Howard Steven Friedman

Recently created countries remind us that there are no special requirements in terms of physical size, population or economic strength in order to become an independent country.

WikiLeaks, Cuba and More U.S. Cynicism on Climate Change

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

Nikolas Kozloff

As more and more WikiLeaks cables become available, a portrait of the U.S. attitude toward climate change is emerging -- and it is not flattering.

Weekly Mulch: For Cancun Climate Summit, Activists Consider the Long View

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger A year ago, it seemed possible--likely, even--that President Barack Obama would sweep into the internation...

WATCH: FILM: New Visions of the Apocalypse

Spread ArtCulture | Posted 05.25.2011

Spread ArtCulture

By Kiša Lala "Acqua Alta in Venice, An image from "Beautiful Islands," Horizon Features" A recent surge in apocalyptic films indicates the mood ...

The globe prepares to switch off for Earth Hour

Andy Ridley | Posted 05.25.2011

Andy Ridley

This Saturday night at 8.30pm local time, the national government of Tuvalu will switch off power to the low-lying island nation, as one of the first ...

Climate Chess: Massachusetts Fires a New Shot Heard Round the World

David Novack | Posted 05.25.2011

David Novack

We're two days away from President Obama's first State of the Union address. I personally wait with bated breath. The President threw some punches l...

Seeing The Effects Of Climate Change (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Lindsay Armstrong | Posted 05.25.2011

Sometimes as we go about our daily lives, climate change can seem abstract, and not something we think we are experiencing on a daily basis. However, ...

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

Mother Jones | Rachel Morris | Posted 05.25.2011

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....

Todd Stern Says No Treaty at Copenhagen

Mike Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Smith

Special U.S. Envoy on Climate Change Todd Stern yesterday arrived at the United Nations Foundation meeting on Climate Change, a big jet-lagged, and we...

Live from Copenhagen: Talks Halted - Who is pushing the buttons?

Jack Hidary | Posted 05.25.2011

Jack Hidary

Much of the activity at the climate change conference in Copenhagen is kabuki theater with lots of activity, but real power concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy countries who would rather push decisions off to another day.

Help Send A Citizen Journalist To Copenhagen

Wade Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

Tiny Tuvalu Shocks Climate Talks

Anuradha Vittachi | Posted 05.25.2011

Anuradha Vittachi

Tuvalu wants to ensure that global temperatures won't rise by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. You can see why: if it does, their island could disappear beneath the sea forever.

Island Nations Fight For Survival At Climate Talks

AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

COPENHAGEN — Declaring "it's a matter of survival," one of the world's tiniest nations, speaking for imperiled islands everywhere, took on globa...

Defining Justice for Environmental Refugees

Wade Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

Maldives underwater meeting to address climate change

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.25.2011

Small island nations have much at stake at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The Maldives, along with other islands...

Oil and Coal Companies to Begin Huge Scuba Giveaway

Jerry Cope | Posted 05.25.2011

Jerry Cope

After years of climate change denial, a consortium of energy industry giants led by ExxonMobil and Massey Energy are launching a global campaign to provide island nations with equipment to combat rising sea levels.

Sinking Island Nation Of Tuvalu Will Use All Renewable Energy By 2020

AP | MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 05.25.2011

BANGKOK — The tiny island nation of Tuvalu, already under threat from rising seas caused by global warming, vowed Sunday to do its part for clim...

GoDaddy Wants You To Know: Tuvalu Is Sinking

Dave Burdick | Posted 05.25.2011

Dave Burdick

I love the frantic, attention-span-deprived pace of internet memes. Thanks in no small part to boingboing, the nerd/treehugger/angry media blogger dem...