Rotterdam and Resilience: Dutch Know-How
Michael Kimmelman’s front page story Dutch Face Rising Seas in the New York Times is a must-read for anyone concerned about the rising threat to US coasts, coastal cities, […]
Category Archives: Rising Waters
Paris Climate Agreement – Read and Weep
U.S. pulls out of the Paris Climate Agreement two days after causing a kerfuffle (a real word!) with the invented word covfefe. Here’s what Pulitzer-Prize-winning New Yorker contributor Elizabeth Kolbert has to […]
Climate Change: An Inconvenient Sequel
A sequel to An Inconvenient Truth – the 2006 documentary produced by former VP Al Gore and seen by a worldwide audience – premieres July 28 worldwide as An Inconvenient […]
Friday Roundup Apr 1: No foolin’!
Friday Roundup April 1: Our stories — how cities and islands may disappear by the end of the century, making water from fog, a 65-year-old “mother” osprey, salmon spawn for […]
Friday Roundup: Feb 26
WELCOME TO FRIDAY ROUNDUP on Green News Update. In our inaugural news roundup, we’re offering a batch of “ups and downs” – sea level rising, Detroit’s Shinola winning hearts and minds, bicycle […]
Students Build Solar Houses: Stevens Wins!
Students at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken NJ are crowing about their October 18 win at the 2015 US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon – they won first place […]
Climate Change: New resources for readers
A new Green News Update resources page –– see our homepage for the link — will feature reports, studies, videos and op-eds in the runup to the COP 21 (Conference of the Parties) in […]
Earth Heroes: James Balog Chasing Ice
International photographer James Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) could be described as a watching a planetary train wreck through time-lapse photography – it is breathtaking, bizarrely beautiful, shocking and worrisome. […]
World Water Day 2015: Mar 22
World Water Day: Here’s one day when you can ease off of your water consumption, but skipping your shower is not the big thing –it’s meat consumption. The United Nations […]
Now Not Tomorrow!
Climate change is real and a threat to poor and vulnerable communities, say The Elders – an independent group of world leaders including Kofi Annan, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Fernando Henrique […]
