
New York Times - 13 hours 41 min ago
Marieke Vellekoop, director of Greenpeace Netherlands, center, with plaintiffs from Bonaire in court in The Hague in October.

The Guardian - 16 hours 35 min ago
Judgment in The Hague orders Netherlands to do more to protect Caribbean people in its territory from impacts of climate crisis The Dutch government discriminated against people in one of its most vulnerable territories by not helping them adapt to climate change, a court has found. The judgment , announced on Wednesday in The Hague, chastises the Netherlands for treating people on the island of Bonaire, in the Caribbean, differently to inhabitants of the European part of the country and for not...

NPR - 17 hours 4 min ago
President Trump calls global warming "a hoax." As the U.S. faces more severe storms and extreme weather events, the New York Times ' David Gelles describes what this means for climate change policy.

ABC News - 19 hours 1 min ago
A court has ordered the Dutch government to draw up a plan to protect residents of the Caribbean island of Bonaire from the devastating effects of climate change...

Vox - 20 hours 39 sec ago
Not everyone wants to rule the world, but it does seem lately as if everyone wants to warn the world might be ending. On Tuesday, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists unveiled their annual resetting of the Doomsday Clock , which is meant to visually represent how close the experts at the organization feel that the world is to ending. Reflecting a cavalcade of existential risks ranging from worsening nuclear tensions to climate change to the rise of autocracy, the hands were set to 85 seconds to...

The Nation - 23 hours 30 min ago
Ilana Cohen As climate change leads to record rainfalls, the city's 120-year-old subway system is more vulnerable to flooding than ever. The post Can New York Adapt the Subway for the Climate Crisis? appeared first on The Nation .