Climate Change

"A PR Giant Is Caught Between Climate Pledges and Fossil Fuel Clients"

"After last month’s United Nations-sponsored environmental conference in Glasgow, the public relations giant Edelman praised the participants for reaching “a new level of international consensus that climate change is an existential threat to humanity.”

Source: NYTimes, 12/13/2021

How Bangladesh's Poor Are Paying The Costs Of Climate Damage

"When Cyclone Yaas slammed into her home in southwest Bangladesh in May, destroying it and sweeping away in the floodwaters the small amount of cash she had saved, Amina Begum had few options. Efforts to recover from four previous cyclones since 2009 had depleted her resources, and her husband's death five years ago left the burden of caring for their two children solely to her."

Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 12/10/2021

"Darwin In A Lab: Coral Evolution Tweaked For Global Warming"

"On a moonless summer night in Hawaii, krill, fish and crabs swirl through a beam of light as two researchers peer into the water above a vibrant reef. Minutes later, like clockwork, they see eggs and sperm from spawning coral drifting past their boat. They scoop up the fishy-smelling blobs and put them in test tubes."

Source: AP, 12/10/2021

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