Calamity Calling

Calamity Calling: A GlobalPost investigation into global climate change (VIDEO)

July 30, 2016Business, Economics and Jobs

Forget the debate over climate change. Calamity is already upon us. A yearlong GlobalPost investigation assesses the damage from the Amazon, to Africa, to the Gobi, Greenland and beyond.

Calamity Calling: Climate change expert says Earth is having its ‘Independence Day’ moment (Q&A)

July 30, 2016Business, Economics and Jobs

Calamity Calling: What if we lost the Amazon?

July 30, 2016Business, Economics and Jobs

Lamenting Madagascar’s last lonely lemurs (VIDEO)

July 30, 2016Business, Economics and Jobs

Himalayan tsunami: Climate change triggers deadly floods among the world’s highest peaks

July 30, 2016Business, Economics and Jobs

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Warming seas and super-storms raze the cradle of aquatic life…

July 30, 2016Business, Economics and Jobs

… and harm the livelihoods of coastal dwellers.

Calamity Calling: Ice, ice melting (VIDEO)

July 30, 2016Business, Economics and Jobs

Climate change is rapidly transforming the Arctic. GlobalPost reports from Alaska and Greenland.

Waterless World: China’s ever-expanding desert wasteland

July 30, 2016Business, Economics and Jobs

As climate change makes vast parts of Inner Mongolia uninhabitable, an official declares: ‘Land desertification is China’s most important ecological problem.’

Calamity Calling: Weird weather hits America’s breadbasket (VIDEO)

July 30, 2016Business, Economics and Jobs

Forget ‘proving’ climate change. Heartland farmers know it’s begun, and it doesn’t look good.

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