Sustainability

The Caribbean has a super-hurricane problem

November 13, 2025 Jeff Masters In the western Pacific, there is a special name for high-end Category 4 and 5 typhoons with winds exceeding 150 mph (240 km/h): super typhoons. No equivalent terminology exists in the Atlantic for “super hurricanes.” But perhaps there should be, because these strongest of the strong storms are an increasing threat to the viability of living along the Caribbean, as they are expected to become increasingly common because of climate change. A man w

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Nov 131 min read

How Wars ravage the Environment, and the Legal Response

November 10, 2025 Benjamin Neimark , Queen Mary University of London and Kate Mackintosh , University of California, Los Angeles People across the Gaza Strip have been returning to towns and cities badly damaged by the war after a fragile ceasefire took effect in October. Eventually, their lives will be restored and their homes will be built back. But the climate consequences of the war will remain for years to come. https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/ravage-environment-respo

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Nov 101 min read

Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels

November 7, 2025 Joëlle Gergis As world leaders gather in Brazil this year for Cop30 – the first Amazonian Cop – it’s worth doing a quick reality check on how we are collectively tracking to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. Despite 30 years of UN climate summits, about half of the carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution has been emitted since 1990. Incidentally, 1990 was the year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the

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Nov 71 min read

The Second World Summit for Social Development: Mind the (Equality) Gap

November 6, 2025 Rachael Mellor Dr. Norbert Stute Building on the legacy of the first summit held in Copenhagen in 1995, the primary goal of the second World Summit for Social Development is to advance global social development and bolster much-needed momentum for the Sustainable Development Goals set out in the 2030 Agenda. This high-stakes event will be held November 4-6, 2025 in Doha, Qatar , and Better World Info has carried out thorough research on the event. With just

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Nov 61 min read

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam

October 29, 2025 Jonathan Watt The US’s super-rich are burning through carbon emissions at 4,000 times the speed of the world’s poorest 10%, according to an analysis provided to the Guardian. These billionaires and multimillionaires, who comprise the wealthiest 0.1% of the US population, are also running down our planet’s safe climate space at 183 times the rate of the global average. Almost 60% of billionaire investments are in ‘high climate-impact sectors’, such as mining o

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Oct 291 min read