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Can the world overshoot its climate targets — and then fix it later?

Grist

Sea-level rise is also irreversible — the heat collecting in ice sheets and the ocean will continue to drive sea-level rise long after the temperature is stabilized or even lowered. Arctic permafrost — frozen, carbon-rich soil — is thawing and beginning to release the carbon stored within.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration. Permafrost and methane hydrates – Permafrost is ground soil or rock that contains ice or frozen organic material that has remained at or below 0C for at least two years.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. Cohen, forward by Bill McKibben, 2016 Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt by Sarah Jaffe, 2016 This book explores movement-building in America.

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How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice

GreenBiz

And a good thing that is, with climate scientists predicting sea level rise of at least a foot by 2050, which will make the Rockaways more prone to climate change-fueled flooding and storm surges than they already are. . Los Angeles: Latino children in Boyle Heights play in lead-contaminated soil.

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How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice

AGreenLiving

” Los Angeles: Latino children in Boyle Heights play in lead-contaminated soil Idalmis Vaquero sees such joy in the exuberance of a neighborhood boy named R.J. . “Sandy gave us the exposure that [the Rockaway Youth Task Force] needed to grow,” said Taylor, now 31 and the group’s executive director.