‘Five years after an earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, Japanese authorities say a long-planned “ice wall” around the leaking facility can be turned on.’

Source: Ready, Set, Freeze: Japan Prepares To Switch On Fukushima ‘Ice Wall’ : The Two-Way : NPR

‘The year is 2020 and the world is on the cusp of a global food crisis. Throughout the next decade, the world will struggle to meet a host of escalating food security issues, price hikes and scarcity caused by population growth, rapid urbanization, extreme weather and political upheaval.’

Source: Operating in the dark: How climate change will affect food | GreenBiz

‘Attorneys general from Massachusetts and the Virgin Islands announced Tuesday that they will follow the lead of California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris and New York Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman and launch their own independent investigations into whether Exxon Mobil Corp. misled investors and the public about climate change risks.’

Source: States expand probes into whether Exxon Mobil hid climate change risks – LA Times

‘Hansen’s paper isn’t the first to spell out a scenario for climate doom. What makes it so harrowing, though, is that it says all these consequences would follow the global average temperature rising a relatively small amount: only two degrees Celsius.’

Source: A New Study Sketches a Terrifying, Near-Term Climate Future – The Atlantic

‘The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has ruled Exxon Mobil must include a climate change resolution on its annual shareholder proxy, a defeat for the world’s largest publicly traded oil producer, which had argued it already provides adequate carbon disclosures.’

Source: Exxon Mobil must allow climate change vote: SEC

‘Todd Stern, a leading architect of the Obama administration’s international climate change strategy, will leave the State Department in the coming weeks, he told POLITICO.’

Source: Top climate diplomat to leave Obama administration next month – POLITICO

‘James Hansen says his new study released today shows that “all coastal cities” could be lost to rising oceans if people fail to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.’

Source: Could Sea Level Rise Swamp Cities within a Century? – Scientific American

‘Trump: Well I just think we have much bigger risks. I mean I think we have militarily tremendous risks. I think we’re in tremendous peril. I think our biggest form of climate change we should worry about is nuclear weapons. The biggest risk to the world, to me – I know President Obama thought it was climate change – to me the biggest risk is nuclear weapons.’

Source: Trump: Nuclear war a bigger threat than climate change | Climate Home – climate change news

‘Figuring out how to adapt to the economic realities of 6 to 10 inches of sea-level rise over 1992 levels in the next 15 years has become a bipartisan issue in much of Florida, particularly in places most vulnerable to rising seas.’

Source: Florida Republicans Demand Climate Change Solutions – Scientific American

‘Canada and the United States have agreed to take joint steps to fight climate change, including cutting methane emissions from the oil and gas industry and signing the Paris climate deal “as soon as feasible,” the White House said today.’

Source: Canada, U.S. agree to cut methane emissions – Politics – CBC News