Race Against Climate Change

Doomsday Clock says humanity 100 seconds from annihilation

Failure to act on the climate crisis and renewed nuclear escalation have left the world the closest it's ever been to man-made global catastrophe, the scientists behind the Doomsday Clock said on Thursday.
Wildfires like those that led British Columbia to declare a state of emergency in July 2017 are becoming more intense and more frequent as a result of climate change. Photo courtesy of B.C. government's Flickr page

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