Weather-Battered Texas Faces Wildfire Threat Weeks After Freeze
Weather-battered Texas is going from ice to fire as dry winds roaring out of the Great Plains stokes the risk of blazes, just weeks after a deep winter freeze. Governor Continue Reading
Bezos Hires Earth Fund CEO to Accelerate $10 Billion Giving
Jeff Bezos hired Andrew Steer of the World Resources Institute to help him spend a $10-billion commitment to fight climate change by 2030. Steer, also the World Bank’s former special envoy Continue Reading
Global Warming’s Deadly Combination: Heat and Humidity
Here’s one more reason the world should aim to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a goal of the international Paris Agreement: It will help keep the tropics from becoming Continue Reading
Arctic Ocean Was Much Warmer Than Average During February
Temperatures in the Arctic Ocean, an area that has a significant influence on the world’s weather, were much warmer last month than the average for the past two decades. Northeastern Canada Continue Reading
Biden faces steep challenges to reach renewable energy goals
President Joe Biden wants to change the way the U.S. uses energy by expanding renewables, but he will need to navigate a host of challenges — including the coronavirus pandemic Continue Reading
In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers
IT’S ONE OF THE MIGHTIEST RIVERS you will never see, carrying some 30 times more water than all the world’s freshwater rivers combined. In the North Atlantic, one arm of the Continue Reading
Historic drought worsens in the Southwest
The year 2020 is going to be remembered for a lot of things, many of them not so good. Included in the not-so-good list is the drought that has plagued Continue Reading
Bill Gates-Led Group Shows U.S. Grid Emissions Can Fall 45%
The U.S. could cut emissions from its electricity grid in half within the next decade through investments in renewables and transmission, according to a research team backed by Bill Gates. At Continue Reading
Big Oil Clashes Over Fossil Fuel Future
Executives from major oil companies clashed over the prospects of oil and gas for the future at the first virtual edition of the CERAWeek conference in Houston. While BP’s Bernard Continue Reading
Houston’s Big Oil Conference Goes Green as Energy Transition Accelerates
For years, Mark Brownstein of the Environmental Defense Fund felt a little foreign at Houston’s big energy conference, where fossil fuels were king and conversations about climate change and clean Continue Reading