This week’s winter storm is part of a pattern caused by disturbances to the upper-atmosphere phenomena known as the polar vortex that can send icy blasts from the Arctic into the middle Continue Reading
Construction crews work at the scene where a section of Highway 1 collapsed into the Pacific Ocean near Big Sur, California on Jan. 31, 2021. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Continue Reading
Automakers have abandoned their legal fight for a Trump-era rule blocking California from setting emissions standards as the industry pushes President Joe Biden to accept a compromise with weaker fuel Continue Reading
General Motors’ announcement last week that it will stop making gas-powered cars, trucks and sport utility vehicles by 2035 and become carbon neutral by 2040 is even bolder than it Continue Reading
It’s one of the last hurrahs in the battle between the Trump administration and career scientists. More than a dozen high-level managers at one of the nation’s top science agencies Continue Reading
What a difference two weeks make. America’s new president has taken admirably little time to address the climate change challenge his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, called the greatest threat to Continue Reading
The U.S. oil industry has a message to President Joe Biden’s recent climate executive orders involving the oil and gas sector—restricting America’s oil production would increase its reliance on foreign Continue Reading
If there were any doubts that the climate is changing in the Colorado River Basin, 2020 went a long way toward dispelling them, thanks to yet another year of extreme Continue Reading
A unit of U.S. Occidental said this week it had delivered the world’s first shipment of carbon-neutral oil, or oil where emissions associated with the entire crude lifecycle—well head through Continue Reading
With warming temperature playing a role in everything from mass migrations (see Central America and the U.S. southern border) to civil war (see Syria), climate change has been a factor Continue Reading
