The Crisis
We’re eight weeks into the new decade, and, so far, we’ve had the warmest January ever recorded. (Indeed, researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that 2020 is Continue Reading
Climate Change is Pushing Giant Ocean Currents Poleward
Wind-driven ocean currents are changing in a warming climate, which will affect sea level rise and fisheries. Credit: Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty Images The world’s major wind-driven ocean currents are Continue Reading
Climate change could add around $100 billion to costs of extreme weather
Climate change could add around $100 billion, or more than 20%, to the global cost of extreme weather events such as floods, heatwaves, and droughts by 2040, research from Cambridge Continue Reading
The World’s Best Natural Defense Against Climate Change May Soon Make Things Worse
In 1916, Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton was forced to make a treacherous voyage across the open waters of the Southern Ocean after his ship Endurance was crushed by pack ice and Continue Reading
Running out of time: East Africa faces new locust threat
Countries in East Africa are racing against time to prevent new swarms of locusts wreaking havoc with crops and livelihoods after the worst infestation in generations. A lack of expertise Continue Reading
China’s Emissions Are Plunging, But It Might Not Last
The coronavirus that has killed more than 2,500 people since the outbreak started in December last year has also slashed China’s CO2 emissions by as much as a quarter, according Continue Reading
Cities are starting to ban gas in buildings. Arizona’s not having it.
Like many cities around the country, Phoenix, Arizona, has a plan to achieve an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. But a new state law that was Continue Reading
Bezos is pumping $10 billion into climate science. That’s both good and bad, some scientists say.
Leigh Stearns thought she’d hit the jackpot when the Heising-Simons Foundation awarded her research team $6 million to study a collapsing glacier in Greenland. She had concerns about accepting private Continue Reading
Environmental Groups Sue U.S. Over Lightbulb Energy Standards
Environmental groups led by the Natural Resources Defense Council sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its decision to keep energy-efficiency requirements for household incandescent lightbulbs at their current level. Continue Reading
Climate activists say JPMorgan Chase’s fossil fuel loan restrictions don’t go far enough
The world’s biggest lender to fossil fuel projects just took a baby step toward curbing that investment. Yet for climate activists, JPMorgan Chase’s new restrictions on loans to coal mining, Continue Reading