President Donald Trump was flanked by officials from construction and other industries and his economic advisers on Jan. 9, 2020, as he announced changes to how the National Environmental Policy Continue Reading
Nearly a quarter of the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions come from fossil fuels developed on federal lands, according to a government report. Credit: Bureau of Land Management The Trump administration’s Continue Reading
Relatively clean and flexible, natural gas has been described as “the champagne of hydrocarbons.” Lately, though, energy companies are treating it about as sparingly as a team that just won Continue Reading
Sweden has seen a 4% drop in the number of people flying via its airports, a rare decrease in recent years for a European country. More than 40 million people traveled Continue Reading
The bush fire crisis gripping Australia is piling political pressure on its government to take bolder action on climate change, as the scorching of vast tracts of forest and farmland amplifies Continue Reading
As part of the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to accelerate the permitting process for oil pipelines and other large infrastructure projects, the White House released on Thursday a plan to Continue Reading
The US would need to derive 100% of electricity sales from clean energy resources by 2050 under a draft climate change bill that Democratic lawmakers will unveil later in January. Continue Reading
The ongoing growth of fracking in the U.S., plus the related buildout of pipelines, refineries and petrochemical plants, will release the equivalent of 50 new coal-fired power plants over the Continue Reading
This story was co-published with The Weather Channel as part of Collateral , a series on climate, data and science. As millions of acres of American farmland sat under historic Continue Reading
Sea levels could rise by 140 centimeters in Bangladesh by 2100 Bangladesh and parts of India could be hit by sea-level rise almost twice as high as previously thought due Continue Reading
