A Shell station in Houston. An internal email in 2020 said the company’s announcement of a pathway to net zero emissions had “nothing to do with” its business plans.Credit…Brandon Bell/Getty Continue Reading
The Mosquito fire, which has been tearing through the Sierra Nevada foothills since last week, became California’s largest blaze of the year on Wednesday. The fire formed on Sept. 6 Continue Reading
The ongoing La Nina climate phenomenon may extend into its third year in a rare event to become what is called a triple-dip La Nina. This is likely to extend Continue Reading
Climate report: Middle East and East-Mediterranean are warming up at nearly twice the global average. The Middle East is set to overtake Europe as the biggest contributor of greenhouse gasses Continue Reading
Let’s say you want to sell your home in Cape Coral, Florida, and think you’ll get a great price because of the proximity to water. Or perhaps you’re thinking of Continue Reading
China’s hottest, driest summer in 60 years left the Jialing River abnormally shallow last month. Record drought across the globe this year dried up rivers and reservoirs and sapped the Continue Reading
Even if the world somehow manages to limit future warming to the strictest international temperature goal, four Earth-changing climate “tipping points” are still likely to be triggered with a lot Continue Reading
As global warming passes certain limits, dire changes will probably become irreversible, the researchers said, including the loss of polar ice sheets and the death of coral reefs. A summer Continue Reading
The Charles River in MassachusettsPhotographer: Brian K. Sullivan/Bloomberg It’s barely September, but crops are withering and brown leaves carpet the ground. Forests are bursting into flames. An iconic river is, Continue Reading
It was the summer of 2022 that finally orphaned the Scex Rouge glacier, breaking the connection that linked it to its larger parent for millennia. Only last year, three meters Continue Reading
A drought in China has had ripple effects for businesses around the globe.Credit…Thomas Peter/Reuters Chinese factories were shuttered again in late August, a frequent occurrence in a country that has Continue Reading
WATCH: Kerry says he is “hopeful” that Beijing will recognize the benefit of the world’s 2 largest emitters talking and return to the table for the suspended climate talks with Continue Reading
The landmark climate law signed by US president Joe Biden last month contains billions of dollars of financial carrots to reward investment in clean energy. The lone stick has been Continue Reading
As winter nears, European nations, desperate to replace the natural gas they once bought from Russia, have embraced a short-term fix: A series of roughly 20 floating terminals that would Continue Reading
A car heads south on a bridge over a mostly dry Platte River, south of Columbus, Nebraska, on July 28. Waterways have dried to a trickle thanks to droughts and Continue Reading
President Biden shakes hands with Senator Manchin after signing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 on Aug. 16. Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg “The storms are stronger. The fires are bigger. We Continue Reading
When the Supreme Court restricted the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to fight climate change this year, the reason it gave was that Congress had never granted the agency Continue Reading
Severe droughts across the Northern Hemisphere—stretching from the farms of California to waterways in Europe and China—are further snarling supply chains and driving up the prices of food and energy, Continue Reading
Tucked into the Inflation Reduction Act that President Biden signed last week is a major expansion of federal loan programs that could help the fight against climate change by channeling Continue Reading
Floods and landslides triggered by intense monsoon rains killed at least 50 people in northern and eastern India over the last three days, officials said on Sunday. The rains overwhelmed Continue Reading
A massive storm complex has traveled a nearly 1,000-mile path across Europe, reportedly killing numerous people and causing devastation on the French island of Corsica and to landmarks in Venice, Continue Reading
Commuters brave a heat wave in Allahabad in India’s Uttar Pradesh state on June 7. Air conditioners in the Himalayas and fans for the cows: How communities in India and Continue Reading
Arizona and Nevada residents won’t face bans on watering their lawns or washing their cars despite more Colorado River water shortages. But U.S. officials announced Tuesday there will be less Continue Reading
A combination of record-breaking natural gas prices, rising coal prices, and droughts across Europe are putting the EU electricity market under massive pressure. French utility EDF has had to significantly Continue Reading
Microsoft and Amazon say they’re accelerating a transition to a greener future, but critics argue they’re helping prolong the fossil-fuel age. Oil pump jack. Photographer: Ian Tuttle/Bloomberg It’s been a Continue Reading
As the historic drought in the U.S. Southwest pushes the nation’s largest reservoirs to record lows, the Biden administration Tuesday announced that water shortages along the Colorado River had passed a threshold for the Continue Reading
A look at the influencers who secured a rare climate win. It was the middle of July — with temperatures surging through one of the hottest summers in US history, Continue Reading
As Europe looks to secure alternative energy sources to Russian gas in light of the war in Ukraine , Statista’s Anna Fleck warns , a new threat to energy security Continue Reading
In 1990 Congress passed an amendment to the Clean Air Act of 1970, among other things taking action against acid rain, urban smog and ozone. The legislation was highly successful, greatly Continue Reading
The historic US climate deal that has now passed both chambers of Congress is being touted as one of the most ambitious decarbonization commitments made by any government to date. Continue Reading
The federal government on Tuesday is expected to announce water cuts to states that rely on the Colorado River as drought and climate change leave less water flowing through the Continue Reading
A quarter of the US land area, home to more than 100 million people, will be subjected to temperatures of more than 125F (52C) in three decades, including states with Continue Reading
Talk about hot nights, America got some for the history books last month. The continental United States in July set a record for overnight warmth, providing little relief from the Continue Reading
Cleaner air, greener cities, shifted politics: Experts speculate on likely outcomes by the decade’s end from $374 billion in US climate spending. The landmark bill could pave the way for Continue Reading
The climate legislation includes tax credits making wind and other renewable technologies much less expensive to deploy. The landmark climate bill passed by Congress on Friday aims to reduce carbon Continue Reading
Once, a river ran through it. Now, white dust and thousands of dead fish cover the wide trench that winds amid rows of trees in France’s Burgundy region in what Continue Reading
Scientists say the window for protecting the world’s largest ice sheet from significantly shrinking is narrowing, with troubling new predictions that it has the potential to unleash sea level rises Continue Reading
The head of the European Space Agency (ESA) has warned economic damage from heatwaves and drought could dwarf Europe’s energy crisis as he called for urgent action to tackle climate Continue Reading
The Rhine River is set to drop well below a critical depth over the weekend, signaling further turmoil for shipments of energy supplies on one of Europe’s most vital waterways. Continue Reading
The U.S. Senate climate bill’s fee on oil and gas industry methane emissions will cover less than half the sector’s releases of the powerful greenhouse gas, thanks to concessions made Continue Reading
Wildfires raged in southwestern France on Tuesday, destroying sixteen houses, burning 6,000 hectares, and forcing the evacuation of almost 6,000 people in an area already hit last month by huge Continue Reading
The Rhine is the lynchpin of Europe’s network of inland waterways. From the Rhine to the Danube, waterways are failing at the worst possible moment as the climate crisis worsens. Continue Reading
South Korea’s heaviest rainfall since World War II submerged cars on the streets, flooded subway stations and left at least eight people dead. The downpours also hit neighboring North Korea, Continue Reading
Highlights Bilateral climate agenda moves from collaboration to competition COP27 outcomes could be impacted Green hydrogen, CCUS, methane reduction likely to be hit China’s suspension of climate dialogue with the Continue Reading
After years of failed attempts to pass major legislation to combat climate change, the U.S. Senate’s Inflation Reduction Act is poised to become the largest U.S. climate legislation in history. Continue Reading
At one weather station in Fairbanks, Alaska, each hour of rainfall is about 50 percent more intense, on average, than it was a half-century ago. The Wichita area is experiencing rains Continue Reading
Reducing the workweek to four days could have a climate benefit, advocates say. In addition to improving the well-being of workers, they say slashing working hours may reduce carbon emissions. It’s Continue Reading
At one weather station in Fairbanks, Alaska, each hour of rainfall is about 50 percent more intense, on average, than it was a half-century ago. The Wichita area is experiencing rains Continue Reading
In 1969, President Richard Nixon’s adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a memo describing a startling future. The increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere caused by burning oil, gas and coal, Mr. Continue Reading
The U.S. Senate has passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The U.S. Senate has passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which will now head to the U.S. House Of Representatives. Continue Reading
