The Antarctic ice sheet has shrunk to the smallest surface area on record in another sign that the accelerating pace of climate change is hitting some of the coldest regions Continue Reading
A landmark United Nations report has concluded that the risk of devastating wildfires around the world will surge in coming decades as climate change further intensifies what the report described Continue Reading
A shepherd tends to his flock of goats grazing in Egypt. Global warming is a huge issue for the country, where agriculture provides a large share of jobs. If COP26 Continue Reading
Climate change is seen as a bigger threat than war by a majority of people living in some of the world’s top economies, according to new data being presented to Continue Reading
The Big Air Shougang, venue for the freestyle skiing and snowboard events for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Beijing Winter Olympics’ claim to “carbon neutrality” is Continue Reading
The Colorado pikeminnow was once a prized catch. The toothless, torpedo-shaped fish had dark, tender, flavorful meat and came in absurdly large sizes, especially for a minnow. In the early Continue Reading
A trillion here, a trillion there: The headline figure in the latest analysis of the costs of achieving net-zero emissions, from McKinsey & Co., is a staggering $9.2 trillion a Continue Reading
Plans touted by the chief executives of the world’s biggest companies will only lead to a 40% reduction in average carbon emissions by mid-century, falling far short of the net-zero Continue Reading
The world’s shrinking glaciers contain less ice than previously estimated, according to a ground-breaking study that highlights a future of tight water supplies as climate change accelerates. Scientists for the first time measured the Continue Reading
Air pollution costs the Middle East and North Africa about $141 billion a year, or 2% of economic output, according to a World Bank report which urged nations to reform Continue Reading
Glaciers in the Andes shouldn’t be free of snow so early this time of year, but some are now bare. Warm conditions in January, including a scorching heat wave with Continue Reading
A dead giant sequoia tree after the Castle Fire in Sequoia National Forest, California. What do Unilever Plc , Alphabet Inc. ’s Google and Amazon.com Inc. have in common? Their Continue Reading
If the world is going to make a dent in emissions of methane, a potent planet-warming gas, targeting the largest emitters would likely be the most cost-effective. But there’s a Continue Reading
A growing constellation of methane-detecting satellites is giving researchers new and disturbing insights into “super emitters” around the globe — from pipelines in Russia to North America’s oil fields. But Continue Reading
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University ’s $53 billion endowment said it’s increasing investments in “climate solutions,” while still maintaining less than 2% of assets with indirect exposure to Continue Reading
Saturday’s tremendous coastal storm pushed a band of heavy snow into southern New England, burying cities under a snowpack up to two feet deep. These near-record snowfall totals continue an astonishing Continue Reading
The White House on Monday announced new steps to help curb emissions of methane, saying it will send $1.15 billion to states to clean up thousands of orphaned oil and Continue Reading
Gas stoves may find themselves the next target of climate activists after a study published by the American Chemical Society highlighted methane leaks that occurred while the stoves were not Continue Reading
Tight supply and rising demand lifted weekly margins across the globe with US Atlantic Coast margins showing the impact of the massive cold front and storm which swept in over Continue Reading
Highlights Cash Algonquin, city-gates surges to nearly $28/MMBtu Mass Hub weekend on-peak jumped $35 to $199/MWh ISO New England peakload forecast to reach to 19,500 MW Jan. 29 Spot natural Continue Reading
A powerful cloud of planet-warming methane was spotted earlier this month in Oklahoma near multiple pipelines and oil and gas wells. State and federal regulators said they couldn’t identify the Continue Reading
ExxonMobil, which has been under pressure to slash its carbon footprint, has committed to net zero greenhouse gas emissions from its operations by 2050. In a report released Tuesday, the oil giant Continue Reading
As companies rush to set climate goals, some aren’t even getting the basics quite right when it comes to accounting for greenhouse-gas emissions. That’s what researchers in Ireland, the U.K., Continue Reading
Source: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies New data from the U.S. government’s temperature takers just ranked 2021 as the sixth-hottest year, near the very top of a list that Continue Reading
The Southern Hemisphere may have just matched its hottest temperature on record Thursday. A station in Onslow, a small coastal town in Western Australia, registered a sweltering 123.3 degrees (50.7 Continue Reading
Proved oil reserves in the United States slipped 19% over the course of 2020, from 44.2 billion barrels to 35.8 billion barrels, according to fresh data from the Energy Information Continue Reading
Northeast spot gas prices soar in Jan. 13 trading Midwest spot gas prices register a tepid response Another arctic cold front was forecast to push south from Canada into the Continue Reading
The pace of rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere needs to slow by about 20% over the next five years in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius Continue Reading
A substantial rise in atmospheric methane levels helped push global temperatures in 2021 towards the highest ever recorded, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. A new report released Continue Reading
The warmth of the world’s oceans hit a record. Again. A new analysis, published Tuesday in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, showed that oceans contained the most heat energy in Continue Reading
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions rose by 6.2% from 2020 levels last year as the use of coal-fired electricity jumped 17% and drivers returned to the roads after the first year Continue Reading
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions roared back in 2021, the latest indicator that the country remains far off track from meeting President Biden’s ambitious climate change targets for the end of Continue Reading
Conditions were optimal for an overflight on a bright, sunny November day in New Bern, a riverfront city that was North Carolina’s first state capital and the birthplace of Pepsi. Continue Reading
2021 ended as it began: with disaster. Twelve months after an atmospheric river deluged California, triggering mudslides in burned landscapes and leaving a half-million people without power, a late-season wildfire destroyed hundreds of Continue Reading
It’s official. For the first time since the unveiling of the Paris climate agreement in 2015, banks earned more fees arranging green-related bond sales and loans than they did helping Continue Reading
After six years of writing about all things climate change, I’ve come to see my beat as covering both real and false solutions. That might actually be a sign of Continue Reading
The Siberian town of Verkhoyansk can officially claim to be the hottest spot in the Arctic. The northeast Russian community known for its extremely cold winters reached a record-setting Arctic Continue Reading
The year 2021 ended as the fifth hottest in records maintained by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service that go back to 1979. That finding comes from publicly available Continue Reading
The European Union proposal to classify investment in some natural-gas and nuclear projects as sustainable exposed deep divisions among member states, underscoring the challenges facing the bloc as it reaches Continue Reading
America’s failing electric grids and clean energy goals will be key themes in the U.S. energy sector this year. The coming months will also be a test for President Biden’s Continue Reading
Williams Cos., one of the biggest transporters of natural gas in the U.S., said an intentional release of a powerful greenhouse gas detected by satellite was caused by work on Continue Reading
Brussels wants to recognize nuclear power and forms of natural gas as “green” activity as part of a landmark EU classification scheme to help financial markets decide what counts as Continue Reading
The European Union has drawn up plans to classify some nuclear power and natural gas plants as green investments that can help Europe cut planet-warming emissions, a landmark proposal that, Continue Reading
U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks with Special Climate Envoy of China Xie Zhenhua. COP26 took fourteen days and some long nights of negotiations. It produced breakthrough Continue Reading
Colorado Fires Spread and Burn Up to 1,000 Homes The infernos near Boulder, Colorado, destroyed as many as 1,000 homes, overwhelming firefighters as hurricane-force gusts propelled flames through suburban neighborhoods Continue Reading
Brussels wants to recognize nuclear power and forms of natural gas as “green” activity as part of a landmark EU classification scheme to help financial markets decide what counts as Continue Reading
Europe may be in the grips of an energy shortage and forced to reopen retired coal plants to cope but climate activists insist that it is time to part company Continue Reading
Europe may be in the grips of an energy shortage and forced to reopen retired coal plants to cope but climate activists insist that it is time to part company Continue Reading
Imagine running a 5K and winning the race by 10 minutes. That’s analogous to what is transpiring in Alaska at the moment. An exceptional slew of records has tumbled in Continue Reading
One of the major inflationary forces of 2021 has been the weather. Wild weather around the world wreaked havoc on markets for raw materials, lifting prices for everything from electricity Continue Reading
