California regulators approved on Thursday a proposal that will require utilities to buy more clean power, a measure backed by environmental groups. Under the proposal, utilities will have to buy Continue Reading
As temperatures approach 115 degrees in the Pacific Northwest this weekend, a second regime of top-tier heat will scorch Europe amid a record-breaking heat wave. Monthly records have already fallen as Continue Reading
A small but growing number of Republicans say the G.O.P. needs a coherent climate strategy and formed a “Conservative Climate Caucus” on Capitol Hill. When Representative John Curtis quietly approached Continue Reading
Confidence is increasing that an episode of historic heat will torch much of the Pacific Northwest late this week into early next, with temperatures 30 degrees or more above average Continue Reading
The Dalles inflows down 30.3% year on year in June 10-day forecast indicates above-normal temperatures Mid-C on-peak July 582% higher than 2020 package The Dalles Dam water supply forecast has Continue Reading
The potent greenhouse gas methane is spewing out of natural gas infrastructure across the European Union because of leaks and venting, video footage made available to Reuters shows. Using a Continue Reading
Record heat will scorch the West starting this weekend, likely taxing California’s power grid for days. Temperatures will rise 20 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit (11 to 17 Celsius) above normal Continue Reading
Oil, gas producers encouraged to do more on emissions Cost of capital higher in emerging markets Insufficient money being invested in clean energy projects in countries with emerging markets compared Continue Reading
Climate concerns are driving an acceleration in the global transition towards environmentally sustainable energy sources, with significant implications for emerging markets as they seek to keep pace with high demand Continue Reading
Global leaders say they want decisive action on tackling climate change at a crunch UN summit this year. The behind-the-scenes arguing among Group of Seven delegates — when progress was Continue Reading
States across the West are at risk of electricity shortages this summer as a crippling drought reduces the amount of water available to generate hydroelectric power. Some of the region’s largest Continue Reading
Record-breaking heat and historic drought in the U.S. West are doing little to discourage cities from planning to welcome millions of new residents in the decades ahead. From Phoenix to Continue Reading
President Joe Biden arrives back in the US this week after a foreign tour with a recurring theme: fighting climate change. But he returns to a Washington where his own party Continue Reading
June 17 (Reuters) – A grueling heatwave that has gripped the U.S. Southwest for three days spread eastward to Iowa and Missouri on Thursday, while punishing the hardest-hit areas with Continue Reading
A massive methane plume detected earlier this month over Russia stemmed from emergency repairs that forced the partial shutdown of a Gazprom PJSC pipeline, the company said, taking responsibility for Continue Reading
Increasing pressure on major oil companies has forced many to make promises to reduce the extraction of their main fossil fuel. They also warn that the result may not be Continue Reading
The growing market for paying for carbon emissions could become a larger market than the one for crude oil, according to the head of carbon trading at Trafigura, one of Continue Reading
The amount of heat Earth traps has roughly doubled since 2005, contributing to more rapidly warming oceans, air and land, according to new research from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Continue Reading
For a fresh perspective on the stories that matter for Australian business and politics, sign up for our weekly newsletter . Robeco Institutional Asset Management BV will soon start pressuring Continue Reading
A heat dome is baking Arizona and Nevada, where temperatures have soared past 115 degrees this week and doctors are warning that people can get third-degree burns from the sizzling Continue Reading
Searing heat across the U.S. Southwest this week boosted electricity demand and prices to record highs and prompted power grid operators in Texas and California to urge energy conservation to Continue Reading
Triple-digit heat has singed Houston earlier than at any other time in a decade, straining the power grid serving the fourth-largest U.S. city in what may be a premonition of an unusually Continue Reading
The U.K. is struggling to put in place adequate measures to deal with rising sea levels and warmer temperatures caused by pollution, the government’s independent adviser on climate matters has Continue Reading
An exceptional outbreak of extreme heat is set to engulf the West for much of the upcoming week, toppling records and bringing conditions that are extremely dangerous for some. Highs Continue Reading
Much of Russia’s Far East is so vast and remote that it’s mostly been left to the bears, wolves and rare breed of tiger that live there. Now the Kremlin wants to Continue Reading
The battle against climate change is relying on the same polluting building block that drove the second Industrial Revolution a century and a half ago. Steel, which transformed everything from Continue Reading
Exit polls on Sunday indicated that Swiss voters appear to have narrowly rejected a proposed “carbon dioxide law” that would have hiked fees and taxes on fuels that produce greenhouse Continue Reading
The Pine Island glacier was already scary. The 160-mile-long river of ice is known as “the weak underbelly” of West Antarctica. It contributes more to sea-level rise than any other Continue Reading
Power lines are shown as California consumers prepare for more possible outages following weekend outages to reduce system strain during a brutal heat wave amid the outbreak of coronavirus disease Continue Reading
A number of Democrats are growing increasingly nervous that the White House could agree to a bipartisan infrastructure deal that scales back key climate-change initiatives, prompting a lobbying push that Continue Reading
The Hoover Dam near Boulder City, Nev., on March 7. The reservoir level at the iconic Hoover Dam in the U.S. Southwest has plunged to its lowest since 1937 as Continue Reading
Reuters image captionReceding water levels have exposed bleached-white embankments of Lake Mead The largest reservoir in the US has dipped to its lowest ever level, officials say, as an extreme Continue Reading
The Biden administration is set to toss out President Donald Trump’s efforts to scale back the number of streams, marshes and other wetlands that fall under federal protection, kicking off Continue Reading
With carbon capture having hit record levels, government investment in new projects is soaring, even Elon Musk is backing it . Here’s what’s happening in the space. As populations continue Continue Reading
Annual spend needs to increase seven times Capital ‘significantly more expensive’ for emerging, developing economies Focus must be on power sector, electrification Emerging and developing economies are set to account Continue Reading
These two gases are some of the best options for zero-carbon fuel. That could make them the hottest commodities on the planet … and the future stars of a multi-trillion-dollar Continue Reading
As surely as the rains fall and flowers blossom, the Northern Hemisphere awakens every June to another, less inspiring rite of spring—a new peak level for global atmospheric carbon dioxide. Continue Reading
Temperatures in the Middle East have topped 125 degrees after a run of record-breaking heat. Several countries tied or challenged national records amid the blistering heatwave, which has brought a Continue Reading
Long before the era of fossil fuels, humans may have triggered a massive but mysterious “carbon bomb” lurking beneath the Earth’s surface, a new scientific study suggests. If the finding Continue Reading
Almost three-fourths of the western U.S. is gripped by drought so severe that it’s off the charts of anything recorded in the 20-year history of the U.S. Drought Monitor.Mountains across Continue Reading
The Dalles water-supply forecast at 84% of normal The Dalles inflows 38.6% below three-year average Mid-C August 336.5% higher than 2020 package The Dalles Dam water supply forecast is sitting Continue Reading
Climate lawyers are preparing to take on more fossil-fuel companies after a Dutch court ordered Royal Dutch Shell Plc to cut its emissions faster than planned, on the grounds that Continue Reading
Officials from California, New York and other states urged the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday to allow California to set its own automobile tailpipe pollution standards, which would reverse a Continue Reading
As the world’s oil and gas giants face increasing pressure to reduce their fossil fuel emissions, small, privately held drilling companies are becoming the country’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, Continue Reading
Three years ago, not long after Hurricane Irma left parts of Miami underwater, the federal government embarked on a study to find a way to protect the vulnerable South Florida Continue Reading
Each year Lake Oroville helps water a quarter of the nation’s crops, sustain endangered salmon beneath its massive earthen dam and anchor the tourism economy of a Northern California county Continue Reading
Through the marshlands along the Oregon-California border, the federal government a century ago carved a whole new landscape, draining lakes and channeling rivers to build a farming economy that now Continue Reading
Meteorological summer (June through August) began at 12 a.m. Tuesday, and already heat and wildfire concerns in the Golden State are ramping upward. Much of California’s Central Valley from Bakersfield Continue Reading
Climate activists who scored big against Western majors last week had some unlikely cheerleaders in the oil capitals of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Russia. Defeats in the courtroom and Continue Reading
This week’s news was nothing short of astonishing. A court in the Netherlands issued a landmark ruling against Royal Dutch Shell — an oil company already pledging to cut its Continue Reading
