Last summer, oil and gas-industry groups were lobbying to overturn federal rules on leaks of natural gas, a major contributor to climate change. Their message: The companies had emissions under Continue Reading
The world is losing its mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish, and with them, the security of ecosystems that have supported humanity since it first emerged. That’s the conclusion of the Living Continue Reading
Multiple mega-fires burning more than three million acres. Millions of residents smothered in toxic air. Rolling blackouts and triple-digit heat waves. Climate change, in the words of one scientist, is Continue Reading
It’s still 2020 and the pandemic-slash-climate change apocalypse just got even worse. The West Coast is burning. As of Wednesday, 24 active fires were reported in California, 12 in Washington, and Continue Reading
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Highlights Sources expect 55% cut, up from current 40% target Key EU parliament panel to adopt its view on Friday Stricter target to boost renewables, cut fossil use Brussels — Continue Reading
People march from the U.S. Capitol to the White House for the People’s Climate Movement on April 29, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Astrid Riecken/Getty Images This piece introduces a Continue Reading
Carbon emissions are on the rise again after a short blip when the pandemic brought entire industries and international travel to a halt. Emissions from burning fossil fuel dropped by Continue Reading
A new analysis of commercial aircraft fuel efficiency from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) finds that the UN’s aircraft CO 2 standard lags current technology by more than Continue Reading
The planet is showing signs it’s in peril. In recent weeks, the world has seen ferocious wildfires in the U.S. West, torrential rains in Africa, weirdly warm temperatures on the Continue Reading
Add this to your already long list of 2020 oddities: Greenhouse gas emissions are projected to experience their steepest drop in modern history while the world remains on track to Continue Reading
A report commissioned by federal regulators overseeing the nation’s commodities markets has concluded that climate change threatens U.S. financial markets, as the costs of wildfires, storms, droughts and floods spread Continue Reading
The icebreaker, the Nathaniel B Palmer, mapped more than 2,000 sq km of seafloor in front of the glacier Scientists may just have identified Thwaites Glacier’s Achilles heel. This Antarctic Continue Reading
Intensifying risks related to water such as its scarcity and extreme events like droughts and floods are set to become a more crucial factor in determining sovereign ratings, adding pressure Continue Reading
California’s electricity crisis is threatening to deepen as a heat wave gives way to wind storms, prompting the state’s largest utility to warn it may cut power to more than Continue Reading
The sun obscured by smoke from wildfires in Sonoma County, California, on Aug. 22, 2020. August 2020 will go down as the fourth-warmest on record worldwide, with above average summertime Continue Reading
Aviation accounts for 3.5% of the human-made climate impact; two-thirds of this impact are caused by emissions other than CO 2 , according to a new study by researchers in Continue Reading
Five months ago, as COVID-19 cases were rising for the first time across the United States and the economy was taking a long walk off a short pier, congressional Democrats Continue Reading
California just witnessed one of its hottest weekends in memory, which intensified destructive wildfires that erupted. The scorching temperatures forced the National Weather Service to issue heat alerts for nearly Continue Reading
Asphalt is a near-ubiquitous substance—it’s found in roads, on roofs and in driveways—but its chemical emissions rarely figure into urban air quality management plans. A new study now finds that Continue Reading
The European Central Bank’s emergency stimulus program is endangering the region’s climate-change objectives by “feeding a natural gas frenzy,” according to environmental campaigners. The central bank is buying bonds from fossil-fuel Continue Reading
California asked residents to dial back their air conditioners this holiday weekend as the state tries to avoid a repeat of power shortages that weeks ago triggered the first rolling Continue Reading
The Arctic has experienced the worst fire season on record for the second year in a row, with giant wildfires sending over one third more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere Continue Reading
Just weeks after a power shortage in California triggered the first rolling blackouts in 20 years, the state’s grid is poised for yet another test of its reliability. Excessive heat is Continue Reading
European Union governments are considering a plan to set an intermediate emissions-cut goal for 2040 in a bid to keep the bloc on track for climate neutrality, according to an Continue Reading
The perfectly green electricity grid sought by Joe Biden isn’t the end of the fight against global warming. It’s the beginning. Today, 40% of America’s electricity comes from carbon-free sources. Continue Reading
Phoenix has relentlessly baked for months. In July, it clinched its hottest month on record. Then August topped that and became the new hottest month. The back-to-back records propelled the Continue Reading
The United States may have already seen three hurricane landfalls, including that of Category 4 Laura, but the historical peak of Atlantic hurricane season hasn’t even arrived yet. The tropics Continue Reading
Surveying the Gulf of Mexico late Tuesday afternoon, National Hurricane Center experts saw a Category 1 hurricane — dangerous, but not likely to cause major damage. Forecaster Jack Beven put Continue Reading
China has seen faster temperature increases and rising sea levels than the global average rate over the past few decades, and experienced more frequent extreme weather events, according to official Continue Reading
Walmart Inc. has cut 230 million metric tons of greenhouse gases out of its supply chain in the past three years, putting the world’s largest retailer on track to achieve Continue Reading
As Hurricane Laura pounds the U.S. Gulf Coast with nearly 150 mile-per-hour winds, causing water levels to rise almost 10 feet above normal, wildfires in California are still raging across more than a million acres, the Continue Reading
Using tax dollars to move whole communities out of flood zones, an idea long dismissed as radical, is swiftly becoming policy, marking a new and more disruptive phase of climate Continue Reading
Lisa Paul was still recovering from the wildfire trauma of 2017 when she experienced a renewed wave of sickening dread last week, the skies above her home and vineyard in Continue Reading
The wildfires that exploded over the past few days in California and Colorado show clear influences of global warming, climate scientists say, and evidence of how a warming and drying Continue Reading
The wildfires that exploded over the past few days in California and Colorado show clear influences of global warming, climate scientists say, and evidence of how a warming and drying Continue Reading
Greenland broke its 2012 record for ice loss last year by 15%, a startling sign that a major contributor to global sea-level rise may be accelerating. On its own, ice loss Continue Reading
U.S. regulators are investigating whether a massive methane release over Florida they say likely occurred during maintenance on a natural gas compressor station this spring violated the nation’s Clean Air Continue Reading
US Gulf of Mexico producers are in the initial stages of securing their operations in advance of two storms that are expected to move into that region next week. BP Continue Reading
A pair of tropical cyclones forecast to become hurricanes early next week are headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast and will spin over the Gulf’s warm waters simultaneously, a rare Continue Reading
An S&P Global Trucost analysis has shown that projects furthest North in Russia, including Yamal LNG, the Bovanenkovo gas field, and the Prirazlomnoye oil field are likely to have the Continue Reading
Scientists say the loss of ice in Greenland lurched forward again last year, breaking the previous record by 15%. A new analysis says that the scale of the melt was Continue Reading
Humble dirt could pack an unexpected climate punch, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. An experiment that heated soil underneath a tropical rainforest to mimic Continue Reading
Day three of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday featured meetings of the Black and Hispanic caucuses, the run-up to Senator Kamala Harris’s primetime speech, and delicate attempts by the Continue Reading
Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden’s stance on the issue of hydraulic fracturing has been unclear. During a March 15 debate with then-rival U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Biden said Continue Reading
Californians already struggling with rolling blackouts and sweltering heat are confronting the next crises tied to extreme weather: wildfires and thick haze choking the air. More than 360 blazes are burning Continue Reading
In 2009, the Obama administration’s environmental team called a group of climate activists to the White House to deliver a message: Climate change doesn’t sell and only provokes economic attacks Continue Reading
A trio of disturbances are lined up one after the other in the Atlantic Ocean, and at least two of them will probably develop in the coming days and become Continue Reading
If former Vice President Joe Biden wins the presidential election in November, a significant portion of voters will be expecting bold action to implement a federal climate policy and return Continue Reading
NV Energy and the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada are urging consumers to conserve energy as wholesale power prices in the state hit back-to-back record highs on the back of Continue Reading
