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 Democratic Continue Reading
Great Basin National Incident Management One Team Public Information Officer Wayne Patterson checks out the trailhead below burned cliffs from the Grizzly Creek Fire near Hanging Lake in Glenwood Canyon Continue Reading
In recent years, a group of economists, ecologists, and anthropologists have converged on a way to address both climate and ecological crises that will also make the world happier, healthier, Continue Reading
This story was originally published by Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. July 23, 2018, was a day unlike any seen before in Japan. Continue Reading
Floods on the upper reaches of China’s Yangtze river forced authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 people on Tuesday and threatened a 1,200-year-old world heritage site. Staff, police and volunteers Continue Reading
Two tropical disturbances in the Atlantic are likely to develop into tropical cyclones during the next week, with tracks that favor eventual impacts on land. The reawakening of the ocean Continue Reading
Temperatures soared into the triple digits and tied a national record in Japan on Monday, part of a sweltering heat wave that has swallowed the archipelago. Hamamatsu, a coastal city Continue Reading
He served in an Obama administration that oversaw a historic surge in American oil and gas production, as shale went mainstream. Tens of thousands of wells were drilled and energy-bearing Continue Reading
Democrats will try to bring climate change to the fore during the party’s unconventional convention starting this week. But it remains to be seen how much the issue of rising Continue Reading
A giant wind farm being developed off the coast of the U.K. will sell some of its power to energy trader Danske Commodities A/S. Under the 15-year deal, the subsidiary of Equinor ASA will Continue Reading
There’s a standard image of the Earth as seen from space that we carry in our heads: vast blue seas, green bands of forests, and frozen white caps on the Continue Reading
The U.S. West Coast is set to have its hottest two weeks in 70 years, putting even more strain on power grids after California imposed rolling blackouts for the first Continue Reading
In the midst of a historic heat wave in the West, the mercury in Death Valley, Calif., surged to a searing 130 degrees on Sunday afternoon, possibly setting a world Continue Reading
The potentially record-breaking temperature was recorded in Death Valley, California What could be the highest temperature ever reliably recorded on Earth – 130F (54.4C) – has been reached in Death Continue Reading
Greenland’s ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with the ice likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces climate-warming emissions, new research suggests. Continue Reading
California’s grid operator is warning of possible rolling blackouts and calling on the state’s utilities to start cutting power to some customers. On late Friday, the California Independent System Operator declared a Continue Reading
Natural gas prices spiked on Friday by nearly 9%, even as the weekly storage report showed little movement. Natural gas prices hit $2.367 by 2:26 pm EDT, an increase of Continue Reading
The US Environmental Protection Agency’s Aug. 13 rollback of methane emissions limits on new oil and gas wells is expected to have limited production impact for now, given that it Continue Reading
Another sign the Atlantic hurricane season, already on a record pace, will become more frenetic when it reaches its peak in a few weeks is all but locked into place Continue Reading
The basic facts about climate change have been clear for many decades: Burning fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide, which alters the chemical composition of the atmosphere and causes it to trap Continue Reading
No matter how you slice it, it’s clear that we are heading into a new and unprecedented era for energy. The novel coronavirus has shaken up the global energy sector Continue Reading
This city roars in the summertime. You hear the generators on every street, shaking and shuddering to keep electric fans whirring as the air seems to shimmer in the heat. Iraq Continue Reading
Lethal heatwaves, droughts, floods and typhoons will become more common in Asia-Pacific, which faces more severe potential impacts from climate change than many parts of the world, according to McKinsey & Continue Reading
How much does climate change actually cost? It’s one of the more important questions, and also one of the more difficult ones. The reason often hinges on one word: attribution. It’s one Continue Reading
Tropical Storm Dolly spun up southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, becoming the Atlantic’s fourth named storm of 2020, marking the third-fastest start to a storm season in more than a Continue Reading
Monday’s derecho across the Corn Belt and Midwest laid siege to more than 10 million acres of Iowa’s corn and soybean crop, devastating farmers and capping off what has already Continue Reading
Six former Environmental Protection Agency chiefs called Wednesday for a “reset” at the agency after President Donald Trump’s regulation-chopping, industry-minded first term, backing a detailed plan by former EPA staffers Continue Reading
Highlights NOAA predicting three-five major hurricanes in 2020 season Hurricane Harvey seen as testing virtual response Washington — Major oil and gas trade groups Aug. 12 expressed confidence in their Continue Reading
A researcher uses a spectroradiometer to measure the amount of sunlight reflected from the surface of ice and melt ponds in the Chukchi Sea. Credit: NASA/Kathryn Hansen The thickening atmospheric Continue Reading
Joe Biden has won the backing of one of the nation’s largest, oldest and most influential environmental organizations — the Sierra Club. Ramón Cruz, the Oakland-based green group’s president, said in Continue Reading
A worker looks at a fallen tree and power lines in Queens, New York, on Aug. 7. Hurricane Isaias, which left millions without power in the Northeast, is expected to Continue Reading
For three decades scientist Peter Doran has collected environmental data in Antarctica. This year he is leading a project that uses aerial sensors to probe beneath the surface of vast Continue Reading
Ice shelves can extend under the water for many hundreds of metres Twenty-five years of satellite observations have been used to reconstruct a detailed history of Antarctica’s ice shelves. These Continue Reading
Natural disasters in China cause tens of billions of dollars in economic loss and hundreds of deaths every year. While people accept most of the disasters as unpreventable, the losses worsen Continue Reading
The new rules, expected to be signed and issued this week, adopt most of the core elements of two proposals from 2018 and 2019. Agency officials are fulfilling a directive Continue Reading
A storm packing hurricane-force winds tore across the U.S. Midwest on Monday, causing widespread property damage in cities and rural towns and leaving more than half a million homes and Continue Reading
The Trump administration is expected in the coming days to lift Obama-era controls on the release of methane, a powerful climate-warming gas that is emitted from leaks and flares in Continue Reading
Battered by pandemic and economic collapse, do Americans have the capacity to care about the environment? Not so much, judging by a national poll we just conducted. We asked a Continue Reading
Five days after the demise of Isaias, there’s a new tropical wave that bears watching swirling across the Atlantic. It’s the latest sign of activity in an ocean basin that Continue Reading
On a scorching summer day in northern India, Ajay Singh sat next to his water pump and scanned his 10 acres of farmland. He once used to grow rice each Continue Reading
July 2020 was record hot for much of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Sizzling temperatures and sultry humidity baked the Acela corridor for most of the month, with heat indices rising Continue Reading
As the summer winds down, much of western Lake Erie stinks. Green goo—miles and miles of it—floats on the surface, emanating a smell like rotting fish as it decays. The Continue Reading
Paris is facing one of its worst heat waves in more than a century, with daily average temperatures hovering around 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) over a seven-day period Continue Reading
Ice covering the Arctic Ocean reached the lowest level since at least 1979 for July as temperatures spiked in the region, leaving large stretches of Russia’s Siberian coast mostly ice-free. Sea Continue Reading
The global restrictions saw roads and motorways hardly used for several months The dramatic drop in greenhouse gases and air pollutants seen during the global lockdown will have little impact Continue Reading
NOAA, via Reuters Following a record number of Atlantic Ocean storms over the past two months, including five that struck the United States, government scientists on Thursday updated their forecast Continue Reading
On the heels of the havoc wrought by hurricane/tropical storm Isaias, with loads commensurately lighter and spot prices generally weaker than normal, experts have increased the number of named storms Continue Reading
As so many other things have been, the U.S. auto market has been whipsawed by the coronavirus pandemic. In April, seasonally adjusted U.S. car and light truck sales fell to only Continue Reading
The growing but largely unrecognized death toll from rising global temperatures will come close to eclipsing the current number of deaths from all the infectious diseases combined if planet-heating emissions Continue Reading
It’s been nearly 12.5 years since Virgin Atlantic flew a Boeing 747 between London and Amsterdam partly powered by a biofuel made from Brazilian babassu nuts and coconuts. Although Sir Continue Reading
