For over a decade, the U.S. federal government has failed to pursue major action on climate change , leaving most of the hard work of cutting carbon emissions to individual Continue Reading
An Iraqi woman cools down with water from a hose in Baghdad, on Aug. 1. The Middle East is enduring one of its hottest summers ever, but Iraqis have had Continue Reading
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is off to a record start with nine storms forming across the basin faster than any year going back to at least 1851. Tropical Storm Continue Reading
A general view shows people walking across the flooded St. Mark’s Square, by St. Mark’s Basilica on November 15, 2019 in Venice, two days after the city suffered its highest Continue Reading
During a recent virtual fundraiser focused on climate action, former vice president Joe Biden made a direct appeal to voters young enough to be his grandchildren. “I want young climate Continue Reading
Back in March of 2018, Axios reported on what they called the “ oily path to tackling climate change .” For the article, reporter Amy Harder visited Petra Nova, a Continue Reading
China may have saddled itself with as much as $42 billion in unpaid renewable energy subsidies, but it pales in comparison to the enormous amount of money Europe is pumping Continue Reading
Is climate change scary because of “black swans”—the low-probability, high-impact tail risks that are, by definition, unlikely? Or is it about what’s well known, already quantified, and very likely to Continue Reading
As global warming pushes up ocean levels around the world, scientists have long warned that many low-lying coastal areas will become permanently submerged. But a new study published Thursday finds that much Continue Reading
The Arctic summer of 2020 is one that has been marked by raging fires in the Far North, with smoke extending more than 1,000 miles downwind, along with alarming new Continue Reading
Record high temperatures have been plaguing the Middle East, the mercury soaring to extreme levels during a blistering and unforgiving heatwave. Baghdad surged to its highest temperature ever recorded Tuesday. Continue Reading
As China struggles to recover economically from the impact of the pandemic, it is set to deal a painful blow to global efforts to fight climate change. The party has Continue Reading
A new study by the Union of Concerned Scientists concludes that more than 800 hazardous Superfund sites near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at risk of flooding in the Continue Reading
The Environmental Protection Agency’s internal watchdog said Monday it had opened an investigation into the agency’s weakening of Obama-era regulations that would have limited automobile emissions by significantly raising fuel Continue Reading
On a sparkling day on May 18, the nearly 300-meter-long tanker Christophe de Margerie set sail from the northern Russian port of Sabetta. Crossing the so-called Northern Sea Route in Continue Reading
The shock of Covid-19 hit in different ways for Xiao Wu, a 27-year-old Ph.D. student in Harvard’s public health school, and his academic adviser, biostatistician Francesca Dominici. Wu, a former Continue Reading
NC Senator Thom Tillis at the Keep America Great rally in Fayetteville, NC on 9/9/2019 Dive Brief: Seven Republican senators on Thursday sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch Continue Reading
It was 12 miles wide, invisible to the naked eye and traveled across six counties to Florida’s largest city. And it’s still unclear who — or what — was responsible. The Continue Reading
Major banks play a major role in financing environmental damage. International banks including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, the Royal Bank of Canada, and BNP Paribas are among the top providers Continue Reading
A rare, translucent, black-and-white crystal that sat in a box for 30 years has led scientists to a startling discovery: The East Antarctic ice sheet , which holds 80 percent Continue Reading
On Wednesday, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced that the U.S. was proposing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes for the first time. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images Environmental Protection Agency Continue Reading
A draft of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) climate platform calls for net-zero emissions by 2050, in line with the policy goals set forth by presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden Continue Reading
If governments and companies want to move more quickly toward net-zero emissions, progress on early-stage technologies needs to be accelerated, the head of the energy technology policy division at the Continue Reading
A major new study of the relationship between carbon dioxide and global warming lowers the odds on worst-case climate change scenarios while also ruling out the most optimistic estimates nations Continue Reading
A coalition of 21 attorneys general has filed suit in federal district court to block the Trump administration’s efforts to rein in state delays of energy infrastructure through their water Continue Reading
Climate change threatens to create turmoil in the financial markets, and the Federal Reserve and other regulators must act to avoid an economic disaster, according to a letter sent on Continue Reading
Joe Biden’s long-anticipated climate plan landed this week, and it contained big promises designed to please some of the presumptive Democratic nominee for president’s key constituencies. After four years of borderline denialism and regulatory rollbacks Continue Reading
The Atlantic Ocean is waking up as the calendar closes in on August, with at least two storm systems to watch and a third area of tropical moisture soaking the Continue Reading
European Union leaders agreed on Tuesday to allocate more than US$572 billion (500 billion euro), or 30 percent of the massive stimulus package , for investments in policies to fight Continue Reading
Crushed rocks could one day draw down billions of metric tons of carbon dioxide from the air. The idea, often referred to as “enhanced rock weathering” (ERW), is among a Continue Reading
Nestled in a valley in central Chile, near lakes and snowcapped mountains, sits one of the world’s most polluted cities. Every winter, sleepy Temuco plunges to the bottom of global air Continue Reading
When Joe Biden released his climate plan last week, the Democratic candidate for president emphasized one overarching goal—and it wasn’t the reduction of greenhouse gases. Instead, he unequivocally linked broad Continue Reading
As governments gear up to spend vast sums to deal with the economic fallout from the coronavirus, the world has an unprecedented opportunity to land a big blow against climate Continue Reading
Joe Biden’s long-anticipated climate plan landed this week, and it contained big promises designed to please some of the presumptive Democratic nominee for president’s key constituencies. After four years of borderline denialism and regulatory rollbacks Continue Reading
Construction of the Fog Point Living Shoreline Breakwater on Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. Living shorelines, an element of green infrastructure, control erosion and can help act as a Continue Reading
The US Bureau of Land Management’s rationale behind canceling the bulk of Obama administration-era regulations of methane from oil and natural gas sources on public lands was “wholly inadequate,” a Continue Reading
The oil and gas sector is not thrilled with several parts of Joe Biden’s new climate plan. Petroleum industry representatives are arguing the former vice president’s plan to mandate a Continue Reading
Methane leaks from oil and gas production are one of the culprits behind increased methane emissions over the decade from 2007 to 2017, two new studies cited by Reuters have Continue Reading
LONDON (Reuters) – A group of the world’s top oil companies, including Saudi Aramco, China’s CNPC and Exxon Mobil, have for the first time set goals to cut their greenhouse Continue Reading
Joe Biden has won over some left-leaning parts of the Democratic coalition skeptical of his bid for president with a new climate plan. As Matt Viser and I report, the former Continue Reading
President Trump on Wednesday unilaterally weakened one of the nation’s bedrock conservation laws, the National Environmental Policy Act, limiting public review of federal infrastructure projects to speed up the permitting Continue Reading
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden proposed a $2 trillion clean energy and climate change package on Tuesday, a plan that would overhaul transportation, electricity, and heavy industry. Some of the Continue Reading
In a stark new finding, a study shows that six straight months of anomalously mild conditions in large parts of northern Siberia so far this year, along with an Arctic temperature record of 100.4 Continue Reading
Global emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas multiple times more potent than CO2, rose by 9% in the decade through 2017, putting Earth on a track to warm by more Continue Reading
When the University of Michigan’s chief financial officer asked the school’s Board of Regents in December to authorize a new $50 million oil-and-gas investment, they gave an answer he had Continue Reading
There’s going to be a lot more flooding in New York this year as climate change causes sea levels to continue to rise. The Battery, at the southern tip of Manhattan, Continue Reading
Parts of the United States saw record levels of high-tide flooding last year as rising seas brought water further into coastal homes and infrastructure, government scientists reported Tuesday. The increase in Continue Reading
You don’t expect to see 75- or even 80-degree water in the Great Lakes in early July or, in most years, anytime. But an exceptionally hot weather pattern has pushed Continue Reading
Even by the standards of Antarctica, there are few places as remote and hostile as Thwaites Glacier. More than 1,000 miles from the nearest research base, battered by storms that Continue Reading
An intense and expanding heatwave is baking the South and Southwest, pushing the mercury to record-challenging levels in areas notorious for their searing summer temperatures. The stifling heat is creating Continue Reading
