You’ve likely heard about broad trends that scientists are certain will occur as a result of climate change: Plants and animals will be pushed out of their native habitats. Ice Continue Reading
The quickly spreading coronavirus has closed schools, constricted travel, shaken markets and infected more than 100,000 people. It is also already having impact on the environment: The buildup of climate-warming Continue Reading
As the coronavirus spreads rapidly across the world, China—where the outbreak began—is gradually shuddering back to life. After weeks of lockdowns, travel restrictions and manufacturing delays, some signs of normalcy Continue Reading
Unintentional increases in air pollution may arise from efforts to reach net zero emissions in the UK Marcin Rogozinski/Alamy A widespread switch to burning hydrogen to heat UK homes has Continue Reading
The report says people will need to fly less The UK cannot go climate neutral much before 2050 unless people stop flying and eating red meat almost completely, a report Continue Reading
Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the power sector fell by 2% last year, the biggest fall since at least 1990, owing to reduced coal usage in Europe and the Continue Reading
Super Tuesday whittled down the Democratic race for the White House to two viable candidates — and two different visions for what to do about climate change. Both Joe Biden and Continue Reading
The meteorological winter of 2019-2020 shattered temperature records in Russia and France as well as other parts of Europe and the United States. In Moscow, this was the warmest winter Continue Reading
At the Trump Doonbeg golf course on Ireland’s west coast, the ocean has been inching closer to a private bar overlooking the 18th hole. Since the links opened in 2002, Continue Reading
Fire in the Amazon rainforest in the Candeias do Jamari region of Porto Velho in Brazil, on Aug. 24, 2019. Humanity has pushed atmospheric carbon dioxide levels almost 50% higher Continue Reading
Air pollution is responsible for shortening people’s lives worldwide on a scale far greater than wars and other forms of violence, parasitic and vector-born diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS and Continue Reading
With global climate stress growing ever more apparent, the world’s biggest polluter is setting aside its lofty environmental ambitions as it confronts an unprecedented slowdown in growth. China, which spews Continue Reading
In a pair of little-noticed letters sent earlier this year, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown and five other Democratic senators asked two giant organizations crucial to keeping the country’s housing market Continue Reading
The European Commission proposed on Wednesday enshrining the European Green Deal’s commitment for carbon neutrality by 2050 into legislation, as part of the European Union’s heightened focus on climate action Continue Reading
The UK’s CO2 emissions fell by 2.9% in 2019, according to Carbon Brief analysis. This brings the total reduction to 29% over the past decade since 2010, even as the Continue Reading
With the Doomsday Clock ticking closer to midnight, “existential” is becoming the word of our times, encompassing a wide variety of apocalyptic anxieties. Especially those surrounding climate change. During last Continue Reading
Exxon Mobil on Tuesday outlined how it is reducing the methane its operations release into the atmosphere, detailing its efforts as governments around the globe write new rules to regulate Continue Reading
At least 3.8 million U.S. homes lie in flood plains. Together, they may be overvalued by $34 billion. New research published today in a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper shows that markets Continue Reading
In the last month, BP said it had “set a new ambition” to get to net-zero emissions by 2050, and the company withdrew from three oil industry trade groups that Continue Reading
China’s lockdown measures to minimize further coronavirus infections have created one unexpected benefit — a dramatic improvement to the nation’s air quality. Satellites operated by NASA and the European Space Agency have detected significant drops Continue Reading
A young, long-haired, European activist passionately addressed climate change before a crowd of supporters in Maryland on Friday. But it wasn’t Greta Thunberg. Instead, it was Naomi Seibt, a 19-year-old self-styled “climate Continue Reading
Brussels wants the power to impose tighter carbon emission targets on EU governments every five years as Europe strives to become the first continent in the world to reach climate Continue Reading
When it comes to climate change, television news is covering little more than the tip of the iceberg. That’s according to a just-released report from Media Matters for America, which Continue Reading
A new EPA rule relaxes the requirements on leak detection and maintenance Programs for Owners and operators of refrigeration equipment. Credit: Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images For the Continue Reading
California’s mountain snowpack is about half its normal level, raising fears that the state could return to drought after a string of mostly abundant wet years. On Thursday, officials of Continue Reading
Protesters cheer outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Thursday after winning a court ruling to block the plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport on environmental Continue Reading
We’re eight weeks into the new decade, and, so far, we’ve had the warmest January ever recorded. (Indeed, researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that 2020 is Continue Reading
Wind-driven ocean currents are changing in a warming climate, which will affect sea level rise and fisheries. Credit: Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty Images The world’s major wind-driven ocean currents are Continue Reading
Climate change could add around $100 billion, or more than 20%, to the global cost of extreme weather events such as floods, heatwaves, and droughts by 2040, research from Cambridge Continue Reading
In 1916, Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton was forced to make a treacherous voyage across the open waters of the Southern Ocean after his ship Endurance was crushed by pack ice and Continue Reading
Countries in East Africa are racing against time to prevent new swarms of locusts wreaking havoc with crops and livelihoods after the worst infestation in generations. A lack of expertise Continue Reading
The coronavirus that has killed more than 2,500 people since the outbreak started in December last year has also slashed China’s CO2 emissions by as much as a quarter, according Continue Reading
Like many cities around the country, Phoenix, Arizona, has a plan to achieve an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. But a new state law that was Continue Reading
Three years ago, the villagers watched as the Sittaung River on Myanmar’s southeast coast crept closer to them, swollen by powerful tidal surges from the Gulf of Mottama that eroded Continue Reading
A new study published in Nature may have ended a long scientific debate about the key source of rising methane levels in the atmosphere. It found that methane emissions from Continue Reading
White House effort to roll back bedrock environmental law spurs strong opposition The White House heard an outpouring of opposition to its plans to roll back a landmark environmental law Continue Reading
The Trump administration has unexpectedly halted a project to protect the New York City region from flooding during dangerous storms like Hurricane Sandy — a decision that came six weeks Continue Reading
BP will leave three U.S. energy trade associations, including the main refining lobby group, the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), due to differences over climate policies, the UK-based oil Continue Reading
Leigh Stearns thought she’d hit the jackpot when the Heising-Simons Foundation awarded her research team $6 million to study a collapsing glacier in Greenland. She had concerns about accepting private Continue Reading
Environmental groups led by the Natural Resources Defense Council sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its decision to keep energy-efficiency requirements for household incandescent lightbulbs at their current level. Continue Reading
We were standing on the levee of the Mississippi River, about an hour west of Boston. Of course, the actual Mississippi River is a half-continent away. We were in fact Continue Reading
The world’s biggest lender to fossil fuel projects just took a baby step toward curbing that investment. Yet for climate activists, JPMorgan Chase’s new restrictions on loans to coal mining, Continue Reading
Standing in thick mud between burned trees and a concrete slab where his house had been, Peter Ruprecht admitted that he was not sure how or when to rebuild. He Continue Reading
Spanish authorities said Sunday that they have closed airports on the Canary Islands because of a wind storm that is blinding the archipelago with sand and dust. Spain’s airport authorities Continue Reading
It may only be February, but 2020 is already “virtually certain” to be among the 10 warmest years on record, and has nearly a 50 percent chance of being the Continue Reading
Two new studies this week bring up new information on the sources of methane in the atmosphere. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Researchers this week released two debate-stoking new studies about Continue Reading
Taking advantage of rare ice-free waters in West Antarctica last February, scientists got their first look underneath Thwaites Glacier, a massive and increasingly unstable formation perched at the edge of Continue Reading
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos pledged a fraction of his personal fortune to the new Bezos Earth Fund, but the sheer amount of money is a game changer for climate research Continue Reading
The Colorado River’s average annual flow has declined by nearly 20 percent compared to the last century, and researchers have identified one of the main culprits: climate change is causing Continue Reading
Human-caused emissions of methane from the extraction and use of fossil fuels may have been “severely underestimated”, a new study suggests. The research indicates that “natural” emissions of fossil methane, Continue Reading
