Wind-whipped flames chased thousands of residents from wealthy Los Angeles neighborhoods and threatened the city’s famed Getty Center museum on Monday, the latest outbreak in a wildfire season that has Continue Reading
Temperatures will fall significantly this week over much of the Lower 48, as a mass of cold air descends southward over the United States. (Weatherbell.com) October 28 at 6:54 PM Continue Reading
The number of households in Britain at risk of flooding will more than double by 2050 to more than 1.9m owing to the effects of climate change, research from data Continue Reading
Firefighters confronted ferocious winds, with at least one gust clocking in at 102 miles an hour shortly after sunrise Sunday in the hills above the evacuated Sonoma County wine town Continue Reading
Erika Rivas could not sleep. The smell of smoke and the fear of encroaching flames kept pulling her back to that day two years ago when she realized her home Continue Reading
Metals producers, from miners to smelters, are grappling with increasingly tough and costly environmental demands imposed by banks seeking cleaner investments. While the transition may prove overwhelming for smaller producers, Continue Reading
A developing medicane takes shape over the eastern Mediterranean Sea. (NASA) An extremely unusual “medicane” is set to lash parts of Egypt and Israel, bringing the potential for tropical storm-force Continue Reading
The death toll from torrential rains that caused flooding and mudslides in Japan climbed to 10 on Saturday, with three others missing, public broadcaster NHK reported, just two weeks after Continue Reading
California firefighters on Friday sought to take advantage of a lull in winds to gain ground on a pair of fast-moving wildfires, including one that has forced the evacuation of Continue Reading
California investigators won’t determine the official cause for some time. But the news that PG&E equipment may have sparked another fire sent the company’s shares down nearly 31% on Friday, Continue Reading
Approximately 850,000 customers, comprising millions of people across Northern and Central California, could be without power through the weekend, according to Pacific Gas & Electric. Strong winds in the forecast Continue Reading
New data reveals that damaging air pollution has increased nationally since 2016, reversing a decades-long trend toward cleaner air . An analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data published this week Continue Reading
JDriving through fields of low-lying Dutch farmland you pass an occasional odd cluster of silvery pipes and tanks. They are the only visible sign that deep below this northeast corner Continue Reading
A hole in the ozone layer located near the Earth’s South Pole is the smallest it has been since first being discovered in the 1980s, NASA said. While depletion of Continue Reading
President Donald Trump on Wednesday is expected to affirm plans to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, a source said, less than two weeks before he Continue Reading
PG&E Corp. said it would begin shutting off power to 179,000 customers in 17 California counties on Wednesday afternoon, its second major intentional blackout this month meant to head off Continue Reading
Exxon Mobil Corp’s lawyer slammed New York’s securities-fraud case as the trial opened. (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp.’s lawyer slammed New York’s securities-fraud case as the trial opened, saying the Continue Reading
More than half a million homes and businesses in California could lose power this week as utilities including Pacific Gas & Electric ( PCG.N ) and Southern California Edison ( Continue Reading
For some time now it has been clear that the effects of climate change are appearing faster than scientists anticipated. Now it turns out that there is another form of underestimation as bad or Continue Reading
Sea surface temperature anomalies during the 2015-2016 El Nino event. (NOAA) Climate change is reshaping the evolution and intensity of El Niño events in a way that favors the occurrence Continue Reading
A At the crack of dawn, the leaders of the expedition line up with binoculars on the bridge of the icebreaker Polarstern. The day is overcast and the light is Continue Reading
To illustrate how Exxon Mobil Corp. allegedly deceived investors about its climate-change accounting, a lawyer from the New York attorney general’s office showed a packed Manhattan courtroom Tuesday a multicolored Continue Reading
Exxon Mobil Corp.’s lawyer slammed New York’s securities-fraud case as the trial opened, saying the state “twisted” reality by conflating two internal metrics the company uses to account for the Continue Reading
A marine biologist helps a newborn sea turtle reach the sea on Cape Verde’s Boa Vista island. (Credit: Danielle Paquette) BOA VISTA, Cape Verde — She emerged from the ocean Continue Reading
Desalinated seawater is the lifeblood of Saudi Arabia, no more so than at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, an international research center that rose from the dry, empty Continue Reading
California firefighters worked through the night into early Tuesday to tackle a pair of wildfires threatening people’s homes. Live aerial video footage broadcast by KABC-TV showed flames raging along a Continue Reading
Pacific Gas & Electric warned that it would likely cut power temporarily to hundreds of thousands of customers in Northern California by Wednesday night for the second time in two Continue Reading
One franchise’s challenge: Amid rising sea levels, build a stadium to last 100 years. A number of American pro sports venues could be vulnerable to rising waters brought on by Continue Reading
After years of anticipation, ExxonMobil goes on trial this week. The oil major has been under scrutiny for years by several state attorneys general over allegations that the company intentionally Continue Reading
The attorney general’s office said the company told investors that it was taking into account the future costs of regulations it expected governments to adopt in response to climate change. Continue Reading
A tornado barreled through the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex on Sunday night, obliterating concrete buildings, a big rig and utility poles in a wide path of destruction and leaving tens of Continue Reading
Northern Californians can expect widespread power cuts aimed at preventing wildfires for a decade while Pacific Gas & Electric upgrades wires systems, cuts back trees and takes other safety measures, Continue Reading
Last month Switzerland’s Pizol glacier, which has lost 80% of its volume since 2006, was remembered in a “funeral march” Climate change has risen to the top of Switzerland’s political Continue Reading
Tankers that had been scheduled to install emissions-cutting equipment ahead of stricter pollution standards starting in 2020 have deferred their visits to the dry docks to capitalize on an unexpected Continue Reading
The Russian government has abandoned key provisions of a new “climate change” legislation package after the country’s leading businesses – most operating in the “not quite” ESG arena – mounted Continue Reading
The European Environment Agency’s (EEA’s) “ Air quality in Europe — 2019 report ” shows that almost all Europeans living in cities are still exposed to air pollution levels that Continue Reading
The 2019 Arctic sea ice minimum extent was probably reached on Sept. 18 and was the second-lowest extent on record. (NASA/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) There is no powerful El Niño lurking in the Continue Reading
When leaders from Exxon Mobil and BP gathered last month with other fossil-fuel executives to declare they were serious about climate change, they cited progress in curbing an energy-wasting practice called Continue Reading
We’re tracking an area of low pressure that looks to form and develop some in the Gulf of Mexico through Friday. If it intensifies to tropical storm strength, it would Continue Reading
The natural gas industry is reeling as the political climate begins to shift against the industry faster and earlier than many expected. “If large institutional financial banks stop funding fossil Continue Reading
When an electric utility suspends service for whatever reason, the local economy grinds to a halt. Schools close. Hospitals turn on the back-up generators. When this happens, people are suddenly Continue Reading
A system off the coast of Africa appears to have a well-developed circulation; while it’s lacking substantial thunderstorm activity toward its core, the system will likely develop that in the Continue Reading
Most of the news surrounding the electricity shutoffs in California —done to avert the ignition of additional wildfires by aging electrical infrastructure—has focused on two things: climate change and the Continue Reading
The utility behind last week’s intentional power shut-off across Northern and Central California has restored electricity to all of its customers as shifts in weather have lessened the likelihood its Continue Reading
European model simulation of the Nor’easter at 8 a.m. Thursday. A powerful fall nor’easter is set to pound New England Wednesday night, unleashing heavy rain and possibly damaging winds. It’s Continue Reading
A fierce, wind-driven wildfire swept through foothills and canyons along the northern edge of Los Angeles on Friday, engulfing homes, closing roads and devouring acre upon acre of dry brush Continue Reading
Millions of Californians may have just suffered an unprecedented, induced blackout by the state’s largest (and bankrupt) utility, PG&E, just so it isn’t blamed for starting even more fires causing Continue Reading
A powerful snowstorm swept across parts of the central and northern U.S. plains in unseasonably cold temperatures and high winds on Thursday, forcing school closures and dozens of vehicle crashes Continue Reading
Federal programs to help Americans move away from disaster-prone areas are skewed by the income levels of communities seeking help — rather than being based solely on the risk they Continue Reading
California will meet its 2030 climate targets more than three decades late, in 2061, and could be more than 100 years late in meeting its 2050 target if the average Continue Reading
