Hundreds of thousands of California homes and businesses started to lose electric power early Wednesday as part of an unprecedented effort by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to prevent wildfires, Continue Reading
PG&E said early Wednesday the shut-offs will occur in three phases, the first of which affects about 513,000 customers from midnight local time. These outages will be spread across 22 Continue Reading
Thousands of climate-change protesters took to the streets in cities around the world on Monday, launching two weeks of peaceful civil disobedience to demand immediate action to cut carbon emissions Continue Reading
Up and down the mid-Atlantic coast, sea levels are rising rapidly, creating stands of dead trees — often bleached, sometimes blackened — known as ghost forests. The water is gaining as much Continue Reading
His boss fell sick first, with aching pains and a high temperature. Then, some of his colleagues began showing similar symptoms. By the time Rajkumar Adhikari, 35, grew feverish and Continue Reading
President Vladimir Putin needs to go green quickly to stop the permafrost from melting, so that Russian oil and gas companies can keep pumping the hydrocarbons that are warming the Continue Reading
Andrey Danilov eased his motorboat onto the gravel riverbank, where the bones of a woolly mammoth lay scattered on the beach. A putrid odor filled the air — the stench Continue Reading
A sixteen-year-old girl from Sweden has gotten a lot of attention (some supportive, much vitriolic) this week as she took on policymakers at the 2019 UN climate action summit in Continue Reading
A heat dome over the eastern half of the nation is bringing high temperatures characteristic of July. (WeatherBell.com) October 2 at 4:06 PM It’s another steamy summer day across the Continue Reading
The EU’s Sentinel-1 satellite system captured these before and after images The Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica has just produced its biggest iceberg in more than 50 years. The calved Continue Reading
During the nearly quarter-century that my family has lived in this house, the changes in our neighborhood have become increasingly apparent: fewer trees and wildflowers, fewer bees and butterflies and Continue Reading
Growing coastal flooding is inevitable, and damage to corals and other marine life has already been unleashed. But scientists say the world still has time to avert even more severe Continue Reading
The Trump administration on Thursday, pressing the president’s complaints about homelessness in California, demanded the state improve the way it deals with human waste, arsenic and lead in water as Continue Reading
In a closed-door meeting of oil and gas executives, this summer in Colorado Springs, industry lawyer Mark Barron offered a bold proposal: Energy companies must accept that fossil fuels are Continue Reading
Earth’s oceans are under severe strain from climate change, a major new United Nations report warns, threatening everything from the ability to harvest seafood to the well-being of hundreds of Continue Reading
Climate activists have raised concerns about the number of power plants planned for development in Asia, but the threat of climate change appears to be just one reason to think Continue Reading
The fires are very difficult for authorities to put out Wildfires are ravaging the Arctic, with areas of northern Siberia, northern Scandinavia, Alaska and Greenland engulfed in flames. Lightning frequently Continue Reading
A historic heat wave inflicted life-threatening temperatures on Europe and shattered all-time highs in multiple countries Thursday. Paris registered a jaw-dropping 108.7 degrees, according to Météo-France , the national weather Continue Reading
Stefan Sauer/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images LONDON — People across Western Europe are suffering through an intense heat wave this week, with the worst still to come on Thursday, when Continue Reading
Temperature departures from average on Thursday, showing the scorching heat across Western Europe. (Weatherbell.com) (This article has been updated) A historic heat wave is bringing unprecedented temperatures to Western Europe, Continue Reading
Record-high temperatures are expected across France – including the capital, Paris The French city of Bordeaux has hit its highest temperature since records began, as Western Europe braces for the Continue Reading
Forecast heat index in the eastern United States at 2 p.m. Saturday, from the NAM model. The hottest weather in years is stifling two-thirds of the United States, stretching from Continue Reading
Late last year, a study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) looked into exactly how much it will take to meet the climate change goals set by the Continue Reading
National Weather Service forecast for the maximum heat index on Saturday. (weatherbell.com) A heat wave featuring a life-threatening combination of heat and oppressive humidity has begun to spread across the Continue Reading
Rainfall estimates (from radar and gauges in Arkansas) over the past week. (National Weather Service) (This article was updated based on the new rainfall report from Dierks, Ark.) Louisiana grabbed Continue Reading
The world’s oil tankers risk losing almost a third of their value should a shift away from fossil fuels gain momentum in the coming decades, a new report has warned. The Continue Reading
Compliance with the International Maritime Organization’s global sulfur limit for marine fuels will likely settle around 90% or 95% in the initial years after 2020, well above some industry estimates Continue Reading
Visualization of heat and humidity Friday. (Earth.nullschool.net) A stifling heat wave has begun to take shape across large portions of the United States, with millions likely to see temperatures creep Continue Reading
Restrictions on crop irrigation are staggered by region, the ministry said, ranging from a one-day ban each week to a total prohibition of water usage in agriculture. France’s dryness stems Continue Reading
The decrease in coal-derived energy in favor of natural gas-derived energy has the Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasting that the CO2 emissions in the United States will fall in 2019, Continue Reading
Ryan Pasternak When a tropical storm is approaching, its intensity or wind speed often gets the bulk of the attention. But as Tropical Storm Barry bears down on the Gulf Continue Reading
A disappointing planting season due to massive flooding in the U.S. Midwest this spring is expected to have spillover effects on diesel demand during harvest season, analysts and traders said. Continue Reading
A State Department intelligence analyst has resigned in protest after the White House blocked portions of his written testimony to a congressional panel to exclude data and evidence on climate Continue Reading
Environmental activists demonstrate during a Extinction Rebellion protest April 17 in London. (Henry Nicholls/Reuters) The consulting firm Moody’s Analytics says climate change could inflict $69 trillion in damage on the Continue Reading
The United States is proving that a strong economy and a vibrant energy sector are compatible with a healthy environment, according to U.S. President Donald Trump. The United States is Continue Reading
David Silverman/Getty Images As Europe heats up , Greenland melts and the Midwest floods , many news organizations are devoting more resources to climate change as they cover the topic Continue Reading
To avoid climate change catastrophe, the world must rapidly transform its economy away from fossil fuels. But to achieve this historically unprecedented task, the news industry must also transform, urged Continue Reading
The predicted temperatures for Sunday in Celsius compared to normal temperatures. (TropicalTidbits.com) On Independence Day, the temperature in Anchorage soared higher than at any other time on record as a Continue Reading
The heat wave that smothered much of Europe at the end of June helped raise average global temperatures to a record for the month, a European weather forecasting agency has Continue Reading
This sense that ships effectively have no true home is why the industry was excluded from the 2015 Paris Agreement among countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Shipowners instead offered Continue Reading
The world needs to get to the point at which it will no longer add to the stock of greenhouse gases, and reducing emissions to net zero “is the only Continue Reading
High sulfur fuel oil premiums in Asia surged to a record on Thursday, one of the first signs of the impact of a shift in global ship fuel rules set Continue Reading
Joshua Corbett for The New York Times In more than 100 years of Anchorage history, weather stations have never recorded a single 90-degree reading. If current forecasts hold, it could Continue Reading
Upper-level high pressure is maxed out and anchored over southern Alaska Friday evening per model simulations. (TropicalTidbits.com) All-time heat records are at risk in Alaska in coming days as a Continue Reading
Climate change is becoming the 21st century’s “nuclear war”, in the sense of being an existential problem which poses an imminent global risk, a collection of senior world leaders have Continue Reading
This analysis examined the effect of flight distance on greenhouse gas emissions per passenger, and compared emissions from flying different distances with annual emissions from driving. Greenhouse gas emissions were Continue Reading
France registered its highest temperature since records began on Friday as the death toll rose from a heatwave suffocating much of Europe. The mercury hit 45.9 degrees Celsius (114.6 Fahrenheit) Continue Reading
Because of relentless global warming, the world risks plunging into a ‘climate apartheid’—a scenario in which the rich will buy themselves out of the worst effects of climate change, while Continue Reading
America’s coal-burning power plants are shutting down at a rapid pace, forcing electric utilities to face the next big climate question: Embrace natural gas, or shift aggressively to renewable energy? Some large Continue Reading
Thibault Camus/Associated Press Temperatures were set to soar across Europe beginning on Wednesday, with authorities from Paris to Warsaw issuing heat alerts, canceling events and bracing for potentially record heat Continue Reading
