Global Population Could Peak Sooner Than We Think
Since the days of Thomas Malthus, we’ve worried that overpopulation is about to overwhelm our planet. Those fears haven’t gone away. A further two billion people will be added to Continue Reading
G20 plays down commitment to climate change action
Japan has bowed to US pressure by watering down commitments to tackling climate change in its draft G20 communique, a sign of how Tokyo is seeking to curry favor with Continue Reading
Potentially historic and deadly early summer heat wave to roast Europe, peaking midweek
Temperatures are likely to be 20 to 30 degrees or more above normal in the heat this week. (WeatherBell.com) An intense heat wave is set to bake Europe in coming Continue Reading
France 40C heatwave could break June records
A Canadian tourist cools down in the Trocadero’s fountains in August 2018 amid another heatwave France is braced for a heatwave with temperatures forecast to exceed 40C this week – Continue Reading
Blue States Roll Out Aggressive Climate Strategies. Red States Keep to the Sidelines.
At a time when the country is already deeply fractured along partisan lines, individual states are starting to pursue vastly different policies on climate change with the potential to cement Continue Reading
State Republican Senators Flee Oregon To Avoid Vote On Climate Bill
Republican lawmakers at the Oregon State Senate fled the state on Thursday to avoid being forced to vote on a climate bill that the Oregon House passed earlier this week Continue Reading
Trump administration replaces Obama-era power plant rule, in boost to coal
The Trump administration finalized a new carbon emissions rule for U.S. power plants on Wednesday that it said could cut pollution without damaging the coal industry, replacing a much tougher Continue Reading
Trump EPA finalizes rollback of key Obama climate rule that targeted coal plants
The Trump administration finalized its biggest climate policy rollback Wednesday, requiring the U.S. power sector to cut its 2030 carbon emissions 35 percent over 2005 levels — less than half Continue Reading
New York lawmakers pass aggressive law to fight climate change
New York state lawmakers passed early Thursday one of the nation’s most ambitious plans to slow climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. If signed into Continue Reading
With More Storms and Rising Seas, Which U.S. Cities Should Be Saved First?
As disaster costs keep rising nationwide, a troubling new debate has become urgent: If there’s not enough money to protect every coastal community from the effects of human-caused global warming, Continue Reading
Alberta Imposes New Fracking Restrictions Near Dam after Quakes
In a significant development, the Alberta Energy Regulator has acknowledged that hydraulic fracturing operations can impose high risks to critical infrastructure such as dams, an issue of growing concern at Continue Reading
Emails: Trump official pressed NASA on climate science
Once a skeptic about climate change, Jim Bridenstine came around to the prevailing view of scientists before he took over as NASA administrator. That evolution did not sit well with Continue Reading
Temperatures leap 40 degrees above normal as the Arctic Ocean and Greenland ice sheet see record June melting
Steffen Olsen, an Arctic researcher with the Danish Meteorological Institute, and dogs set out to retrieve oceanographic moorings and a weather station over meltwater topping sea ice in northwest Greenland Continue Reading
India Heat Wave, Soaring Up to 123 Degrees, Has Killed at Least 36
One of India’s longest and most intense heat waves in decades, with temperatures reaching 123 degrees, has claimed at least 36 lives since it began in May, and the government Continue Reading
Climate Change Could Trigger Global Financial Crisis
A top U.S. financial regulator is worried that climate change could threaten global financial markets. Rostin Behnam, a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said that the financial Continue Reading
Extreme Weather Could Send Global Energy Demand To Record High
The world is moving further away from a sustainable path as carbon emissions increased last year at the fastest pace since 2011 due to unusually hot and cold spells in Continue Reading
Some Republican Lawmakers Break With Party on Climate Change
A small but growing number of Republican lawmakers are urging action on climate change, driven by shifting sentiment among GOP voters and the effects of global warming, from stronger hurricanes Continue Reading
U.S. commodities regulator sees market risk from climate change, urges action
A top U.S. commodities regulator said on Wednesday climate change poses a major market risk and urged federal government action to address it, putting him at odds with the Trump Continue Reading
The new plan to remove a trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere: Bury it.
Last month, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere surpassed 415 parts per million , the highest in human history. Environmental experts say the world is increasingly on a path toward Continue Reading
Paralysis on America’s Rivers: There’s Too Much Water
Marty Shell just wanted the lights back on. Nineteen barges bound for nowhere were tied up along the swollen riverbank. Dark warehouses full of flooded fertilizer reeked with a sulfuric Continue Reading
How Dengue, a Deadly Mosquito-Borne Disease, Could Spread in a Warming World
Climate change is poised to increase the spread of dengue fever, which is common in parts of the world with warmer climates like Brazil and India, a new study warns. Continue Reading
Carmakers Urge Trump-California Compromise On Fuel Economy Standards
Seventeen major automakers, including GM and Ford, are calling for a compromise between the Trump Administration and California on the fuel economy standards through one nationwide broadly supported final rule, Continue Reading
Democrats Highly Divided On Climate Policy
The Democrat party is torn again between its more progressive members who want to make the Presidential election in 2020 all about the climate and those members who are more Continue Reading
Oil Industry Banks On Shaky Plastic Bet
Even as oil demand is beginning to weaken this year due to a brewing economic slowdown, the oil industry faces a longer-term threat to oil demand as bans on plastic Continue Reading
Automakers Tell Trump His Pollution Rules Could Mean ‘Untenable’ Instability and Lower Profits
The world’s largest automakers warned President Trump on Thursday that one of his most sweeping deregulatory efforts — his plan to weaken tailpipe pollution standards — threatens to cut their Continue Reading
This Crazy Idea Could Be The Future Of Power Generation
Carbon capture and storage or reuse is gaining traction amid intensifying efforts to curb the effect of climate change on the planet. Now, a Swiss-Norwegian team of researchers has gone Continue Reading
EU regulated CO2 emissions fall 3.9% in 2018: EC
Carbon dioxide emissions under the EU Emissions Trading System fell 3.9% in 2018, the European Commission said Wednesday, driven by clean energy displacing fossil fuel-fired electricity, confirming indications from partial Continue Reading
Global climate goal measures an ‘enormous challenge’: Equinor
Oil demand needs to halve, gas use must drop by 10% and coal use needs to be all but eradicated by 2050 to achieve the goals of the Paris agreement Continue Reading
Joe Biden Issues Climate Plan That Aims Beyond Obama’s Goal
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who has faced criticism from Democratic presidential rivals about his commitment to combating climate change, on Tuesday unveiled a plan that promised to Continue Reading
After a biblical spring, this is the week that could break the Corn Belt
Corn Belt farmers are used to being at the mercy of the weather. But they are not used to the weather being quite this merciless. Through all of April and Continue Reading
Extreme weather has made half of America look like Tornado Alley
Repair and cleaning efforts begin on a neighborhood damaged by a tornado system that destroyed homes and cut off access to utilities on Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio. (John Minchillo/AP) May Continue Reading
Record-Breaking Heat in Alaska Wreaks Havoc on Communities and Ecosystems
Alaska in March is supposed to be cold. Along the north and west coasts, the ocean should be frozen farther than the eye can see. In the state’s interior, rivers Continue Reading
Sea-level rise could be even worse than we’ve been led to expect
ONE THING scientists are sure will happen as the world warms is that the seas will rise, putting millions of people at risk of land erosion, flooding and permanent displacement. Continue Reading
Exxon’s Shareholders Reject Climate Resolution
Exxon’s shareholders rejected a proposal to set up a climate change board committee and voted down a proposal for corporate governance changes that some shareholders had proposed to protest the Continue Reading
Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are Destroying The World: UN Head
Subsidies for the fossil fuel industry should be eliminated as they help to “destroy the world” the United Nation’s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told media this week, adding pollution should be Continue Reading
Falling wind, solar power costs will aid in global climate action: report
Falling renewable power costs could be the solution to boosting global climate action, the International Renewable Energy Agency said in a report released Wednesday. In 2018 the global weighted-average cost Continue Reading
United Nations Says 80 Countries May Ramp Up Climate Pledges
About 80 countries want to increase their climate pledges ahead of schedule under the Paris climate accord, the United Nations said Tuesday, signaling that some of them would do so Continue Reading
EEA: small increase in EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions in 2017, with transport emissions up for the fourth consecutive year
Total greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union (EU) increased by 0.7% in 2017, according to latest official data published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA). Less coal was Continue Reading
11 Straight Days of Tornadoes Have U.S. Approaching ‘Uncharted Territory’
Multiple tornadoes hit Ohio and Indiana. Along with destroyed homes and downed power lines, at least one death was reported. CELINA, Ohio — The tornado screeching across southern Ohio on Continue Reading
As North Dakota oil soars, so does waste of natural gas
North Dakota oil drillers are falling far short of the state’s goals to limit the burning of excess natural gas at wellheads, five years after the state adopted the rules Continue Reading
IEA: CO2 Levels Hit Another Record High
When the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported in late March that energy consumption in 2018 rose at the fastest rate in a decade , it confirmed something that most of Continue Reading
Earth’s methane emissions are rising and we don’t know why
Getty Methane is a worse greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide Levels of a powerful greenhouse gas jumped again last year, continuing a surge in the past few years that researchers Continue Reading
Despite the global push to reduce plastic use, demand impact for oil and other feedstocks remains unaffected
A movement to reduce plastic use has led to bans worldwide on shopping bags, straws and other single-use items, but no noticeable impact on demand for crude oil and other Continue Reading
Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science
President Trump has rolled back environmental regulations, pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord, brushed aside dire predictions about the effects of climate change, and turned the Continue Reading
Forecasts Call for a Normal Hurricane Season, but ‘It Only Takes One’
NASA/Goddard Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd: , our email newsletter. This year’s Atlantic hurricane season should be “near normal,” government forecasters announced on Continue Reading
For the Midwest, Epic Flooding Is the Face of Climate Change
Massive rainfall has put millions of people at risk of flooding and kept farmers out of their fields, harming the nation’s ability to produce food. Fierce storms lashed across the Continue Reading
The Next $4 Trillion Democratic Party Climate Change Plan
Former Maryland Congressman John Delaney has become the latest in a growing list of Democratic presidential candidates pledging trillions in climate change fighting initiatives, CNN reports , citing Delaney’s US$4-trillion Continue Reading
Big Oil faces the energy transition
On Monday morning staff based at BP’s head office in central London woke to find that their building had been blockaded by climate protesters. Greenpeace activists put five large steel Continue Reading
US forecasters predict ‘near-normal’ Atlantic hurricane season with two-four major storms
Highlights Outlook sees up to 15 named storms, eight hurricanes Rising US oil, gas exports add to energy sector risks Demand destruction remains top power concern Washington — The US Continue Reading
“Climate Emergency”: Evolution of a Global Campaign
In a matter of months, the language of climate emergency has exploded into public space in a spectacular way, with national, regional and governments adopting the term. Last Friday The Continue Reading