From 2011 to 2015, California experienced its worst drought on record, with a parching combination of high temperatures and low precipitation. Drought conditions can have complicated effects on ozone air Continue Reading
A month after severe March flooding swept the Midwest, the Missouri River is still running high, complicating recovery for many communities in the region. Sections of Scott Olson’s farm near Continue Reading
Bryan Thomas doesn’t want any more “wishy-washy conversations about climate change.” For four years, he has served as station chief of the Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory, America’s northernmost scientific outpost Continue Reading
The Virginia State Air Pollution Control Board on Friday approved a regulation to reduce and cap carbon dioxide emissions from large fossil fuel-fired power plants. In an effort to address Continue Reading
As the West burns, the South swelters, and the East floods, some Americans are starting to reconsider where they choose to live. For advice, a few of them are turning Continue Reading
A high-profile NASA temperature data set, which has pronounced the last five years the hottest on record and the globe a full degree Celsius warmer than in the late 1800s, Continue Reading
The northern hemisphere experienced a long heatwave in 2018 Tom Nicholson/Lnp/REX/Shutterstock We know climate change made the heatwave that swept the northern hemisphere last year more likely , but is Continue Reading
Scientists from Ocean University in Qingdao, China and the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England have made an incredible discovery that could one day save the planet from the Continue Reading
Environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion shut down four key London thoroughfares on Monday, including Waterloo Bridge and Oxford Circus, at the start of a multi-day protest designed to bring the Continue Reading
Forget the global trade war, declining sales or even Brexit – the sternest challenge facing Europe’s car industry comes from the exhaust pipes of its vehicles. Strict new carbon dioxide emissions Continue Reading
The farmer stood in his patch of forlorn coffee plants, their leaves sick and wilted, the next harvest in doubt. Last year, two of his brothers and a sister, desperate Continue Reading
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will unveil a proposal to speed state-level permitting decisions for energy infrastructure projects soon, the agency’s chief told Reuters on Thursday, blasting states that have Continue Reading
WASHINGTON, March 19, 2018 – The worsening impacts of climate change in three densely populated regions of the world could see over 140 million people move within their countries’ borders Continue Reading
By local standards, Alaska has been sweltering this spring. Temperature records have been set across the state, including in Kotzebue, where the thermometer reached 42 degrees Fahrenheit on the last Continue Reading
When a deadly rainstorm unloaded on Houston in 2016, Sharobin White’s apartment complex flooded in up to six feet of water. She sent her toddler and 6-year-old to safety on Continue Reading
Heat waves are covering wider areas, and people are suffering the consequences. With 2°C of warming, most summers will look like 2018, scientists say. Eduardo Velev cools off in the Continue Reading
One of the great misconceptions of our time is the belief that we can move away from fossil fuels if we make suitable choices on fuels. In one view, we Continue Reading
One Saturday morning in November, Farhana Yamin took her place in a line of people gathered on Westminster Bridge and – when a signal was given – stepped off the Continue Reading
As the Trump administration prepares to drastically weaken Obama-era rules restricting vehicle pollution, nervous automakers are devising a strategy to handle their worst-case scenario: a divided American auto market, with Continue Reading
Blizzards and windstorms will punish the U.S. Plains and Midwest on Wednesday as a powerful late winter storm threatens more flooding in areas like South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Continue Reading
Royal Dutch Shell is launching a $3oom forestry programme in an attempt to reduce its emissions, at a time when an increasing number of oil companies are investing in carbon Continue Reading
In New York, there’s a plan to extend the Lower Manhattan coastline to guard against rising sea levels and other effects of climate change. In February, the White House devised Continue Reading
London’s ULEZ: What you need to know The Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) has come into force in central London. Drivers of older, more polluting vehicles are being charged to Continue Reading
Chalky grains of calcium carbonate are the result of concentrating the CO2 that’s extracted from the air A technology that removes carbon dioxide from the air has received significant backing Continue Reading
It’s not often that corporate executives make confessions that could jeopardize both its corporate standing and perhaps even their jobs. Yet, last week a top Volkswagen group executive said that Continue Reading
The world’s top energy body has come under fire from leading investors and scientists who say that its energy forecasts are not in line with the latest climate science, and Continue Reading
Senior Republicans are urging Donald Trump to curb his rhetoric on climate change ahead of next year’s election, as evidence emerges that young Republican voters are increasingly persuaded by the Continue Reading
A new study finds that environmental damage caused by corn production results in 4,300 premature deaths annually in the United States, representing a monetized cost of $39 billion. The paper, published in Nature Continue Reading
Royal Dutch Shell said on Tuesday it would not renew its membership of a leading U.S. oil refining and petrochemical trade group in 2020 due to misalignment over climate policy. Continue Reading
The widespread, severe flooding in the Midwest over the last month has exposed the vulnerabilities in a levee system that is now so full of holes that many here ruefully Continue Reading
A large and fast-melting glacier in Greenland is growing again, according to a new NASA study. The Jakobshavn (YA-cob-shawv-en) glacier on Greenland’s west coast had reportedly been retreating by around Continue Reading
The European Parliament has approved EU emission performance standards for new cars and vans by 2030, intended to cut oil use in road transport and promote electric vehicles. Receive daily Continue Reading
Refiners around the world have invested about $1 billion so far to produce low-sulfur marine fuel to meet new regulations coming into force in 2020, a BP executive said on Continue Reading
Global carbon dioxide emissions rose to their highest levels last year after a surge in energy demand stoked by a strong economy and extreme weather, according to the world’s energy Continue Reading
Carbon emissions reached 33.1 gigatons last year, breaking their previous record even though the annual increase was relatively modest, at 1.7 percent, the International Energy Agency said in its new Continue Reading
As record-breaking floods swamped the Midwest this week, dozens of levees built to protect people from flooding have catastrophically failed. The destruction has caused billions of dollars in damage and Continue Reading
An earthen barrier holding chemicals that leaked from a massive petrochemical fire outside Houston breached on Friday, prompting restrictions on travel around the site and through a part of the Continue Reading
A three-day petrochemical fire that spread a cancer-causing chemical and thick smoke over Houston suburbs this week have spurred calls for tougher safety regulations that could affect a nearly dozen Continue Reading
Exxon could lose its lobbying access to the European parliament after no company representative showed up at a hearing on climate change denial, the Guardian reports . A member of Continue Reading
Massive flooding in the U.S. Midwest has knocked out roughly 13 percent of the nation’s ethanol production capacity, as plants in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota have been forced to Continue Reading
Tim Gruber for The New York Times Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd: , our email newsletter. Vast areas of the United States are Continue Reading
Carbon dioxide emissions from S energy consumption will remain near current levels through 2050, according to projections in EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2019 . The AEO2019 Reference case, which reflects Continue Reading
A U.S. judge has blocked oil drilling planned in Wyoming because the government failed to adequately consider its impact on global warming – a decision that could complicate President Donald Continue Reading
Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd: , our email newsletter. There were no good choices for John Remus, yet Continue Reading
“The 2020 IMO marine regulation change is one of the most dramatic ever seen to product specifications, although the shipping and refining industries have had several years notice,” the International Continue Reading
In the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico, the racing heart of the US shale oil boom, there is generally not too much soul-searching about the implications for the Continue Reading
Vice President Pence will survey the widespread destruction across the Midwest on Tuesday, following “historic” flooding that has killed at least four people, leveled bridges and submerged huge swaths of Continue Reading
Royal Dutch Shell has set its first-ever short-term goals to cut the carbon footprint of its operations and product sales as the oil and gas industry is under intense investor Continue Reading
British oil major BP successfully lobbied the Trump administration to roll back key climate regulations preventing the release of methane into the atmosphere, despite claiming to support the Paris agreement Continue Reading
The oil industry has suddenly grown concerned about its methane emissions. In Houston, Shell executives urged the EPA to stick with federal regulations on methane. EOG Resources has agreed to Continue Reading
