PG&E: The First Climate-Change Bankruptcy, Probably Not the Last
The company’s fall has been fast and steep. In October, its market value was $25 billion. This week, it was removed from the S&P 500 as its value tumbled below Continue Reading
State of the Climate: How the World Warmed in 2018
The climate data for 2018 is now mostly in, though the ongoing shutdown of the US government has caused some datasets to be delayed. In this article, Carbon Brief explains Continue Reading
Davos climate obsessions contain clues for policymaking
What are the biggest risks stalking the world today? A cynic might gripe that the list is so depressingly long that it is pointless even to try to choose: populism, Continue Reading
Shell: Clean Energy Advances Too Slow To Meet UN Climate Targets
Clean energy solutions are not moving fast enough to meet the UN targets for curbing the effects of global warming, and alternative energies are unlikely to meet those targets without Continue Reading
More studies show terrible news for the climate. We should be alarmed. — WP Editorial
ANOTHER DAY, another study showing terrible news for the climate. There is a danger that scientists’ findings are coming so often and sounding so dire that even thoughtful observers will Continue Reading
Glaciers Are Retreating. Millions Rely on Their Water.
Tuyuksu Glacier Kapchagay Reservoir Lake Issyk-Kul Almaty Lake Balkhash Russia Mongolia Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Iran Afghanistan Pakistan China China Kyrgyzstan India Arctic Ocean Arabian Sea Bay of Bengal Flows from Kazakhstan’s Continue Reading
Ice loss from Antarctica has sextupled since the 1970s, new research finds
Antarctic glaciers have been melting at an accelerating pace over the past four decades thanks to an influx of warm ocean water — a startling new finding that researchers say Continue Reading
Chevron And Occidental Join Bill Gates Backed Tech Company
Chevron and Occidental Petroleum recently announced they will invest in Carbon Engineering Ltd., a Squamish, B.C. clean energy start-up company backed by among other, Bill Gates. Carbon Engineering has developed Continue Reading
Earth’s magnetic field is acting up and geologists don’t know why
The release of the World Magnetic Model has been postponed to 30 January due to the ongoing US government shutdown. Something strange is going on at the top of the Continue Reading
NUS study finds correlation between PM2.5 pollution and employee productivity
A study by researchers from the National University of Singapore Department of Economics ( NUS Economics ) has found a correlation between pollution and productivity of employees. The researchers, led Continue Reading
Germany struggles with dirty energy in climate change battle
Germany has mined and burnt lignite for hundreds of years and has the physical scars to show for it. From the Rhineland in the west to the Lausitz in the Continue Reading
Snow brings parts of Europe to standstill
Heavy snowfalls brought chaos to parts of Germany and Sweden on Friday, leaving roads blocked, trains halted and schools shut. The Red Cross helped drivers stuck on a motorway in the Continue Reading
Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds
Scientists say the world’s oceans are warming far more quickly than previously thought, a finding with dire implications for climate change because almost all the excess heat absorbed by the Continue Reading
Heavy Snowfall in Alps Leaves 6 Dead and Strands Tourists
Once-in-a-generation heavy snowfall has paralyzed travel and tourism in parts of the Alps, with conditions that have left at least six people dead, Austrian officials said on Thursday. Heavy snowfall Continue Reading
Europe’s ban on single-hull river barges enters force at end of drought-hit year
A ban on single-hull barges carrying oil products on Europe’s inland waterways came into force at the end of 2018 — a year that saw double-hull barges unable to navigate Continue Reading
U.S. top court rejects Exxon in climate change document dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the attorney general of Massachusetts to obtain records from Exxon Mobil Corp to probe whether the oil company for decades Continue Reading
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions spiked in 2018 — and it couldn’t happen at a worse time
U.S. carbon dioxide emissions rose an estimated 3.4 percent in 2018, according to new research — a jarring increase that comes as scientists say the world needs to be aggressively Continue Reading
Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow, by Joshua S Goldstein and Staffan A Qvist
A Bright Future starts with a bang. “Few books can credibly claim to offer a way to save the world, but this one does,” the psychologist Steven Pinker writes in Continue Reading
Climate change in Somaliland — ‘you can touch it’
It is often said that climate change will hurt the world’s poorest people first. Nowhere is that potentially truer than in Somaliland , an unrecognised state in the Horn of Continue Reading
Concerns intensify over food producers’ impact on environment
The world’s biggest purchaser of beef is watching the plant-based meat market. “Plant-based protein is something we’re keeping an eye on as we start to think about the opportunities there Continue Reading
Cleaning up steel is key to tackling climate change
Behind sand dunes on the Dutch North Sea coastline, clouds of smoke and steam billow from the mass of chimneys, pipes, and cranes that form the imposing Ijmuiden steelworks. Deep Continue Reading
The energy industry must engage with climate change
When I started my career in the oil industry more than 50 years ago, nearly three-quarters of people around the world lived in extreme poverty. Today, that figure stands at Continue Reading
Airlines prepare for blizzard of climate challenges
Gain a global perspective on the US and go beyond with curated news and analysis from 600 journalists in 50+ countries covering politics, business, innovation, trends and more. Choose the Continue Reading
Record-shattering heat wave scorches Australia as temperatures reach 120 degrees
A record-shattering heat wave continued to scorch Australia on Thursday as temperatures soared above 120 degrees in some spots. The extreme heat has spurred on health warnings, air quality alerts Continue Reading
E.P.A. Proposes Rule Change That Would Let Power Plants Release More Toxic Pollution
The Trump administration announced on Friday a plan designed to make it easier for coal-fired power plants, after nearly a decade of restrictions, to release into the atmosphere more mercury Continue Reading
US EPA proposes to revoke legal basis for Obama-era rule targeting coal plants
In a move with major implications for future air quality regulations, the US Environmental Protection Agency Friday proposed to rescind the legal justification for an Obama-era rule that has dramatically Continue Reading
How to rescue the global climate change agenda
The depressing reality about climate change is that we could solve the problem, at manageable cost, but are failing to do so. This failure is due to a mixture of Continue Reading
Beyond the glare of Washington, President Trump’s retreat on the environment is unfolding in consequential ways for the health and safety of Americans.
In just two years, President Trump has unleashed a regulatory rollback, lobbied for and cheered on by industry, with little parallel in the past half-century. Mr. Trump enthusiastically promotes the Continue Reading
Columbia team organizes available scientific evidence on the effects of air pollution on children’s health
Researchers at Columbia University, with colleagues at Boston University and Abt Associates, have identified concentration-response (C-R) functions for a number of adverse health outcomes in children associated with air pollutants Continue Reading
EIA: CO2 emissions from US power sector have declined 28% since 2005
US electric power sector CO 2 emissions have declined 28% since 2005 because of slower electricity demand growth and changes in the mix of fuels used to generate electricity, according Continue Reading
Earth needs a huge investment to solve energy’s pollution problem
We stand on the threshold of a once-in-a-century change in a market sector worth $10tn annually, or more than 10 percent of global gross domestic product. And as the French Continue Reading
Ten Charts Show How the World is Progressing on Clean Energy
Rapid progress towards clean energy is needed to meet the global ambition to limit warming to no more than 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures. But how are countries doing so far? Continue Reading
Dept. of Transportation sued for records related to fuel standards changes
The Environmental Defense Fund has sued the U.S. Department of Transportation over failure to release public records requested to know what and who are behind attempts to lower fuel standards. Continue Reading
Does the global fight against climate change stand a chance without the U.S.?
WITHOUT THE United States, does the decades-long effort to unite the globe in fighting climate change fall apart? That was the big question heading into a major international climate conference Continue Reading
China to extend sulfur limitations for bunker fuels along entire coastline
Hunan, China — China is set to tighten its sulfur-limit restrictions for ships by extending the 0.5% bunker fuel sulfur limit from the initially designated Emission Control Areas (ECAs) to Continue Reading
Exxon asks EPA to regulate methane emissions from oil and gas
ExxonMobil Corp., the world’s biggest publicly traded oil company, is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate emissions of methane from all new and existing oil and gas wells Continue Reading
Nine states and DC to design regional approach to cap greenhouse gas emissions from transportation
A coalition of nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia announced their intent to design a new regional low-carbon transportation policy proposal that would cap and reduce Continue Reading
Exxon Mobil opposes weakening Obama-era emissions rules: letter to EPA
Exxon Mobil Corp ( XOM.N ) sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in support of methane gas emission rules put in place under the Obama administration, according Continue Reading
Banks should recognise the risks of climate change
Most central bankers make a virtue of the narrowness of their remit, remaining circumspect on issues deemed to go beyond it. Not Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, Continue Reading
EU agrees 550g CO2 capacity scheme cap for new power plants in 2019
London — EU negotiators have informally agreed a 550g CO2/kWh emission limit for new power plants taking part in capacity mechanisms, likely to apply during 2019, as part of a Continue Reading
Katowice celebrations damped by reality of global warming
At about 10 pm on Saturday evening, a cheer went up among the delegates at the UN climate talks in Katowice, Poland. A deal had been struck on the rules Continue Reading
Oil Industry Faces $1 Trillion Challenge
When the International Maritime Organization announced it would introduce a new, lower, sulfur emission ceiling for bunkering fuel, many in the energy industry worried that demand for high-sulfur fuel oil Continue Reading
Buenos Aires takes on the car, and it’s not alone
The global effort to reduce reliance on gasoline and diesel may be fought on the streets of the world’s cities. In Buenos Aires , officials are making it easier to Continue Reading
China’s tighter sulfur limit rule for ships to spur LSMGO, LSFO demand
In less than a month, China is set to tighten its sulfur limit restrictions for ships by imposing a 0.5% bunker fuel sulfur limit in not only its initially designated Continue Reading
Americans Show Growing Support for Climate-Change Policies, Poll Says
The poll, conducted Dec. 9-12, shows growing support for policies that could mitigate the widespread environmental and economic destruction that many scientists predict climate change could cause in the coming Continue Reading
Brussels agrees 2030 carbon dioxide targets for cars
Brussels has agreed tighter 2030 carbon dioxide targets for cars and vans, an important contribution to help the bloc meet its commitments under the Paris climate accord. Representatives the European Continue Reading
How We Grow and Eat Food Is Going to Kill Us All
Over the weekend, more than 200 nations reached an agreement for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the coming decades. Even without U.S. participation , it’s a significant step in affirming the Continue Reading
Countries agree rules to put Paris climate pact in to action
The rules that will govern the world’s most ambitious climate pact were approved on Saturday by the nearly 200 countries that signed the Paris climate agreement, following two weeks of Continue Reading
Investors push Exxon to list emissions targets in annual reports
A group of shareholders led by New York state and the Church of England is calling on ExxonMobil, the world’s largest listed oil company, to set targets for cutting its Continue Reading
Will peak oil save Earth’s climate?
This year, international delegates gathered in Katowice, Poland for the thirty-second international climate meeting in 40 years. As they dithered over whether they should “welcome” or “note” the 1.5°C pathways Continue Reading