The world’s oceans have been soaking up far more excess heat in recent decades than scientists realized, suggesting that Earth could be set to warm even faster than predicted in Continue Reading
The new study says the oceans have absorbed far more heat than previously thought The world has seriously underestimated the amount of heat soaked up by our oceans over the Continue Reading
The clock is ticking for humanity, and it is not just because our financial system is heading for the biggest implosion that any of us have ever seen . The Continue Reading
The midterm elections are around the corner, and here on the climate desk we’ve been looking at how the issue of climate change is playing out around the country. It’s Continue Reading
In many ways, the summer of 2018 marked a turning point, when the effects of climate change — perhaps previously on the periphery of public consciousness — suddenly took center Continue Reading
In the wake of the devastating new climate report — and of devastating hurricanes, droughts, and floods — the oil industry has been making a few small noises about how it might Continue Reading
North Carolina has committed to upholding the landmark Paris climate agreement by slashing greenhouse gas emissions, a move that comes a little over a month after Hurricane Florence devastated the Continue Reading
A toxic fog is creeping over New Delhi. Children trudge to school with plastic masks strapped to their faces. Sports events are canceled. Eyes burn. Throats itch. Chests heave. It’s Continue Reading
Brazil’s highly biodiverse Cerrado is being destroyed for soybean production, conservationists say Brazil’s far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro will merge the ministries of agriculture and the environment, an aide says, in Continue Reading
Violent thunderstorms, small tornadoes that blew roofs off homes, and winds equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane lashed Italy from Piedmont to Sicily early this week, leaving at least 11 Continue Reading
Quite suddenly, in the wake of the recent IPCC report, it’s become commonplace to talk about a global climate emergency. Al Gore told PBS on 12 October: “We have a Continue Reading
Do oil companies tell shareholders the unvarnished truth about the risks posed by climate change to their business models? Climate campaigners have long argued that they don’t, claiming that wicked Continue Reading
For the past 20 years the orthodox response to the threat of climate change has been focused on the search for a global agreement to reduce emissions. Such an approach Continue Reading
To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, “negative emissions technologies” (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will need to play a significant role in mitigating Continue Reading
How did government respond to the recent scientific conclusion that only “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” can deliver the globally agreed target for stopping climate Continue Reading
In the wake of the recent UN report that unambiguously warned to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to avert catastrophic climate effects, the debate on how to decouple GDP growth from Continue Reading
Damage from Super Typhoon Yutu in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. (Jose Mafnas) Typhoon Yutu’s 180 mph winds overturned cars, knocked down hundreds of power poles and left an island of Continue Reading
With time running out to avoid dangerous global warming, the nation’s leading scientific body on Wednesday urged the federal government to begin a research program focused on developing technologies that Continue Reading
It is five minutes to midnight on climate change. We will have to alter our trajectory very quickly if we wish to have a good chance of limiting the global Continue Reading
New York’s attorney general sued Exxon Mobil Corp on Tuesday, alleging that the world’s largest oil company for years misled investors about the risks of climate change regulations on its Continue Reading
Now this is worth knowing about. Simulations have shown that spinning turbine blades of offshore wind farms can actually slow the wind speeds of a hurricane. Imagine all those people Continue Reading
Expectations of the imminent arrival of imported cargoes and the inability to push sufficient methanol volumes out of Rotterdam up the Rhine is putting downward pressure on spot prices, sources Continue Reading
London — Amid very low water levels on the River Rhine, traders are finding alternative routes to supply gasoil to inland demand centers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland via railcar Continue Reading
The rules, put into motion through the ocean transport-regulating arm of the United Nations, take effect Jan. 1, 2020, and are aimed at slashing the amount of sulfur in marine Continue Reading
A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that deaths related to air pollution in the US were nearly halved between Continue Reading
The United Nations (UN) climate science panel is being accused of ignoring research into fossil fuel-funded misinformation campaigns that have been key to holding back action on global warming. The Continue Reading
Significance Ideological polarization around environmental issues—especially climate change—have increased in the last 20 years. This polarization has led to public uncertainty, and in some cases, policy stalemate. Much attention has Continue Reading
The rules, set roughly a decade ago through the International Maritime Organization, an arm of the United Nations, take effect on Jan. 1, 2020, and aim to slash the amount Continue Reading
White House officials pushed the EPA to maximize savings for the oil industry despite the agency’s concern that weakening regulations would allow more methane to escape into the atmosphere, according Continue Reading
A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that deaths related to air pollution in the US were nearly halved between Continue Reading
German industrial conglomerate Thyssenkrupp has declared force majeure as the Rhine’s extremely low water levels are disrupting the delivery of raw materials to its Duisburg plant, the company said on Continue Reading
Europe’s fuel oil market was rattled on Friday by reports that the Trump Administration may look to slow down the introduction of the new regulations limiting sulfur content in ship Continue Reading
CHANGE VALUES, CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION “The consumption and production patterns and values of far less than half of the world population over less than 100 years has led us to Continue Reading
How much will climate change cost, and how much should we – or anyone – spend to avoid that cost? One answer that’s received a lot of attention in the past Continue Reading
The 2018 Global Agricultural Productivity (GAP) Index, put together by the Global Harvest Initiative, continues to highlight that food production is not growing fast enough to sustainably feed the world Continue Reading
Imagine your own child. Perhaps she’s nine this year. In 2030 she will be 21, just starting out on her own. Now: how much less do you value the quality Continue Reading
Major UK companies, including banks and retailers, are pledging to invest hundreds of millions of British pounds to cut their carbon footprint and to support new energies, the UK government Continue Reading
Investors in Big Oil are becoming more and more vocal about the negative effects of the industry on the planet. No longer is it just about profits. Investors are demanding Continue Reading
Anyone who has followed the climate change issue in the last 30 years knows that official forecasts provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are quickly upended by Continue Reading
If there were any doubt before, there should be none now. “Solving” the global climate change problem may be humankind’s mission impossible. That’s the gist of the latest report from Continue Reading
Donald Trump has said he does believe the climate is changing US President Donald Trump has accused climate change scientists of having a “political agenda” as he cast doubt on Continue Reading
This past week was a grim one in climate history, by any measure. First, an international group of scientists released a long-anticipated report detailing in excruciating detail the extra damages Continue Reading
William D. Nordhaus, the Yale economist who shared the Nobel in economic science this week, has pointed words for some of the experiments so far with his theories on taxing Continue Reading
With the remnants of Hurricane Michael heading back out to the Atlantic early Friday, oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico was quickly recovering, while over 1.2 million Continue Reading
The human population has reached 7.6 billion and could number 9 billion or 10 billion by midcentury. All those people will need to eat. A sobering report published Wednesday in Continue Reading
El Niño conditions are developing across the Pacific Ocean, with meteorologists now putting the probability of a full event developing by the end of the year at almost 75 percent. Continue Reading
Limiting temperatures to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit above preindustrial levels, as the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges, is economically and practically impossible—as Mr. Nordhaus’s work shows. The IPCC report Continue Reading
The University of Manchester’s Professor Kevin Anderson responds to today’s report from the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC report meticulously lays out how the serious climate impacts of Continue Reading
Shortsighted folly of ignoring the IPCC will lead to drastic future policies. Nero, the Roman emperor renowned for debauchery and extravagance, is said to have fiddled while Rome burnt. Fast Continue Reading
Climate scientists are not known for giving good news, and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that convened in South Korea was no exception: the scientists that compiled a Continue Reading
