Weather Bomb Threatens Boston With Heaviest Snow of the Season
Powerful winter storm set to sweep up East Coast Thursday The worst of it, for now, will be in Eastern Massachusetts Boston is about to get hit with a snow Continue Reading
Storm Eleanor: Travel disruption and homes without power
Enable it in your browser or download Flash Player here .Sorry, you need Flash to play this. Fire crews were called to fix scaffolding outside a building near Oxford Circus Continue Reading
New Year’s Day cold snap to hit U.S. winter wheat, rivers
A New Year’s Day cold snap in the southern U.S. Plains poses a threat to winter wheat, particularly in Kansas, the country’s biggest producer of the grain, agricultural meteorologists said. Continue Reading
It’s Been One of the Worst Years Ever for Billion-Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters
Hurricanes, floods, fires dominated coast-to-coast events ‘This is one of the worst years on record for U.S. damages’ In the year that President Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris Continue Reading
Arctic development left Russian environment damaged
The development of parts of the Arctic north of Russia has left its environment at risk from scrap materials and oil residue, a regional leader said. Sakhamin Afanasyev, the minister Continue Reading
Half the world’s population reaching below replacement fertility
According to the most recent UN estimates (United Nations 2017), almost one half of the world’s population lives in countries with below replacement fertility (BRF), i.e. with a total fertility Continue Reading
China Signals Slower Growth Is Acceptable to Tackle Debt, Smog
Senior official says doubling GDP by 2020 not a ‘huge barrier’ Leaders focus on ‘critical battles’ against debt, pollution China can achieve a goal of doubling the size of its Continue Reading
China Takes Another Green Step Forward
China is adopting a new green index in a bid to pressure local governments to reduce pollution and create more-sustainable economic development—though a high pace of growth is likely to Continue Reading
China blasts two provinces for deception in environment fight
China has criticized officials in the industrialized province of Shandong for deceiving authorities to evade capacity cuts in the polluting coal, steel, aluminum and chemical sectors, and slammed another province Continue Reading
Short-term exposure to low levels of air pollution linked with premature death among US seniors
A new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health links short-term exposures to fine particulate air pollution and ozone—even at levels well below current national safety standards—to higher Continue Reading
What’s the Ideal Number of Humans on Earth?
Earth might be looking a little worse for wear, after the last four-hundred years of reckless wide-scale resource extraction, but to its credit it hasn’t collapsed entirely. Despite our best Continue Reading
California Cities Are Suing Oil, Gas And Coal Companies Over Climate Change
The city of Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz County announced Wednesday the filing of separate lawsuits in state court against 29 oil, gas and coal companies seeking damages related to Continue Reading
Suing Big Oil over climate change, Santa Cruz eyes wildfire, storm costs
The city and county of Santa Cruz have joined a growing number of communities suing oil companies over climate change, alleging a plot in which the fossil fuel industry concealed Continue Reading
We’re concerned about climate change, U.S. shale company says
In its first-ever report of its kind, U.S. shale company Pioneer Natural Resources said it wanted to become an oil and gas leader, but in a sustainable way. “Climate change Continue Reading
BHP defends climate positions and Paris support
A day after the U.S president broke away from a climate precedent, Australian miner BHP said it may leave industry groups because of its stance on the Paris deal. In Continue Reading
Exxon ends restrictions on meeting shareholders
ExxonMobil, the world’s largest listed oil group, will allow shareholders to meet members of its board, as new chief executive Darren Woods moves to end restrictions that had vexed some Continue Reading
How Global Warming Fueled Five Extreme Weather Events
New research has analyzed 27 extreme weather events from that year for links to climate change. Extreme weather left its mark across the planet in 2016, the hottest year in Continue Reading
Warmer Arctic is the ‘new normal’
Sea ice that is more than four years old has largely disappeared in the Arctic A warming, rapidly changing Arctic is the “new normal” and shows no signs of returning Continue Reading
Exxon To Disclose The Real Risk Of Climate Change
ExxonMobil finally conceded to the multi-year campaign by shareholders and activists to disclose its risk to climate change, a notable departure after years of trying to dismiss the issue. According Continue Reading
Europe moves to grow green economy at Paris meeting
Commemorating the Paris climate agreement, European leaders said they were committed to establishing the bloc as the destination for green development. European and international delegates are in Paris this week Continue Reading
Big investors press major companies to step up climate action
More than 200 institutional investors with $26 trillion in assets under management said on Tuesday they would step up pressure on the world’s biggest corporate greenhouse gas emitters to combat Continue Reading
ExxonMobil bows to shareholder pressure on climate reporting
ExxonMobil, the world’s largest listed oil and gas group, will start publishing reports on the possible impact of climate policies on its business, bowing to investor demands for improved disclosure Continue Reading
European energy companies issue green finance pledge
Nine energy companies working in the European energy sector said Monday they made pledges to support a sustainable financial model for renewables. “Together the signatories draw on their experience to Continue Reading
The most accurate climate change models predict the most alarming consequences, study finds
People pass the “Climate Planet,” an exhibition and film venue sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, near the plenary halls of the COP 23 United Continue Reading
U.S. oil industry group launches voluntary program to cut methane
The American Petroleum Institute on Tuesday launched a voluntary program to cut emissions of the greenhouse gas methane from oil and gas operations, a move environmentalists said was not strong Continue Reading
‘Out of control’ Southern California fire explodes as growing blazes force tens of thousands to flee
A Ferocious fires tore through Southern California on Tuesday, burning massive stretches of land in a matter of hours and forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes. Firefighters in Continue Reading
Pollution stops play at Delhi Test match as bowlers struggle to breathe
A cricket Test match between India and Sri Lanka was repeatedly interrupted on Sunday with claims players were “continuously vomiting” due to hazardous pollution levels in the Indian capital. Commentators Continue Reading
Bill McKibben: Winning Slowly Is the Same as Losing
If we don’t win very quickly on climate change, then we will never win. That’s the core truth about global warming. It’s what makes it different from every other problem Continue Reading
New UK-wide map of air pollution; insights into nitrogen dioxide levels across the country and within towns and cities
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The Atlantic hurricane season from hell is finally over
Tracks of all Atlantic tropical cyclones in 2017. Their lifetime peak wind speed and minimum pressure are listed on the right. The horrible hurricane season that we desperately wanted to Continue Reading
In the heart of coal country, EPA gets an earful about Clean Power Plan’s fate
Coal executive Robert Murray ambled through the packed hearing room inside the gold-domed capital complex here, past reporters and photographers, past environmental activists and energy lobbyists, past more than two Continue Reading
Cold Blast Headed for Europe Won’t Faze a Very Warm 2017
December forecast to be coolest since 2010 despite warm tail Power, gas markets to be well-supplied unless cold is extreme Europe’s coldest December for seven years is unlikely to derail Continue Reading
Europe backing climate ambitions with capital
The European Union has extended financial support for the fight against climate change through German and Indian partnerships. File photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI Nov. 29 (UPI) — The European Union Continue Reading
Automakers struggle with the future in Los Angeles
Car manufacturers’ attempts to square what U.S. consumers want against the clean vehicles regulators and investors demand will be on display in Los Angeles this week at an auto show that Continue Reading
Storm That Unleashed Deadly Floods in Greece Was a Rare ‘Medicane’
Tropical systems don’t usually form in Mediterranean Storm developed eye wall like a hurricane, NOAA says A “rare tropical-like storm” grew in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea last week Continue Reading
How Greed, Fear, And Our Own Biases Blind Us To The Reality Of Climate Change
The Climate Science Special Report that the Trump administration released last Friday is straightforward and relentlessly sobering. Scientists from 13 government agencies agree that the long-term global warming trend is Continue Reading
Ice Apocalypse
Eric Holthaus at Grist has a look at Antarctica’s melting glaciers – Ice Apocalypse. In a remote region of Antarctica known as Pine Island Bay, 2,500 miles from the tip Continue Reading
No joke: China government warns northern cities to get serious in war on smog
Some northern Chinese cities failed to improve air quality by much last month, hitting the smog-prone region’s overall results in a drive against pollution, the government said as it warned Continue Reading
Eight energy majors commit to reduce methane emissions within natural gas industry
BP, Eni, ExxonMobil, Repsol, Shell, Statoil, Total and Wintershall committed to reduce further methane emissions from the natural gas assets they operate around the world. The energy companies also agreed Continue Reading
Exxon joins European oil firms in initiative to limit emissions
Exxon Mobil joined European peers including Royal Dutch Shell and Total in a new initiative to find ways to reduce potent emissions in their rapidly growing natural gas operations. BP, Continue Reading
Exxon, Shell, BP Join Forces to Cut Emissions From Natural Gas
Exxon Mobil Corp. has joined with seven other big energy companies to reduce pollution from natural gas production, an effort by the industry to present itself as part of the Continue Reading
Continental Europe set for warmer than normal December
Continental Europe is set for warmer-than-normal weather in December and through the winter, the Weather Company — formerly WSI — said in an update Tuesday, which would have a bearish Continue Reading
Energy Majors Hit Hard By Climate Regulations
The first news came out of Siemens, a Munich-based industrial conglomerate somewhat akin to the troubled General Electric. After last week’s disastrous news from GE—a 50 percent dividend cut and Continue Reading
Island Nations, With No Time to Lose, Take Climate Response Into Their Own Hands
Fijian singers strumming ukuleles serenade delegates to the United Nations climate talks as they enter the conference hall. A traditional two-hulled sailing craft, or drua, is on display by the Continue Reading
At least 15 states join global alliance to phase out coal by 2030
At least 15 countries have joined an international alliance to phase out coal from power generation before 2030, delegates at U.N. climate talks in Bonn said on Thursday. Britain, Canada, Continue Reading
China ready to deliver promises in full: top climate envoy
China’s special representative on climate change affairs Xie Zhenhua delivers a speech during a high-level meeting of UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany , on Nov. 16, 2017. China’s special Continue Reading
These are the melting glaciers that might someday drown your city, according to NASA
This NASA Earth Observatory image obtained July 27, 2012, shows a massive ice island as it broke free of the Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland. (Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon/NASA Continue Reading
NASA considers which cities will flood as ice sheets melt
New research offers more accurate predictions about where meltwater from shrinking glaciers is most likely to end up and encourage costal flooding. Photo by UPI/Matthew Healey Nov. 16 (UPI) — Continue Reading
In Bonn, Trump’s Answer to Global Warming? Drill, Baby, Drill!
Every year around this time, negotiators from across the globe meet in one city or another—Montreal, Marrakech, Copenhagen, Paris—to resolve that the world really ought come up with a plan Continue Reading
African Americans Face Higher Health Risks from Oil, Gas Pollution
A new report suggests that African Americans face disproportionate health risks than other races due to pollution from oil and gas. The health risks for African Americans caused by environmental Continue Reading