Behind China’s Rising Emissions Are Hundreds of Hidden Polluters
Curbing China’s output of greenhouse gas will do more than almost anything else at this point to decide the fate of the planet. That primacy comes from being, by far, Continue Reading
La Nina Threatens to Worsen Energy Crisis With Colder Winter
Lower than usual temperatures from China to Japan will add to power demand at a time of already tight supply and high prices. Bloomberg News Waves, whipped up by a Continue Reading
Rocky Mountain high: U.S. looks to Colorado for methane emissions policy
U.S. environmental regulators are expected to base new rules for controlling methane emissions from oil and gas operations on the nation-leading policies of a state that has been tamping down Continue Reading
5 reasons to be optimistic in the fight against climate change
It is perhaps unsurprising that you rarely see the words ‘climate change’ and ‘optimism’ in the same headline. The world’s forests, oceans and polar ice caps remain in peril, extreme Continue Reading
The Countries That Could Spoil Global Climate Negotiations
( Sign up for the Green Daily newsletter, your best source for climate news and insights on the latest in science, environmental impacts, zero-emission tech and green finance.) More than Continue Reading
U.S. Drought Forecast Signals Latest Threat to World Wheat
A forecast for a developing drought in the U.S. southern Plains is the latest threat to dwindling world wheat supplies. Hard red winter wheat, a bright spot this year compared Continue Reading
How to Stop 30 Years of Failing to Cut Emissions
Picking the precise moment when the world’s leaders had unmissable evidence of climate change is a matter for unsolvable debate, but there’s a strong case to be made for 1990. Continue Reading
Africa: Governments’ Fossil Fuel Production Plans Dangerously Out of Sync With Paris Limits
The 2021 Production Gap Report, by leading research institutes and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), finds that despite increased climate ambitions and net-zero commitments, governments still plan to produce more Continue Reading
White House, intelligence agencies, Pentagon issue reports warning climate change threatens global security – The Washington Post
As the United States and nations around the world struggle to blunt the effects of rising temperatures and extreme weather, sweeping assessments released Thursday by the White House, U.S. intelligence Continue Reading
Diversified Energy Said Emissions Fell. Now It Says They Didn’t
In April, Diversified Energy Co. told investors it had achieved a “marked improvement” in its environmental record: It had cut direct greenhouse gas emissions by 28% in a single year. Continue Reading