The evidence is overwhelming that natural gas has no net climate benefit in any timescale that matters to humanity. In fact, a shocking new study concludes that just the methane Continue Reading
A recent survey found 89% of just over 1,000 companies planned to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. More of the world’s biggest corporations are taking the fight against climate change into their Continue Reading
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said non-federal funds were displacing the U.S. government’s with the effort to address climate change. “The American government may have pulled out of Continue Reading
Planet Earth (NASA) In late 1992, 1,700 scientists from around the world issued a dire “ warning to humanity .” They said humans had pushed Earth’s ecosystems to their breaking Continue Reading
A thick cloud of toxic smog 10 times the recommended limit enveloped India’s capital, New Delhi, on Monday, as government officials struggled to tackle a public health crisis that is Continue Reading
Stronger Chinese economic growth will push global greenhouse gas emissions to a record high in 2017 after remaining flat for three years, dashing tentative hopes of a turning point in Continue Reading
A toxic cloud has descended on India’s capital, delaying flights and trains, causing coughs, headaches and even highway pileups, and prompting Indian officials on Wednesday to take the unprecedented step Continue Reading
The toxic haze blanketing New Delhi was so severe on Tuesday that politicians announced plans to close schools, flights were delayed and the chief minister of Delhi state said the Continue Reading
The average emissions emitted per individual driver in the United States is getting worse, a report Friday from the University of Michigan found. The Transportation Resource Institute at the university Continue Reading
In a recent interview with Fox News, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt claimed: “We are leading the nation — excuse me — the world with respect to our CO2 Continue Reading
Panic has gripped the Indian capital, Delhi, as residents woke up to a blanket of thick grey smog on Tuesday. Visibility is poor as pollution levels reached 30 times the Continue Reading
The global toll of chronic kidney disease (CKD) attributable to PM 2.5 pollution is significant, according to an analysis presented at ASN (American Society of Nephrology) Kidney Week. Benjamin Bowe, Continue Reading
Some of Europe’s largest energy companies have accused the EU of lacking ambition in the fight against climate change and urged more aggressive targets for growth in renewable power. The Continue Reading
The Trump administration released a dire scientific report Friday calling human activity the dominant driver of global warming, a conclusion at odds with White House decisions to withdraw from a Continue Reading
Directly contradicting much of the Trump administration’s position on climate change, 13 federal agencies unveiled an exhaustive scientific report on Friday that says humans are the dominant cause of the Continue Reading
After signing an agreement in New Delhi with a global solar alliance, the European bank for development said it moved closer to its green finance goals The European Bank for Continue Reading
A quarter of the world’s oil refineries risk closure by 2035 if governments meet targets to limit fossil fuel burning in the fight against global warming, a report released on Continue Reading
Senator Lisa Murkowski was unequivocal when asked recently about rising global temperatures. “Climate change is real,” the Alaska Republican told an audience in Anchorage. Yet her stance on drilling in Continue Reading
Southern California Edison, an operating unit of Edison International , plans Tuesday to release its vision for how the state can comply with a new law that requires greenhouse gas Continue Reading
Over 80 oil and gas pipeline companies will be exonerated of a lawsuit that claims damage to wetlands via the construction of canals in Louisiana after the Supreme Court decided Continue Reading
Emissions from human activities have levelled off but concentrations in the atmosphere continue to grow Concentrations of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere surged to a record high in 2016, according Continue Reading
Climate change significantly imperils public health globally, according to a new report that chronicles the many hazards and symptoms already being seen. The authors describe its manifestations as “unequivocal and Continue Reading
Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surged at a record-breaking speed in 2016 to the highest level in 800,000 years, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s Greenhouse Gas Bulletin Continue Reading
Renewable energy is gaining traction in the global market to the extent that the U.S. position on the Paris climate agreement doesn’t matter, Fitch Ratings said. The U.S. plan to Continue Reading
The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI)—the voluntary alliance of some of the biggest oil companies in the world— said on Friday that it had made its first three investments Continue Reading
Invisible disaster: Infrared images from the Environmental Defense Fund show a huge plume spewing from the ground. Two years ago today, the largest U.S. methane leak was discovered. The leak Continue Reading
A report from the non-partisan U.S. Government Accountability Office finds the U.S. may be facing significant economic strains due to climate change. A U.S. report found the costs associated with Continue Reading
The Narragansett Bay Estuary Program is funded through the E.P.A.’s approximately $26 million National Estuary Program. WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has canceled the speaking appearance of three agency Continue Reading
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has questioned whether human activity ranks as a main driver of global warming. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP) The Environmental Protection Agency has instructed two of its scientists Continue Reading
This is one of those essays that if read 100 years from now will be seen as either amazingly prophetic or yet another example of the misguided apocalyptic literature emerging Continue Reading
London’s £10 daily “ T-Charge ” (toxicity), aimed at the oldest, most polluting vehicles on London roads, is now in effect. The T Charge applies mainly to diesel and gasoline Continue Reading
75% of the flying insects on protected lands in Germany seem to have died over the past 27 years. Researchers aren’t sure what’s responsible for the decline, but say climate Continue Reading
« ICCT study finds GHGs from shipping on the rise | Main | Lancet Commission report estimates pollution responsible for 9 million premature deaths globally in 2015; 16% of deaths Continue Reading
Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world today, according to the newly released report detailing the adverse effects of pollution on global health Continue Reading
More than 9m people are killed annually by pollution, equivalent to one in six of all deaths across the world, according to a new study. A two-year project carried out Continue Reading
Much of the U.S. should expect another warm winter, but not quite as toasty as the last two years, forecasters said. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday forecast Continue Reading
Last week, the Interior Department sent a letter to Cadiz Inc. that the company long had hoped to receive. For years, the renewable resource company had been trying to build Continue Reading
Planting more forests and managing land use better could be the biggest natural climate solution, because nature could deliver more than 30 percent of the emissions reduction needed to curb Continue Reading
The world’s top trading houses, among the most nimble entities in oil, say even they aren’t sure how to stay a step ahead of a coming cut in shipping fuel Continue Reading
A wave of environmental inspections in China has led to the closure of tens of thousands of businesses producing commodities from industrial chemicals to cement and rubber, pushing up prices Continue Reading
Wildfires, fanned by high winds, threatened homes in Tustin, Calif., this week. Powerful, hot and dry winds like those that have fanned the deadly wildfires now raging in California are Continue Reading
It may cost less to invest in efforts to address climate change than to rebuild after major storms like Hurricane Maria, U.N. leaders write from Tehran. Photo by A1C Nicholas Continue Reading
Some of the biggest U.S. power companies said they are pushing ahead with investments in renewable and gas-fired electricity and are including climate change as a part of their corporate Continue Reading
The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday he would sign a proposed rule on Tuesday to begin withdrawing from the Clean Power Plan, former President Barack Continue Reading
The Trump administration announced Monday that it would take formal steps to repeal President Barack Obama’s signature policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, setting up a bitter Continue Reading
The consequences of a changing climate pose a threat to every single economy in the world, the head of the International Monetary Fund said from Massachusetts. An annual report from Continue Reading
The view from a helicopter flying over an area of eastern Puerto Rico on Oct. 5, 2017 where the power grid was severely damaged. “It looks like dental floss laying Continue Reading
Oil and natural gas operators began evacuating staff and halting production at U.S. Gulf of Mexico platforms on Thursday ahead of Tropical Storm Nate, the second storm in as many Continue Reading
Tropical Storm Nate has formed off of Nicaragua, threatening to inundate Central America, shut oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and damage cotton and citrus crops across Continue Reading
A tropical depression formed in the southern Caribbean Wednesday, with another Florida hurricane possible by the weekend. In their latest advisory, National Hurricane Center forecasters said the storm will move Continue Reading
