Beijing’s education authorities have said the city will accelerate the installation of air purifiers in schools and kindergartens to protect student health on polluted days. The municipal education commission of Continue Reading
The top weather story of 2016: Earth had its warmest year on record (again!) While the final numbers are not officially tabulated, 2016 appears certain to be the warmest year Continue Reading
An enormous rift in one of Antarctica’s largest ice shelves grew dramatically over the past month, and a chunk nearly the size of Delaware could break away as soon as Continue Reading
A huge iceberg, a quarter the size of Wales, is poised to break off from the Larsen C ice shelf An iceberg expected to be one of the 10 largest Continue Reading
With Donald J. Trump about to take control of the White House, it would seem a dark time for the renewable energy industry. After all, Mr. Trump has mocked the Continue Reading
Shallow water after dry weather in December continues to prevent cargo vessels from sailing fully loaded on the Rhine and Danube rivers in Germany, traders said on Monday. All of Continue Reading
Exxon Mobil CEO and U.S. secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson should testify before the inauguration on his climate change knowledge, lawyers said. Lawyers representing more than a dozen U.S. Continue Reading
Foreign governments concerned about climate change may soon be spending more time dealing with Sacramento than Washington. President-elect Donald J. Trump has packed his cabinet with nominees who dispute the Continue Reading
Fire is at the root of our climate problems and it is time we put it out, writes Walt Patterson , Associate Fellow at Chatham House. “We need to switch Continue Reading
China’s National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center on Monday issued a yellow alert for ocean waves brought by Typhoon Nock-Ten and a cold front. Starting early morning on Tuesday, Nock-Ten, the Continue Reading
China’s crackdown on exhaust-spewing factories that shut or slashed output this week at sites including steel mills, textile and cement factories and coal-fired power plants will ripple across major bulk Continue Reading
China’s crackdown on exhaust-spewing factories that shut or slashed output this week at sites including steel mills, textile and cement factories and coal-fired power plants will ripple across major bulk Continue Reading
Temperature difference from normal as analyzed by GFS model on Dec. 22. (University of Maine Climate Reanalyzer) (This story has been been updated.) Santa may need water skis instead of Continue Reading
A model of the behaviour of carbon in the atmosphere. Credit: NASA. NASA, the US space agency, has released an “eye-popping” three-dimensional animation showing carbon dioxide emissions moving through the Continue Reading
Will climate change spark a financial crisis? It may not seem like an obvious connection but that was exactly the warning from the deputy head of the Bank of England Continue Reading
GFS model simulation of temperature difference from normal Thursday. (WeatherBell.com) It’s not normal, and it’s happening again. For the second year in a row in late December and for the Continue Reading
It’s Christmastime on Oxford Street. Brilliant displays of white lights rain from above. Decked-out shoppers dash from one gaudy sale to the next. And Johnny Conquest breathes in poison. “The Continue Reading
Air pollution worsened on Monday in many parts of northern China, with poor visibility disrupting air and ground traffic. Tianjin airport said that from 8:30 p.m. Sunday to 10 a.m. Continue Reading
The Interior Department on Monday issued a rule putting tighter restrictions on coal mining near streams, one of several environmental rules President-elect Donald Trump has targeted to undo once he Continue Reading
Air pollution worsened on Monday in many parts of northern China, with poor visibility disrupting air and ground traffic. Tianjin airport said that from 8:30 p.m. Sunday to 10 a.m. Continue Reading
Beijing’s city government has ordered 1,200 factories near the Chinese capital, including an oil refinery run by state oil major Sinopec and a Cofco food plant, to either shut or Continue Reading
The chief architect of President Barack Obama’s climate change policies has warned the incoming Trump administration that US law and the scientific evidence of global warming will constrain any attempt Continue Reading
Three years and three months later, a massive oil spill in North Dakota still isn’t fully cleaned up. The company responsible hasn’t even set a date for completion. Though crews Continue Reading
Scientists at institutions in the United States and Australia on Friday published a set of unprecedented ocean observations near the largest glacier of the largest ice sheet in the world: Continue Reading
Officials in two dozen states are asking President-elect Donald Trump to issue an executive order on his first day in office declaring as illegal President Barack Obama’s plan to curb Continue Reading
Trump once claimed the concept of global warming was invented by China Canadian “guerrilla” archivists will be assisting a rushed effort to preserve US government climate data. Environmentalists, climate scientists Continue Reading
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team on Wednesday disavowed a survey sent to the U.S. Department of Energy that requested the names of people working on climate change in the agency. Continue Reading
The U.S. Energy Department said on Tuesday it will not comply with a request from President-elect Donald Trump’s Energy Department transition team for the names of people who have worked Continue Reading
Fracking can affect drinking water supplies in certain circumstances, the Obama administration said in a long-awaited report issued Tuesday, leaving open the possibility of more widespread impacts that it says Continue Reading
Atop the ice sheet covering the Arctic island of Greenland, you now see dramatic melting in the summer. It forms lakes, rivers and even dangerous “moulins” in the ice where Continue Reading
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during an election night rally on Nov. 9 in New York. (Evan Vucci/AP) President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday that “nobody really knows” whether climate change is Continue Reading
The arrival of colder temperatures this week across much of America is just the beginning of what will likely be an unusually frigid December. With help from the Arctic, the Continue Reading
President-elect Donald Trump’s Energy Department transition team sent the agency a memo this week asking for the names of people who have worked on climate change and the professional society Continue Reading
President-elect Donald J. Trump ’s transition team has circulated an unusual 74-point questionnaire at the Department of Energy that requests the names of all employees and contractors who have attended Continue Reading
In one of the more unexpected visits to take place to the penthouse at the Trump Tower on Wednesday, Leonardo DiCaprio and the head of his foundation met with President-elect Continue Reading
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday chose Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a transition official, turning to a climate-change skeptic and sharp critic Continue Reading
President-elect signals intent to undo Obama efforts at curbing greenhouse emissions Donald Trump has signalled his intent to undo Barack Obama’s efforts to curb climate change by choosing as his Continue Reading
President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general and a close ally of the fossil fuel industry, to run the Environmental Protection Agency , signaling Mr. Continue Reading
Norwegian energy company Statoil said the fight against climate change depends in large part on how oil and gas companies conduct business. “In a low-carbon future, we need oil and Continue Reading
Ivanka Trump waves as former Vice President Al Gore, left, leaves meetings at Trump Tower… President-elect Donald Trump’s children are urging him to seize on environmental conservation as a potentially Continue Reading
A major issue in climate economics is whether it is possible to halt the growth in carbon emissions and to achieve, instead, a rapid reduction. It concludes that carbon emissions Continue Reading
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its initial draft plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most ambitious target in North America. The Continue Reading
The tendency to justify the system may interfere with a clear evaluation of environmentally damaging aspects of the socioeconomic status quo and prevent a person from becoming dissatisfied and from Continue Reading
Royal Dutch Shell expects to pump out all the fossil fuel reserves listed on its balance sheet, its chief executive said, dismissing concerns that production limits in the wake of Continue Reading
Real estate agents looking to sell coastal properties usually focus on one thing: how close the home is to the water’s edge. But buyers are increasingly asking instead how far Continue Reading
In the dense smog that engulfed India ’s capital early this month, a baby named Vaishnavi gasped through the night. Inside the concrete room that her father and mother rent Continue Reading
President-elect Donald Trump announced in a video posted to YouTube November 21 that he planned to roll back some Obama administration regulations on the energy sector on his first day Continue Reading
Marnie Winter remembers seeing the oil spread through the waters of Barataria Bay in southeastern Louisiana. It was 2010, just a few weeks after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon Continue Reading
Scientists are struggling to understand why a burst of “scary” warming at the North Pole has pushed Arctic temperatures nearly 20C higher than normal for this time of year. Experts Continue Reading
You can Google this one. Just the way I did. Keywords ‘World Population’. The world population as of October 2016 is estimated at 7.4 billion. And the UN estimates it Continue Reading
