Hurricane Sam Could Make USA Landfall This Week
Hurricane Sam could still make landfall on the U.S. East Coast in the middle of this week. Hurricane Sam, though currently forecasted to be less intense than previous storms this Continue Reading
Why the World Started Fighting About Climate Change Every Year
As chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under President George H.W. Bush, William Reilly helped set in motion both global climate diplomacy and a critical law — the Clean Continue Reading
The Graphic Truth: Who’s driving global methane emissions?
Ahead of the 76th UN General Assembly, the US and the EU both agreed to cut methane emissions by at least 30 percent from 2020 levels by the end of Continue Reading
World’s Top Shale Oil Field Is Still Spewing Methane by the Ton
When researchers flew over an Energy Transfer LP facility in the Permian Basin of West Texas two months ago, a NASA-designed sensor on their airplane detected a colossal plume of Continue Reading
Flood Insurance Costs Are Set to Skyrocket for Some
Florida’s version of the American dream, which holds that even people of relatively modest means can aspire to live near the water, depends on a few crucial components: sugar white Continue Reading
UN Health Agency Sets Stricter Limits For Emissions Linked To Fossil Fuels
The United Nations agency, the World Health Organization (WHO), issued on Wednesday its first update on air quality guidelines in 15 years, lowering the recommended limits of emissions, including those Continue Reading
How Fast Will the Earth Heat? New Tool Provides Granular Estimates
An initiative called Probable Futures hopes its interactive maps showing how fast the Earth could heat will lead citizens and countries to ask questions about how climate change is transforming Continue Reading
Air pollution: Even worse than we thought – WHO
Reuters image captionAir pollution regularly exceeds recommended safe levels Air pollution is even more dangerous than previously thought, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, as it slashes maximum safe Continue Reading
Biden EPA finalizes its first climate rule, targeting hydrofluorocarbons – The Washington Post
The Biden administration will finalize its first new climate rule Thursday, slashing the use of greenhouse gases warming the planet at a rate hundreds to thousands of times higher than Continue Reading
What one city’s struggle to ban natural gas says about the challenge of electrifying buildings
This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. This project is produced Continue Reading