This implies that Africa awaits major crisis unless governments become unified in giving priority to water security management and sanitation. Almost 98 per cent of the affected people live in Continue Reading
Rising sea levels due to hurricanes and tidal flooding intensified by climate change will put military bases along the U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast at risk, according to a Continue Reading
The world is on track for its hottest year on record and levels of carbon dioxide have reached new highs, further fuelling global warming, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Continue Reading
Republican Donald Trump’s selection of Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate cheered the U.S. energy industry and dismayed green advocates, with both sides citing Pence’s support for coal Continue Reading
Shale-rich Oklahoma experienced more than a dozen seismic events in the five days ending Friday, data from the U.S. Geological Survey show. A magnitude-2.7 tremor was reported shortly after midnight Continue Reading
Stopping an earthquake before it starts? It sounds like a feat possible only for a superhero. But in Kansas and Oklahoma state policymakers are showing that insofar as humans are Continue Reading
Energy companies in Colorado are spending millions of dollars to derail a push by environmentalists to put measures on November’s ballot that would stifle oil and gas drilling in the Continue Reading
Theresa May’s decision to abolish the department of energy and climate change in Thursday’s ministerial reshuffle has provoked angry criticism from environmental groups and some MPs. “It sends a terrible Continue Reading
Call it a tit for tat over subpoenas, one that escalates an ongoing spat over what the biggest U.S. oil company knew and when it knew it. House Science, Space Continue Reading
When politicians talk of climate “uncertainty,” they’re often casting doubt on things that are well understood: Warming is happening, and humans are responsible. When scientists talk about climate uncertainty, they’re Continue Reading
Stalled projects and underperforming plants have hampered China’s desalination plans. The site of a seawater desalination plant that could provide up to one-third of the water consumed by Beijing’s households Continue Reading
Geography, climate worsen haze across the Indo-Gangetic plain Cities such as New Delhi being left to battle to clean air The mega-city of New Delhi has tried everything from banning Continue Reading
In recent weeks, the number of earthquakes felt in Oklahoma has decreased compared with this time last year, which might reflect measures state officials took earlier this year to severely Continue Reading
The number of earthquakes in Oklahoma has fallen 25% in 2016 compared with a year earlier, a decline attributed in part to actions by state regulators to police the oil Continue Reading
Fossil fuel-producing companies have been thrown onto the defensive over the last two years by the argument that many of their reserves will be “stranded” as the world transitions to Continue Reading
Exxon’s official position has long been the same—a carbon tax is the best way to… Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM 1.70 % is ramping up its lobbying of other energy companies Continue Reading
A sobering report released on Monday by the International Energy Agency says air pollution has become a major public health crisis leading to around 6.5 million deaths each year, with Continue Reading
The departure of the EU’s second-largest economy could have unsettling implications for the Paris climate accord. U.K. voters’ decision to exit the European Union sent shock waves through world markets Continue Reading
Bank financing of fossil fuel and mining projects is “undermining” the recently signed Paris climate accord. This is according to “$horting the Climate: Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2016” issued by Continue Reading
The implications of the global water footprint of energy generation are phenomenal, writes Gary Bilotta of the University of Brighton. He warns that i f policy makers fail to take Continue Reading
Guys, today I wanted to write about kittens and string. No wait, I wanted to write about global warming and peak oil. Sorry, this is what Twitter has done to Continue Reading
If you reside on the west coast, you are living on borrowed time. As you will see below, stress has been building up along the San Andreas fault for more Continue Reading
A wave of recent reports from China make it clear that the country is now facing a water crisis of massive proportions. As Jules Suzdaltsev explains in today’s Seeker Daily Continue Reading
Volkswagen AG’s ( VOWG_p.DE ) diesel emissions settlement with U.S. regulators is valued at nearly $10.3 billion, a source briefed on the agreement said on Thursday. The settlement includes offers Continue Reading
California will have its first test of plans to keep the lights on this summer following the shutdown of the key Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility as temperatures in Continue Reading
A magnitude-3.7 earthquake hit central Oklahoma early Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported after several similar small tremors rocked the oil-rich state last week. The USGS recorded the tremor near Continue Reading
If the demographic projections by the United Nations will turn out to be true, the world population should reach over 11 billion people by 2100 . Some think that it Continue Reading
My years of research for I’m Right, You’re an Idiot , as well as decades of experience in public relations, have persuaded me that we humans have a fickle relationship Continue Reading
“The end results are definite and dire, that much is known.” 7,827 PEOPLE DIED TODAY. Men, women, children, and all religions alike. It was avoidable, it was unnecessary, and the Continue Reading
Image caption UN scientists predict that Iraq could witness 300 dust events in a year within 10 years, The Middle East has been the worst hit by significant rise in Continue Reading
Some of the nation’s most influential environmental groups are softening their longstanding opposition to nuclear power, marking a significant shift in the antinuclear movement as environmentalists’ priority shifts to climate Continue Reading
Back in the late 1980s, the air got so dirty in Mexico City that birds would emit a final chirp before they tumbled from the trees onto the sidewalk, their Continue Reading
Electric Car In an effort to make good on a pledge to cut its carbon output anywhere from 80 percent to 95 percent by 2050, Germany is mandating that new Continue Reading
Wind Turbines For all of the discussion around the dangers of climate change, one issue is often forgotten – the cost of fixing the problem. Cutting carbon emissions enough to Continue Reading
The Supreme Court on Monday left intact a key Obama administration environmental regulation, refusing to take up an appeal from 20 states to block rules that limit the emissions of Continue Reading
At first, Nielle and Howard Hawkwood, who have ranched in Alberta’s foothills for 40 years, couldn’t believe the ”in-your-face industrialization” that accompanied the horizontal drilling and fracking of tight oil Continue Reading
NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. (NOAA via AP) Scientists who measure and forecast the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere said Monday that we may have passed a Continue Reading
Crude oil storage tanks are seen from above at the Cushing oil hub, appearing to run out of space to contain a historic supply glut that has hammered prices, in Continue Reading
The Secretary of Iran Urban Economics Scientific Association (IUESA) Seyed Mohsen Tabatabaei made the remarks noting that that global demand for water follows extremely urbanization growth. he underlined that water Continue Reading
Donald Trump’s promise to gut U.S. environmental regulations and revive the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline if elected president is a nightmare for green groups, but it may be a Continue Reading
Rice is a major crop, feeding almost 50 percent of the world’s population and has retained the ability to survive in changing environmental conditions. The crop is able to thrive Continue Reading
More than 450 groups on Monday called on Congress to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) if it comes up for a vote this fall, saying the trade deal would allow Continue Reading
Four minor earthquakes were reported in and around the shale reserve basins in Oklahoma in the last 24 hours, the U.S. Geological Survey found. The USGS recorded three minor tremors, Continue Reading
Photo An idled West Virginia coal facility. Officials fear bankrupt coal companies are not setting aside enough to clean up Appalachia’s polluted rivers and mountains. Regulators are wrangling with bankrupt Continue Reading
As an environmental group prepares to sue the state of Michigan over its anti-fracking effort, the state chamber of commerce said it beat the “fringe” effort. The Committee to Ban Continue Reading
A nun from an influential interfaith coalition with U.S. $100 billion in assets that include a stake in ExxonMobil is pushing for change, but the supermajor isn’t bowing to anyone Continue Reading
In Cherry Point, Wash., an $850 million coal-export terminal was rejected in May. The site’s… Many major fossil-fuel projects across the U.S., from pipelines to export terminals, have been shelved Continue Reading
In backing Hillary Clinton for president, a major environmental advocacy group said Tuesday a vote for Donald Trump would set the climate fight back 100 years. For the first time Continue Reading
Climate change deniers like to style themselves as latter-day Copernicuses and Galileos , lone visionaries bucking the established wisdom of the ages embodied back then in the teachings of the Continue Reading
Shareholders in ExxonMobil have backed a resolution calling for investors to have greater powers to nominate board members, as the oil company faces growing pressure over its position on climate Continue Reading
