El Nino has helped produce an unusually mild autumn and start to winter across the United States, sharply cutting the demand for heating and worsening the glut in supplies of Continue Reading
Hidden beyond the current El Niño hype, solid evidence exists that the demise of the record-breaking event has already begun and that all traces of it will have vanished by Continue Reading
The early-morning sun meagerly brightened the gloom of this sad township, a collection of empty, crumbling houses along a highway through the dusty desert landscape in southeastern Iran . Until Continue Reading
The Chinese capital issued a “red alert” for air pollution on Friday morning, saying it was enacting for the second time the highest-level emergency pollution plan in advance of a Continue Reading
Authorities warned people in northern China of heavy incoming smog; Beijing issued second red alert starting Saturday China warned residents across a large part of northern China on Friday to Continue Reading
ExxonMobil is looking for a PhD engineer, scientist, or economist who can “lead research in areas such as Earth systems science and the role of technologies and systems in managing Continue Reading
Saving the world isn’t going to be cheap. If you sell oil, coal or old-fashioned cars, that threatens disaster. For makers of stuff like solar panels, high-tech home insulation, and Continue Reading
The landmark climate agreement that more than 190 countries struck over the weekend ushers in a broad, new international effort to wind down the fossil-fuel era. But as two weeks Continue Reading
The obstacles facing this weekend’s historic global climate change accord were thrown into relief on Sunday night when businesses and government officials downplayed the impact of the deal and US Continue Reading
It took almost two weeks for negotiators from 195 countries to finally pass the landmark climate accord this weekend after several espresso-fueled all-nighters and long, passionate debates over the meaning Continue Reading
Before the applause had even settled in the suburban convention center where the Paris Agreement was adopted by consensus on Saturday night, world leaders warned that momentum from the historic Continue Reading
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) PARIS — The proposed accord was just hours from a final vote when the Continue Reading
The puddle under the slide at the Tam Hung Kindergarten is inky black. A security guard says the staff has to sweep coal dust off the playground every morning. Parents Continue Reading
A group of climate scientists said Friday that the latest draft for an international deal to tackle global warming showed serious inconsistencies and would require much deeper cuts to emissions Continue Reading
Bringing tens of thousands of people together in one place at the same time to discuss the future of the planet emits a lot of carbon. Organizers of the climate Continue Reading
The 195 nations participating in climate talks here will be handed what officials said will be the final draft of the deal to tackle global warming later Saturday. They will Continue Reading
While world leaders are making last-ditch efforts Saturday to seal a powerful accord in Paris, China is assuring the world of its great resolution in the global climate campaign with Continue Reading
The rapid growth in global carbon dioxide emissions over the last decade appears to have stalled, a new study says. Early estimates suggest that global emissions will decrease by 0.6% Continue Reading
Coal mining CEO Robert Murray looks at the Paris climate talks and sees nothing but a farce. A two-week parade of world leaders, scientists and corporate executives attesting to the Continue Reading
COP21 Climate Deal: Draft Final Agreement Delayed United Nations climate talks enter their originally-scheduled final day on Friday with envoys divided over the obligations placed on rich and poor countries, Continue Reading
As diplomats here work through the final points of a sweeping new climate change accord, experts said the ultimate measure of success of the agreement will be whether it sends Continue Reading
The Chinese capital endured another day under an air quality “red alert” on Wednesday, with schools still closed, half of all cars kept off the roads and factories shut. But Continue Reading
Diesel is the cheapest versus gasoline for this time of year in at least a decade as inventories surge and mild temperatures reduce heating demand. Ultra low sulfur diesel on Continue Reading
Under a fingernail moon at Sassoon Docks, Parumati Mangela, a fisherwoman, sat on her haunches, grimacing. Something strange is happening over the Arabian Sea, she said: “The sky is getting Continue Reading
The US has unexpectedly joined a large group of countries trying to isolate China and India in the tense home stretch of UN talks in Paris on a new global Continue Reading
Under a fingernail moon at Sassoon Docks, Parumati Mangela, a fisherwoman, sat on her haunches, grimacing. Something strange is happening over the Arabian Sea, she said: “The sky is getting Continue Reading
Last week, China was trumpeting its arrival as one of the world’s great economic powers, as the International Monetary Fund elevated the renminbi to the ranks of leading currencies , Continue Reading
Enlarge This article was originally published by At some point in the history of all scientific theories, only a minority of scientists—or even just one—supported them, before evidence accumulated to Continue Reading
When Bill Gates arrived at the Élysée Palace to meet the French president François Hollande and other officials in June, he brought a message. Mr. Gates told Mr. Hollande that Continue Reading
Families in Beijing waited anxiously on Monday evening to hear whether schools would shut the next day, posing sudden child-care challenges, after the city issued its first-ever red alert for Continue Reading
Believe it or not, the air quality in the Chinese capital is actually improving. Just not very fast. On Monday, the Beijing municipal government issued its first “red alert” for Continue Reading
Chinese negotiators traveled to climate talks in Paris this month with a rare trailing wind: the country’s slowing growth. China is the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, and images Continue Reading
Global emissions of carbon dioxide are likely to stall and even decline slightly this year, new data suggests. Researchers say it is the first time this has happened while the Continue Reading
As United Nations climate conferees meet near here, Eric Feunteun wishes everyone could agree: If the world is going to curb climate change, there is no choice but to stop Continue Reading
Extreme weather events scuttling harvests. Skyrocketing food prices causing famine for millions and driving multitudes into poverty. Governments toppling – again – in Pakistan and Ukraine. Massive floods driving millions Continue Reading
Chinese Environment Minister Chen Jining vowed on Sunday to strictly punish agencies or personnel who fail to initiate emergency response plan in a timely manner as heavy smog is predicted Continue Reading
Hundreds of environmentalists arrange their bodies to form a message of hope and peace in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, December 6, 2015, as the World Climate Continue Reading
The international climate change negotiations entering their second and final week encompass a vast and complicated array of political, economic and legal questions. But at bottom, the talks boil down Continue Reading
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While hopes for a reversal in oil prices may have faded just after mid-August when U.S. crude oil futures slipped to a six-and-a half year low , the battered petroleum Continue Reading
The Indian state of Tamil Nadu has seen its heaviest rainfall in over a century, driving thousands from their homes, shutting auto factories and paralyzing the airport in the state Continue Reading
The dean at the journalism school at Columbia University defended the integrity of reporters investigating what Exxon Mobil scientists knew about climate change. Journalism graduate students at Columbia started their Continue Reading
Chinese authorities have ordered some 2,100 highly polluting factories to shut down in attempt to ease the hazardous levels of smog currently chocking parts of the country, AFP reported Dec. Continue Reading
A cartoon circulating on Twitter carries a warning for the oil industry. There’s Joe Camel, retired tobacco spokes-animal, suave as ever in a tuxedo, cigarette dangling from his smiling snout. Continue Reading
The Republican-controlled House Tuesday approved a pair of measures blocking federal rules to cut power-plant emissions , a symbolic move aimed at sowing doubt about President Barack Obama’s climate agenda Continue Reading
Ukraine’s 2016 wheat crop is now sailing into uncharted waters given both the significantly missed planting target and a record percentage of crops in poor condition. Ukraine, the world’s sixth-largest Continue Reading
(Michelle Patron writer is a former energy and climate advisor to President Barack Obama. The opinions expressed here are those of the author.) Over the next two weeks countries from Continue Reading
President Barack Obama pledged Tuesday to support small island nations threatened by climate change, saying that efforts to stem global warming cannot serve only the interests of the most powerful. Continue Reading
The small island nations that dot the Pacific are aware they exist on the periphery of many geopolitical calculations. They are also among those most at risk of being flooded Continue Reading
Heads of state and big-name billionaires opened the Paris climate summit with a bang on Monday, promising billions of dollars to develop new green technology to solve a key sticking Continue Reading
