People brave the winds of Typhoon Mangkhut in Hong Kong, China, Sept. 16, 2018. Released Monday, the latest report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change— Climate Change 2022: Continue Reading
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM.N) on Tuesday said it plans a hydrogen production plant and a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at its Baytown refinery near Houston, Texas, an effort Continue Reading
California’s snowpack has shrunk to about two-thirds of normal, as the state’s relentless drought produced the driest January and February on record and raised the likelihood of more wildfires and Continue Reading
The breakneck speed of global warming exceeds the pace of efforts to protect billions of vulnerable people, according to a new report released Monday by the world’s top climate scientists. The report Continue Reading
The dangers of climate change are mounting so rapidly that they could soon overwhelm the ability of both nature and humanity to adapt, creating a harrowing future in which floods, Continue Reading
Highlights 1.5 C rise would lead to ‘severe’ risks 3.6 billion people at risk of climate effects ‘Uniquely challenging’ geopolitics: Platts Analytics Human-caused climate change has already led to irreversible Continue Reading
For climate scientists reviewing a Pacific Ocean temperature forecast map in November, a bright red, sideways “V”, thousands of kilometers long signaled disaster. Combined with La Nina cooling in the Continue Reading
The dangers of climate change are mounting so rapidly that they could soon overwhelm the ability of both nature and humanity to adapt unless greenhouse gas emissions are quickly reduced, Continue Reading
In the most important environmental case in more than a decade, the Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments in a dispute that could restrict or even eliminate the Environmental Continue Reading
In the coal fields of eastern Montana, climate change is forcing a stark choice: halt mining that helped build everything from schools to senior centers or risk astronomical future damage Continue Reading
Wildfire season has lengthened to nearly year-round Southern California major fires have decreased Dry start to 2022 increasing drought outlook The lack of moisture at the start of the year Continue Reading
More than 126,000 commercial buildings in London are at risk from flash flooding. Climate change will heighten that threat. Those are the findings of a new study by Zurich Insurance Continue Reading
Emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane coming from the global energy sector are 70% higher than officially reported, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday, with the coal Continue Reading
The Antarctic ice sheet has shrunk to the smallest surface area on record in another sign that the accelerating pace of climate change is hitting some of the coldest regions Continue Reading
A landmark United Nations report has concluded that the risk of devastating wildfires around the world will surge in coming decades as climate change further intensifies what the report described Continue Reading
A shepherd tends to his flock of goats grazing in Egypt. Global warming is a huge issue for the country, where agriculture provides a large share of jobs. If COP26 Continue Reading
Climate change is seen as a bigger threat than war by a majority of people living in some of the world’s top economies, according to new data being presented to Continue Reading
The Big Air Shougang, venue for the freestyle skiing and snowboard events for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Beijing Winter Olympics’ claim to “carbon neutrality” is Continue Reading
The Colorado pikeminnow was once a prized catch. The toothless, torpedo-shaped fish had dark, tender, flavorful meat and came in absurdly large sizes, especially for a minnow. In the early Continue Reading
A trillion here, a trillion there: The headline figure in the latest analysis of the costs of achieving net-zero emissions, from McKinsey & Co., is a staggering $9.2 trillion a Continue Reading
Plans touted by the chief executives of the world’s biggest companies will only lead to a 40% reduction in average carbon emissions by mid-century, falling far short of the net-zero Continue Reading
The world’s shrinking glaciers contain less ice than previously estimated, according to a ground-breaking study that highlights a future of tight water supplies as climate change accelerates. Scientists for the first time measured the Continue Reading
Air pollution costs the Middle East and North Africa about $141 billion a year, or 2% of economic output, according to a World Bank report which urged nations to reform Continue Reading
Glaciers in the Andes shouldn’t be free of snow so early this time of year, but some are now bare. Warm conditions in January, including a scorching heat wave with Continue Reading
A dead giant sequoia tree after the Castle Fire in Sequoia National Forest, California. What do Unilever Plc , Alphabet Inc. ’s Google and Amazon.com Inc. have in common? Their Continue Reading
At a groundwater cleanup facility in Los Angeles, water will pass through tanks that remove any remaining hydrogen peroxide, producing water that is safe to drink. L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Continue Reading
If the world is going to make a dent in emissions of methane, a potent planet-warming gas, targeting the largest emitters would likely be the most cost-effective. But there’s a Continue Reading
A growing constellation of methane-detecting satellites is giving researchers new and disturbing insights into “super emitters” around the globe — from pipelines in Russia to North America’s oil fields. But Continue Reading
University of Delaware engineers have demonstrated an effective way to capture 99% of carbon dioxide from the ambient air feed to an hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cell (HEMFC) air using Continue Reading
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University ’s $53 billion endowment said it’s increasing investments in “climate solutions,” while still maintaining less than 2% of assets with indirect exposure to Continue Reading
Saturday’s tremendous coastal storm pushed a band of heavy snow into southern New England, burying cities under a snowpack up to two feet deep. These near-record snowfall totals continue an astonishing Continue Reading
A Massachusetts-based startup that captures carbon dioxide directly from the air has raised $80 million from investors, including Bill Gates-led Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Founded in 2019, Verdox Inc.’s technology is Continue Reading
The White House on Monday announced new steps to help curb emissions of methane, saying it will send $1.15 billion to states to clean up thousands of orphaned oil and Continue Reading
Gas stoves may find themselves the next target of climate activists after a study published by the American Chemical Society highlighted methane leaks that occurred while the stoves were not Continue Reading
Tight supply and rising demand lifted weekly margins across the globe with US Atlantic Coast margins showing the impact of the massive cold front and storm which swept in over Continue Reading
Highlights Cash Algonquin, city-gates surges to nearly $28/MMBtu Mass Hub weekend on-peak jumped $35 to $199/MWh ISO New England peakload forecast to reach to 19,500 MW Jan. 29 Spot natural Continue Reading
A potent cloud of the planet-warming greenhouse gas methane was spotted by satellite earlier this month near natural gas pipelines in Iowa. A potent cloud of the planet-warming greenhouse gas Continue Reading
A powerful cloud of planet-warming methane was spotted earlier this month in Oklahoma near multiple pipelines and oil and gas wells. State and federal regulators said they couldn’t identify the Continue Reading
ExxonMobil, which has been under pressure to slash its carbon footprint, has committed to net zero greenhouse gas emissions from its operations by 2050. In a report released Tuesday, the oil giant Continue Reading
As companies rush to set climate goals, some aren’t even getting the basics quite right when it comes to accounting for greenhouse-gas emissions. That’s what researchers in Ireland, the U.K., Continue Reading
Source: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies New data from the U.S. government’s temperature takers just ranked 2021 as the sixth-hottest year, near the very top of a list that Continue Reading
The Southern Hemisphere may have just matched its hottest temperature on record Thursday. A station in Onslow, a small coastal town in Western Australia, registered a sweltering 123.3 degrees (50.7 Continue Reading
The Chinese capital Beijing met state air quality standards for the first time last year, officials said on Tuesday, a milestone lauded by experts, who also warned that pollution remained Continue Reading
Proved oil reserves in the United States slipped 19% over the course of 2020, from 44.2 billion barrels to 35.8 billion barrels, according to fresh data from the Energy Information Continue Reading
Northeast spot gas prices soar in Jan. 13 trading Midwest spot gas prices register a tepid response Another arctic cold front was forecast to push south from Canada into the Continue Reading
The pace of rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere needs to slow by about 20% over the next five years in order to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius Continue Reading
A substantial rise in atmospheric methane levels helped push global temperatures in 2021 towards the highest ever recorded, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. A new report released Continue Reading
The warmth of the world’s oceans hit a record. Again. A new analysis, published Tuesday in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, showed that oceans contained the most heat energy in Continue Reading
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions rose by 6.2% from 2020 levels last year as the use of coal-fired electricity jumped 17% and drivers returned to the roads after the first year Continue Reading
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions roared back in 2021, the latest indicator that the country remains far off track from meeting President Biden’s ambitious climate change targets for the end of Continue Reading
