Climate groups criticise nine-year agreement with Tamboran Resources, while chief minister says it will provide ‘competitively priced gas’ for the territory Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The Northern Territory government has signed a major deal to buy fracked gas from the Beetaloo basin south of Katherine a year after it gave the green light for production in the region. The chief minister, Eva Lawler, said the government was “backing the growth of the territory’s onshore gas industry” and had signed a nine-year gas sales agreement with the US company Tamboran Resources. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup ...
China’s coal consumption - the world’s biggest - may see a minor uptick in the next two years.
GENEVA - Asia was the world's most disaster-hit region by climate related hazards last year, the United Nations' (UN) World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, with floods and storms causing the highest number of casualties.
President Joe Biden on Monday announced $7 billion in federal grants to supply more than 900,000 low- and moderate-income homes with residential solar power.
[The Conversation Africa] Tree planting is one of the nature-based solutions being used to offset greenhouse gas emissions. Trees absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide. Many of these tree planting projects target Africa's rangelands (open grasslands or shrublands used by livestock and wild animals).
Media release | Ipsos, one of the world’s leading market research companies, has released a 33-country study as part of Earth Day, looking at how attitudes to climate change are changing.
The Advisory Council on the Environment has unanimously endorsed the environmental impact assessment report on the San Tin Technopole with eight conditions.
These include excessive heat, UV radiation, air pollution, vector-borne diseases and agrochemicals.
Did Neanderthals wear clothing, jewelry or other accessories? There's not much in the archaeological record to suggest so, but researchers are turning to indirect evidence for clues about ancient fashion styles.
[Ethiopian Herald] Bayan Tesema, a resident of Diredawa City, has earned a nickname that resonates with his remarkable achievements: "The Green Man." Through his tireless dedication to reforestation and environmental conservation he has transformed two hectares of once degraded land into a captivating forest, earning him admiration and recognition within the community.
Landfills are producing more methane than we realised, according to a new study
Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ever come back.
In 1898, the crew of the first scientific expedition to Antarctica became trapped inside sea ice around the southernmost continent. Much of that once thick ice is dwindling, says polar researcher Edward Doddridge.
MOSCOW - Russia said on Monday that U.S., British and French military support for Ukraine has pushed the world to the brink of a direct clash between the world's biggest nuclear powers that could end in catastrophe.
The chilly weather is due to continue with temperatures around three to six degrees below the average for late April and could drop as low as 3C overnight.
As electricity prices go negative, the Golden State is struggling to offload a glut of solar power.
AustralianSuper says it has ‘ongoing concerns’ about how the country’s biggest oil and gas company will reach net zero emissions by 2050 Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s biggest superannuation fund has joined a protest vote against Woodside Energy’s failure to do more to address the climate crisis, saying it has unanswered questions about the fossil fuel company’s plans. AustralianSuper said it had spent “a lot of time reviewing and engaging” with Woodside on its climate transition plan before the company’s annual general meeting on Wednesday, and still had “ongoing concerns” about how it would reach net zero emissions by 2050. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news...
LUXEMBOURG - The European Union's next package of sanctions should include steps against a shadow fleet of tankers moving Russian oil to circumvent sanctions, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
Weather events in China have become more intense and unpredictable because of global warming.
CNN — The world’s oceans, lakes and rivers are under mounting pressure from climate change, growing demand, urbanization, and pollution, threatening their ability to sustain life. Without better data to understand the health of increasingly stressed waterways, the fight to save these most precious of resources will be ineffective, says Simeon Pieterkosky, co-founder of the … The post These supersized clownfish robots could be coming to waterways in the Middle East appeared first on Egypt Independent.
State officials unveiled 81 targets to transform millions of acres in the Golden State into landscapes that can absorb more carbon than they release by 2045.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in neighbouring Iraq on Monday for his first state visit there in years, with water, oil and regional security issues topping their agenda.
The president heads to a Virginia national park Monday as the White House plans a slew of election-year climate and conservation announcements.
SINGAPORE - Oil that is more sulphurous and dense is gaining popularity in the Asian physical market in a rare shift away from the usual pattern as global crude flows change and rewards from refining move in its favour.
Climate change shocks caused record levels of disruption and misery for millions in Europe in 2023 with widespread flooding and severe heatwaves – a new normal which countries must adapt to as a priority, the UN weather agency said on Monday.
[Daily Trust] In 2023, there was an oil spill in Uzere, in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, which spread into farmlands and fishing ponds of Uzere.
JWST's surprise discovery of methane emissions and likely aurorae over a distant brown dwarf could indicate this "failed star" is orbited by an active moon.
Heat was singled out by two climate agencies as the biggest climate-related threat.
Giant sun shades, 40-foot-tall air filters, stratospheric sulfur injections: Here are some of the wild and wondrous ways we might save the planet.
Ships burn some of the dirtiest fuels and generate 3 percent of global emissions. Mechanical sails could help solve their environmental problem.
Kaveh Zahedi is the Director of the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
North America's 2021 fire season, including massive Northern California blazes, was made worse by a supercharged heat dome. What did the supercharging? Climate change.
On this Earth Day, we reflect on the importance of protecting our planet for future generations. Understanding the Earth system and the complex interactions that shape our planet is paramount for addressing environmental challenges, mitigating climate change, preparing for natural disasters, managing resources sustainably and conserving biodiversity.Each component of the Earth system – from the atmosphere and oceans to land surfaces and ice sheets – influences and interacts with one another in complex ways. ESA works all-year round to provide satellite data to monitor the health of our planet. Here are 10 examples of how Earth’s systems intertwine and how satellite measurements are key to understanding these complex processes.
Anticyclonic conditions have allowed temperatures to reach 35-45C across much of the country Mexico has been undergoing its first heatwave of the season. The heatwave started on Sunday 14 April, when Mexico City recorded a new date record with a high of 32.9C, surpassing the previous record of 32C from 1998. Anticyclonic conditions over the region have been responsible for this heatwave by inhibiting cloud formation, allowing temperatures to rise significantly. These conditions persisted through much of last week, allowing temperatures to reach 35-45C across much of the country. Continue reading...
Lead battery recycling is a crucial but dirty business. As a plant outside Los Angeles seeks to renew its operating permit, the community pushes back.
Hong Kong CNN — Heavy rains hammered southern China on the weekend, flooding homes, streets and farmland and threatening to upend the lives of tens of millions of people as rescuers rushed to evacuate residents trapped by rising waters. Days of rainstorms have lashed Guangdong province, an economic powerhouse home to 127 million people, bringing widespread … The post Massive floods threaten tens of millions as intense rains batter southern China appeared first on Egypt Independent.
President Joe Biden will announce $7 billion from the Environmental Protection Agency's Solar for All grant competition along with the first jobs climate-related positions at ClimateCorps.gov.
Once-in-a-century rains are wreaking havoc in the manufacturing powerhouse of Guangdong. Floods and landslides are expected, and schools have been closed.
Questions about the wording of a fire code have safety advocates calling for stricter and clearer rules on liquefied natural gas.
The president will spend the week touting climate policies to young voters, while EPA will finalize four final Clean Air Act rules.
The United Arab Emirates was slammed last week by its heaviest downpour since records began in 1949.
[New Zimbabwe] Mazowe district of Zimbabwe's Mashonaland Central province is struggling with prolonged severe drought, threatening the country's maize supply, and impacting business of its grain millers.
A Saskatchewan teen who suffered severe carbon monoxide poisoning while working at his part-time job at a local grocery store may suffer long-term health problems, but the employer faced no serious consequences. A workplace safety expert says many provinces lack the authority to financially penalize employers that risk worker safety.
Europe's overall temperature last year was 1.8°F (1°C) above average, the EU's climate change programme has revealed - putting it on a par with 2020.
Tom Mutch/The Daily BeastCHERNOBYL, UKRAINE—Nuclear terror has been the nightmare scenario ever since the Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plants got caught up in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.The U.N. nuclear watchdog convened a meeting of Russian and Ukrainian officials last week to plead for sanity to prevail after drones struck Zaporizhzhia—Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant.While missiles, mines, drones and gunfire continue to be deployed around nuclear plants, the risk of an accident is sky high.Read more at The Daily Beast.
Norway’s KLP and the UK’s LGIM among those who say they have concerns over energy giant’s carbon transition goals Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Woodside Energy is facing the prospect of an overwhelming protest vote against its climate plans when shareholders meet on Wednesday, as global investors pick apart the emissions strategy of Australia’s biggest oil and gas company. Norway’s largest pension fund, KLP, and Britain’s biggest asset manager, LGIM, are the latest investors to disclose they will vote against Woodside’s climate report, citing concerns over its carbon transition plans. Continue reading...
Venice's 60th Biennale international art show has opened its doors, exploring humankind's relationship with the fragile planet, from Greenland's icecaps to deforestation in the Amazon.
Europe endured a record number of "extreme heat stress" days in 2023, two leading climate monitors said Monday, underscoring the threat of increasingly deadly summers across the continent.
Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant in Zhejiang expected to be able to make enough of the material to meet the country’s demand.
Study finds groundwater changes and building weight appear linked to subsidence; a quarter of China’s coastal land will sink below sea level within a century.
The annual World Bank and IMF meetings have concluded without a concrete plan to mobilize the trillions of dollars needed to fight climate change. Rich countries are expected to raise more than the 'USD 100 billion' they promised to provide every year from 2020, but repeatedly failed.
A listing of 29 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 14, 2024 thru Sat, April 20, 2024. Story of the week Our story of the week hinges on these words from the abstract of a fresh academic publication : Here we use recent empirical findings from more than 1,600 regions worldwide over the past 40 years to project sub-national damages from temperature and precipitation, including daily variability and extremes 7 , 8 . Using an empirical approach that provides a robust lower bound on the persistence of impacts on economic growth, we find that the world economy is committed to an income reduction of 19% within the next 26 years independent of future emission choices (relative to a baseline...
Louisiana State University allowed Shell to influence studies after a $25m donation and sought funds from other fossil fuel firms This story is co-published with the Lens, a non-profit newsroom in New Orleans For $5m, Louisiana’s flagship university will let an oil company weigh in on faculty research activities. Or, for $100,000, a corporation can participate in a research study, with “robust” reviewing powers and access to all resulting intellectual property. Those are the conditions outlined in a boilerplate document that Louisiana State University’s fundraising arm circulated to oil majors and chemical companies affiliated with the Louisiana Chemical Association, an industry lobbying group, according to emails disclosed in response to a public records request by the Lens . Continue...
Some biologists are predicting climate change could mean the arrival of new insects on Atlantic Canada's shores.
Was there enough good in this Game 1 loss to the Hurricanes that the Islanders could feel like they had a blueprint to win the series?
MIT researchers are developing a system for reducing emissions of the potent greenhouse gas at dairy farms and other sites.
BBC nature presenter delivers eulogy at protest aimed at ‘scaring people a bit’ about the loss of biodiversity in the UK The BBC nature presenter Chris Packham has joined hundreds of environmental activists in a mock funeral procession for nature to spotlight biodiversity loss in the UK. The procession aimed to sound “code red for nature” and highlight the UK’s position as “one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world”, organisers said. It was planned to coincide closely with Earth Day on 22 April. Continue reading...
EVs are getting more popular, but there's more to their warranties than those for traditional cars. Here's what you need to know about EV battery warranties.
Chris Stark, head of the Climate Change Committee, says Tories’ decision to dilute key green policies has had huge diplomatic impact Rishi Sunak has given up Britain’s reputation as a world leader in the fight against the climate crisis and has “set us back” by failing to prioritise the issue in the way his predecessors in No 10 did, the government’s green adviser has warned. Chris Stark, the outgoing head of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), said that the prime minister had “clearly not” championed the issue following a high-profile speech last year in which he made a significant U-turn on the government’s climate commitments . The criticism comes after Sunak was accused of trying to avoid scrutiny of Britain’s climate policies by failing to appoint a new chair of the CCC . Continue...
The country’s top legislature will review the proposed framework designed to secure supplies and encourage the shift to low-carbon power.
Green members are to vote on whether to remain in government after the SNP ditched key climate change targets.
Weather forecasters knew days in advance that a major storm was heading for the United Arab Emirates and authorities issued warnings asking citizens to stay home. Yet its largest city Dubai was still brought to a halt this week, with one of the worst rain events in decades flooding streets, homes and highways.
As aviation is responsible for significant CO2 emissions, the industry is striving to clean up its act. Here we look to the future with five electric planes.
Recordings of healthy fish are being transmitted to attract heat-tolerant larvae back to degraded reefs in the Maldives An underwater experiment to restore coral reefs using a combination of “coral IVF” and recordings of fish noises could offer a “beacon of hope” to scientists who fear the fragile ecosystem is on the brink of collapse. The experiment – a global collaboration between two teams of scientists who developed their innovative coral-saving techniques independently – has the potential to significantly increase the likelihood that coral will repopulate degraded reefs, they claim. Continue reading...
The administration said it will restrict new oil and gas leasing on 13 million acres in Alaska to help protect wildlife such as caribou and polar bears as the Arctic continues to warm.
ACAPULCO - Mexican presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday said that if elected, her administration would focus on water management and renewable energy as part of a plan to boost the country's sustainability.
Diagram of PACE satellite imagery We know NASA mostly for launching rockets and humans into outer space, but for about 60 years the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has also played a vital role in understanding the spaceship humans call home-planet Earth. Data from NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite will provide insight into ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate. In the lead-up to Earth Day, which falls on April 22, NASA officials in Washington on Friday documented how climate change is affecting the planet, this time using data from a program that watches for changes in the ocean and the air from space. Earth Day draws attention to negative effects human activity has on the environment and asks people to focus on things they can do to better care...
The Post’s Ethan Sears breaks down the matchups that'll define the Islanders' series against the Hurricanes in the first round of the NHL playoffs.
The UN body on climate change in New Delhi announced the launch of the global Art Charter for Climate Action (ACCA) to unite arts and entertainment sectors for impactful climate action, aiming to decrease carbon footprints in alignment with the Paris Agreement's goals.
WASHINGTON - U.S. lawmakers have tucked sanctions on Iran's oil exports in the House of Representatives' aid package for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific after Tehran's missile and drone strike on Israel last weekend.
Humans aren’t the only mammals working to mitigate the effects of climate change in the Western United States. People there are also enlisting the aid of nature’s most prolific engineers – beavers. Using NASA-provided grants, two open-source programs from Boise State University in Idaho and Utah State University in Logan are making it possible for […]
Despite significant progress, Scotland was falling short on cutting vehicle emissions, switching to heat pumps and even restoring peatland, the government said.
Ryan Connon, a hydrologist with the Environment and Climate Change, said that also means an elevated risk of high water at breakup this year for the Peel River.
[New Dawn] Government of Liberia strategizes on Climate Change regime.
Plastic waste gets lots of attention, but producing plastics actually produces more planet-heating greenhouse gases than the airline industry and coal-fired powerplants - notoriously bad sources.
The Biden administration moved to restrict the use of 13 million acres of federal petroleum reserves in Alaska leading to fury from the state's lawmakers who say the energy is vital to the local economy.
Idea Angela Rawlings had a decade ago for Snæfellsjökull has snowballed into a full-blown campaign with a team of 50 people Standing in the shadow of Iceland’s Snæfellsjökull, – a 700,000-year-old glacier perched on a volcano and visible to half the country’s population on any given day – in 2010, Angela Rawlings was struck by an unconventional thought. “It suddenly just came to me. What if the glacier was president?” said Rawlings. It was a seemingly unorthodox way to push forward a movement that was already swiftly advancing; Ecuador had enshrined legal rights for nature while Māori in New Zealand were working to secure legal personhood for the Whanganui River. Continue reading...
China faces severe land subsidence issues, affecting major cities like Beijing and Tianjin. The study warns that nearly a quarter of coastal lands could sink below sea level within the next century, posing significant threats to coastal areas.
[New Era] Johannesburg -- A drought that pushed millions of people into hunger across southern Africa has been driven mostly by the El Nino weather pattern -- not climate change, scientists said yesterday. Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi have declared a national disaster over the severe dry spell that started in January and has devastated the agricultural sector, decimating crops and pastures.
Birdwatching may have started out as a hobby, but active volunteers are helping bridge data gaps of threatened species and reaping real world outcomes as they go Change by Degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprint Got a question or tip for reducing household emissions? Email us at changebydegrees@theguardian.com Sean Dooley first started birdwatching as a 10-year-old with a notebook in hand at a place then known as the “Seaford swamp”, a freshwater wetland beside his primary school in Melbourne’s south-east. “I was just going out as a kid doing what I loved but recording the birds I saw as I did,” he says. On one of his early visits he met another birdwatcher, Mike Carter, who had been recording birds there...
NASA has selected six new airborne missions that include domestic and international studies of fire-induced clouds, Arctic coastal change, air quality, landslide hazards, shrinking glaciers, and emissions from agricultural lands. NASA’s suite of airborne missions complement what scientists can see from orbit, measure from the ground, and simulate in computer models. Funded through the […]
Superfund law requires industries responsible for PFOA and PFOS contamination in water or soil to pay for cleanup The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated two forever chemicals that have been used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances, an action intended to ensure quicker cleanup of the toxic compounds and require industries and others responsible for contamination to pay for their removal. Designation as a hazardous substance under the Superfund law does not ban the chemicals, known as PFOA and PFOS. But it requires that release of the chemicals into soil or water be reported to federal, state or tribal officials if it meets or exceeds certain levels. The EPA then may require cleanups to protect public health and recover costs that can reach...
It's a major blow to New York's climate plan and to President Joe Biden's energy ambitions.
The rule is part of a suite of Biden administration actions to elevate the fight against climate change and aid communities saddled with pollution.
The environmental reviews for the projects come a week after the Biden administration released its rule to streamline permitting for renewable energy on federal lands.
[TI] The rising demand for land due to the global food crisis, climate change, rising sea levels, desertification, and extreme weather events, all limit its availability and accessibility. As global crises exacerbate inequalities, people who experience discrimination see their land rights affected the most.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00865K, Paper Muyang Chen, Tingting Niu, Lingfeng Chao, Xiaozheng Duan, Jingpei Wang, Tengfei Pan, Yajing Li, Junhan Zhang, Chenyue Wang, Biyun Ren, Lijuan Guo, Mohammad Hatamvand, Jing Zhang, Qingxun Guo, Yingdong Xia, Xingyu Gao, Yonghua Chen Preparation of low defect density FAPbI 3 perovskite thin films by adjusting the process temperature to −20 °C for high-performance perovskite solar cells. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Small-scale farmers and local NGOs work together to create resilience in the face of climate change in this Western African country. The post Water is at the heart of farmers’ struggle to survive in Benin appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
She was 'unsinkable' and 'indestructible' - until she sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg. This was the story told by author Morgan Robertson in his 1898 novel. Above: Titanic departing Southampton.
At the time of writing, the national average price of regular gas is $3.62 per gallon, $0.02 higher than this time last year. Drivers who use premium gas are paying $0.07 more this year than last year at $4.42 per gallon. While Americans are currently paying about 15 percent less for gas than in 2022, prices are expected to climb higher throughout 2024. Numerous factors impact the price drivers pay at the pump, including the cost of crude oil, taxes, distribution and refining. Gas prices also depend on the ZIP code you fill up in, with states in the West paying the highest gas prices on average and Southeastern states paying the lowest. Key gas price statistics Here’s what to know about regular gasoline prices: The current national gas price average is $3.62 per gallon. The average cost of...
By Jeremy Rose Former Tuvalu prime minister Enele Sopoaga declared Australia’s climate change policy a threat to the survival of the Pacific at a gathering in Wellington yesterday.
A flood of cheap Chinese electric car exports has raised the specter of another trade war with the U.S. And it has Tesla worried.
OKYO: Asian shares and bond yields sank on Friday while the dollar, yen, oil and gold surged after reports of a sharp escalation in Middle East hostilities.
Nearly a quarter of coastal land could be lower than sea levels, putting hundreds of millions at risk of inundation.
The world is already committed to warming that will undercut the global economy by 20 percent between now and 2050. That’s six times the price of limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius.
From low birth weight to wildfire smoke, kids can bear the brunt of climate change.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00796D, Review Article Shipeng Jia, Shinichi Kumakura, Eric McCalla With the increasing demand for energy and growing environmental concerns, sodium-ion batteries have garnered significant attention in recent years as a potential alternative to lithium-ion batteries. This is due to... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Exclusive: India seeking to use approach of UK election as bargaining chip and any exemption would be controversial India is demanding an exemption from the UK’s planned carbon tax as part of negotiations aiming to finalise a free trade deal before the UK election. India’s negotiating team have spent this week in London in a surprise set of talks to try to overcome the remaining hurdles to an agreement. Continue reading...
The decisions underscore the Biden administration’s attempt to curb mining and drilling on public lands.
The regulation will determine which fossil fuel operators have to pay fees for leaked gas.
The new bank boss is trying to stretch balance sheets to address climate and other shared global challenges, largely at the urging of G7 countries that continue developing fossil fuels.
The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said on Thursday that officials at Ukraine's Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant had reported a new attempted drone attack on the facility's training centre -- less than two weeks after other similar incidents.
[The Conversation Africa] South Africa is feeling the impacts of global warming. Heat is frequent and more intense. Human-induced climate change made the severe 2015-2017 drought three to six times more likely. But climate change also doubled the likelihood of the heavy rain that hit parts of South Africa in April 2022, which led to 400 people being killed and many thousands forced to flee their homes.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00341A, Paper Xiaoru Zhao, Feng Zhang, Houzhen Li, Huitong Dong, Chuncheng Yan, Chao Meng, Yuanhua Sang, Hong Liu, Yu-Guo Guo, Shuhua Wang Manganese oxide (MnO2) has attracted significant attention for aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) due to its excellent theoretical capacity and high output voltage. However, irreversible phase transitions, the manganese dissolution and... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
PhD candidate Emma Bullock studies the local and global impacts of changing mineral levels in Arctic groundwater.
Indian experts dismiss cloud seeding as the cause of Dubai's flooding, attributing it to climate change. The heavy rainfall in Dubai is linked to a synoptic system and global warming, leading to extreme weather events in the region.
The Amazon founder is looking for innovators with ideas about how to combat climate change with technologies powered by artificial intelligence.
This blog was authored by Francisco Pinto and Rodrigo Bórquez, economists of the Climate Action Teams (CAT) initiative, and by Environmental Defense Fund economist Luis Fernández Intriago. Source: Climate Action Teams Reducing emissions is imperative to address climate change. The mechanisms established in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement can serve as vital tools in […]
Much of the Northwest Territories is entering its third year of drought, said officials during the first wildfire briefing of the year.
Trudi Warner was arrested on March 27 last year for holding up a sign outside an entrance used by jurors at Inner London Crown Court.
Development and groundwater pumping are causing land subsidence and heightening the risks of sea level rise.
A brutal, deadly stretch of heat in West Africa would not have been possible without human-caused climate change, a new report has found.
Real satellite imagery from NASA’s Terra, Aqua, and Landsat missions takes the shape of whales and swirling clouds in the agency’s Earth Day 2024 poster, “Water Touches Everything.” The major ocean basins – Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, and Southern – shape our planet’s climate and weather by absorbing, storing, and moving heat, water, and carbon […]
Report claims nickel mining in Sulawesi is causing severe environmental damage and endangering the livelihoods of indigenous communities
A provincial environmental team is measuring air quality in an industrial area in southwestern Ontario after data indicated high levels of benzene and Aamjiwnaang First Nation urged the shutdown of a facility. Members of the Sarnia-area community describe their symptoms and how air quality fears are impacting them.
Two new studies show the unseen toll smoke is taking on people across the country. Climate change is likely to make the problem even bigger.
Open access notables Glacial isostatic adjustment reduces past and future Arctic subsea permafrost , Creel et al., Nature Communications: Sea-level rise submerges terrestrial permafrost in the Arctic, turning it into subsea permafrost. Subsea permafrost underlies ~ 1.8 million km2 of Arctic continental shelf, with thicknesses in places exceeding 700 m. Sea-level variations over glacial-interglacial cycles control subsea permafrost distribution and thickness, yet no permafrost model has accounted for glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA), which deviates local sea level from the global mean due to changes in ice and ocean loading. Here we incorporate GIA into a pan-Arctic model of subsea permafrost over the last 400,000 years. Including GIA...
Consider the weasel. It is Scotland’s smallest carnivore, the nemesis of mice and other small animals, and a sleek, elusive shadow when spotted in the wild...
Net Zero Secretary Mairi McAllan confirmed that the plan to get 75 per cent of the way to Net Zero emissions by 2030 was being binned.
[The Point] The Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources, Rohey John Manjang, has informed lawmakers that the forestry department is working on implementing a participatory forest management scheme for communities to take ownership of their forests to avoid bush fire and other forest disasters.
[The Point] Rohey John Manjang, the minister for Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resource, has made it clear that the government would not take "lightly" the illegal sale of the Manduar Forest.
[Global Witness] Together with Access Now and IPANDETEC, we're hosting a side event at the UNESCO 2024 World Press Freedom Day Conference on the online dangers to freedom of expression in Latin America and the fundamental links to environmental and climate communication globally.
Nearly a third of China's urban population lives in areas that are subsiding, according to a sweeping national survey of 82 major Chinese cities. In coastal areas, that makes sea level rise worse.
The United States said it will snap back sanctions on Venezuela’s crucial oil industry after President Nicolas Maduro’s government continued its repression of opponents.
The lawmakers pointed to the categorical exclusions used to permit Deepwater Horizon before the 2010 oil rig blowout that killed 11 workers and caused an 87-day oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
Exclusive: By the middle of the century, pollution from plastic industry could ‘undermine world’s effort’ to control climate crisis By the middle of the century, global emissions from plastic production could triple to account for one-fifth of the Earth’s remaining carbon budget, an analysis has found. The stunning new estimates from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, published on Wednesday, provide yet more evidence that the plastic industry is “undermining the world’s efforts to address climate change”, said Heather McTeer Toney, executive director of the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Beyond Petrochemicals campaign, which helped fund the new report. Continue reading...
The recent deadly heat in West Africa is driven by human activities, including the burning of fossil fuels, particularly in the wealthy Northern Hemisphere, according to an international report.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 129, Issue 8, 28 April 2024.
Using existing expertise and innovative new data management software to ease teething troubles in the offshore sector is the way forward in Scotland’s renewable energy journey, says Mike Allan, Global Director, Operational Support, at Xodus
In a heartbreaking moment on BBC series Mammals, desperate foxes are seen feeding on one of their own who himself is believed to have collapsed and died from starvation.
A extreme once-in-a-century heatwave in Africa's Sahel and western regions that saw temperatures soar to a high as 48.5 degrees Celsius at the end of March and early April was caused by human-induced climate change.
In ‘acute global embarrassment’, Scottish government expected to follow UK and Wales by adopting five-year carbon budgets The Scottish government is to abandon its “world-leading” goal to cut carbon emissions by 75% by 2030, after repeatedly missing its legally binding targets. Màiri McAllan, the Scottish net zero secretary, is expected to announce that Scotland will instead follow the UK and Welsh government’s lead by adopting five-yearly “carbon budgets”, in a significant policy climbdown. Continue reading...
To understand vulnerable glaciers, climate scientists extract ice from continent’s remote and stormy coast
Ampace is betting on a boom in home energy storage systems and the ‘batterification’ of tools and electronic devices as it aims to solidify an already dominant position in a part of the market away from electric cars and smartphones.
Scottish Government plans to scrap a flagship climate target have been branded “the worst environmental decision in the history of the Scottish Parliament.”
Coral bleaching is evident across 73 percent of the famed marine park, as abnormally high ocean temperatures propel the world’s fourth mass bleaching event.
Bad-faith scapegoating around the attacker’s identity shows Australian media needs to shake its addiction to Elon Musk’s rapidly toxifying platform Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The harrowing local news stories of the last week have confronted Australians with the limitations and opportunities of our contemporary media environment. Between the disinformation hurricane that absorbed the slaughter in Bondi Junction and the sober verdict of the Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial, Australians have been provided with an unusually clearcut choice between the media we have … and the media we may want. It’s less than a week and an aeon ago that six innocent people – five of them women – were...
Dr Sarah Benn from Birmingham was part of a demonstration at the Kingsbury oil terminal in 2022.
The company's acquisition of a major Gulf Coast terminal is seen by analysts as a key earnings driver.
The Solar for All program is meant to reduce energy costs and lower pollution in poor areas across the U.S.
The Financial Services Committee passed four measures against pushing companies to account for greenhouse gas emissions
California joins a group of states trying to pass climate Superfund bills to fine oil and gas companies for damages caused by climate change.
The study shows that the economic harms over the next 25 years are locked in with emission cuts producing only small changes in the income reduction.
[VOA] Windhoek, Namibia -- Environmentalists in Namibia have accused local wildlife officials of hiding the real extent of rhino poaching in the Etosha National Park, which holds the highest concentration of black rhinos in the world. The Ministry of Environment recently acknowledged that rhino killings at the park quadrupled during the first quarter of 2024.
[IPS] Abu Dhabi -- Investors, regulators, researchers, policymakers, and representatives of renewable energy companies, acknowledged the key challenges of shifting away from fossil fuels to renewable energy in Africa when they gathered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) this week.
Passengers report being stranded in the desert city as the international hub struggles in the wake of unusually heavy rain Don’t blame cloud seeding for the Dubai floods Dubai is wrestling with the aftermath of extraordinary torrential rains that flooded the desert city, with residents describing harrowing stories of spending the night in their cars, and air passengers enduring chaotic scenes at airports. Up to 259.5mm (10.2in) of rain fell on the usually arid country of the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, the most since records began 75 years ago . The state-run WAM news agency called the rains on Tuesday “a historic weather event” that surpassed “anything documented since the start of data collection in 1949”. Continue reading...
Extreme heat linked to the deaths of hundreds of people would not have happened without global warming.
PEROVSKY, Russia - As floods engulfed large parts of central Russia, residents of one village defied advice to flee their homes and started building a homemade dam.
The United States is to snap back sanctions on Venezuela's crucial oil industry after President Nicolas Maduro's government continued its "repression" of opponents, US officials said Wednesday. "The areas in which they've fallen short include... what we see as a continuing pattern of harassment and repression against opposition figures," the official added.
Relief had been granted after president Nicolás Maduro promised to hold free and fair elections this year The Biden administration has reimposed crushing oil sanctions on Venezuela, admonishing the president Nicolás Maduro ’s attempts to consolidate his rule just six months after the US eased restrictions in a bid to support now fading hopes for a democratic opening in the Opec nation. A senior US official, discussing the decision with reporters, said any US company investing in Venezuela would have 45 days to wind down operations to avoid adding uncertainty to global energy markets. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss US policy deliberations. Continue reading...
With a bolder policy and flexible payment mechanisms, perhaps Alexis Rodríguez would have opted for solar panels for his home, instead of the portable generator that has made it possible for him to weather the frequent blackouts caused by Cuba’s recurrent energy crises. “It’s a little noisy, the fuel is expensive, but I can tolerate […]
Scientists fear time is running out to protect the World Heritage Site.
Post readers respond to articles on climate change, Trump’s comments on Jewish voters and calls for a cease-fire in Gaza.
Decades ago, humans began employing chemicals to enhance clouds' ability to produce rain and snow, a practice that is increasingly relevant as climate change exacerbates heat and dryness in certain areas. While embraced in countries like the US and the United Arab Emirates, cloud seeding remains contentious due to potential unintended outcomes such as excessive precipitation or heightened pollution levels.
Environmental campaigners have warned the Scottish Government against trying to "weasel out” of their 2030 climate change targets.
Negative thinking is unpopular but it could drive more realistic efforts to limit harm from global warming
Lightning and heavy rains led to the heaviest downpour in decades, flooding villages in Pakistan’s southwestern coast.
The Scottish government is to scrap its flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030.
Anglerfish first colonized the ocean's midnight zone 55 million years ago, during a period of extreme global warming, a new study finds. The bizarre fish adapted to thrive in the deep sea by becoming sexual parasites, the researchers said.
The United States is to snap back sanctions on Venezuela's crucial oil industry after President Nicolas Maduro's government continued its "repression" of opponents, US officials said Wednesday.
The Alaska House of Representatives is set to vote for House Bill 50 on Wednesday, sending it to the Senate.
Cost of environmental damage will be six times higher than price of limiting global heating to 2C, study finds Average incomes will fall by almost a fifth within the next 26 years as a result of the climate crisis, according to a study that predicts the costs of damage will be six times higher than the price of limiting global heating to 2C. Rising temperatures, heavier rainfall and more frequent and intense extreme weather are projected to cause $38tn (£30tn) of destruction each year by mid-century, according to the research, which is the most comprehensive analysis of its type ever undertaken, and whose findings are published in the journal Nature . Continue reading...
Clerics in the world’s largest Muslim country are mobilising congregants to rein in climate change.
In anticipation of Earth Day, NASA invites media to a briefing at the agency’s headquarters on Friday, April 19, at 11 a.m. EDT. The event will share updates on NASA’s climate science and early data from the agency’s ocean-watching PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission, as well as reveal upcoming Earth airborne missions. The […]
Natural disasters like volcanic eruptions, floods, and tornados can dramatically change the surface of Earth to the point where alterations are visible in space. Changes driven by human actions and interventions, such as mining and deforestation, are also visible in satellite imagery. For over 50 years, NASA’s Landsat satellites have recorded our planet’s changing surface. […]
Renewable energy experts from around the world will arrive in Glasgow next month for the prestigious All-Energy and Dcarbonise conference – a two-day extravaganza that will be also attended by political leaders and top academics
The state-run WAM news agency called the rain Tuesday “a historic weather event” that surpassed “anything documented since the start of data collection in 1949.”
Ground-up concrete can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a similar way to ground-up rocks, according to a field study in Ireland
Development Banks Are Starting to Spark Climate Action. Will They Complete the Task? shannon.paton@… Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:14 The World Bank and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) are on the cusp of evolution. Their transformation is fundamental to the world’s ability to simultaneously tackle the climate crisis and poverty. Ten years ago, having had no substantial policies for climate change, development banks began to gather climate data and increase attention to the impacts of climate change. This process gradually led to where we are today, with the MDBs recently releasing principles on how to align all their investments with the international Paris Agreement on climate change. The World Bank also committed to combat climate change as part of its mission...
Fossil Fuels Are in Everything from Plastics to Makeup, but Cleaner Alternatives Are Emerging margaret.overh… Wed, 04/17/2024 - 09:00 Fossil fuels aren’t just used to power cars, heat buildings and keep the lights on. They are, quite literally, woven into almost every facet of our lives. From crayons, cosmetics and carpeting to fabrics, fertilizers and pharmaceuticals, around 70,000 everyday products are made with “petrochemicals” produced from fossil fuels. These products are so ubiquitous that many oil and gas companies are betting on chemical production to stay in business even as fossil fuel use in energy, heating and transport declines. This comes with serious consequences for people and the planet. In the United States alone, chemical production directly...
The agency admitted mistakes in the Clean Air Act standards update to curb soot emissions at mini-mills.
“To bring prosperity and business investment to all the cities and towns in our amazing state, our leaders need to face market realities and support the BLM Oil and Gas Rule,” writes Jacques Hadler.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 129, Issue 4, April 2024.
And that’s an extremely conservative estimate. The post Climate change likely killed tens of thousands of people in 2023 appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Site of the proposed Te Kuha coal mine. PHOTO: Forest & Bird By Jeremy Rose Resources minister Shane Jones told RNZ this morning that digging up more coal would help deliver the economic surplus required to meet the...
“I hate wind,” the former president told oil industry officials at a recent Mar-a-Lago dinner, doubling down on promises to end this form of clean energy.
UK researchers want to understand what triggers the Antarctic to kick out city-sized blocks of ice.
The Montana GOP Senate candidate now says he lied about accidentally shooting himself at Glacier National Park.
Investors, regulators, researchers, policymakers, and representatives of renewable energy companies, acknowledged the key challenges of shifting away from fossil fuels to renewable energy in Africa when they gathered in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) this week. The latest estimates by the African Development Bank show that Africa’s energy potential, especially renewable energy, is enormous, […]
[GroundUp] The company is among 57 companies in the world responsible for 80% of carbon dioxide emissions
Steel is one of the most carbon-intensive industries, producing roughly 8 percent of energy sector emissions annually.
The president's global climate adviser wasn't as optimistic about EPA climate regulations surviving a Trump victory.
More than 1,800 people in North and South America have died this year from the mosquito-borne disease.
It will support investments in early stage companies focused on renewable energy, biomanufacturing and rare mineral processing.
People who fish in Florida and in federal waters are required to have special gear on board to help ensure groupers, snappers and other reef fish survive when they're returned to the water.
[Greenpeace] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has condemned Switzerland for violating the European Convention on Human Rights. The verdict is a major victory for a women's association that had brought a complaint against the country for its inaction on climate change.
Floods, cyclones, heat stress and predatory starfish contributing to impacts as fourth planet-wide bleaching event confirmed The Great Barrier Reef is in the midst of what could be its worst summer on record with a widespread and extreme coral bleaching event coming on top of floods, two cyclones and outbreaks of coral-eating starfish, according to an official Australian government report. The “summer snapshot” report released by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the Australian Institute of Marine Science said: “Compared [with] previous summers, cumulative impacts have been much higher this summer and a widespread bleaching event is still unfolding.” Continue reading...
City records over 120mm of rain in a day, about as much as it expects in a year as rain floods highways and homes Heavy rains have hit the United Arab Emirates, flooding major highways and disrupting flights at Dubai international airport – in what the government has described as the largest amount of rainfall in the past 75 years. The rains began on Monday night, and by Tuesday evening, over 120mm (4.75in) had soaked the desert city of Dubai – normally the average amount it gets for the whole year. Continue reading...
Offsets are sold on a promise to help wipe out emissions. But studies show they often don’t deliver. A project targeting Asian coal plants aims to change that.
Gunmen attacked fuel tankers in Tamenglong, causing oil spill and injuring a driver. The incident prompted reinforcement before Manipur's Lok Sabha elections. Constable suspension resulted in mob violence, leading to SP transfer.
GENEVA - The United Nations on Tuesday said it was seeking to raise $1 billion to boost humanitarian aid to Ethiopia, which has been hit by conflict, drought and floods.
El Niño weather phenomenon depletes reservoirs and limits output at hydroelectric plants Ecuador has begun to ration electricity in the country’s main cities as a drought linked to the El Niño weather pattern depletes reservoirs and limits output at hydroelectric plants that produce about 75% of the nation’s power. “We urge Ecuadorians to cut their electricity consumption in this critical week,” the ministry of energy said in a statement late on Monday. “And consider that each kilowatt and each drop of water that are not consumed will help us face this reality.” Continue reading...
One of the world’s richest people is awarding $100 million in grants for AI solutions to tackle climate change and nature loss.Read more...
Australia's spectacular Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its worst bleaching event on record, the country's reef authority reported on Wednesday.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE01258E, Paper Jiaqi Sang, Tianfu Liu, Pengfei Wei, Hefei Li, Conghui Liu, Yi Wang, Youwen Rong, Qi Wang, Guoxiong Wang, Xinhe Bao Cu-based catalysts selectively convert CO2/CO into valuable C2+ oxygenates and hydrocarbons electrochemically, which is regarded as a promising strategy for carbon cycle utilization. Herein, we synthesized CuxP2Ox+5 (x=2, 4, 5)... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
A bakery, fruit pulp processing and water pumped from springs are empowering women farmers in Goiás, a central-eastern state of Brazil. New renewable energy sources are driving the process. “We work in the shade and have a secure, stable income, not an unsteady one like in farming. We cannot control the price of milk, nor […]
OPEC and its economic allies in the OPEC+ bloc have been trying to cut global oil supplies in order to bid up prices lowered by record production from the United States. Russia, for its part, pledged earlier this year to cut crude oil exports as part of that mission. But it has actually been ramping up its exports.Read more...
Modelling that shows how the world can remain below 1.5°C of warming assumes we can store vast amounts of carbon dioxide underground, but a new analysis reveals that achieving this is extremely unlikely
The task force aims to create a global trading system that cuts pollution and prevents buying goods made with weak environmental regulations elsewhere.
The challenge for a resource-rich, medium-sized economy such as Australia is to identify the right green industries to focus on, while minimising the risks to taxpayers Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast It’s taken a while to get here, but Anthony Albanese is on the verge of promising what some economists and most clean energy advocates have been urging Australian governments to do for years. Or at least a version of it. The prime minister’s promised “future made in Australia” act is clumsily named, and the announcement last week had few details, but the idea – that the government will need to use its weight to help develop green industries if the country is to make a rapid transition from fossil fuels to a clean economy – has been a long time...
Shortages raised expectations of an accerated shift to green energy, but India's response was exactly the opposite.
Coral in the coastal town of Bauan frequently suffered from natural hazards like typhoons and human-caused destruction.
Amid threats of a weekend driving ban to hit emissions targets, Germany's governing coalition has reached a last-minute agreement on reforms to climate protection rules. Here's what you need to know.
Minnesota’s Lower Sioux Indian Community is pioneering green building with its fully integrated hempcrete facility – a first in the country When Earl Pendleton first heard about building houses out of hemp more than a decade ago, it seemed like a far-fetched idea. To start, it was still illegal to grow hemp – the non-psychoactive strain of Cannabis sativa – in the US. Importing it from overseas was prohibitively expensive. But Pendleton, a member of the Lower Sioux Indian Community , was intrigued by early research that showed hemp could be transformed into non-toxic construction materials that allow for faster build times and result in low-carbon, energy-efficient houses. Continue reading...
The change announced Monday will follow policies adopted by the Forest Service and Navy.
Coal at Lyttelton Port. PHOTO: Liz Kivi By Jeremy Rose Resources minister Shane Jones’ announcement of changes to the Resource Management Act to facilitate more coal mining have been met with incredulity by...
Progress roundup: Digging up paved surfaces inspires others to reap the climate benefits. In Australia, landlords are installing solar to help meet emissions goals.
In an unprecedented deal, a private company purchased land in a tiny Arizona town – and sold its water rights to a suburb 200 miles away. Local residents fear the agreement has ‘opened Pandora’s box’ One of the biggest battles over Colorado River water is being staged in one of the west’s smallest rural enclaves. Tucked into the bends of the lower Colorado River, Cibola, Arizona, is a community of about 200 people. Maybe 300, if you count the weekenders who come to boat and hunt. Dusty shrublands run into sleepy residential streets, which run into neat fields of cotton and alfalfa. Continue reading...
Heavy rain likely to cause low yields in Britain and other parts of Europe, with drought in Morocco hitting imports Which UK foods are at risk? The UK faces food shortages and price rises as extreme weather linked to climate breakdown causes low yields on farms locally and abroad. Record rainfall has meant farmers in many parts of the UK have been unable to plant crops such as potatoes, wheat and vegetables during the key spring season. Crops that have been planted are of poor quality, with some rotting in the ground. Continue reading...
The recent oil price spike fueled by rising Middle East tensions has the potential to derail the IMF's "relatively good" outlook for the world economy, its chief economist told AFP. "We are projecting a global economy that is quite resilient for 2024," Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas said in an interview ahead of the publication of the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook (WEO) report on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON/HOUSTON - The U.S. will not renew a temporary license that widely eased sanctions on Venezuela's oil and gas sector unless progress is made by President Nicolas Maduro on commitments for free and fair elections this year, a State Department spokesperson said on Monday, three days before the license is to expire.
Oil prices rose on Tuesday amid heightened tensions in the Middle East after Israel's military chief said his country would respond to Iran's weekend missile and drone attack amid calls for restraint by allies.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00318G, Paper Zimin Yang, Yi-Lun Sun, Siting Deng, Hao Tong, Mingqiang Wu, Xinbin Nie, Yifan Su, Guanjie He, Yinghe Zhang, Jianwei Li, Guoliang Chai Irreversible Zn plating/stripping along with interfacial degradation seriously affect the practical applications of aqueous zinc-ion batteries. Herein, 3-(hydroxy (phenyl) phosphoryl) propanoic acid (HPA) is introduced as an electrolyte additive that... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine has come under a series of drone attacks since April 7.
Challengers want to overturn a ruling that upheld Interior's leasing freeze in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
U.S. West Coast refiners that have relied on Basrah Heavy and other crudes from the Middle East will have incentives to switch to Canadian oil, which is cheaper and located right next door, said an energy analyst.
The residual blazes underscore how Canada’s energy industry — underpinned by an oil-sands sector — is imperiled by climate change.
[WHO] More than 900 filmmakers from 110 countries have submitted short films for the 5th edition of the WHO Health for All Film Festival on themes ranging from climate change, refugees, tobacco, and gender-based violence. Some 60 films have been selected for the shortlist, for review by a jury of international artists and health experts, before the announcement of the winners on 26 May 2024.
Humanitarian work in Afghanistan and Yemen now classified as climate finance, FoI request reveals, as £11.6bn pledge slips The UK government has been accused of double counting £500m of overseas aid as climate finance in an attempt to meet its commitments under the Paris agreement . Money for humanitarian work in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia is now being classified as climate finance, according to documents released under a freedom of information request by the website Carbon Brief . Continue reading...
WASHINGTON - The World Bank and other multilateral development banks are making good progress on reforms to expand their lending capacity to help countries brace for climate change and other challenges, but more work is needed, a senior U.S. Treasury official said.
The US NOAA reported a major coral bleaching event caused by warming oceans and climate change, with 2023 being the hottest year on record. Coral bleaching is becoming more frequent and severe, impacting coral reefs worldwide. The bleaching has been confirmed in at least 53 countries or territories, including the Great Barrier Reef and Florida's coral reef.
Asian stocks fell and oil prices climbed Tuesday on growing fears of a wider war in the Middle East after Israel's army chief vowed a response to Iran's unprecedented attack on his country at the weekend.
MOSCOW - Russia has been able to swiftly repair some of key oil refineries hit by Ukrainian drones, reducing capacity idled by the attacks to about 10% from almost 14% at the end of March, Reuters calculations showed.
During a recent visit to Ketchikan, Rep. Mary Peltola discussed her approach to housing, mental health resources and addressing climate change.
Countries’ Methane Action Plans Need to Do More to Account for a Just Transition shannon.paton@… Mon, 04/15/2024 - 13:33 .just-transition-gray { background-color: #9B9B9B !important; } .just-transition-green { background-color: #32864B !important; } .just-transition-yellow { background-color: #F0AB00 !important; } .just-transition-table tr td { border: 1px solid #000; } Recent data shows that for the world to stay on track with limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F), fossil fuel operations must reduce their methane emissions by 75% by 2030. These findings were released just days before industry leaders and government representatives convened for the annual Global Methane Forum — a platform to share methane reduction techniques, policies...
Mr. Gore spoke at a climate leadership conference hosted by his nonprofit organization.
Revamped financial assurance regulations could provide up to almost $7 billion in new insurance bonds from oil and gas companies, the federal government said.
Ocean heat records have been breaking for months. This is the first global evidence of the impacts on sea life.
The percentage of reef areas experiencing bleaching-level heat stress is increasing by about 1% a week, scientists say Global heating has pushed the world’s coral reefs to a fourth planet-wide mass bleaching event that is on track to be the most extensive on record, US government scientists have confirmed. Some 54% of ocean waters containing coral reefs have experienced heat stress high enough to cause bleaching, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coral Reef Watch said. Continue reading...
More than 54 percent of all the reef areas on the planet have experienced bleaching level heat-stress in the past year, according to the Global Bleaching Event Index.
Nearly four dozen countries would risk default if they invested the necessary amounts to hit Paris Agreement goals.
Citigroup Inc has increased its three-month target for West Texas Intermediate by $8 a barrel. Additionally, Citigroup analysts, including Max Layton, expressed in a note that the current market has not fully accounted for the possibility of an ongoing direct conflict between Iran and Israel. They estimate that such a scenario could drive oil prices up to over $100 per barrel, depending on how events unfold.
Energy market sanctions imposed on Moscow have already had a dramatic impact on China’s buying habits, helping Russia surpass Saudi Arabia to become the largest oil supplier to Beijing last year.
[The Conversation Africa] Media reports about the biodiversity crisis and what researchers have argued qualifies as a mass extinction event tend to focus on the big ecological effects. Melting ice sheets, severe weather events, droughts, habitat loss and wildfires dominate headlines. So too do the plights of large iconic animals - orangutans, gorillas, polar bears, rhinos, elephants, pangolins.
This is the second one in the past decade, the agency determined.
The rule would empower EPA to make sure polluters pay for cleaning up tracts contaminated with two of the most notorious "forever chemicals."
The world is currently experiencing the second major coral bleaching event in 10 years, with reef systems from Australia to Florida at risk of dying following months of record-breaking ocean heat, a US agency announced Monday.
[Daily Trust] Research has demonstrated that majority of food crops are producing less due to climate change, which is caused by rise in temperature and altered rainfall patterns.
Humanity needs to burn less fossil fuels. But that means fewer aerosols to help cool the planet—and a potential acceleration of global warming.
The Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) received a report from the Director of the South Sinai Reserves and the Mutual Aid Center at the Regional Authority for the Conservation of the Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden about the stranding of a gas vessel on the Ras Nasrani reef at the entrance … The post Gas vessel runs aground in the Red Sea, leading to environmental emergency appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Winning a battle for survival requires understanding the opponent. And, for the peoples of 22 island nations and territories scattered across more than 155 million square kilometres of Pacific Ocean, the volatility and wrath of the climate are their greatest threats. The region harbours three of the world’s most disaster-prone countries, while eight are among […]
Long-awaited Interior Department policy will raise financial assurance and royalty rates. The post Drilling for oil on public land is about to cost a lot more appeared first on High Country News.
A highly misleading new documentary claims soil carbon storage can redeem the livestock industry – it’s all so much ‘moo-woo’ We draw our moral lines in arbitrary places. We might believe we’re guided only by universal values and proven facts, but often we’re swayed by deep themes of which we might be unaware. In particular, we tend to associate the imagery and sensations of our earliest childhood with what is good and right. When we see something that chimes with them, we are powerfully drawn to it and attach moral value to it. This results from a combination of two factors: finding safety and comfort in the familiar, and what psychologists call “ the primacy effect ” – the first thing we hear about a topic is the one we tend to recall and accept. These tendencies contribute to the illusory...
California gas prices are on the rise again as Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration mulls a cap on refiner profits.
Atmospheric physicist Susan Avery once spoke out about the need to "get off fossil fuels." But her appointment didn't stop Exxon from doubling down on oil and gas.
The move comes as European banks step back from fossil fuel lending over concerns about violating climate-related legislation.
[UN News] Fishing communities in the south of Madagascar are facing sometimes deadly sea conditions due to climate change, but with the help of the UN's International Labour Organization (ILO) are finding ways to adapt to the new circumstances they face.
Climate change raised Asia's temperatures last year by nearly 2 deg C above the 1961 to 1990 average.
The floods in Guangdong province were caused by intense convective storms that started last week and are expected to last until the end of the month.
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project . This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a "bump" for our ask. This week features " The difference between weather and climate ". More will follow in the upcoming weeks. Please follow the Further Reading link at the bottom to read the full rebuttal and to join the discussion in the comment thread there. At a glance How do you go about weather forecasting by yourself? Study the computer models. With experience, you will become familiar with the art - for it takes human interpretation of model output to make the calls. That's what...
Even before that, the Islanders were beyond fortunate to hold a three-goal lead in the first place before letting it go to waste in a crushing 5-3 Game 2 defeat to the Hurricanes. And they knew it.
Jobs will change, communities will be affected, but we have a shot at rising to the challenge of global heating The climate crisis has long been defined by its lies: From the original sin of science denial, to Tony Abbott’s confected carbon tax panic, to the latest yellowcake straw man. But the most damaging porky of all might be that the transition to renewable energy will be easy. Government messaging has propagated this myth, vacillating between the torpid technocracy of targets, acronyms and megawatt hours and the sunny spin that promises “a cheaper, cleaner energy future!”. Continue reading...
The vital Munsyari-Milam road, connecting border villages along the Indo-China border, has been rendered impassable by an avalanche in the Chirkani glacier near Mapang in the Munsyari block of Pithoragarh district. Officials suspect the incident happened on Saturday evening. This situation presents challenges for locals who usually migrate to nearly a dozen high-altitude villages in the Johar valley of the district as the summer season begins.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Joe Biden marked Monday’s Earth Day by announcing a $7 billion investment in solar energy projects nationwide, focusing on disadvantaged communities, and unveiling a week-long series of what the White House say will be “historic climate actions.” The president was […]
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) “most often asked about” Donald Trump's doctored map of Hurricane Dorian while seeking presidential records from the ex-commander in chief after he left office, according to unclassified FBI files and emails revealed in Monday court filings.
Paris is becoming a city of bikes. Across China, people are snapping up $5,000 electric cars. On Earth Day, a look at a few bright spots for emission reductions.
Chris Stark says populist response and culture war around the term is inhibiting environmental progress The concept of “net zero” has become a political slogan used to start a “dangerous” culture war over the climate, and may be better dropped, the outgoing head of the UK’s climate watchdog has warned. Chris Stark, the chief executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), said sensible improvements to the economy and people’s lives were being blocked by a populist response to the net zero label, and he would be “intensely relaxed” about losing the term. Continue reading...
Critics call the grants an own goal for Biden - undercutting his bid to revive US manufacturing with clean energy factories through his signature climate change law, the Inflation Reduction Act.
Travel reporter Andrea Sachs, environment reporter Kasha Patel and climate coach Michael Coren will answer questions during a live chat on Monday at 1 p.m. ET.
Solar panels can shrink your carbon footprint and your energy bill, but they can be fragile. Here are some ways help them achieve a long, productive life.
The fledglings are typically reared on floating platforms of sea ice, but an unprecedented decline in the ice extent has driven young onto cliffs.
Organizers at Columbia, Tulane and the University of Virginia write to attorneys general arguing schools’ investments are illegal Campus organizers at three universities filed legal complaints on Monday arguing that their schools’ investments in planet-heating fossil fuels are illegal, the Guardian has learned. The students from Columbia University, Tulane University and the University of Virginia each wrote to the attorneys general of their respective states calling on them to scrutinize their universities’ investments. They accuse their universities of breaching the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, a law adopted by 49 states that requires non-profit institutions to consider their “charitable purposes” when investing, and exercise “prudence” and “loyalty”. Continue...
The Newtok-to-Mertarvik transformation is the most advanced of several village relocation efforts prompted by climate change.
The president urged young people to become part of the inaugural group of American Climate Corps members.
The most surprising revelation from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover — that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater — has scientists scratching their heads. Living creatures produce most of the methane on Earth. But scientists haven’t found convincing signs of current or ancient life on Mars, and thus didn’t expect to find methane […]
An energy startup aimed at cleaning up artificial intelligence’s massive use of electricity is getting a multi-million dollar boost from investors, including the AI industry’s top leader.Read more...
UN Live’s CEO, Katja Iversen, says the way to engage people in the environment is through popular culture—film, music, gaming, sports, food, and fashion. She is excited about the Sounds Right project, which puts the sounds of nature—bird songs, waves, wind, and rainfall—at the center of a campaign to support those involved in climate action. […]
Thunderbolt Solar panels can give you free renewable energy without a huge investment. But where can you buy them, and are they any good?
E-bikes have exploded in popularity recently as more people try to reduce their carbon footprint. Here are some of the best budget e-bikes you can buy.
New scientific analysis details impacts of climate change in Europe, where temperatures are running at 2.3 degrees above pre-industrial levels, compared to 1.3 degrees higher globally.
[DW] El Nino is causing extreme weather events in East Africa and a crippling drought in the south of the continent. Experts say immediate action is needed to tackle famine and displacement.
The new wastewater discharge standards for coal plants are expected to be finalized Thursday, along with other regulations.
Happy Earth Day 2024. Ask people worldwide “is climate change a problem?” and the answer is usually a clear “yes.” But ask a follow-up, “what is the real nature of that problem?” and the picture is murkier. Answers might range … Continue reading →
Historic hearing will receive submissions from people whose human rights have been affected by climate change Julian Medina comes from a long line of fishers in the north of Colombia’s Gulf of Morrosquillo who use small-scale and often traditional methods to catch species such as mackerel, tuna and cojinúa. Medina went into business as a young man but was drawn back to his roots, and ended up leading a fishing organisation. For years he has campaigned against the encroachment of fossil fuel companies, pollution and overfishing, which are destroying the gulf’s delicate ecosystem and people’s livelihoods. Continue reading...
Germany was further confronted with extreme weather conditions and their consequences last year. With this summer likely to break records again, a new report shows the impact climate change is having.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) has urged manufacturers and industries to embrace energy efficiency and management to lessen their energy costs during operation.
Transmission Gully. PHOTO: Mark Tantrum, NZTA. Fast-Track legislation will take New Zealand further off track from meeting climate change obligations - and places the country at risk of breaching them, according to Lawyers...
Shading the planet by spraying aerosols into the stratosphere might stave off ice sheet collapse, modelling studies suggest, but we are running out of time
Europe saw its warmest year on record in 2023, both on land and sea, with climate change driving the rate of warming at double the global average, according to a new international report published Monday.
[Africa Renewal] Integrity is key as world's largest carbon market auction is held in Nairobi
Funds will be targeted at disadvantaged areas to create 200,000 jobs, after last week’s oil and gas lease restrictions in Alaska Joe Biden will mark Monday’s Earth Day by announcing a $7bn investment in solar energy projects nationwide, focusing on disadvantaged communities, and unveiling a week-long series of what the White House say will be “historic climate actions”. The president is traveling to Virginia’s Prince William Forest Park to deliver a speech touting his environmental record, including measures to tackle the climate crisis and increase access to, and lower costs of, clean energy. Continue reading...
COP29 could make carbon markets permanent. Indigenous leaders are calling for a moratorium before it's too late.
Environmentalists fear focus on economy may undermine country’s climate transition – one of most radical in Europe Portugal has been among Europe’s more ambitious countries in terms of climate action, but the rise of the far right in recent elections could threaten the positive steps the country has taken. At the end of 2023, Portugal broke records as it went for six consecutive days relying solely on renewable energy. But national elections in March this year marked a significant shift in the political landscape, with the far-right party Chega (Enough) making a major breakthrough. Having more than quadrupled its number of MPs from 12 to 50, Chega holds considerable sway in the 230-seat parliament, where it could influence legislation. Continue reading...
CNN — Iranian authorities have warned that crocodiles are being forced from their natural habitats as floods devastate parts of the country’s southeast. Three road construction workers have died in the flooding, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Thursday, which came after a record-breaking storm hit the Middle East. Heavy downpours and subsequent flash … The post Iranians told to watch out for loose crocodiles as flooding hits country’s southeast appeared first on Egypt Independent.
The next international climate meeting could make carbon markets permanent. Indigenous leaders call for a moratorium before it’s too late. The post Indigenous people rush to stop ‘false climate solutions’ ahead of COP29 appeared first on High Country News.
The world is facing multiple crises that must be tackled quickly, with innovative approaches and brave decisions. The global financial architecture is an area that needs reform and thinking outside the box. The system created 80 years ago is not able to deal with today’s problems that range from climate change to pandemics, to increasing […]
The number of heat-related deaths in Europe increased 30% in the last 20 years. Climate change is to blame.
Thailand's sugar cane output declined in the 2023-24 crop year, resulting from severe drought, which may affect sugar supply in the global market, says the Office of the Cane and Sugar Board (OCSB).
The National Commission on Climate and Workforce Health said companies would benefit by helping employees cope with extreme events.
by Mark Olalde, ProPublica, and Nick Bowlin, Capital & Main ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. For the first time in more than 60 years, the Bureau of Land Management will force oil and gas companies to set aside more money to guarantee they plug old wells, preventing them from leaking oil, brine and toxic or climate-warming gasses. The rule, finalized this month, comes at a critical time. Money previously...
Michael Hubrich via Getty ImagesA new report urges Europe to invest in more renewable energy after it was reveled to be the fastest-warming continent—heating up at approximately twice the global average. According to the joint report by the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization and the European Union’s climate agency, Copernicus, Europe has seen a rise in renewable resources in 12 months–up to 43% in 2023 in comparison to 36% in 2022. More renewable energy has been generated than from fossil fuels in Europe for the second consecutive year.But not all of the news is so good. 2023 was the second-warmest year on record for Europe, at 1.02–1.12°C above average, according to the report. Meanwhile, Europe has recorded the three warmest years on record since 2020, and the ten warmest since 2007...
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Europeans are dying from hot weather 30% more than they did two decades ago, report finds Scorching weather has baked Europe in more days of “extreme heat stress” than its scientists have ever seen. Heat-trapping pollutants that clog the atmosphere helped push temperatures in Europe last year to the highest or second-highest levels ever recorded, according to the EU’s Earth-watching service Copernicus and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Continue reading...
Biologists on a trail in the Ecuadoran Amazon hold their breath as they distribute a foul-smelling delicacy to lure butterflies, critical pollinators increasingly threatened by climate change.
Drought, wildfires, floods and record heat in Europe. Last year, was one of extreme climate impacts for humans and nature. But there's some positive news too.
Resolution Foundation calls for fourfold increase in renewable power investment to reduce pressure on household bills A permanent shift to higher interest rates could add billions of pounds to the UK’s renewable energy transition, a leading thinktank has warned. Borrowing costs have soared since the easing of pandemic lockdowns and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the world’s leading central banks raised interest rates to tackle inflation – pushing up the costs of investment in infrastructure across advanced economies including for green power generation schemes . Continue reading...
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Climate protesters gather for the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice march in Glasgow in November 2021
Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho defends government after watchdog accuses PM of setting the UK back.
Officials urge municipalities to begin emergency planning after major rivers and reservoirs threaten to overflow Major rivers, waterways and reservoirs in China’s Guangdong province are threatening to unleash dangerous floods, forcing the government to enact emergency response plans to protect more than 127 million people. Calling the situation “grim“, local weather officials said sections of rivers and tributaries at the Xijiang and Beijiang river basins are hitting water levels in a rare spike that only has a one-in-50 chance of happening in any given year, state broadcaster CCTV news said on Sunday. Continue reading...
Whether and how much the approach helps the environment is hotly debated. Critics say it creates the impression of benefit at the expensive of more effective efforts.
South-east Queensland is set to be drenched by up to 100mm of rain after a low pressure system formed on the Coral which will cause the heavy downpour.
Our climate is influenced not just by Pacific weather patterns but by the Indian and Southern oceans, as well as global heating trends Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The Bureau of Meteorology has declared the end of the 2023-24 El Niño event . Since 1910, there have been 29 El Niños, a phase that sees easterly equatorial winds in the Pacific slow or even reverse. These increase the odds in eastern Australia for a dry winter into spring. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading...
In California’s boom-and-bust climate, Death Valley has offered some of the strangest scenes over the past few years. Some of the area’s perennial creosote bushes died back during a severe drought that hampered the region through 2022. Then torrential downpours — from the remnants of Hurricane Hilary and subsequent storms — revived annual wildflowers from seed over the last year. During the winter, extreme rainfall resurrected an ancient lake that is now disappearing once again. Together, these extremes have created bizarre juxtapositions in the famed desert. “I could take you to a field of dead creosote bushes with nice wildflowers springing up in between,” said Patrick Donnelly, a conservation biologist at the Center for Biological Diversity. “For a plant, it’s a post-apocalyptic wasteland...
Nasa utilizes AI and open science to address climate change challenges through technological advancement, transparency, data sharing, global collaboration, and educational outreach, setting a precedent for effective environmental stewardship and scientific inquiry.
The motorway speed limit used to be 130kmh (81mph) until 2019 when it was cut to 100kmh (62mph) after Dutch courts ordered the government to cut air pollution to meet EU net zero targets.
Though Isles coach Patrick Roy had said earlier in the day that Pageau would see how he felt after warm-ups, the center did not make it onto the PNC Arena ice pregame.
The Environmental Protection Agency has designated two PFAS substances, commonly known as "forever chemicals" as hazardous substances under the United States' Superfund law.
In recent weeks, Ukraine has focused its efforts on dismantling oil refineries and energy facilities within Russia.
DUBAI - The heavy rains that flooded Dubai this week halted air traffic, damaged buildings and streets — and left climate experts and common citizens asking whether one of the world’s hottest and driest cities should be better prepared for extreme storms.
In a BBC interview, Chris Stark says the PM has not made climate change "as much of a priority as his predecessors".
Green members demand meeting after Scottish government abandons pledge to cut emissions 75% by 2030 Scottish Greens are to hold a vote to determine the future of the party’s power-sharing agreement with the Scottish National party, after the government abandoned its pledge to cut carbon emissions 75% by 2030. Members will be able to vote on whether their party should continue to cooperate with the SNP after the announcement on Thursday that the Scottish government was scrapping its key climate pledge. Continue reading...
AS someone who was working to establish the Greens when they were still the Ecology Party and Patrick Harvie would have still been in short trousers, I am appalled that neither he nor his co-leader Lorna Slater did not resign from the Government over dropping climate change targets.
West Asia oil shipments remain stable amidst Israel-Iran tensions. Speculators influence Benchmark Brent prices. Opec's Hai Tham al-Ghais engages with India on oil imports. Potential disruption if Hormuz Strait blocked."}
The Supreme Court has decreed that Article 48A of the Constitution, which aims to preserve the environment and safeguard forests and wildlife, is intricately linked to the citizens' right to life. It has urged governments to prioritize forest protection as a means to shield both the nation and the world from the adverse impacts of climate change.
The Scottish Greens have called an EGM after the Scottish government ditched key climate change targets.
Polestar, which has dreams of toppling Tesla one day, is making a gorgeous phone that will live as part of its connected electric car ecosystem.
This Alaska Insight, host Lori Townsend and her guests discuss how realistic a transition to renewable energy is, and how long it could take.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has listed two chemicals as 'hazardous' and added them to the Superfund law that holds industries accountable for the cost and clean-up of the toxins.
Carbon storage calculations don’t always take into account the effects of animals – when they eat, defecate and die, they help store lots of carbon
Tit-for-tat attacks have breached taboo of direct strikes on each other’s territory but Tehran has no ‘immediate’ plans to retaliate Middle East crisis – live updates World leaders urged calm on Friday after Israel conducted a pre-dawn drone sortie over Iran following a cycle of tit-for-tat attacks that crossed an important red line that has for decades held the Middle East back from a major regional conflict. There were tentative hopes late on Friday that the apparent strike attempt against an airbase near the city of Isfahan was sufficiently limited to fend off the threat of a bigger Iranian response and an uncontrolled spiral of violence between a nuclear power and a state with the capacity to develop nuclear weapons quickly. Continue reading...
YANVARTSEVO, Kazakhstan - Kazakhstan braced on Friday for levels on the Ural River to rise sharply, something that could threaten two of its western regions and key oil infrastructure, while Russia grappled with floods in and near Siberia.
Environmental groups say bosses should ‘hang their heads in shame’ as firm bows to pressure from shareholders to cut costs Unilever is to scale back its environmental and social aims, provoking critics to say its board should “hang their heads in shame”. The consumer goods company behind brands ranging from Dove beauty products to Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream was seen as perhaps the foremost proponent of corporate ethics – particularly under the tenure of its Dutch former boss Paul Polman . Continue reading...
Governments and regulators should recognize oil and gas mergers as an important inflexion point to ensure environmental harm is minimized and emissions are reduced.
Volt Typhoon hacking campaign is waiting ‘for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow’, says Christopher Wray Chinese government-linked hackers have burrowed into US critical infrastructure and are waiting “for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow”, the director of the FBI , Christopher Wray, has warned. An ongoing Chinese hacking campaign known as Volt Typhoon has successfully gained access to numerous American companies in telecommunications, energy, water and other critical sectors, with 23 pipeline operators targeted, Wray said in a speech at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, on Thursday. Continue reading...
MOSCOW - Russian oil producer Bashneft has installed anti-drone nets to protect key facilities at its refineries from potential Ukrainian attack, the head of the republic of Bashkortostan where the company is based was quoted as saying on Friday.
Travelers are still stranded in Dubai due to the historic floods that hit the desert nation as visitors camp out at the airport with very little food and scenes of chaos.
The Israeli military attacked Iran early Friday, and oil markets have gotten the jitters in response. Initial reports suggest that Iran is downplaying the impact of the strikes, which might mean that tensions between the two countries could de-escalate. Read more...
Environmentalists celebrate new rules but Alaska politicians call it an ‘illegal’ attack on state’s livelihood and predict lawsuits The Biden administration said on Friday it will restrict new oil and gas leasing on 13m acres (5.3m hectares) of a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska to help protect wildlife such as caribou and polar bears as the Arctic continues to warm. The decision – part of an ongoing, years-long fight over whether and how to develop the vast oil resources in the state – finalizes protections first proposed last year as the Biden administration prepared to approve the controversial Willow oil project . Continue reading...
The Environmental Protection Agency designated two of the most widely used per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as hazardous substances.
Some projects that will receive support are in communities with closed coal mines or coal-fired plants.
“The Department of the Interior seems to believe that they care about this land more than we do,” said North Slope Borough Mayor Josiah Patkotak.
The United States on Friday blocked oil, gas and mining operations across tracts of unspoiled wilderness in Alaska, winning praise from environmentalists for safeguarding habitat for polar bears, caribou and other Arctic species.
Canadian banks that refuse to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits are forcing the government to change the law to make them do it, minister says.
A new Bureau of Land Management rule says that conservation is a "use" of public land, just like grazing, mining or recreation. The State of Utah is ready to sue over it.
Research into release of ‘forever chemicals’ raises concerns about contamination and human exposure along world’s coastlines Ocean waves crashing on the world’s shores emit more PFAS into the air than the world’s industrial polluters, new research has found, raising concerns about environmental contamination and human exposure along coastlines. The study measured levels of PFAS released from the bubbles that burst when waves crash, spraying aerosols into the air. It found sea spray levels were hundreds of thousands times higher than levels in the water. Continue reading...
Exclusive: Study released at Cop28 misused research to underestimate impact of cutting meat eating, say academics A flagship UN report on livestock emissions is facing calls for retraction from two key experts it cited who say that the paper “seriously distorted” their work. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) misused their research to underestimate the potential of reduced meat intake to cut agricultural emissions, according to a letter sent to the FAO by the two academics , which the Guardian has seen. Continue reading...
The Ross Ice Shelf, a platform of ice measuring nearly 200,000 square miles, moves suddenly like plate tectonics that cause earthquakes, say scientists at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
[UN News] Renewable energy, if supported by governments, can "truly change the landscape" in terms of achieving equitable access to affordable and clean energy, but only if those governments can move from "commitment to action"; That's according to the Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
State revealed as America’s overwhelming emitter of sulfuryl fluoride, used by $4.2bn pest-control industry to kill termites Levels of a potent greenhouse gas are quietly spiking in the atmosphere and increasingly worrying environmental groups that say its use needs to be reined in if the US is to avoid climate catastrophe. Furthermore, recent research has found the vast majority of the little-known gas, known as sulfuryl fluoride, is attributable to a state typically known for its climate-forward policies: California. Continue reading...
India faces drought in 125 districts as per SPEI data by IMD, Pune, impacting agriculture and water resources. States like Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu affected. El Nino effect observed in some districts.
The Interior Department finalized a rule limiting future oil and gas development across 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
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Latin American nations must be on high alert as the weather phenomenon known as El Nino rapidly switches over to La Nina, experts said on Thursday, leaving populations and crops little time to recover.
An older demographic and greater use of electric vehicles (EV) are the driving forces behind the solar power business in Thailand, says New Energy Plus Solutions Co (NEPS), which expects 66% growth in its earnings this year from sales of rooftop solar panels and installation.
Experts warn that if deep-pocketed tech companies buy up carbon-free electricity from large nuclear baseload power plants and take that power off the grid too quickly, they will exacerbate the reliability risks now facing the broader network.
The goal is to ensure consumers are benefiting from major public investments in wildfire risk reduction.
The poll suggests that although the Inflation Reduction Act has already affected some Americans, it's not widely known among the general population.
[IFRC] This press release was originally published by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group. An expert from the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre contributed to the study and is quoted below.
[African Arguments] Projections that assume the Global North will continue to over-emit help perpetuate inequalities and violate principles of equity, warn scientists.
Disney had previously committed to ditching gasoline engines but left open hybrids as a possibility and hadn't set a firm timeline.
Oil prices rallied and equities sank Friday as reports said explosions had been heard in Iran and Syria, fuelling fears of an escalation of the Middle East crisis after last weekend's missile attack on Israel by Tehran.
Heavy rain has devastated Dubai causing massive floods and damage.
As extreme weather events increase around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our warming planet has increased as well. For NASA, climate research involves not only conducting studies of these events, but also empowering outside researchers to do the same. The artificial intelligence (AI) efforts spearheaded by the agency […]
Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden revealed that a top-level review is under way into whether hostile states could use the vehicles (EVs) as intelligence-gathering devices.
An ex-NASA physicist tells DailyMail.com that space junk could strip Earth's atmosphere - as Starlink becomes an 'unplanned geoengineering experiment'
Images of a saturated desert metropolis startled the world, prompting talk of cloud seeding, climate change and designing cities for intensified weather.
The El Nino pattern has reverted to neutral while a La Nina could form after July, but for now, our weather is likely to be typical allowing for the 1.5 degrees of warming already baked into the climate.
The rate of retreat of the ice caps in the northern Sredinny Range from 2002 to 2017 was 4.3 times higher than from 1950 to 2002.
Patrick Harvie will tonight face angry members of the Scottish Greens - some now questioning the value of the Bute House Agreement - following this afternoon announcement by the Scottish Government to formally ditch a key climate change target.
The European Court of Human Rights has given one of the most extraordinary judgments it has ever handed down. It ruled that Switzerland had acted unlawfully in failing to take adequate steps to combat climate change, and that this failure was a breach of human rights.
[RFI] An extreme heatwave in the Sahel region in March and April would not have been as lethal without human-caused climate change, the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group of climate researchers has found. It warned of an increase in extreme weather if carbon emissions are not rapidly reduced.
[Leadership] Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria (NOGASA) on Tuesday clear the air over the purported crisis between it and other unions stating that it neither had any issues with Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, Petroleum Tanker Drivers nor any other group in the downstream sector of the petroleum industry in the country.
Màiri McAllan has confirmed that the Scottish Government is scrapping a key climate change target.
Science in Space: April 2024 Everyone on Earth is touched by the effects of climate change, such as hotter temperatures, shifts in rain patterns, and sea level rise. Collecting climate data helps communities better plan for these changes and build more resilience to them. The International Space Station, one of dozens of NASA missions contributing […]
Parts of Ecuador were facing power cuts of up to 13 hours on Thursday amid an electricity crisis sparked by a drought that has left key hydroelectric reservoirs nearly depleted.
Image: Dubai floods seen from space
The annual and interim climate targets will be replaced with a system measuring emissions every five years.
The burning of fossil fuels plays a major role in the region's unusually intense heat wave.
Combining engineering, earth system science, and the social sciences, Course 1-12 prepares students to develop climate solutions.
The change in the much-anticipated BLM rule puts protection and restoration of lands on par with other uses, such as oil drilling and grazing.
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Renewable energy, if supported by governments, can “truly change the landscape” in terms of achieving equitable access to affordable and clean energy, but only if those governments can move from “commitment to action”; That’s according to the Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry has maintained that no one was killed directly by the floods.
Japan expects AUVs to be used for inspecting offshore wind power generation facilities and underwater surveillance.
Climate Change and Revenue minister Simon Watts and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon are leading a business delegation to South East Asia. New Zealand has signed separate partnership agreements with Singapore and Thailand,...
The grass pea is one: a hardy crop that can thrive in a drought. An agriculturist is spearheading an effort to diversity what farmers grow as climate change threatens staples like corn and wheat.
Farmers around the world are reigniting the less intensive agricultural practices of yesteryear—to improve soil health, raise yields, and trap carbon in the atmosphere back down in the soil.
CNN — Unseasonal rainfall has lashed Pakistan and Afghanistan over the past few days, killing more than 100 people across the neighboring countries, authorities said. In Afghanistan, heavy rain and floods in 23 provinces killed 66 people and wounded 36 others, according to preliminary reports from Mullah Janan Sayeq, a spokesman for the Ministry of … The post More than 100 killed across Pakistan and Afghanistan as flash floods and heavy rains sweep the region appeared first on Egypt Independent.
Recycling more of the copper, aluminum, and other minerals in our old electronics could reduce the need for mining.
[IPS] London -- The heat records keep tumbling - 2023 was the hottest year in recorded history. Extreme weather events keep mounting up. And yet the voices most strongly calling for action to prevent climate catastrophe are increasingly being silenced.
A study published earlier his year in the science journal Nature suggests gardeners should evaluate the carbon footprint of things like co-operative or collective gardens by looking at what they use to build them and, as importantly, what they grow and how they grow it.
The world economy faces significant losses if carbon emissions are not curbed.
While electric vehicles (EVs) gain in popularity as an option to replace oil-powered cars, hydrogen still holds promise as a future energy that may suit mobility technology and help reduce air pollutants, says national oil and gas conglomerate PTT Plc.
Proposed legislation aims to fill gaps in existing regulations, but business and environmental groups see different futures.
Scientists said extreme temperatures that reached 119 degrees Fahrenheit and killed at least 100 people would normally occur every 200 years.
The state House stripped the bill of provisions that would have granted some local control over CO2 injection wells.
A recent poll from AAPI Data and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 84 percent of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults agree climate change exists.
Precipitation has diminished in Ecuador and Colombia this year due to rising temperatures in the south Pacific Ocean, which can also generate intense droughts in the Andean valleys.
[The Conversation Africa] A greater part of Africa's population can't afford a healthy diet than any other regional population. Food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa is caused by climate change, high levels of poverty, rapid population growth, low economic growth, inadequate infrastructure and conflicts. Women are the backbone of agricultural labour in the region. The problems of limited access to land, water and technology faced by these women also worsen food insecurity.
[The Conversation Africa] The effects of ocean warming are profound and well-documented. But sometimes changes in the patterns of winds and ocean currents cause seawater to suddenly cool, instead.
Deaths from record temperatures in Mali reportedly led to full morgues turning away bodies this month The deadly protracted heatwave that filled hospitals and mortuaries in the Sahel region of Africa earlier this month would have been impossible without human-caused climate disruption, a new analysis has revealed. Mali registered the hottest day in its history on 3 April as temperatures hit 48.5C in the south-western city of Kayes. Intense heat continued across a wide area of the country for more than five days and nights, giving vulnerable people no time for recovery. Continue reading...
Foreign minister warns of environmental catastrophe in Baltic Sea as he accuses Moscow of using unseaworthy vessels Russia appears prepared to create “environmental havoc” by sailing unseaworthy oil tankers through the Baltic Sea in breach of all maritime rules, the Swedish foreign minister has said. Speaking to the Guardian during his first visit to London since Sweden became a Nato member, Tobias Billström called for new rules and enforcement mechanisms to prevent the ageing and uninsured Russian shadow fleet causing an environmental catastrophe. About half of all Russian oil transported by sea the passes through the Baltic Sea and Danish waters, often operating under opaque ownership, and using international waters to try to avoid scrutiny. Continue reading...
Sen. Bert Stedman said the state has been "blessed" the last couple of years by high oil prices — but warned high prices won't last forever.
JAPARATINGA, Brazil - Brazil is bracing for what may be its worst-ever coral bleaching event as extremely warm waters damage reefs in the country's largest marine reserve – threatening the region's tourism and fishing revenues.
Cloud seeding almost certainly did not play a significant role in the flooding on the Arabian peninsula this week – but the heavy rains may have been exacerbated by climate change
Though oil companies do a lot more than other businesses to contribute to global warming, Shell thinks it’s doing just enough to fight global warming. Ahead of its annual meeting next month, its notice document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday is advising shareholders to vote down a…Read more...
American tourists are stuck in Dubai after the desert nation was hit with 'historic' floods that drenched the city and shut down its airport.
ADVISORY: Embargoed WRI Press Call on Cities Climate Hazards Analysis casey.skeens@wri.org Wed, 04/17/2024 - 15:23 Registration is for members of the media only. Register here. WASHINGTON (April 17, 2024) – Join the World Resources Institute (WRI) team on April 23, 2024 at 8:30 AM EDT / 14:30 CEST , for a preview of new analysis highlighting climate hazards under different warming scenarios – including heatwaves, cooling demand, and disease – for the world’s cities. The speakers will present findings on potential climate hazards for nearly 1,000 cities across the world – currently home to 2.1 billion people representing 26 percent of the global population. The data analysis and projections show the shifts, patterns and links between climate...
The United States on Wednesday announced that it will be reimposing sanctions on Venezuelan oil after the government had conceded that the South American country had not gotten close enough to free and fair elections.
Observations of Venus taken with the BepiColombo space probe show that our cosmic neighbor is leaking significant amounts of carbon and oxygen from its atmosphere, and researchers can't totally explain why.
Dubai has been hit by record floods, sparking misleading speculation about cloud seeding.
The United States said Wednesday it will snap back sanctions on Venezuela's crucial oil industry after President Nicolas Maduro's government continued its repression of opponents.
A senior U.S. official, discussing the decision with reporters, said any U.S. company investing in Venezuela would have 45 days to wind down operations to avoid adding uncertainty to global energy markets.
As the Orkney Islands position themselves as a pivotal hub in Scotland’s renewable energy landscape – leveraging centuries of innovation and strategic natural assets – the focus now shifts to infrastructural advancements and collaborations to harness the region’s full potential, writes Paul Olvhoj, Business Development Manager at Orkney Harbours
This is a re-post from Andrew Dessler at the Climate Brink blog In 2023, the Earth reached temperature levels unprecedented in modern times. Given that, it’s reasonable to ask: What’s going on? There’s been lots of discussions by scientists about whether this is just the normal progression of global warming or if something we don’t understand is happening — in other words, we’ve broken the climate. from the Washington Post In this post, I compare the observational temperature record to an ensemble of state-of-the-art CMIP6 models to see exactly how unusual 2023 was. It turns out that 2023 is just not that unusual when compared to the model ensemble. Let’s start with observations. I’m going to...
Coral bleaching was observed on 73 per cent of the surveyed reefs in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
Government support for green manufacturing is actually the easy part. To truly reduce emissions, we must stop digging up and burning fossil fuels Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Last week Anthony Albanese finally announced the government’s major plan for the transition to a renewable energy economy. The Future Made in Australia plan was quickly derided by critics as “picking winners”, in the misguided view that the market is better at deciding how to tackle climate change and that the market is in any way free or lacking distortions. It’s an article of faith among many economists and commentators that governments should not try to “pick winners”, despite the fact that Australia has a long and glorious tradition of doing so. Continue reading...
Anadolu via Getty ImagesCryptocurrency aficionados flying into Dubai this week were looking forward to a few days in the desert sunshine enjoying a series of high-profile crypto events and some glamorous afterparties.Instead, many have been plunged into a nightmare. The United Arab Emirates has been lashed by the heaviest rainfall the country has seen for 75 years, with some areas seeing over 10 inches of precipitation in under 24 hours, the state’s media office said in a statement Tuesday. Flash flooding around Dubai saw roadways completely submerged and the city’s airport warned travelers to stay away while flights were delayed and diverted.After the rains began late Monday, the downpour continued until more rain had fallen on Dubai in 24 hours than the region typically records in a year...
It comes after Britons who are in Dubai opened up about their nightmarish experiences in the city after a storm dumped more than a year's worth of rain in the space of a matter of hours.
The full extent of the impact is still unknown despite a 'gutwrenching' update on Wednesday which revealed almost three-quarters of the reef has been affected.
Addressing our planet’s climate crisis requires commitment, cooperation, and urgency – all underpinned by finance. But our international financial systems were not designed for a challenge of this scale, and we are falling behind in meeting the needs of developing countries in combatting climate change.
CNN — It’s not just ocean heat that’s affecting marine life – new research shows extremely cold events are welling up and causing mass mortalities. And the same planet-warming pollution that’s driving the climate crisis is likely to blame for these “killer events” on the other end of the temperature spectrum. The world’s oceans have … The post How climate change could be driving ‘killer’ cold outbreaks in oceans appeared first on Egypt Independent.
WASHINGTON/HOUSTON - The Biden administration has signaled that it could reimpose oil sanctions on Venezuela on Thursday in response to what U.S. officials see as President Nicolas Maduro's failure to meet his commitments for free and fair elections this year.
A new office to lead on environmental justice and civil rights is dealing with a transition of top staff and questions over whether it can meet administration goals.
Rahul Vaidya, amidst Dubai's storm, shared flooded images humorously on social media, highlighting the city's unpreparedness for heavy rains. The storm led to floods in UAE, Bahrain, and fatalities in Oman.
Climate change caused by CO2 emissions already in the atmosphere will shrink global GDP in 2050 by about $38 trillion, or almost a fifth, no matter how aggressively humanity cuts carbon pollution, researchers said Wednesday.
[Seychelles News Agency] Climate mitigation will play a big role in the strategic plan of the Islands Development Company (IDC) and it is crucial to put adequate measures in place sooner rather than later if Seychelles wants to preserve its islands, said a top official in a press conference.
Virginia data centers that process nearly 70 percent of global digital traffic need more electricity. Coal-fired power plants in neighboring states are going to provide it.
Pressure piles on World Bank and IMF to steer countries to low-carbon transition at spring summit Governments of wealthy countries must pledge hundreds of billions more in overseas aid payments channelled through the World Bank to avert the worst effects of the climate crisis, civil society experts and economists have said. The International Development Association fund, the arm of the World Bank that disburses loans and grants to poor countries, is worth about $93bn (£b75n) but that figure must be roughly tripled by 2030, according to economic experts . Continue reading...
Herders in Kenya are substituting camels for cows, whose numbers have declined by the millions as drought has devastated eastern Africa.
TOKYO: Oil prices eased in early trade on Wednesday as worries about global demand due to weak economic momentum in China and fading hopes for U.S. interest rate cuts in the near term outweighed supply fears on heightened tensions in the Middle East.
The Senate kicks off the impeachment trial of the Homeland Security secretary. Coral reefs are undergoing a mass bleaching event that could soon be the worst on record.
Experts have backed rail to transport agricultural products over long distances following a successful trial, which saw a 13-fold lowering of carbon emissions when compared to air freight. It was also cheaper.
The report found that U.S. LNG had a lower emissions intensity than coal when used for power generation in 13 European and Asian countries.
Steel is one of the most carbon-intensive industries, producing roughly 8 percent of energy sector emissions annually,
Tuesday's agreement with Norway outlines cooperation on green transportation, energy, agriculture and recycling.
Climate change is heating oceans faster than the world's coral reefs can handle. So scientists are breeding corals that can withstand hotter temperatures – but only to a point.
Our guiding light will be progressive realism and an end to the reckless, gaffe-prone diplomacy of the Tory years Every time you look at social media, a new international crisis is unfolding. Drones from Iran or one of its proxies hurtling towards Israel. Another Israeli strike kills civilians in Gaza. A Ukrainian city faces a fresh wave of attacks from Putin’s war machine. The revelation of another cyber attack from a hostile state on UK soil. Another threat of a land grab in my ancestral home of Guyana. Another coup in the Sahel . A new flood, wildfire or hurricane – the latest manifestation of the climate emergency that is too often treated as an afterthought. The world order – which once appeared governed, at least to a large extent, by the rules we helped set up with our allies after...
Co-authors say ‘no-regrets policy’ would save consumers €2.8bn a year while cutting emissions by 48m tonnes Healthier ready-to-eat meals could cut EU emissions by 48m tonnes annually and save customers €2.8bn (£2.4bn) each year, as well as reducing disease, a report has found. Fast food and ready meals provide more than a sixth of the EU’s calories but contain far more salt and meat than doctors recommend, according to an analysis from the consultancy Systemiq commissioned by environmental nonprofit organisations Fern and Madre Brava. Continue reading...
The Panama Canal has been dubbed the greatest engineering feat in human history. It's also (perhaps less favorably) been called the greatest liberty mankind has ever taken with Mother Nature. But due to climate change, the Canal is drying up and fewer than half of the ships that used to pass through are now able to do so. So how did we get here? Today on the show, we're talking to Cristina Henriquez, the author of a new novel that explores the making of the Canal. It took 50,000 people from 90 different countries to carve the land in two — and the consequences of that extraordinary, nature-defying act are still echoing through our present.
At a South African wine farm, dry, uprooted grapevines are stacked at the bottom of a hilly stretch of brown fallow land.
Scientists say it's shaping up to be the worst one yet.
Former environment secretary Theresa Villiers called for the substance to be outlawed by 2024 to restore peatlands, which are the UK's largest carbon sink.
The Islanders and Hurricanes, who squared off in the playoffs last season, are coming into the playoffs looking much better than they did last year.
EDF's 2024 Climate Corps fellowship program empowers a new cohort of 185+ global fellows to advance climate solutions at over 130 organizations.
Bumblebees can surprisingly withstand days underwater, according to a study published Wednesday, suggesting they could withstand increased floods brought on by climate change that threaten their winter hibernation burrows.
In the UK, anxiety over the crisis after Iran’s missile strike on Israel drives down UK shares An escalating Middle East conflict risks leading to higher oil prices, a reversal of the recent fall in inflation and a puncturing of the optimistic mood in financial markets, the International Monetary Fund has warned. The Washington-based IMF said it was closely monitoring events in the region after Iran’s missile strike on Israel at the weekend and stressed the possibility that a war between the two countries could lead to higher interest rates. Continue reading...
A New Program Will Bring Clean Energy to Disadvantaged Neighborhoods in the US shannon.paton@… Tue, 04/16/2024 - 13:11 The U.S. just made one of its biggest investments in bringing clean energy to the communities that need it most. In April 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released $20 billion through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), one of the most significant clean energy funding programs created through the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act . The funding essentially creates a national green bank network, distributing funds to an initial eight non-profits to finance clean energy projects that would otherwise lack access to capital. The GGRF is made up of three sub-programs: The National Clean Investment Fund (NCIF), which delivers...
Nineteen provinces in the North and the Northeast were shrouded with slightly unsafe levels of fine dust but no “red” levels of air pollution were detected nationwide on Tuesday afternoon.
Up to four regulations would cover a variety of pollutants including carbon dioxide.
Its revised energy mix target would provide companies a better long-term outlook for investment decisions.
Enabling the Shift to Electric Auto-Rickshaws: A Guidebook for Electrification of Auto-rickshaw Fleets in Indian Cities shannon.paton@… Tue, 04/16/2024 - 10:58 This project update highlights the release of a comprehensive guidebook aimed at facilitating the transition to electric auto-rickshaws (e-autos) in Indian cities. The transition to e-autos is critical for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, combating urban air pollution and promoting sustainable urban mobility in India. With auto-rickshaws serving as a vital mode of shared mobility, their electrification presents an opportunity to enhance environmental sustainability while improving the livelihoods of drivers and promoting social inclusion. About the Guidebook The guidebook offers a roadmap for governing authorities...
We need nature-based climate solutons to work. Yet as a recent study shows, questions remain on how we can achieve the best ground-level outcomes and maximize the enormous potential of these solutions to lower greenhouse gas concentrations.
Coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching for the fourth time, top reef scientists declared, a result of warming ocean waters amid human-caused climate change.
An expert said said that oil-related sanctions have not been strictly enforced in the past couple of years.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis, April 16 -- Tunisia, which has suffered six years of drought over the past decade, is considered to be the 5th most vulnerable country in the world to the growing risk of droughts and water shortages, according to the latest report published in March 2024 by the Tunisian Institute of Competitiveness and Quantitative Studies (ITCEQ).
Riley Duren, a research scientist at the University of Arizona, explained how new satellites are changing companies' and governments' ability to find and stop methane leaks and avoid wasting a valuable product.
A wet spring in the United States will dampen early fires, but some regions will see elevated risk this summer. The post Forecasters expect slow start to U.S. wildfire season appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
Dr Sarah Benn, 57, is fighting to keep her licence to practise medicine after being jailed for 31 days for contempt of court by breaching an injunction not to demonstrate outside Kingsbury oil terminal.
Our ozone is pennies thick – and soon we’ll put at least an Eiffel Tower’s worth of metallic ash into the ionosphere every year A dead spacecraft the size of a truck ignites with plasma and pulverizes into dust and litter as it rips through the ionosphere and atmosphere. This is what happens to internet service satellites during re-entry. When the full mega-constellation of satellites is deployed in the 2030s, companies will do this every hour because satellite internet requires thousands of satellites to constantly be replaced. And it could compromise our atmosphere or even our magnetosphere. Space entrepreneurs are betting on disposable satellites as key to a new means of wealth. There are currently nearly 10,000 active satellites and companies are working as fast as possible to get...
Many products consumed by Britons could be hit by floods and droughts driven by climate crisis UK facing food shortages and price rises after extreme weather From floods to droughts, extreme weather driven by human-caused global heating has become the new normal, causing havoc with the global food supply system.Many products bought and consumed in the UK are at risk of low supply and increased prices. Continue reading...
Scientists have discovered a landscape of rocky hills and smooth plains beneath the remote Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. A team of researchers used seismic imaging to map the area … The post New insights into the bed beneath remote Antarctic glacier appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Scientists are a step closer to being able to predict when large icebergs will calve in Antarctica. A team of glaciologists will present their new results at the European Geoscience … The post Scientists one step closer to predicting iceberg calving appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00445K, Review Article Farid Attar, Hang Yin, Simon Lennard Schumann, Julien Langley, Nicholas Cox, Zhiyuan Zeng, Kylie Catchpole, Siva Krishna Karuturi, Zongyou Yin New sustainable energy technologies are an important current research field, which aim to address the global environmental challenge caused by our excessive reliance on fossil fuels. Underpinning this field is... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00048J, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Hakhyeon Song, Carlos A. Fernandez, Hyeonuk Choi, Po-Wei Huang, Jihun Oh, Marta C. Hatzell Electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2RR) offers an environmentally friendly method to transform and harness sequestered CO2. While gas-phase electrolysis systems provide high efficiency, gas-phase electrolysis systems face challenges related to carbonate... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching for the fourth time due to prolonged warming of the oceans, according to reef scientists.
Revamped financial assurance regulations could provide as much as $7 billion in new insurance bonds from oil and gas companies, the department said.
Washington state's cap-and-invest program was among several new emissions trading systems in 2023.
A quarter of a million households now have home batteries to store the electricity their rooftop solar generates and help them avoid sky-high power bills.
Scientists have recorded widespread bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef as global heating creates a fourth planet-wide bleaching event. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Coral Reef Watch, 54% of ocean waters containing coral reefs have been experiencing heat stress high enough to cause bleaching Global heating pushes coral reefs towards worst planet-wide mass bleaching on record Continue reading...
Is There Such a Thing as “Better” Meat? It’s Complicated margaret.overh… Tue, 04/16/2024 - 00:00 Meat and dairy are major contributors to climate change. Animal agriculture is responsible for more than three-quarters of agricultural land use, 11% - 20% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and more than 30% of global methane emissions. Meat production is also a leading driver of recent tropical deforestation. The good news is that companies and consumers are increasingly looking for more sustainable animal products. But reducing emissions is just one piece of the puzzle. So are addressing water use, water pollution and biodiversity loss driven by animal agriculture; improving animal welfare; supporting local farmers and more. The problem is that there’s...
Forests Minister Ralston planted the milestone tree in Surrey’s Green Timbers Urban Forest Park, where B.C.’s reforestation efforts began nearly a century ago.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00086B, Paper Bo Yan, Hao Sun, Xueping Liu, Xinyuan Fu, Changqing Xu, Tiantian Zhang, Lu-Lu Zhang, Huachao Tao, Xifei Li, Xue-Lin Yang, Renheng Wang Self-supporting electrode materials play a pivotal role in advancing the progress of flexible potassium-ion batteries (PIBs). However, crafting self-supporting electrodes with unique compositions and structures to surmount the volume effect... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef is suffering one of the most severe coral bleaching events on record, leaving scientists fearful for its survival as the impact of climate change worsens.
New deep-sea mobile operation can reportedly drill to a depth of 9,085 metres, a record for China as Beijing looks to rely less on imported oil and gas amid rising geopolitical uncertainties.
John Avery, 97, was one of thousands of men who were made to work in the mines to increase coal production - even though they put themselves forward for the military.
The issue of climate change continues to dominate the political discourse, with the ban on wood-burning stoves in new-builds claiming many column inches over recent days.
Climate change is making extreme cold upwellings more common in certain regions of the world, and these events can be catastrophic for animals such as bull sharks
Intense patches of cold water rising from the depths are killing sharks, rays and other creatures, researchers say A climate-disrupted ocean is pushing sharks, rays and other species to flee ever-hotter water in the tropics, only for them to be killed by increasingly intense upwells of cold water from the depths, a study has found. One of the authors of the paper described the “eerie” aftermath of a mass die-off of more than 260 marine organisms from 81 species in a singular event of extreme cold upwelling off the coast of South Africa in 2021. Continue reading...
As a result, power plants, compressor stations and other industries that rely on turbines will have to keep meeting national emission standards for formaldehyde and other hazardous pollutants.
Rising sea temperatures around the planet have caused a bleaching event that is expected to be the most extensive on record.
As American oil floods the planet, the biggest domestic players producing it are happy that the Biden administration’s relationship with the industry is less frosty than anticipated. The Wall Street Journal reports that they’re not getting everything they want, it but maybe more than they had expected when Biden was…Read more...
The world's oceans are now undergoing the fourth global coral bleaching event on record and the second in the last 10 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday.
A report, published by the International Coral Reef Institute, reveals that since 2023 there have been mass bleaching of coral reefs in at least 53 countries, territories and local economies.
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections The June general election in Mexico could mark a turning point in ensuring that the country’s climate policies better reflect the desire of its citizens to address the climate crisis, with both leading presidential candidates expressing support for renewable energy. Mexico is the 10th-most populated country with the 15th-largest economy and is also the 11th-most climate-polluting country in the world. In international surveys conducted in 2022 and 2023 , Mexico had one of the highest percentages of citizens worried about human-caused climate change at 92%, compared to just 63% of Americans.* And 88% of Mexican respondents reported that they consider climate change an important issue that their country should...
For the women who pick and prepare Maryland’s famous crab, the once profitable work is far more uncertain – and the climate crisis has had a damaging impact In the evening light, Maribel Malagon stepped outside into a rain storm. It was late October and Malagon, 53, had worked all day picking crab off the eastern shore of Maryland. That night, she and a handful of other seasonal workers walked to a neighbor’s house for an evening of prayer. On the way, Malagon clutched a pendant of St Judas, the patron saint of lost causes, that hung around her neck; she hoped he would hear her prayers for more work. Continue reading...
Appropriators had banked on the toxic waste site cleanup program as an EPA budget savior. That might not pan out.
Only 138 of the agency's more than 20,000 employees are full-time historians, the National Parks Conservation Association found.
Billionaire says ‘there is nothing I hate more’ than cutting staff as more than 10% of workforce to be affected Business live – latest updates Tesla is laying off more than 10% of its global workforce, equivalent to at least 14,000 roles. The electric carmaker’s chief executive, Elon Musk, said he had made “the difficult decision to reduce our headcount by more than 10% globally”, in a memo first reported by the online publication Elektrek . Tesla employs 140,473 people, according to its annual report . Continue reading...
The first instalment of the 2024 Canada carbon rebate will be delivered to some Canadians on Monday as long as they filed their taxes by the middle of March.
Many of these investments can be deployed now and rapidly scaled up to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
PHOTO: NIWA By Liz Kivi New Zealander of the Year Jim Salinger says government cuts to science funding will put Aotearoa even further behind other countries in terms of economic well-being and tackling climate change.
Study connects heatwaves and cold snaps to surges in payday lending, keeping people in debt and harming communities of color Two competing payday loan stores stand on the corners of an intersection in south Los Angeles. An area of persistent poverty, south LA is also a banking desert where payday lenders fill the gap. Long lines form inside the stores on the first of the month, when rent is due. Guillermina Molina, a 60-year-old retired housekeeper, visits the same Speedy Cash each month. During the summer months – which are becoming increasingly hot – she runs her air conditioner but frets about her utility bills. “It’s kind of hard because the [power bill] is coming up too high because you gotta have the air conditioner on,” Molina said. Continue reading...
The Biden administration views Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil facilities as reckless. Kyiv sees them as essential.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2024, Advance Article DOI : 10.1039/D4EE00580E, Paper Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Luyin Tang, Tianyu Li, Wenjing Lu, Xianfeng Li The robust and reversible solid bromine complexation effect was incorporated into electrodes, endowing bromine-based flow batteries with ultralow self-discharge. To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above. The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The move is the latest in a long battle over Enbridge's plan to replace part of the Line 5 pipeline that runs under the waterway linking lakes Michigan and Huron.
More than 900 filmmakers from 110 countries have submitted short films for the 5th edition of the WHO Health for All Film Festival on themes ranging from climate change, refugees, tobacco, and gender-based violence. Some 60 films have been selected for the shortlist, for review by a jury of international artists and health experts, before the announcement of the winners on 26 May 2024.
The annual tally of U.S. climate pollution has some conservative supporters.
by Lisa Song ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Nearly 100 people crowded into the library in Calvert City, Kentucky, in February when the Environmental Protection Agency hosted a public meeting on air pollution. Many had discovered flyers in their mailboxes explaining how the agency had found “elevated levels” of chemicals that “can pose an increased risk of cancer.” The EPA aimed to deliver a simple message that evening: Local petrochemical plants were leaking...
The recent escalation in tensions, particularly following Iran’s drone offensive, is causing concern among finance ministers and central bank chiefs. The primary impact is expected on oil prices, which surged to $92.2 a barrel, posing risks to global economic stability. In India, while pump prices may not immediately rise due to elections, increased oil prices could strain government subsidies and impact inflation and deficits.
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