Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout The collapse of a critical Atlantic current can no longer be considered a low-likelihood event, a study has concluded, making deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions even more urgent to avoid the catastrophic impact. The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is a major part of the global climate system. It brings sun-warmed tropical water to Europe and the Arctic, where it cools and sinks to form a deep return current. The Amoc was already known to be at its weakest in 1,600 years as a result of the climate crisis. Continue reading...
Prices in California’s quarterly carbon auction rallied slightly from a low this spring, but still remain far below their 2024 peak amid continued questions about the program’s long-term fate.
The request followed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s declaration that a “strike team” of ICE agents would arrive in Chicago soon.
This is a re-post from And Then There's Physics It seems that a slowdown in the melting of Arctic sea ice is now being used to suggest that climate science is melting . This is very silly and is remininsence of the claims of a pause in global warming that dominated much of the discourse in the 2010s. Arctic sea ice is a small part of the climate system and it’s well known that variability can easily mask long-term trends on decadal timescales. Arctic sea ice extent was particularly low in 2012, so maybe it’s not that surprising that there’s been an apparent pause since then. A strong El Nino in 1998 that led to a record warm year was one of the main reasons for the subsequent suppposed pause in global...
NISAR, a giant orbiting antenna 39 feet in diameter, will monitor changes to glaciers, forests, and the Earth’s crust, providing data to help improve infrastructure and disaster responses.
In its allegations against the Maryland man, the Trump administration is claiming authority over reality itself In a way, you could think of the brief stint that Kilmar Ábrego García spent in a Tennessee jail after his return from a Salvadorian prison camp in June as a kind of protective custody. Ábrego, a Maryland resident who had never been charged with any crime either in the US or in his native El Salvador, became a symbol of the Trump administration’s ambitiously sadistic anti-immigration efforts when he was kidnapped by Ice agents in March and sent without due process to Cecot, an enormous prison in El Salvador from which few detainees are ever released, as a result of what representatives for the Trump immigration authorities called an administrative error. Ábrego became a symbol for...
China will accelerate the expansion of its carbon market to incorporate major industries by 2027, according to guidelines issued by top policymakers. By 2030, China hopes to have in place “a transparent, standardised and internationally aligned voluntary reduction market”, according to a document on Monday from the Communist Party Central Committee and the State Council. The measures will help deliver President Xi Jinping’s pledge to peak China’s emissions by the end of the decade. The plan also...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 130, Issue 16, 28 August 2025.
When Russian President Vladimir Putin met US President Donald Trump on August 15, in Anchorage, Alaska, the geographic significance of the event was not lost on Russian observers. Putin became the first Russian leader to visit the former colony at a time when the Arctic is a high priority in Russia’s foreign policy strategy. However, the summit itself was an anticlimax. Peace in Ukraine remained postponed; there was a meagre readout and the delegation lunch was cancelled. As Putin remarked...
"Am I f--king crazy, or is this them trying to humiliate a random immigrant and using an ICE agent’s fat delicious a-- just to make sure it gains traction," one X user asked.
From sea ice to ocean currents, Antarctica is now undergoing abrupt changes — and they are likely to significantly intensify in the future.
Staff at a remote lodge in polar bear country on Manitoba's Hudson Bay coastline were surprised and impressed early last week when a man with a backpack and a dog walked up to the front door for the first time ever.
The slowdown may continue for another 5 to 10 years, though later on sea ice could melt faster than the long-term average.
Climate Central's Coastal Risk Screening Tool shows the areas around the globe that would be worst hit ig the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed - sparking 9.8ft of sea level rise.
Carbon credit projects are booming in Europe, but there are also some scams and unintended consequences. While claiming to compensate for emissions, not all schemes deliver what they promise.
A study warned that Antarctic ice loss could cause more warming in the region and beyond, and could push some marine species toward extinction.
It is one of the largest ice masses on Earth, covering an area of roughly 760,000 square miles. But the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is on the verge of a 'catastrophic' collapse, scientists have warned.
Natural climate variation is most likely reason as global heating due to fossil fuel burning has continued The melting of sea ice in the Arctic has slowed dramatically in the past 20 years, scientists have reported, with no statistically significant decline in its extent since 2005. The finding is surprising, the researchers say, given that carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning have continued to rise and trap ever more heat over that time. Continue reading...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 130, Issue 8, August 2025.
An international nonprofit has helped carbon markets in Peru, Kenya, Pakistan and Mexico. Its guide is aimed at "ensuring integrity."
A recent study claims to have found new geochemical evidence of an Earth-altering comet impact at the end of the last ice age, but skeptics still aren't convinced.
The future of energy generation might be in rotating, self-propelled hunks of ice.
The administration is escalating its attacks against a carbon tax for shipping emissions.
The Agricultural Research Development Agency (Arda) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with five universities to promote low-carbon agriculture across key crops and livestock.
Plus: ICE agents accidentally add a random person to a sensitive group chat, Norwegian intelligence blames the Kremlin for hacking a dam, and new facial recognition vans roam the UK.
Scientists in Svalbard in race to study polar microbes as global heating threatens fragile glacial ecosystems “It felt really scary … like being in the middle of a burning city during a night raid.” Dr Arwyn Edwards is not describing urban warfare but a recent hot and foggy day on a Svalbard glacier, where record-breaking summer heat turned his workplace into a cascade of meltwater and falling rocks. Edwards is a leading researcher in glacier ecology – the study of life forms that live on, within and around glaciers and ice sheets. Over two decades of polar research, he has always felt “relaxed and at home” on ice. But the accelerating climate breakdown is beginning to erode that sense of security. Continue reading...
Video: 00:04:21 Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission – has launched aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 13 August at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou time).MetOp-SG-A1 is the first in a series of three successive pairs of satellites. The mission as a whole not only ensures the continued delivery of global observations from polar orbit for weather forecasting and climate analysis for more than 20 years, but also offers enhanced accuracy and resolution compared to the original MetOp mission – along with new measurement capabilities to expand its scientific reach.This new weather satellite also carries the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission to deliver...
Since the mid-1990s, the Greenland ice sheet has been losing mass, leaving only three floating tongues remaining. One of these, Nioghalvfjerdsbræ or the 79°N Glacier, is already showing the first signs of instability. In addition to the warm ocean water, which is increasingly thinning the ice from below, the runoff of meltwater on the surface is also playing an increasingly significant role. In a new study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute investigated how - caused by global warming - a 21 km2 large meltwater lake formed and developed on the surface of the 79°N Glacier. They observed that over the years, this lake has caused gigantic cracks and the outflowing water is lifting the glacier. Their findings have been published in the journal The Cryosphere.
Thousands of Americans are set to evacuate their homes due to what could be a record surge of water. Officials warned that entire neighborhoods at risk of potentially catastrophic flooding.
Video: 00:01:36 Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission – has launched aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 13 August at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou time).MetOp-SG-A1 is the first in a series of three successive pairs of satellites. The mission as a whole not only ensures the continued delivery of global observations from polar orbit for weather forecasting and climate analysis for more than 20 years, but also offers enhanced accuracy and resolution compared to the original MetOp mission – along with new measurement capabilities to expand its scientific reach.This new weather satellite also carries the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission to deliver...
The whales are typically found in areas of the ocean with 15-30% sea ice cover in the summer months, but the Arctic is changing rapidly as the climate warms. The post Bowhead whales are losing habitat they’ve preferred for 12,000 years appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
The declarations were made in anticipation of a potentially imminent and record GLOF from Suicide Basin, which sits above the Mendenhall Glacier.
Ethan Guo, a 20-year-old influencer was attempting to become the youngest person to fly solo to all seven continents, when he landed at a remote Chilean military base on Antarctic territory in June.
American teen influencer Ethan Guo has been stuck since June in a remote location in Chilean territory in Antarctica.
A 2016 satellite photo shows nearly a dozen swirling dark spots that emerged in the clouds over Heard Island in the Indian Ocean.
Dennis Bell's remains were found in January by a Polish Antarctic expedition.
When Dennis Bell’s colleague began pulling him out of an icy hole, the rope around Bell’s belt snapped, and his second fall proved fatal.
Dennis ‘Tink’ Bell fell into a crevasse at the age of 25 while working for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The remains of a British man who died in an accident in Antarctica 66 years ago have been discovered in a melting glacier alongside ski poles, a pipe and a watch. Dennis “Tink” Bell fell into a crevasse in 1959 while working for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (Fids), now the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), a few weeks after his 25th birthday. His body was not found until January, when a Polish expedition encountered bones near their base. Continue reading...
The remains of an Antarctic researcher have been discovered by a Polish team among rocks exposed by a receding glacier in Antarctica. They are identified by DNA as those of … The post Remains of British researcher lost in 1959 recovered from Antarctic glacier appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
The state faces legal questions as it weighs imposing a tax on products made in states or nations that do not charge for carbon emissions.
The Perito Moreno Glacier has started losing contact with the bedrock below, causing it to shed more ice as it inches backward.
For 25 years, Students on Ice has taken countless young people to the Arctic and Antarctic. Current and past participants say that kind of experiential education is priceless.
US Bureau of Land management is working to rapidly strip protections to largest tract of land in the US The Trump administration ’s plan to expand oil and gas drilling in a 23m acre reserve on the Arctic Ocean is sparking an impassioned response, amid fears it threatens Arctic wildlife , undermines the subsistence rights of Alaska Natives and imperils one of the fastest-warming ecosystems on Earth. More than a quarter of a million people have responded to the 2 June proposal from the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to roll back protections on the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), the largest tract of public land in the US. Continue reading...
An Arizona corporation said it had 3.3 million pollution allowances through Washington state's carbon market and tried to dupe investors.
The 18-mile-long Perito Moreno glacier in Argentina is on the verge of total collapse due to climate change, scientists warn.
You may find it hard to digest, but Neanderthals may have loved their meat rotten, and full of maggots.
To stay afloat, food banks in the Global South are considering selling controversial offsets for revenue.
As Greenland’s ice retreats, it’s fueling tiny ocean organisms. To test why, scientists turned to a computer model out of JPL and MIT that’s been called a laboratory in itself. Runoff from Greenland’s ice sheet is kicking nutrients up from the ocean depths and boosting phytoplankton growth, a new NASA-supported study has found. Reporting in […]
Glaciers in Washington, Montana, British Columbia, Alberta and the Swiss Alps have set grim records over the past four years, with both the annual amount of ice lost and the four-year average reaching all-time highs.
Travel to Antarctica during the southern winter is restricted to emergencies with crews having to navigate extreme conditions and icy landings The New Zealand air force has evacuated three people from a US research base in Antarctica in a high-risk operation that required navigating through extreme weather and round-the-clock darkness. The air force said on Wednesday the United National Science Foundation requested a medical evacuation for three of its staff members based at the McMurdo Station, one of whom needed urgent medical care. Continue reading...
Space hurricanes, unlike typical geomagnetic disturbances, are stealthy threats to satellite systems, forming even when the sun is quiet. These swirling plasma vortices disrupt GPS accuracy, scramble satellite signals, and distort Earth’s magnetic field without warning. Their ability to bypass normal forecasting models makes them a hidden threat to global navigation and communication infrastructure, especially in remote polar regions.
Extraordinary discovery of bones from early Ice Age period could reshape how we understand and respond to today’s climate shifts.
The Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC) at the British Antarctic Survey have produced new maps of the topography (physical features) and geology of Alexander Island in Antarctica. These maps … The post New maps published of Alexander Island, Antarctica appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Scientists drilled thousands of meters into the Antarctic ice sheet to retrieve the world's oldest ice sample. They hope it could provide insight into today's climate crisis.
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Canada is turning CO₂ into cash, as firms are converting emissions into concrete and soap, but experts say carbon use still lacks scale, support, and strong economics.
Scientists record longest streak of temperatures higher than 30C in region in records going back to 1961 Cold Nordic countries are being seared by “truly unprecedented” heat, as hot weather strengthened and lengthened by carbon pollution continues to roast northern Europe. A weather station in the Norwegian part of the Arctic Circle recorded temperatures above 30C (86F) on 13 days in July, while Finland has had three straight weeks with 30C heat. Continue reading...
Here’s a handy guide for understanding organic wine and what to look for when selecting your next bottle 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 A good bottle of wine can bring joy and flavour to any meal or occasion – however, viticulture stands alongside agriculture as one of the great contributors to global problems like soil fertility loss, water contamination and wildlife habitat loss. Choosing to drink organic wine can push back against some of the more harmful effects of conventional winegrowing. Continue reading...
Resources for the Future examined charging power plants for carbon emissions and giving the money to households.
[New Times] By 2024, Rwanda had generated more than 1.6 million carbon credits--enough to offset millions of tons of carbon dioxide globally. This milestone, coupled with an ambitious portfolio of climate projects, has positioned Rwanda as a frontrunner in East Africa's carbon diplomacy.
Patagonia, Chile. Left: September 18, 1986. Right: August 5, 2002. The 1986 image shows the region prior to a major retreat of the glaciers. The 2002 image shows a retreat of nearly 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) of the glacier on the left side. The smaller glacier on the right has receded more than 2 kilometers (1.2 miles). In front of the smaller glacier, two ribbon lakes have formed behind the debris left by the glacier’s advance. Scientists and government managers are using satellite imagery like this to monitor the retreat of the glaciers and the impact on water bodies caused by the changes in the glaciers’ size and direction.
John Shin, a well-known violinist from Utah, was taken into custody last week by ICE agents despite living legally in the US for many years.
[Liberian Observer] Liberia's draft Carbon Policy, designed to position the country in the global carbon market, has received mixed reviews from climate experts. While praised for its inclusive consultations, critics warn that it falls short on key climate mitigation commitments and risks undermining Liberia's achieving its climate goals.
[Liberian Observer] The Liberian government has sparked a debate with the release of its draft Carbon Development Policy, which declares that all carbon credits generated within the country's borders will be owned by the government.
After nearly two months unable to leave Antarctica with his plane, U.S. pilot and influencer Ethan Guo, 19, is set to return to Punta Arenas in early September.
An unusual ship has docked in Ísafjörður: the floating research station Tara Polar Station, which has been undergoing trials in the Arctic Ocean, arrived on Saturday. Ísafjörður residents will not be the only ones to see the odd-looking vessel; according to a written statement from the Tara Ocean Foundation, which operates the station, Tara Polar Station is scheduled to arrive in Reykjavík on the morning of September 3. It will remain there until October 20 before setting sail for Finland.
This is the first time that this blood-red, hook-tentacled Antarctic gonate squid has ever been seen alive in its natural habitat.
A significant 7.4 magnitude earthquake rattled the Drake Passage on August 22, 2025, triggering tsunami warnings for Antarctic bases. While a widespread tsunami was averted, the event underscores the region's seismic activity and its crucial role in global climate regulation. The passage, notorious for extreme weather and treacherous navigation, is vital for ocean currents and carbon absorption.
China’s intensifying interest in the Arctic has aroused concerns in the US, which has been monitoring the progress of five Chinese icebreakers and research vessels since before they passed through the Bering Strait earlier this month. The fleet is led by the domestically built Xue Long 2, one of the world’s newest generation polar research icebreakers and the first to adopt an intelligent hull and engine room design. Over the past five years, the Xue Long 2 has conducted nearly 10 scientific...
Argentina's iconic Perito Moreno glacier, one of Patagonia's top tourist attractions, is entering a phase of rapid retreat that experts say is irreversible.
[Liberian Observer] Liberia's rich forest reserves could position the country as a major beneficiary in the global carbon market, but experts warn that policy gaps, weak enforcement, and political interference continue to undermine the nation's climate ambitions.
Open access notables Glacier Geoengineering May Have Unintended Consequences for Marine Ecosystems and Fisheries , Hopwood et al., AGU Advances A bold suggestion to reduce sea level rise is to install underwater barriers to reduce the inflow of oceanic heat around Antarctica and Greenland. Inflow of warm, saline water masses drives ice melt and the destabilization of tidewater glaciers. Whilst the basic theory that barriers would stem oceanic heat flow is uncontroversial, the extent to which barriers might reduce future ice mass loss is less certain. There are numerous concerns about the viability and side-effects of this proposed intervention. We use existing field observations and representative fjord-scale models for the Greenland's largest glacier, Sermeq Kujalleq...
Despite rising temperatures, an analysis by experts from the University of Exeter has revealed that the Arctic has been melting at a slower rate for the past 20 years.
WASHINGTON — From a fake image of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin dancing in the snow with a polar bear to a fabricated photo of European leaders waiting somberly outside the Oval Office, artificial intelligence (AI) enabled disinformation has clouded the diplomatic push to end the war in Ukraine.
The Lombardy Glaciological Service will use drone imagery and remote sensing to keep track of the glacier's shrinkage.
From a fake image of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin dancing in the snow with a polar bear to a fabricated photo of European leaders waiting somberly outside the Oval Office, AI-enabled disinformation has clouded the diplomatic push to end the war in Ukraine.
How long tubes of mud - drilled out of the Antarctic seafloor - could reveal how the frozen continent is changing.
A six-week period of extraordinary heat in 2024 melted 62 gigatonnes of ice on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, obliterating all previous melt records
The Republican megalaw not only preserved Biden-era tax breaks for carbon capture and storage — it expanded them further.
Andres Paredes Morales, 23, was set to marry his coworker Amanda Souza before he was abruptly detained by ICE agents in a mall on July 31, despite him having a work permit and no criminal record.
In Monrovia, California, Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdés, 52, died after fleeing an immigration raid at a Home Depot. Pursued by ICE agents, Montoya ran onto the 210 Freeway and was struck by a vehicle. While ICE denies direct pursuit, the incident sparked outrage, with State Assemblymember John Harabedian condemning the raids.
A team of Chilean scientists has sequenced the first complete genomes of the H5N1 avian influenza virus found in birds in Antarctica.
For the first time in 35 years, scientists have analysed a new type of all-carbon molecule at room temperature, without the extreme conditions usually required to stabilise this type of molecule
Awful clunkers occasionally emerge from both Hollywood and Bollywood, but I have found value in most cinematic calamities If the latest adaptation of HG Wells’s 1898 novel The War of the Worlds, a movie starring Ice Cube and Eva Longoria, was designed to make us pause and ask questions, it has certainly succeeded. Unfortunately, what a lot of viewers have been asking is why it was inflicted on the public in the first place. Is War of the Worlds “one of the worst movies ever made?”, asked the BBC . “Shockingly bad War of the Worlds is one of the worst movies of the decade,” said the New York Post . “ Amazon’s War of the Worlds update should never have been released,” declared the Telegraph . The 2005 adaptation, starring Tom Cruise, was a smash hit. Now people are flocking to the remake...
There were no damage reports in Juneau similar to the last two years, when flooding was rampant and some homes washed away by water released by the Mendenhall Glacier ice dam.
Meltwater is escaping from a basin that is dammed by a glacier - prompting fears of a deluge in state capital Juneau.
Officials in Alaska have advised residents to evacuate the state's capital city Wednesday as a melting glacier is expected to cause major flooding.
Juneau officials warn residents to evacuate due to glacial outburst flooding.
In Juneau Alaska, officials built a Hesco barrier wall to try to protect neighborhoods from floodwaters pouring out of Mendenhall Glacier.
Video: 00:05:14 MetOp-SG-A1 travelled onboard the Canopée ship. Our teams at the European spaceport in French Guiana have been quite busy making sure both the rocket and the payloads are ready for flight VA264.Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts Copernicus Sentinel-5 as part of its instrument package – is set for liftoff on an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on August 2025.MetOp-SG-A1 is the first in a series of three successive pairs of satellites. The mission as a whole not only ensures the continued delivery of global observations from polar orbit for weather forecasting and climate analysis for more than 20 years, but also offers enhanced accuracy and resolution compared to the original MetOp mission...
A British researcher's remains were discovered in a melting Antarctic glacier after he died in an accident in 1959.
A synthetic butter made entirely from carbon, hydrogen and oxygen and backed by Bill Gates-backed, has been slammed online as 'disgusting.'
Bone fragments found on King George Island have been identified as Dennis "Tink" Bell, a British meteorologist who fell into a crevasse in 1959
Remains of Dennis 'Tink' Bell, a 25 year-old British adventurer, radio operator and meteorologist, have been found in the Ecology Glacier off the Antarctic Peninsula.
Video: 00:01:45 Experience the preparation of the MetOp-SG-A1 satellite, hosting Copernicus Sentinel-5, scheduled for liftoff on an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 13 August 2025 at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou time). This timelapse video captures key stages from the encapsulation within the Ariane 6 fairing to the installation in the launch tower.MetOp-SG-A1 is the first in a series of three successive pairs of satellites. The mission as a whole not only ensures the continued delivery of global observations from polar orbit for weather forecasting and climate analysis for more than 20 years, but also offers enhanced accuracy and resolution compared to the original MetOp mission – along with new measurement capabilities to expand its scientific...
His brother tells BBC News that he had lost hope he would ever be found.
A coalition of nations that tax domestic carbon emissions would impose carbon fees on certain imports from countries outside the coalition.
Family sources confirmed that Nasseruddin, a local man, had disappeared in June 1997 while he was travelling through the region with his brother.
The Carbon Cub airplane is a fan-favorite in the realm of private jets, and it's one you may be able to get yourself. Here's how much it'll cost you.
A Los Angeles artist keeps upping the ante, whether photographing Arctic glaciers through lenses made of their own ice or using a camera that captures light itself at a trillion frames per second.
After holding steady for decades, the beloved Perito Moreno has thinned considerably since 2019, scientists said.
Dean Cain says he'll be "sworn in as an ICE agent asap" following a recruitment drive by the agency.
Despite the slightly lower global average temperature, scientists said extreme heat and deadly flooding persisted in July.
A new polar expedition compared samples with those collected more than a century ago by by Scott, along with voyages led by Shackleton and Borchgrevink Three glass specimen jars full of satsuma-sized echinoderms, or sea urchins, sit on Dr Hugh Carter’s desk in the Natural History Museum. Each one, collected from the depths of the Southern Ocean by polar teams led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, Capt Robert Falcon Scott and the Norwegian Carsten Borchgrevink, tells a tale of heroic exploration and scientific endeavour. Now, more than a century later, Carter, the Natural History Museum’s (NHM) curator of marine invertebrates, hopes the preserved Antarctic urchins, 50 in all, will help tell a different, increasingly urgent story of modern times: how changes in the world’s southernmost waters may be...
"What I saw was unbelievable. The body was intact. The clothes were not even torn," Omar Khan, a local shepherd who found the remains, said.
Decreased snowfall exposed the glaciers to direct sunlight, making them melt faster.
Experts suspect a glacier collapse or glacial lake breach, not a cloudburst, caused the devastating flash flood in Dharali village, Uttarkashi. Minimal rainfall was recorded, leading scientists to investigate a potential avalanche or lake burst upstream. Satellite images reveal glaciers and glacial lakes above the site, raising concerns about a sudden water release similar to the Raini disaster.
Delegates at UN treaty talks must not allow negotiations to be derailed again by fossil fuel interests Plastic pollution has reached the most remote and inaccessible parts of our beleaguered planet. It has been found in Greenland’s ice cap , near the summit of Mount Everest, and in the deepest depths of the western Pacific Ocean. Nature programmes have sounded the alarm over a human-made crisis that has become an environmental scourge and a serious threat to our health . Yet global production of plastics is on course to triple to more than a billion tonnes a year by 2060, after increasing by more than 200 times over the past 75 years. This gloomy backdrop should inject a sense of urgency into UN-convened talks in Switzerland this week, aimed at agreeing a binding global plastics treaty...
Richard Jr Bohlender, also known as Jaaji, was last seen in Arctic Bay on June 28, and reported missing a couple of days later. RCMP say his body was found in the community on Saturday.
Glacial retreat on pristine world heritage-listed island as temperatures warm could endanger unique plant life Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here Glaciers on a remote Australian sub-Antarctic island are shrinking rapidly, losing almost a quarter of their size in just 70 years, with researchers fearing glaciers on a neighbouring peninsula may have already disappeared. Analysis of aerial photographs and maps going back to 1947 were combined with satellite data to track melting on 29 glaciers on the uninhabited wilderness of Heard Island, 4,100km south-west of Perth and 1,500km north of Antarctica. Continue reading...
Launched in 2022, Sakhalin’s climate experiment aimed to achieve carbon neutrality by the end of this year.
In May reports revealed that White House officials had set goals for Ice agents to arrest 3,000 people per day In a new court filing, attorneys for the Trump administration denied the existence of a daily quota for immigration arrests, despite reports and prior statements from White House officials about pursuing a goal of at least 3,000 deportations or deportation arrests per day. In May, reports from both the Guardian and Axios revealed that during a meeting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) leaders on 21 May, the White House adviser Stephen Miller and the Department of Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, demanded that immigration agents seek to arrest 3,000 people per day. Continue reading...
Switzerland spends almost $500m a year on protective structures. Is it worth it - or, as some suggest, should people move away from the mountain villages at risk?
Warm sea surface temperatures, exacerbated by global heating, have created favourable conditions for jellyfish Coming to a beach near you: a guide to the jellyfish you’ll find off the UK coast An unusually high number of jellyfish have arrived in the UK’s seas this summer, experts have said. Jellyfish blooms arrive for their yearly reproduction cycle by following the current of warm water to the coast. Warm sea surface temperatures, which are exacerbated by global heating, create favourable conditions for jellyfish. Continue reading...
Data from ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission can be used to estimate how much carbon is stored in forests – and a study has improved our understanding of how reliable this proxy is and how long-term datasets from SMOS can help us to monitor this valuable resource.