Water temperatures in the Florida Keys hit 101 degrees Fahrenheit last month, killing many coral. Now, researchers are scrambling to bring surviving species to land to preserve them. Coral make up less than 1% of all ocean life, but a quarter of marine species rely on them to live.
The report calls for a new wave of taxes on the uber-rich, whose lavish lifestyles and investments have an outsize impact on global emissions.
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The Eemian period is Earth’s past and portent—a potential warning of the kind of climate upheaval we face if global temperatures rise by 2ºC.
New EPA directive will cut pollution equivalent to the emissions of 328m cars, but industry group decries it as a ‘reckless plan’
Mostly from Canada and Australia. The bottom line is that there’s lots and lots of U in the world, and more keeps being discovered. U resources increased about 25% over the last decade, which has kept prices low. As long as we don’t go to war with Canada, we should be OK for a long time to come.
These companies have won BloombergNEF’s annual Pioneers competition for the most promising climate tech.
Environmentalist Dhruv Boruah has developed a vessel to clean up waterways.
Most plastic simply cannot be recycled, a new Greenpeace USA report concludes. Circular Claims Fall Flat Again, released today, finds that U.S. households generated an estimated 51 million tons of plastic waste in 2021, only 2.4 million tons of which was recycled.
Climbing ropes, guitar strings, and hand sanitizer are among the newly reported uses for toxic PFAS chemicals.
The transmission projects in Nevada would connect eight gigawatts of clean energy to the Western power grid, the Interior Department said.
In a new study, researchers created a new map that shows how the entire planet has changed since the height of the last ice age.
A majority of reserves must be left alone. A new study, published Wednesday in Nature, estimates how much of fossil fuel reserves must be left in the ground for a 50 percent chance of limiting warming to 1.5ºC.
Self Destruct Button Humans, who live in a technologically advanced global society, have known about climate change for decades. So why, as a group of professors posit in a damning essay for The Conversation, are we "choosing to destroy" our planet — and with it, ourselves? The essay was written as the world prepares for […]
The migratory monarch butterfly, a North American icon with a continent-spanning annual journey, now faces the threat of extinction, according to a top wildlife monitoring group.
The plastic industry pushed recycling as a solution to waste, while internally dismissing it as technically and economically unviable.
After multiple delays, the Securities and Exchange Commission has finally set a deadline to decide on its climate disclosure rule by Spring 2024.
Tipping Point Large parts of the Amazon’s iconic rainforest have the possibility of reaching an irreversible “tipping point” and then collapsing into a sad shadow of it itself in less than 30 years due to deforestation and climate change impacts, scientists warn in a new paper published in the journal Nature. Because these “compounding disturbances” […]
Why are data centres so bad for the environment and what can be done to make them more sustainable long-term?
The report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability warns that climate change is causing dangerous disruption in nature and is affecting billions of people, stressing the urgency to act.
Historic drought has spurred depleted groundwater, vanishing snowpack and dried out lakes -- and it's going to get worse.
Climate instability may be disrupting the polar vortex.
As more saltwater and freshwater mixes, arsenic leaching could cause health issues for several other countries too, researchers warn.
The Provisional State of the Global Climate in 2022 presented at COP27 reveals a world sinking deeper into a climate crisis.
Mexico latest country where government is considering passing new laws to criminalise environmental destruction
Dire Situation More grim news from Earth's oceans. As the BBC reports, new data from European Union climate change authority Copernicus shows that our oceans, at a staggering near-70 degrees Fahrenheit, have officially broken all previous heat records. And unfortunately, according to the sobering report, scientists are only expecting these temperatures to continue to rise […]
Taking carbon out of the atmosphere will become increasingly important, writes scientist
Hywind Tampen is located in waters off the coast of Norway.
The court said it would be forced to pass directions on Friday if the governments could not decide and take steps to improve the air quality.
This contamination could change how light bends or ice crystals grow.
Coughing Trees Trees are quite literally "coughing" as they're struggling to keep up with the sheer amount of heat-trapped carbon dioxide in the air. A team of researchers led by Penn State assistant research professor of geosciences Max Lloyd, have found that in hotter climates, trees are no longer able to help out in reducing […]
Ecologist Thomas Crowther is more or less the man that kicked off our climate conscious obsession for planting trees to offset carbon emissions. But now, the former chief scientific adviser for the United Nation's Trillion Trees Campaign has since about-faced, Wired reports, pleading with environmental leaders to bring their mass tree planting to a halt. […]
Three in four Americans feel they have some responsibility to care for the environment for future generations, political divisions on climate remain.
World’s elite choosing to custom-design private (and super secret) shelters to ride out a pandemic, World War III or any other threat of global annihilation.
Professor Pericles Pilidis from Cranfield University discusses the future of air travel
In "Homo Ecophagus," Dr. Warren Hern gives human activity a deadly diagnosis
Dismayed at what they see as government7 inaction over climate change, especially after deadly wildfires hit their country in 2017, six young people from Portugal are taking 32 European countries to court.
UN hopes to galvanise summit talks by persuading world leaders to commit to stop burning coal, oil and gas, despite industry lobbying
Ahead of COP28, a scathing new UN report warns that the world is barreling toward an avoidable catastrophe. It’s a plea for world leaders to step up their ambition.
Washington state's leader argued voters must reject climate deniers like Trump.
Scientists find we are “well outside the safe operating space for humanity” in a new study meant to assess the health of our planet
Our climate models could be missing something big.
No one can predict the future. But sometimes we can get a solid idea of what’s coming by looking at the past. In his new book, Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis, renowned climate scientist Michael Mann describes the world climate change is creating based on what we know from specific times in Earth’s four-billion-year history when the planet was extremely hot or extremely cold.
The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Program provides more than $250 million to help states, cities and territories transition to a low-carbon economy.
"We’re steadily marching toward an uninsurable future."
