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Forecast heat index in the eastern United States at 2 p.m. Saturday, from the NAM model. The hottest weather in years is stifling two-thirds of the United States, stretching from Continue Reading
Late last year, a study by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) looked into exactly how much it will take to meet the climate change goals set by the Continue Reading
National Weather Service forecast for the maximum heat index on Saturday. (weatherbell.com) A heat wave featuring a life-threatening combination of heat and oppressive humidity has begun to spread across the Continue Reading
Rainfall estimates (from radar and gauges in Arkansas) over the past week. (National Weather Service) (This article was updated based on the new rainfall report from Dierks, Ark.) Louisiana grabbed Continue Reading
The world’s oil tankers risk losing almost a third of their value should a shift away from fossil fuels gain momentum in the coming decades, a new report has warned. The Continue Reading
Compliance with the International Maritime Organization’s global sulfur limit for marine fuels will likely settle around 90% or 95% in the initial years after 2020, well above some industry estimates Continue Reading
Visualization of heat and humidity Friday. (Earth.nullschool.net) A stifling heat wave has begun to take shape across large portions of the United States, with millions likely to see temperatures creep Continue Reading
Restrictions on crop irrigation are staggered by region, the ministry said, ranging from a one-day ban each week to a total prohibition of water usage in agriculture. France’s dryness stems Continue Reading
The decrease in coal-derived energy in favor of natural gas-derived energy has the Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasting that the CO2 emissions in the United States will fall in 2019, Continue Reading
Ryan Pasternak When a tropical storm is approaching, its intensity or wind speed often gets the bulk of the attention. But as Tropical Storm Barry bears down on the Gulf Continue Reading
A disappointing planting season due to massive flooding in the U.S. Midwest this spring is expected to have spillover effects on diesel demand during harvest season, analysts and traders said. Continue Reading
A State Department intelligence analyst has resigned in protest after the White House blocked portions of his written testimony to a congressional panel to exclude data and evidence on climate Continue Reading
Environmental activists demonstrate during a Extinction Rebellion protest April 17 in London. (Henry Nicholls/Reuters) The consulting firm Moody’s Analytics says climate change could inflict $69 trillion in damage on the Continue Reading
The United States is proving that a strong economy and a vibrant energy sector are compatible with a healthy environment, according to U.S. President Donald Trump. The United States is Continue Reading
David Silverman/Getty Images As Europe heats up , Greenland melts and the Midwest floods , many news organizations are devoting more resources to climate change as they cover the topic Continue Reading
To avoid climate change catastrophe, the world must rapidly transform its economy away from fossil fuels. But to achieve this historically unprecedented task, the news industry must also transform, urged Continue Reading
The predicted temperatures for Sunday in Celsius compared to normal temperatures. (TropicalTidbits.com) On Independence Day, the temperature in Anchorage soared higher than at any other time on record as a Continue Reading
The heat wave that smothered much of Europe at the end of June helped raise average global temperatures to a record for the month, a European weather forecasting agency has Continue Reading
This sense that ships effectively have no true home is why the industry was excluded from the 2015 Paris Agreement among countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Shipowners instead offered Continue Reading
The world needs to get to the point at which it will no longer add to the stock of greenhouse gases, and reducing emissions to net zero “is the only Continue Reading
High sulfur fuel oil premiums in Asia surged to a record on Thursday, one of the first signs of the impact of a shift in global ship fuel rules set Continue Reading
Joshua Corbett for The New York Times In more than 100 years of Anchorage history, weather stations have never recorded a single 90-degree reading. If current forecasts hold, it could Continue Reading
Upper-level high pressure is maxed out and anchored over southern Alaska Friday evening per model simulations. (TropicalTidbits.com) All-time heat records are at risk in Alaska in coming days as a Continue Reading
Climate change is becoming the 21st century’s “nuclear war”, in the sense of being an existential problem which poses an imminent global risk, a collection of senior world leaders have Continue Reading
This analysis examined the effect of flight distance on greenhouse gas emissions per passenger, and compared emissions from flying different distances with annual emissions from driving. Greenhouse gas emissions were Continue Reading
France registered its highest temperature since records began on Friday as the death toll rose from a heatwave suffocating much of Europe. The mercury hit 45.9 degrees Celsius (114.6 Fahrenheit) Continue Reading
Because of relentless global warming, the world risks plunging into a ‘climate apartheid’—a scenario in which the rich will buy themselves out of the worst effects of climate change, while Continue Reading
America’s coal-burning power plants are shutting down at a rapid pace, forcing electric utilities to face the next big climate question: Embrace natural gas, or shift aggressively to renewable energy? Some large Continue Reading
Thibault Camus/Associated Press Temperatures were set to soar across Europe beginning on Wednesday, with authorities from Paris to Warsaw issuing heat alerts, canceling events and bracing for potentially record heat Continue Reading
Since the days of Thomas Malthus, we’ve worried that overpopulation is about to overwhelm our planet. Those fears haven’t gone away. A further two billion people will be added to Continue Reading
Japan has bowed to US pressure by watering down commitments to tackling climate change in its draft G20 communique, a sign of how Tokyo is seeking to curry favor with Continue Reading
Temperatures are likely to be 20 to 30 degrees or more above normal in the heat this week. (WeatherBell.com) An intense heat wave is set to bake Europe in coming Continue Reading
A Canadian tourist cools down in the Trocadero’s fountains in August 2018 amid another heatwave France is braced for a heatwave with temperatures forecast to exceed 40C this week – Continue Reading
At a time when the country is already deeply fractured along partisan lines, individual states are starting to pursue vastly different policies on climate change with the potential to cement Continue Reading
Republican lawmakers at the Oregon State Senate fled the state on Thursday to avoid being forced to vote on a climate bill that the Oregon House passed earlier this week Continue Reading
The Trump administration finalized a new carbon emissions rule for U.S. power plants on Wednesday that it said could cut pollution without damaging the coal industry, replacing a much tougher Continue Reading
The Trump administration finalized its biggest climate policy rollback Wednesday, requiring the U.S. power sector to cut its 2030 carbon emissions 35 percent over 2005 levels — less than half Continue Reading
New York state lawmakers passed early Thursday one of the nation’s most ambitious plans to slow climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. If signed into Continue Reading
As disaster costs keep rising nationwide, a troubling new debate has become urgent: If there’s not enough money to protect every coastal community from the effects of human-caused global warming, Continue Reading
In a significant development, the Alberta Energy Regulator has acknowledged that hydraulic fracturing operations can impose high risks to critical infrastructure such as dams, an issue of growing concern at Continue Reading
Once a skeptic about climate change, Jim Bridenstine came around to the prevailing view of scientists before he took over as NASA administrator. That evolution did not sit well with Continue Reading
Steffen Olsen, an Arctic researcher with the Danish Meteorological Institute, and dogs set out to retrieve oceanographic moorings and a weather station over meltwater topping sea ice in northwest Greenland Continue Reading
One of India’s longest and most intense heat waves in decades, with temperatures reaching 123 degrees, has claimed at least 36 lives since it began in May, and the government Continue Reading
A top U.S. financial regulator is worried that climate change could threaten global financial markets. Rostin Behnam, a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said that the financial Continue Reading
The world is moving further away from a sustainable path as carbon emissions increased last year at the fastest pace since 2011 due to unusually hot and cold spells in Continue Reading
A small but growing number of Republican lawmakers are urging action on climate change, driven by shifting sentiment among GOP voters and the effects of global warming, from stronger hurricanes Continue Reading
A top U.S. commodities regulator said on Wednesday climate change poses a major market risk and urged federal government action to address it, putting him at odds with the Trump Continue Reading
Last month, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere surpassed 415 parts per million , the highest in human history. Environmental experts say the world is increasingly on a path toward Continue Reading
Marty Shell just wanted the lights back on. Nineteen barges bound for nowhere were tied up along the swollen riverbank. Dark warehouses full of flooded fertilizer reeked with a sulfuric Continue Reading
Climate change is poised to increase the spread of dengue fever, which is common in parts of the world with warmer climates like Brazil and India, a new study warns. Continue Reading