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A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that deaths related to air pollution in the US were nearly halved between Continue Reading
The United Nations (UN) climate science panel is being accused of ignoring research into fossil fuel-funded misinformation campaigns that have been key to holding back action on global warming. The Continue Reading
Significance Ideological polarization around environmental issues—especially climate change—have increased in the last 20 years. This polarization has led to public uncertainty, and in some cases, policy stalemate. Much attention has Continue Reading
The rules, set roughly a decade ago through the International Maritime Organization, an arm of the United Nations, take effect on Jan. 1, 2020, and aim to slash the amount Continue Reading
White House officials pushed the EPA to maximize savings for the oil industry despite the agency’s concern that weakening regulations would allow more methane to escape into the atmosphere, according Continue Reading
A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that deaths related to air pollution in the US were nearly halved between Continue Reading
German industrial conglomerate Thyssenkrupp has declared force majeure as the Rhine’s extremely low water levels are disrupting the delivery of raw materials to its Duisburg plant, the company said on Continue Reading
Europe’s fuel oil market was rattled on Friday by reports that the Trump Administration may look to slow down the introduction of the new regulations limiting sulfur content in ship Continue Reading
CHANGE VALUES, CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION “The consumption and production patterns and values of far less than half of the world population over less than 100 years has led us to Continue Reading
How much will climate change cost, and how much should we – or anyone – spend to avoid that cost? One answer that’s received a lot of attention in the past Continue Reading
The 2018 Global Agricultural Productivity (GAP) Index, put together by the Global Harvest Initiative, continues to highlight that food production is not growing fast enough to sustainably feed the world Continue Reading
Imagine your own child. Perhaps she’s nine this year. In 2030 she will be 21, just starting out on her own. Now: how much less do you value the quality Continue Reading
Major UK companies, including banks and retailers, are pledging to invest hundreds of millions of British pounds to cut their carbon footprint and to support new energies, the UK government Continue Reading
Investors in Big Oil are becoming more and more vocal about the negative effects of the industry on the planet. No longer is it just about profits. Investors are demanding Continue Reading
Anyone who has followed the climate change issue in the last 30 years knows that official forecasts provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are quickly upended by Continue Reading
If there were any doubt before, there should be none now. “Solving” the global climate change problem may be humankind’s mission impossible. That’s the gist of the latest report from Continue Reading
Donald Trump has said he does believe the climate is changing US President Donald Trump has accused climate change scientists of having a “political agenda” as he cast doubt on Continue Reading
This past week was a grim one in climate history, by any measure. First, an international group of scientists released a long-anticipated report detailing in excruciating detail the extra damages Continue Reading
William D. Nordhaus, the Yale economist who shared the Nobel in economic science this week, has pointed words for some of the experiments so far with his theories on taxing Continue Reading
With the remnants of Hurricane Michael heading back out to the Atlantic early Friday, oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico was quickly recovering, while over 1.2 million Continue Reading
The human population has reached 7.6 billion and could number 9 billion or 10 billion by midcentury. All those people will need to eat. A sobering report published Wednesday in Continue Reading
El Niño conditions are developing across the Pacific Ocean, with meteorologists now putting the probability of a full event developing by the end of the year at almost 75 percent. Continue Reading
Limiting temperatures to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit above preindustrial levels, as the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urges, is economically and practically impossible—as Mr. Nordhaus’s work shows. The IPCC report Continue Reading
The University of Manchester’s Professor Kevin Anderson responds to today’s report from the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC report meticulously lays out how the serious climate impacts of Continue Reading
Shortsighted folly of ignoring the IPCC will lead to drastic future policies. Nero, the Roman emperor renowned for debauchery and extravagance, is said to have fiddled while Rome burnt. Fast Continue Reading
Climate scientists are not known for giving good news, and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that convened in South Korea was no exception: the scientists that compiled a Continue Reading
Exxon Mobil Corp’s latest shift on climate includes a $1 million donation to a political action committee’s lobbying campaign to promote a U.S. tax on carbon-gas emissions, a central factor Continue Reading
The European Council agreed on setting a target of a 35% average reduction in CO 2 emissions form new cars by 2030. This position is a basis on which to Continue Reading
A new U.N. report suggests a $240 per gallon gas tax equivalent is needed to fight global warming. The U.N. says a carbon tax would need to be as high Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — A day after the United Nations issued its most urgent call to arms yet for the world to confront the threat of climate change, President Trump boarded Air Continue Reading
Firefighters monitor a backfire near Ladoga, Calif., in August. (Noah Berger/AP) Here is how to interpret the alarming new United Nations-sponsored report on global warming : We are living in Continue Reading
Exxon sees a carbon tax as an alternative to patchwork regulations, putting one cost on all carbon emitters nationwide, eliminating regulatory uncertainty hovering over Exxon’s business in states that might Continue Reading
The EU will miss its 2030 aviation emissions target by almost 100m tonnes if it adopts a new industry-backed standard being rolled out next year, a transport campaigning group has Continue Reading
First it was fierce storms in northern Europe. Since then there have been wildfires in California, a drought in Australia and more storms, this time in the US and Asia. Continue Reading
The world is on track to overshoot the targets of the Paris climate agreement and warm by 3C by the end of the century, a level that would disrupt life Continue Reading
A landmark report from the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says Continue Reading
The Earth has already warmed 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) since the 19th century. Now, a major new United Nations report has looked at the consequences of jumping to Continue Reading
The world stands on the brink of failure when it comes to holding global warming to moderate levels, and nations will need to take “unprecedented” actions to cut their carbon Continue Reading
A penguin stands on an iceberg in Yankee Harbour, Antarctica, in February. (Reuters) The Oct. 8 release of a U.N. special report on limiting climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius Continue Reading
On Thursday, the state of California ramped up its challenge to new federal emissions standards pushed by the Trump Administration. A state official said that California is considering a formal Continue Reading
A dry summer has shrunk the British potato crop and raised a daunting prospect for Britons: a shortage of chips. Fish and chip shops say they will have to reduce Continue Reading
Despite the Trump administration’s own prediction that by the end of this century, the world could warm “a disastrous” 7°F, or about 4°C, above pre-industrial levels, the president has decided Continue Reading
In the cloud of toxic dust thrown up by the Kavanaugh hearings last week, two new Trump initiatives slipped by with less notice than they deserve. Both are ugly, stupid Continue Reading
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) approved a proposal which would set a higher target for reducing EU fleet-wide emissions for new cars by 2030 of 40% (compared to the Continue Reading
The British firm had been active in Canada since 1835. Its actuaries long believed wildfire risk to homes in the area was almost nonexistent, it says. Yet flames on the Continue Reading
The International Maritime Organization’s global sulfur limit rule for marine fuels is set to usher in a multi-fuel future where fuel quality will be paramount and compliance to the rule Continue Reading
Despite the Trump administration’s own prediction that by the end of this century, the world could warm “a disastrous” 7°F, or about 4°C, above pre-industrial levels, the president has decided Continue Reading
A revolutionary groundwater quality study provides new evidence that ‘fracking’ operations are safe to nearby water sources. This piece presents the opinions of the author. It does not necessarily reflect Continue Reading
At Hurricane Florence’s peak of intensity on September 10, its winds roared to 130 mph . But as the Category 4 storm approached the Carolinas, those gusts weakened. When it Continue Reading
Wading through the latest on climate change is an emotional rollercoaster. You will be hit with a dizzying array of inspiring examples of innovation and activism, you’ll be incensed by Continue Reading