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The world stopped growing about 1988… and has only grown older since. Global births, per five year periods, according to the UN. Births and UN medium and low variant estimates Continue Reading
Homes and businesses in Texas used record amounts of power on Wednesday and are expected to use even more in the coming days as consumers crank up their air conditioners Continue Reading
The signs don’t look favorable for carbon dioxide emissions controls in the U.S. The Trump administra-tion along with much of the Republican party clearly do not believe in climate change Continue Reading
A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit by New York City seeking to hold major oil companies liable for climate change caused by carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels. Continue Reading
A British task force said Thursday that carbon capture and storage is ready for deployment provided investments materialize by the early 2020s. “After six months of intense discussions between a Continue Reading
Within the next few decades, Big Meat and Big Dairy could surpass Big Oil as the world’s biggest climate polluters, a new study by non-profit GRAIN and the Institute for Continue Reading
An unusually hot, dry second quarter saw Statkraft’s hydro-based power production fall 22% to 11.5 TWh for the period, the state utility said Thursday. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes Continue Reading
If you happen to be at the beach this summer, make a mental note of any giant freighters crossing the horizon. In a few years’ time those same ships will Continue Reading
For miners seeking to cater to the changing appetite of China, the world’s biggest iron ore importer, all eyes are on Tangshan, the country’s biggest steel-making city and the drastic Continue Reading
Homes along the edge of the coast in Santa Barbara County, Calif., in 2005. (Patrick Barnard/Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center/U.S. Geological Survey) Like an ax slowly chopping at the Continue Reading
July kicked off with searingly hot temperatures for most Americans this year. New daily, monthly and all-time record highs were set across the country last week, with more than 100 Continue Reading
In 2013, a team of researchers set sail to the eastern Beaufort Sea in search of evidence for the flood near where the Mackenzie River enters the Arctic Ocean, forming Continue Reading
Chinese officials boasted of advances in the fight against air pollution, through a shifting energy landscape could carry a cost, a consultant group said. An air monitoring report published Monday Continue Reading
Illegal Chinese production of a banned crude oil-derived chemical used for cheap home insulation is thought to be the main source of rising emissions of gas that is damaging the Continue Reading
Arizona is the odd state out in agreeing to dramatically curtail water use from the Colorado River, raising tensions in the Southwest as extreme drought conditions return. At issue are Continue Reading
An international team of researchers suggest that future global warming may eventually be twice as warm as projected by climate models Global warming could be much worse than predicated by Continue Reading
The European commissioner for climate action said Friday it’s time to start looking beyond the horizon outlined in the Paris climate agreement. “The clean energy transition will be key, and Continue Reading
Leaders of the world’s largest oil companies want everyone to know it won’t do anyone any good to make them pay for the damages of climate change. Executives have been Continue Reading
The northern hemisphere has been hit by extreme heat over the past two weeks, with record-breaking temperatures recorded in the US, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. An unprecedented week-long Continue Reading
Last year, hurricane season disrupted a lot of oil production and refining capacity along the U.S. Gulf Coast, sending oil prices soaring. This year, however, oil bulls may be in Continue Reading
French consultancy Cedigaz sees global gas demand growing by 1.4%/year between 2016 and 2040, a major reduction cumulatively from last year’s 1.8% compound annual growth rate. It does however see Continue Reading
They are from different generations, different countries, and live 1,100km apart. Yet the fates of Suleyman Agalday and Nashwa Nasr are intertwined by policies transforming the Tigris River that has irrigated Continue Reading
Rhode Island on Monday sued several major oil companies, including Exxon Mobil Corp and BP plc, accusing them of contributing to climate change that is damaging infrastructure and coastal communities Continue Reading
Executives from natural gas companies call their increasingly cheap and plentiful fuel the world’s best answer to climate change: it produces about half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned Continue Reading
Italy’s oil major Eni will announce by the end of this year binding commitments to become carbon neutral, its chief executive Claudio Descalzi said on Monday, in what would be Continue Reading
China has ramped up purchases of liquefied natural gas (LNG), pulling in rare cargoes from Cameroon, Egypt and Europe, trade data shows, as the world’s most populous nation shores up Continue Reading
If our longer-term goal is to reduce the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (which produces climate change) — there are only four ways to do it. 1) Reduce Continue Reading
The government of Chinese President Xi Jinping outlined new climate goals following a trilateral meeting of regional environment ministers. File Photo by Xie Huanchi/UPI June 25 (UPI) — Guidelines published Continue Reading
Teslas may not be any greener than their gasoline counterparts, research from UK-based climate data provider Engaged Tracking has suggested, based on data about the CO2 emissions linked to the Continue Reading
Students in San Francisco rallied for clean energy outside City Hall in February. A federal judge on Monday threw out a closely watched lawsuit brought by two California cities against Continue Reading
German farmers could lose around half their harvests – and in some cases all of them – due to unusually warm temperatures and dryness seen in May, the head of Continue Reading
Over 795 million people in the world are hungry, and by 2050 there will be an additional 2 billion people to feed. Is the Earth able to provide enough food Continue Reading
This week marks the 30th anniversary of the first public warning that global warming had started, and climate scientists are assessing where the predictions of the NASA scientist who sounded Continue Reading
It has become one of the fastest growing political campaigns in human history, surpassing similar battles against the tobacco industry and the fight against apartheid in South Africa. Its logic Continue Reading
Iraq has informed farmers of a ban on planting rice and other water-intensive crops in the face of increasing shortages because of drought and shrinking river flows. A letter from Continue Reading
From internal efforts to outreach in the civil aviation sector, the European Commission said the bloc is putting its climate leadership on display. The European Commission outlined schedules Friday for Continue Reading
Between 60 and 90 percent of the world’s fresh water is frozen in the ice sheets of Antarctica, a continent roughly the size of the United States and Mexico combined. Continue Reading
Crevasses near the grounding line of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica. (Ian Joughin/University of Washington) Antarctica’s ice sheet is melting at a rapidly increasing rate, now pouring more than 200 Continue Reading
Lawyers for major oil companies on Wednesday urged a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by New York City seeking to hold them financially liable for damages caused Continue Reading
At the White House and on Capitol Hill, debates over energy policy are playing out with just as much invective as just about any other issue in America’s bitterly divided Continue Reading
Pope Francis warned that climate change risked destroying humanity on Saturday and called on energy leaders to help the world to convert to clean fuels to avert catastrophe. “Civilization requires Continue Reading
Climate change could have wiped out alien civilizations and may be on the way to wipe out mankind, too, a new study has suggested. Using simulations based on information about Continue Reading
Canadian oil production from a facility in Alberta has the same greenhouse gas intensity as U.S. oil, the head of producer Suncor said. Suncor said it’s completed its $13 billion Continue Reading
A Canadian clean energy company and its founder who is a Harvard Professor say that they have developed an affordable way to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and Continue Reading
The pilot plant has been built in British Columbia and is extracting about a tonne of CO2 every day A Canadian company, backed by Bill Gates, says it has reached Continue Reading
Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM 1.00% , the oil giant long derided by environmentalists, is trying to give itself a green facelift. Chief Executive Darren Woods has called for Exxon to Continue Reading
Late last year, Dr. Jeremy Leggett — solar energy entrepreneur, former oilman and government advisor — gave an eye-opening talk where he for the first time laid out his vision Continue Reading
Hurricane Harvey over the Gulf of Mexico in August 2017. The storm stalled over Texas and dropped nearly 50 inches of rain in some places. With wind speeds that can Continue Reading
Oil and gas drillers in Colorado will tweak their drilling and completion schedules for the summer as a way of supporting the state’s efforts to reduce ozone emissions, which seasonally Continue Reading
“WATER is very strange,” says Anders Nilsson. He should know: he has been studying the stuff for most of his working life. His claim may be hard for the rest Continue Reading