Huffington Post
The Biden administration rolled out its plan Thursday to overhaul the United States’ aging patchwork of fossil-fueled electrical grids, finishing work on a suite of regulations designed to rein in rising utility bills and stem worsening blackouts while cutting planet-heating pollution from power...
PHYS.ORG - Technology
Chinese car giants locked in a cut-throat price war descended on the capital for the start of the Auto China show Thursday, vying to draw consumers and headlines in the world's biggest electric vehicle market and abroad. China's EV sector has exploded in recent years, and firms are now engaged...
PHYS.ORG - Earth
Colonies of emperor penguin chicks were wiped out last year as global warming eroded their icy homes, a study published Thursday found, despite the birds' attempts to adapt to the shrinking landscape. The study by the British Antarctic Survey found that record-low sea ice levels in 2023...
New York Times - Climate Section
The Biden administration has expressed growing alarm that efforts to fight climate change could falter unless the electric grids are quickly expanded. Reporting from Washington The Biden administration on Thursday finalized a rule meant to speed up federal permits for major transmission lines,...
The Biden administration released a major climate regulation aimed at virtually eliminating carbon emissions from coal, the dirtiest of the fossil fuels and a driver of global warming. The Biden administration has effectively moved to end the use of coal to keep the lights on in America. On...
Thailand issued fresh warnings about scorching hot weather on Thursday as the government said heatstroke has already killed at least 30 people this year. City authorities in Bangkok gave an extreme heat warning as the heat index was expected to rise above 52 degrees Celsius (125 degrees...
Limiting power plant pollution is the last major climate rule expected from President Biden. Donald J. Trump has already vowed to “cancel” it if re-elected. The Biden administration on Thursday placed the final cornerstone of its plan to tackle climate change: a regulation that would force the...
Skeptical Science
Ice acceleration and rotation in the Greenland Ice Sheet interior in recent decades, Løkkegaard et al., Communications Earth & Environment: In the past two decades, mass loss from the Greenland ice sheet has accelerated, partly due to the speedup of glaciers. However, uncertainty in speed...
Washington Post - Climate and Environment
New rules will slash air, water and climate pollution from U.S. power plants
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday finalized an ambitious set of rules aimed at slashing air pollution, water pollution and planet-warming emissions spewing from the nation’s power plants. If fully implemented, the rules will have enormous consequences for U.S. climate goals, the...
Tesla driver in Seattle-area crash that killed motorcyclist told police he was using Autopilot
A Tesla that may have been operating on the company's Autopilot driving system hit and killed a motorcyclist near Seattle, raising questions about whether a recent recall went far enough to ensure Tesla drivers using Autopilot pay attention to the road. After the crash Friday in a suburban area...
This Is One Of The Biggest Threats To Democracy - And It’s 'Underappreciated’
In May 2019, I flew to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to attend a conference on the future of carbon capture, the technology the oil industry was betting on to slash the climate impact of burning fossil fuels. Just six months after the release of a dire report giving humanity roughly a decade to halve...
Artificial intelligence helps scientists engineer plants to fight climate change
To design these climate-saving plants, scientists in Salk's Harnessing Plants Initiative are using a sophisticated new research tool called SLEAP—an easy-to-use artificial intelligence (AI) software that tracks multiple features of root growth. Created by Salk Fellow Talmo Pereira, SLEAP...
Saliba and Malekshahi reached out to researchers at the Molecular Foundry, a Department of Energy Office of Science user facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Fast forward several months, and the Berkeley Lab team has applied a set of techniques to reveal...
PHYS.ORG - Biology
The high and mighty Himalayas: A biodiversity hotbed facing significant challenges
The region represents a huge mountain system extending 2,400 kilometers across Nepal, India, Bhutan, Pakistan, China, Myanmar and Afghanistan. It has a number of climate types and ecological zones, from tropical to alpine ecosystems including ice and rocks in the uppermost zone. All these...
Yale Climate Connections - Policy
'Basic peer pressure’: The plan to turn out millions of pro-climate voters in the 2024 U.S. election
Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Yale Climate Connections With the November election fast approaching, political campaigns across the country are targeting that most coveted of groups: “likely voters.” Once identified, most campaigns...
Science Daily - Earth and Climate
'Diverse' Agriculture Benefits People and the Environment at the Same Time
Rotating crops, conserving soil nutrients and deploying other strategies to "diversify" agriculture all at the same time can yield major benefits for the environment and people alike -- including increased crop yields and improved food security for entire communities. That's the take-home...
Extreme heat scorched the Philippines on Wednesday, forcing schools in some areas to suspend in-person classes and prompting warnings for people to limit the amount of time spent outdoors. The months of March, April and May are typically the hottest and driest in the archipelago nation, but...
A new study finds that "sunny day flooding," which occurs during high tides, increases the levels of fecal bacteria in coastal waters. While the elevated bacteria levels in the coastal waters tend to dissipate quickly, the findings suggest policymakers and public health officials should be aware...
'Tug of War' Tactic Enhances Chemical Separations for Critical Materials
Lanthanide elements are important for clean energy and other applications. To use them, industry must separate mixed lanthanide sources into individual elements using costly, time-consuming, and waste-generating procedures. An efficient new method can be tailored to select specific lanthanides....
‘Pathetic, Really, and Dangerous': Al Gore Reflects on Fraudulent Fossil Fuel Claims, Climate Voters and Clean Energy
NEW YORK CITY - Former Vice President Al Gore paid a visit to the Big Apple earlier this month to help train a new cohort of climate activists just ahead of Earth Day. The training session, which took place from April 12 to 14, was part of The Climate Reality Project, Gore’s nonprofit that...