Washington Post - Climate and Environment
Democrats say they are way more likely than Republicans to buy electric cars. Could that change? Electric cars have taken off across the United States. Even amid news of slowing sales, the country sold almost 1.2 million fully electric vehicles in 2023, more than quadruple the number in 2019....
New York Times - Climate Section
A lot of them don’t work and some might even be harmful. But there are things you can do if you really have to fly. Credit...Naomi Anderson-Subryan In recent years, many airlines have phased out the little box encouraging you to “offset your flight’s emissions!” on their checkout pages. Perhaps...
PHYS.ORG - Earth
Authorities in southern Brazil scrambled Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides in what has become the region's largest ever climate catastrophe, with at least 78 dead and 115,000 forced from their homes. Entire cities were underwater, with thousands of people cut off from the...
Ikea is guiding its customers toward sustainable consumption. Here’s how
The giant furniture retailer is using its procurement clout and in-store promotions to nudge millions of customers toward lower-emissions products. Close to 860 million people visited Ikea stores last year, helping it generate more than $50 billion in sales. The world’s largest furniture...
Market-based approaches to forest conservation like carbon offsets and deforestation-free certification schemes have largely failed to protect trees or alleviate poverty, according to a major scientific review published on Monday. The global study - the most comprehensive of its kind to date -...
Radio astronomers bypass disturbing Earth's atmosphere with new calibration technique
The technique allowed astronomers to take clear radio images of the universe at frequencies between 16 and 30 MHz for the first time. This was thought to be impossible, because the ionosphere, at about 80 kilometers above the Earth, interferes with observations at these frequencies. Thanks to...
As the aviation industry lobbies for sustainable jet fuel, new tax breaks could help lower the carbon footprint of business travel. Illustration of a jet's shadow over a field sunflowers. Credit: Shutterstock/Scharfsinn U.S. airlines use sustainable fuel in less than 0.1 percent of flights. Yet...
Are any technologies capable of solving the climate crisis at scale? To tackle big risks requires big imagination and big bucks. And, except for annihilation from global thermonuclear warfare, no set of risks loom larger than the continuing atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases, chiefly carbon...
Skeptical Science
A farmworker cleans the solar panels of a solar water pump in the village of Jagadhri, Haryana Country, India. (Photo credit: Prashanth Vishwanathan/ IWMI) Decisions made in India over the next few years will play a key role in global efforts to head off the most catastrophic effects of climate...
"It’s straight out of Big Tobacco’s playbook. In fact, research by John Cook and his colleagues has shown that character assassination has been one of the most common ways in which fossil fuel interests have attempted to deny accountability for the climate crisis." — Geoffrey...
Academics and Lawmakers Slam an Industry-Funded Report by a Former Energy Secretary Promoting Natural Gas and LNG
With a pair of fossil-fuel friendly senators at his side, former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz on Tuesday released a favorable report on U.S. natural gas and liquified natural gas (LNG), funded by the natural gas industry. The report, “The Future of Natural Gas in a Low-Carbon...
Beaches were deserted and many shops closed on Saturday as heavy rains and winds from a tropical cyclone buffeted coastal areas of Tanzania and Kenya. Both countries have gone on alert for Tropical Cyclone Hidaya, after weeks of torrential rains and floods that have wreaked havoc in many parts...
Chileans Sunday feared a rise in the death toll from wildfires blazing across the South American country that have already killed at least 51 people, leaving bodies in the street and homes gutted. Authorities warned Sunday of "complicated" conditions as they battled fires in the coastal tourist...
Raging floods and mudslides have killed at least 55 people in southern Brazil and forced nearly 70,000 to flee their homes, the country's civil defense agency said on Saturday. At least 74 people were injured and another 67 missing from the catastrophic flooding, civil defense said. The toll did...
Just Have A Think
The Green Energy Transition is starting to tease out some very smart solutions to ditching fossil fuels. Our friends in the North are leading the way in the decarbonisation of buildings and industry. Here's a couple of perfect examples.\n\nHelp support this channels independence at...
Climate Change (United Nations - Playlist)
Marie Barsacq, Director for Impact and Legacy of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee, and Ambassador Nicolas de Rivière, Permanent Representative of the Mission of France to the United Nations, participated in the United Nations celebration of the International Day of Sport for Development. Ms....
As scientists rush to save ailing corals elsewhere, in Venezuela locals are trying to kill off this stinky variety. VALLE SECO, Venezuela - Estrella Villamizar grabbed the soft red and white coral by its stem and hacked it off with a blow of her wooden knife before tossing it in a bucket with...
World Champion Sasha DiGiulian Talks Climate Advocacy & Equality in Sports | United Nations
World Champion rock climber and Protect Our Winters (POW) Athletes Alliance member Sasha DiGiulian takes time from training to talk about her personal experiences with climate change that lead to her advocacy work.\n\nSasha DiGiulian joined other elite athletes and leaders in the sport industry...
Guardian - Energy
'It’s going to be messy’: advocates balance climate action and conservation amid Queensland’s green energy boom
'Some negative projects will get up, but we have to keep our eyes on the broader goals’, says WWF Australia A map of operating windfarms in Queensland does not take too long to survey – of the 100 or so across Australia, only six of them are in the sunshine state. But this is about to change in...