'Rebound effect’ cancels out home insulation’s impact on gas use – study (Jan 1 2023 - Guardian - Energy)
Conservatories and house extensions could be helping to wipe out the reductions in gas use secured by insulating homes, according to a study that found insulation only provides a short-term fall in...
3 trends to watch in U.S. climate policy in 2023 (Jan 3 2023 - Washington Post - Climate and Environment)
Good morning and welcome back to The Climate 202! Happy new year. ?? While individual actions alone won’t solve the climate crisis, they can certainly help. So today, we’re sharing our...
A new climate reality: Less warming, but worse impacts on the planet (Jan 6 2023 - Washington Post - Climate and Environment)
In the not-so-distant past, scientists predicted that global temperatures would surge dramatically throughout this century, assuming that humans would rely heavily on fossil fuels for decades. But...
Biden Administration Moves to Tighten Limits on Deadly Air Pollution (Jan 6 2023 - New York Times - Climate Section)
A new rule would, for the first time in a decade, reduce emissions of soot that disproportionately harm communities of color. WASHINGTON - The Biden administration on Friday proposed to tighten...
Electric Vehicles Are Bringing Out the Worst in Us (Jan 4 2023 - The Atlantic)
The downside of heavy, overpowered trucks and SUVs American car executives keep insisting that there is no trade-off between saving the planet and having a hell of a good time behind the wheel....
Federal agencies receive updated climate guidance report (Jan 9 2023 - federalregister.gov)
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Floods Show California’s Climate Dilemma: Fight the Water, or Pull Back? (Jan 5 2023 - New York Times - Climate Section)
Notes: Data reflects near real-time analysis of liquid precipitation amounts. Values are in inches of water or the equivalent amount of melted snow and ice. Times are Pacific. Moving levees...
Germany built LNG terminals in months. Wind turbines still take years. (Jan 7 2023 - Washington Post - Climate and Environment)
HEIDE, Germany - After seven years of planning, permitting and construction, Matthias Frauen’s two newest wind turbines finally began turning in the very last days of 2022. His was a protracted...
Germany plans to keep coal-fired plants ready in case Russian gas is cut (Mar 31 2024 - New York Times)
The power plants, due to be shut down, would be kept in reserve to provide electricity if Russia ended shipments of natural gas. Germany plans to order coal-fired power plants that were due to be...
Half of Earth’s glaciers could melt even if key warming goal is met, study says (Jan 5 2023 - Washington Post - Climate and Environment)
A sweeping study of all the world’s glaciers outside of the Greenland and the Antarctic ice sheets has found that nearly half of them will melt by century’s end, even if the world meets its most...
How a 'totally insane’ warm spell is upending winter around the world (Jan 5 2023 - Washington Post - Climate and Environment)
Across much of the Northern Hemisphere, this winter is a lot warmer than usual. Europe is experiencing a record-shattering warm spell, with meteorologists calling the current heat wave “totally...
How Climate Change Is Shaping California’s Winter Storms (Jan 3 2023 - New York Times - Climate Section)
So far, the downpours are largely in line with past storms, an official said. But their quick pace is testing the limits of the state’s infrastructure. Drenching rains forecast to pummel...
In Iceland, start-up founders invent new ways to tackle environmental crises (Jan 9 2023 - Washington Post - Climate and Environment)
REYKJANES PENINSULA, Iceland - The electric red and green glow of the production facility resembles the Icelandic aurora borealis. Algae in their growth stage flow through hundreds of glass tubes...
Mercedes-Benz Plans to Build U.S. Electric Car Charging Network (Jan 5 2023 - New York Times - Climate Section)
The network could help increase the low number of charging stations, encouraging more people to buy electric vehicles. Mercedes-Benz said Thursday that it would install a network of 2,500...
NYTimes: Has the Amazon Reached Its ‘Tipping Point'? (Jan 4 2023 - New York Times)
Some Brazilian scientists fear that the Amazon may become a grassy savanna - with profound effects on the climate worldwide. Credit...Illustration by Max Guther To hear more audio stories from...
President Lula’s first pro-environment acts protect Indigenous people and the Amazon (Jan 2 2023 - Mongabay)
Mongabay Series: Amazon Conservation, Indigenous Peoples and Conservation BRASÍLIA, Brazil - In the first day of his third mandate as Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, issued measures...
Researchers propose guidelines to communicate climate change (Jan 3 2023 - PHYS.ORG)
Supervised by Nuno Nunes and Valentina Nisi, researchers at ITI and Professors at Instituto Superior Técnico, she found that most climate change communication projects have a neutral tone. Most of...
Terrifying videos: Gigantic storm waves like a tsunami hit and damage Santa Cruz coast in California - Strange Sounds (Jan 6 2023 - Strangesounds)
The coastal town of Capitola has suffered extensive damage as a result of flooding from Wednesday’s bomb cyclone storm, as impacts from heavy rains continue to batter Santa Cruz County. ...
Tesla Car Sales Grow Slower Than Expected, Amplifying Concerns (Jan 2 2023 - New York Times - Climate Section)
Wall Street has grown decidedly pessimistic about Tesla, fearful that Elon Musk, its chief executive, is too focused on Twitter. Tesla said Monday that deliveries in the last three months of the...
The world’s torrid future is etched in the crippled kidneys of Nepali workers (Jan 6 2023 - Washington Post - Climate and Environment)
JANAKPUR, Nepal - Head nurse Rani Jha circled around her busy kidney ward, reeling off the list of patients who were too young, too sick, too many to count. There, lying against the far wall, was...
This firm has started geoengineering the climate. Should the world let it? (Jan 9 2023 - Washington Post - Climate and Environment)
In April 2022, in the Baja California region of Mexico near the Sea of Cortez, a man named Luke Iseman took a few grams of sulfur, lit it on fire and pumped the resulting gas into a six-foot helium...
Thousands of records shattered in historic winter warm spell in Europe (Jan 2 2023 - Washington Post)
As 2022 turned to 2023, an exceptionally strong wintertime heat dome pounced on much of Europe, producing unprecedented warmth for January. As temperatures soared 18 to 36 degrees Fahrenheit (10 to...
UC Irvine Scientists: Climate Change Could Cause Disaster in Oceans (Jan 5 2023 - Miragenews)
Irvine, Calif., Jan. 4, 2023 — Climate-driven heating of seawater is causing a slowdown of deep circulation patterns in the Atlantic and Southern oceans, according to University of...
Wild Weather Swings Are Robbing California of Its Trees (Jan 6 2023 - New York Times - Climate Section)
Pounding rainstorms following an epic drought leave thousands of broken trees that batter roads, levees and neighborhoods. SACRAMENTO - The coast redwood crashed through the roof and into Nicole...