AN OCEAN OF THREATS MUST BE TACKLED TO PROTECT THE WORLD'S 'BLUE ECONOMY,' U.S. UNDERSECRETARY SAYS...
A researcher counts fish near a coral reef at Palmyra Atoll, south of the Hawaiian Islands, in 2005. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
They are the lifeblood of our planet, responsible for more than half of the oxygen we breathe. They regulate the climate, provide a major source of protein for 3 billion people, and millions of livelihoods — including 1 of every 6 jobs in the United States — are connected to the marine environment...
Read moreTHE BUILDING THAT COULD END THE WAR OVER THE OFFICE THERMOSTAT AND ABOLISH FUEL POVERTY...
The 'Living Classroom' building in Swansea powers itself using the sun and innovative renewable technology SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre
The heating system for the entire structure uses the same amount of power as five old-fashioned, incandescent light bulbs...
Read moreGAZETTE EDITORIAL: CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTING WV, WHETHER WE BELIEVE IT OR NOT...
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ONE of Donald Trump’s 100 wackiest ideas is that climate change is a hoax fabricated by China to harm America...
Read moreBILL NYE EXPLAINS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF ALL THE EARTH'S ICE MELTED...
AsapScience video warns about the effects of climate change, which could include rising sea levels, mass population displacement and lack of marine life habitats...
Read moreTHE CURIOUS CASE OF A CLIMATE DENIER AND A UTILITIES CONFERENCE...
The Northeast Public Power Association's annual conference last month featured a climate denialist as the speaker in its only session on climate change, raising questions and concerns among some members. Credit: The Everett Power Plant in Massachusetts/Todd Van Hoosear via flickr
Are some utilities managers, even in pro-climate New England, so far behind the science that they would invite a speaker arguing fossil fuels don't warm the planet?
Read moreWHEN WILL NEW YORK CITY SINK?
Video: A Look at New York's Not-So-Distant Future
A possible look at New York in the not-so-distant future...
A speculative rendering showing what a hundred-year storm could briefly do to the Meatpacking District decades from now, when sea levels have risen several feet. Photo-illustration: MDI Digital
Even locals who believe climate change is real have a hard time grasping that their city will almost certainly be flooded beyond recognition...
Read moreTHE ALARMING NUMBER OF FIRES IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON...
Slash-and-burn forest clearing along the Rio Xingu (Xingu River) in the state of Mato Grosso. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
For three months, from September to December 2015, Manaus was engulfed in smoke, resembling Beijing. That was an unusual scene, and an undeniable sign that predatory exploration in the Brazilian Amazon has not yet been properly tackled...
Read more15 HOUSE RACES WHERE GREEN ISSUES ARE PROMINENT...
Economic and national security top the list of concerns for most voters two months out from the Nov. 8 general election...
Read moreTO FIGHT CLEAN POWER PLAN, FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES PAID FOR PRIVATE MEETINGS WITH REPUBLICAN STATE PROSECUTORS...
Republican Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma. Credit: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0
Just one week before Republican state attorneys general asked federal courts to reject the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which requires states to regulate emissions from electricity generation, they met privately — for a handsome fee — with energy companies Murray Energy and Southern Company, which are also suing to halt the plan’s implementation...
Read moreCLIMATE IMPACTS: MELTING GLACIERS, SHIFTING BIOMES AND DYING TREES IN US NATIONAL PARKS...
A 2013 wildfire in Yellowstone National Park. Source: National Park Service/Flickr
Trees are dying across Yosemite and Yellowstone national parks. Glaciers are melting in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska. Corals are bleaching in Virgin Islands National Park. Published field research conducted in U.S. national parks has detected these changes and shown that human climate change – carbon pollution from our power plants, cars and other human activities – is the cause...
Read moreHUMANS HAVE DESTROYED A TENTH OF EARTH'S WILDERNESS IN 25 YEARS – STUDY SAYS...
An area of the Amazon rainforest which has been slashed and burned stands next to a section of virgin forest. Photograph: Ricardo Moraes/Reuters
Experts warn there may be no unspoilt places left within a century as report shows an area twice the size of Alaska has been lost since 1993...
Read moreOBAMA ON CLIMATE CHANGE: THE TRENDS ARE ‘TERRIFYING’...
In an exclusive interview on his legacy, President Obama speaks to The Times’s Mark Landler and Coral Davenport on climate change while visiting Marine Corps Base Hawaii. By A.J. CHAVAR, BEN LAFFIN, MARK LANDLER and CORAL DAVENPORT on Publish Date September 8, 2016. Photo by A.J. Chavar/The New York Times.
“If the current projections, the current trend lines on a warming planet continue, it is certainly going to be enormously disruptive worldwide.”
Read moreAN UPDATE ON MID-LATITUDE CYCLONES AND CLIMATE CHANGE...
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Why is it so hard to say what the future North European climate will look like? A recent review paper by Shaw et al, 2016 explains the reason in persuasive terms...
Read moreHOW CLIMATE CHANGE COULD JAM THE WORLD'S OCEAN CIRCULATION...
Scientists are closely monitoring a key current in the North Atlantic to see if rising sea temperatures and increased freshwater from melting ice are altering the “ocean conveyor belt” — a vast oceanic stream that plays a major role in the global climate system...