2015 Set Frenzy of Climate Records...
The warming of the world’s climate has reached a fever pitch in recent years, causing records to fall like dominoes. In 2015, the planet saw a number of such records set, from the hottest global temperature measured to the largest annual increase in carbon dioxide...
Read moreFROM NOW ON, EVERY GOVERNMENT AGENCY WILL HAVE TO CONSIDER CLIMATE CHANGE...
Add your reaction ShareCLIMATE CHANGE IS HELL ON ALASKA'S FORMERLY FROZEN HIGHWAYS...
Snowcapped mountains and evergreens along the Alaska Highway. credit: Getty Images
A critical artery is threatened by thawing permafrost...
Read moreLooking, Quickly, for the Fingerprints of Climate Change...
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When days of heavy rain in late May caused deadly river flooding in France and Germany, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh got to work...
Read moreRISING SEA LEVELS COULD COST U.S. HOMEOWNERS CLOSE TO $1 TRILLION...
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Being underwater will soon mean exactly what it says. Especially in Florida...
Read moreUN TRIES TO HIDE INVOLVEMENT IN DELETING AUSTRALIA FROM ITS CLIMATE REPORT...
Decomposing coral on the Great Barrier Reef. All mentions of Australia were removed from Unesco’s report on climate change and world heritage sites. Photograph: XL Catlin Global Reef Record via/AP
Federal environment department says Unesco sought and was granted heavy redactions in freedom of information documents...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE DIVIDE BURSTS TO FOREFRONT IN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN...
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WASHINGTON — During the 2012 race for president, the issue of climate change was nearly invisible...
Read moreRENEWABLE ENERGY: ENGINEERS WORK TO CUT COSTS AND EMISSIONS IN GEOTHERMAL POWER...
A geodesic dome covers a geothermal wellhead at the Hellisheiði Power Station in Iceland. Photo by Umair Irfan
HENGILL, Iceland -- Billowing vapor clouds and the faint smell of boiled eggs lead visitors over a gravel road toward the Hellisheiði Power Station, 15 miles southeast of the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik...
Read moreHOW SUN, SALT AND GLASS COULD HELP SOLVE OUR ENERGY NEEDS...
‘A fabulous alien metropolis’: Crescent Dunes in Nevada. Photograph: SolarReserve
It looks like a set from a sci-fi epic, but this solar plant in the scorching Nevada desert has a far more practical purpose…
Read moreCLEAN ENERGY WON’T SAVE US – ONLY A NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEM CAN...
‘That 30% chunk of greenhouse gases that comes from non-fossil fuel sources isn’t static. It is adding more to the atmosphere each year.’ Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Global Warming Images/Alamy
It’s time to pour our creative energies into imagining a new global economy. Infinite growth is a dangerous illusion...
Read moreCOLUMN: HERE ARE SOME REAL BUT SO FAR UNCONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE...
As a scientist, I know that continuing climate change is the biggest threat to the security and prosperity of our state, our country and, indeed, the whole world. I also see the enormous economic opportunities provided by mitigating climate change...
Read moreSTEPHEN HAWKING: OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS WEALTH PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE IN BREXIT. WE NEED A RETHINK...
Illustration: Ellie Foreman-Peck
Money was a key factor in the outcome of the EU referendum. We will now have to learn to collaborate and to share...
Read moreHUMAN CONSUMPTION OF EARTH'S NATURAL RESOURCES HAS TRIPLED IN 40 YEARS...
Landscape deeply scarred by an open cut coal mine in Hunter Valley, Australia.Max Phillips / Flickr
Humans' appetite for gnawing away at the fabric of the Earth itself is growing prodigiously. According to a new UN report, the amount of the planet's natural resources extracted for human use has tripled in 40 years...
Read moreWARMING AT ALARMING RATE, LAKE TAHOE REFLECTS RAPID SIERRA CLIMATE CHANGE...
As scientists have long predicted, more winter precipitation at Lake Tahoe is falling as rain, rather than snow. (Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)
Lake Tahoe is showing some severe impacts from the changing climate...
Read moreSTEM THE RED TIDE: RESEARCHERS SAY HUMAN POLLUTION IS BEHIND ALGAL BLOOMS AND GOVERNMENT SHOULD TAKE CHARGE...
University of Hong Kong postgraduate researcher Liu Yi examines a testing point for groundwater in Ting Kok, Tai Po. Photo: SCMP Pictures
A wave of harmful red tides killed off 220 tonnes of fish across mariculture zones, mostly in the Tolo Harbour area this year...
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SCIENTISTS HAVE FOUND A PERFECT ILLUSTRATION OF HOW THE CLIMATE IS SPIRALING ‘OUT OF CONTROL’...
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Several months ago, climate scientist Ed Hawkins made headlines with a stunning animated visualization of the change in global temperature over the past 150 years...
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In September 2015, InsideClimate News published a groundbreaking series detailing a decades long scheme by oil giant ExxonMobil regarding the company’s knowledge of climate change and overt plans to cover up this knowledge while misleading the public...
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