NEW YORK CITY, L.A. AND CHICAGO ARE ALL UNDER HEAT ADVISORIES, PLUS 23 STATES IN BETWEEN...
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Gasification. (Illustration: Marc Fusco)
People have been trying for decades to eliminate landfills and fight climate change by vaporizing garbage—with disappointing results. But that could be changing...
Read moreA SEQUEL TO THE PARIS CLIMATE ACCORD TAKES SHAPE IN VIENNA...
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WASHINGTON — When negotiators from nearly 200 countries gathered outside Paris in December for the United Nations summit meeting on climate change, they reached the first agreement to take action on curbing their planet-warming pollution...
Read moreOIL LOBBY PAID WASHINGTON POST AND ATLANTIC TO HOST CLIMATE-CHANGE DENIERS AT RNC...
"Evidence of human-made climate change is so conclusive that it’s wrong for journalists to treat its denial like a reasonable point of view..."
CATTLE GRAZING IS NOW CAUSING MASSIVE DEFORESTATION HOTSPOTS IN THE PERUVIAN AMAZON...
Add your reaction ShareSMOKE AND FUMES: SIX DECADES OF OIL-TOBACCO NEXUS OF DECEPTION AND ATTACKS ON SCIENCE...
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The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) today expanded its website SmokeandFumes.org, featuring a new video and more internal industry documents dating back to the 1950s that reveal the nexus between the oil and tobacco industries’ shared campaigns to undermine science to delay accountability and political action to curtail their deadly products...
Read moreWMO: GLOBAL WARMING HAPPENING FASTER THAN PREDICTED...
'Roughly 10 feet of sea level rise—well beyond previous estimates—would render coastal cities such as New York, London, and Shanghai uninhabitable.' Woodbine
GENEVA— The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported the first six months of this year have seen all previous global warming records broken.The WMO said 2016 is on track to be the world’s hottest year on record with more heat on the way...
Read moreDEVASTATING DROUGHTS CONTINUE AS EL NINO SUBSIDES...
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- Although the devastating El Niño of 2015 to 2016 has now subsided, in many parts of Africa, Central America and Southeast Asia rains and harvests are not expected to recover until 2017...Read more
CHEAP AND CLEAN: AUSTRALIAN COMPANY CREATES HYDROGEN WITH NEAR-ZERO EMISSIONS...
A new process for converting natural gas into hydrogen could be the solution for powering electric vehicles Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images
With hydrogen tipped to become an important clean energy fuel, a new process may be the solution to powering electric vehicles and heating buildings...
Read moreSHRINKING OZONE HOLE SHOWS WHAT COLLECTIVE ACTION CAN ACHIEVE...
(CNN)The hole in the ozone layer was first discovered in 1985 by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey, who described how ozone levels above the Antarctic were steadily dropping compared to the previous decade. This was quickly recognized as a severe environmental problem -- and the culprit was identified as the unchecked use of chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs...
Read moreTHE NEWEST WAY TO CLEAN THE ATMOSPHERE? MAKE BLEACH...
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Not only can scientists take carbon dioxide out of the air; they can also turn it into a useful chemical...
Read moreEARTH IS HOTTER THAN EVER -- PROSECUTE INACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE?
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Human influence on the climate system is clear, and recent human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest in history. Recent climate changes have had widespread impacts on human and natural systems. Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, and sea level has risen...
Read moreFIRST HALF OF 2016 BLOWS AWAY TEMP RECORDS...
The running average of global temperatures during 2016.
The first half of 2016 has blown away temperature records, capped off by a record hot June, once again bumping up the odds that 2016 will be the hottest year on record globally, according to data released Tuesday...
Read moreNEW YORK IS POISED TO APPROVE A MAJOR OFFSHORE WIND FARM...
Turbine support at Rhode Island's Block Island Wind Farm, the first commercial offshore wind power plant under construction in the United States. (Photo: Deepwater Wind)
The U.S. has barely tapped an enormous source of renewable energy...
Read moreHAVE WE CROSSED THE 9 PLANETARY BOUNDARIES? (story 5 years old)
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The world needs to awaken itself to the looming catastrophe of global warming,” said Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute, at a recent meeting in Muscat. “We must provide a safe operating space where vested interest and lobby-driven policies will not see the world marching into disaster.” Just what is a safe operating space for human civilization?
Read moreHOW RENEWABLE ENERGY IS BLOWING CLIMATE CHANGE EFFORTS OFF COURSE...
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Is the global effort to combat climate change, painstakingly agreed to in Paris seven months ago, already going off the rails?
Read moreABOLITION OF DECC 'MAJOR SETBACK FOR UK'S CLIMATE CHANGE EFFORTS'...
Environmental groups criticised the decision as downgrading action on climate change. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian
Ex-ministers and environmental groups condemn decision to axe ministry as downgrading action to tackle climate change...
Read moreNUCLEAR SUBSIDIES ARE KEY PART OF NEW YORK’S CLEAN-ENERGY PLAN...
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The blueprint for New York State’s lofty clean-energy goals relies on the technologies of the future: The state, officials have promised, will draw half of its electricity from renewable and clean energy sources like wind and solar power by 2030...
Read moreFROM FLOODS TO FOREST FIRES: A WARMING PLANET – IN PICTURES...
Droughts, floods, forest fires and melting poles – climate change is impacting Earth like never before. From the Australia to Greenland, Ashley Cooper’s work spans 13 years and over 30 countries. This selection, taken from his new book, shows a changing landscape, scarred by pollution and natural disasters – but there is hope too, with the steady rise of renewable energy...
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