ENTERPRISE RENT-A-CAR MUST STOP FUNDING THE AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL...
Enterprise Rent-A-Car – the world’s largest car rental company – has joined the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a shadowy corporate front group that blocks clean energy policies, supports discriminatory voter ID laws and works to stop gun control legislation...1
Read moreOIL AND GAS: ENVIROS PICK CLIMATE FIGHT WITH FEDS, SEEK TO REIN IN LEASING...
A pumpjack bobs on public lands in Utah. Photo courtesy of WildEarth Guardians.
Backers of the "keep it in the ground" movement have taken their efforts up a notch, asking a federal court to force the Obama administration to consider the climate impacts of oil and gas leasing on public lands...
Read moreUNPREDICTABLE WEATHER RAISES ‘ZOMBIE’ DISEASES FROM THE GROUND...
The Scottish island of Gruinard had been quarantined for decades after field trials of anthrax as biological weapon in 1942. AP Photo
The death of a boy and his grandmother this month in the far north of Russia after an anthrax outbreak raises questions about the impact of climate change on other pathogens that have been suspended in the ice...
Read moreBILL MCKIBBEN’S ECOLOGY-FREE DECLARATION OF WAR ON CLIMATE IS DANGEROUS AND WRONG...
Why does Bill McKibben’s recent sensationalist appeal for a “War on Climate” make no mention, not even one, of ecology or ecosystems?
Read moreWHY AREN’T WE MORE FREAKED OUT ABOUT LOUISIANA?
Jonathan Bachman/Reuters
Climate change is conditioning us to accept natural disasters as “the new normal.”
Read moreTHIS ANIMATED MAP SHOWS WHY ANIMALS CAN’T SURVIVE CLIMATE CHANGE WITHOUT OUR HELP...
Can they get where the need to go? (Dan Majka / The Nature Conservancy)
As the global climate gets hotter both people and animals will have to adapt to changes in their local environments. However, while people can shed clothes or turn up the A/C, animals have fewer options to maintain the conditions they need to survive...
Read moreOUR ENERGY GRID IS INCREDIBLY VULNERABLE AND CLIMATE CHANGE IS THE CAUSE...
Downed telephone and power cable poles in the streets of New Orleans on Sept. 11, 2005. Omar Torres/Getty Images
When I dream about Hurricane Katrina (and I still do), it always starts with the refrigerators. Kenmore, GE, Whirlpool, Frigidaire, Amana...
Read morePAKISTAN EXPANDS GLACIER MONITORING IN EFFORT TO CUT DISASTER RISK...
ISLAMABAD (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Pakistan will invest $8.5 million to expand a network of glacier monitoring stations tracking the pace of glacial melt in the Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Himalayan mountain ranges, in an effort to strengthen early warning systems and reduce the impact of flooding in the South Asian country...
Read moreENVIRONMENTALISTS FIGHT FEDS FOR HIDING CLIMATE HARM OF PUBLIC LANDS DRILLING IN WEST...
Natural gas drilling, seen on top of the Roan Plateau, encircles the wildlife-rich area in 2008. The plateau sits inside BLM boundaries. Credit: Zack Ornitz
Environmentalists launched a legal fight Thursday challenging federal government leasing to oil and gas companies of nearly 400,000 acres of public land in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado...
Read more‘NEXT YEAR OR THE YEAR AFTER, THE ARCTIC WILL BE FREE OF ICE’...
The Russian-flagged Akademik Sergey Vavilov in Alexandra Strait in the Arctic. Last month, Arctic sea ice covered 630,000 square kilometres less ocean than the 30-year average. (Paul Watson/toronto star file photo)
Scientist Peter Wadhams believes the summer ice cover at the north pole is about to disappear, triggering even more rapid global warming...
Read moreCOORDINATOR OF UK OCEAN ACIDIFICATION RESEARCH ATTACKS THE SPECTATOR FOR 'WILLFULLY MISLEADING' JAMES DELINGPOLE COLUMN...
The Spectator is one of the oldest English language magazines on the planet, established in London in 1828. Chances are if you’ve never read it, you’ve probably heard of it...
Read moreALGAE BLOOMS ARE CONTRIBUTING TO GREENLAND'S STAGGERING ICE LOSS...
Greenland loses ice to the sea mainly through two processes. The shedding of icebergs from glaciers that run into the sea or surface melt of. Credit: NASA
Rising temperatures can’t fully explain the ongoing melting of the Greenland ice sheet. A new project looks at how microorganisms are changing the reflectivity of the ice sheet, helping it warm and melt...
Read moreDARK CLOUDS LOOM FOR OIL AS CHINA CHASES BLUE SKIES FOR G-20...
Leaders pose for the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors group photo during the annual International Monetary Fund, World Bank Spring Meetings at the IMF on April 15, 2016 in Washington, DC. / AFP / Mandel NGAN
China is throwing the world’s leaders a party, and oil bulls may be hit with the hangover...
Read moreTHIS CNN METEOROLOGIST WAS A CLIMATE CHANGE SKEPTIC, BUT NOW HE'S A BELIEVER...
CNN meteorologist Chad Myers. credit: CNN
"It's OK to be wrong as long as you learn from your mistakes..."
Read moreLANDMARK CLIMATE BILL PASSED BY CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE...
Governor Jerry Brown giving closing remarks at a climate symposium in 2014. Photo via Wikimedia Commons
After an intense lobbying spree and threats from Governor Jerry Brown to take the measure directly to voters via ballot initiative should it fail to pass, Senate Bill 32 (SB 32) was approved by the California legislature yesterday...
Read moreSTUDY FINDS BIOFUELS WORSE FOR CLIMATE THAN GASOLINE...
Corn is the main crop used in the U.S. to produce biofuel. Credit: Jim Deane/Flickr
Years of number crunching that had seemed to corroborate the climate benefits of American biofuels were starkly challenged in a science journal on Thursday, with a team of scientists using a new approach to conclude that the climate would be better off without them...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE NOW HAS A START DATE...
Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830, the date scientists now believe emissions from the UK's industrial revolution began to warm the planet. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Researchers have pinpointed the beginning of global warming to a couple of decades in mid-1800s, showing earth’s sensitivity to small atmospheric changes...
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