GLOBAL CORAL BLEACHING EVENT TO HIT U.S. HARD, WITH NO END IN SIGHT, SCIENTISTS WARN...
Documenting the dead coral after the bleaching event at Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef, captured by the XL Catlin Seaview Survey in May 2016. Image: XL Catlin Seaview Survey
The ongoing coral bleaching event that has killed or severely injured reefs from the Great Barrier Reef to Hawaii and the Indian Ocean has set its sights on the U.S. during the rest of 2016 and into next year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...
Read moreSCIENTIST: FOSSIL FUELS’ TWO-WAY ASSAULT ON CHILDREN’S HEALTH NEEDS TO STOP...
A CHILDREN'S HEALTH EXPERT, SEEING OUR KIDS IMPERILED BY FOSSIL FUELS AND climate change, calls for a kids-first revamp of energy policies. Credit: World Bank
Fossil fuels represent a two-pronged attack on the health of children, a leading health scientist has warned. To foster health and well-being in future generations, society needs to dramatically decrease dependence on dirty energy...
Read more95% OF GLACIERS ON TIBETAN PLATEAU RECEDED...
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The Tibetan plateau has seen a rise of 0.3 degrees Celsius in temperature with each passing decade...
Read moreVIETNAM DROUGHT LEAVES ONE MILLION IN URGENT NEED OF FOOD AID - EU...
A farmer burns his dried-up rice on a paddy field stricken by drought in Soc Trang province in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam March 30, 2016. REUTERS/Kham
Worst drought in 90 years and seawater intrusion in Mekong River delta destroy fruit, rice and sugar crops...
Read morePERMAFROST SOIL UNDER NORTH SLOPE LAKES IS ABOUT TO THAW...
Permafrost block of coastal tundra collapsed on Alaska’s Arctic Coast. Courtesy USGS Alaska Science Center.
In northernmost Alaska, permafrost is steadily warming and large amounts of thaw are expected by the end of the century. But for some spots, the thaw is about 70 years ahead of that predicted pace, new research shows...
Read moreTEMPERATURES SET TO TOP 120 DEGREES AS MONSTER HEAT WAVE HITS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA...
Jeremy Albucher, 28, of Los Feliz cools off after playing in a pickup basketball game at North Hollywood Park on Thursday. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)
The most severe heat wave so far this year is bearing down in Southern California, with temperatures likely to top 120 degrees...
Read morePLANET'S RECORD HOT STREAK EXTENDS ANOTHER MONTH AS MAY SETS NEW BENCHMARK...
Global temperature anomalies during May 2016. Image: NASA
Another month, another shattered global temperature record...
Read moreTHAT'S RIGHT! NORDIC DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM LEADING THE PACK ONCE AGAIN...
Statoil gas processing and CO2 removal offshore platform near Stavanger, Norway. Photograph: Reuters Staff/Reuters
Norway pledges to become climate neutral by 2030. Parliament approves radical proposal of accelerated emissions cuts and carbon offsetting to achieve climate goal 20 years earlier than planned...
Read moreCONSERVATIVE FUNDERS OF CLIMATE DENIAL ARE QUIETLY SPENDING MILLIONS TO GENERATE MORE PARTISAN JOURNALISM...
Millions of dollars have been pouring into conservative media outlets and student journalism projects from the same groups funding climate science denial, a DeSmog analysis has found...
Read moreZIKA VIRUS SPREADING RAPIDLY ACROSS PUERTO RICO...
A health worker prepares insecticide before fumigating a neighborhood in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Jan. 27, 2016. Researchers around the world are now convinced the Zika virus can cause the birth defect microcephaly as well as Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that can result in paralysis. Photo by Alvin Baez/Files/Reuters
There are alarming signs the Zika virus is spreading rapidly in Puerto Rico, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday...
Read moreSCIENCE COMMITTEE SEEKS TO SQUASH EXXON INVESTIGATION...
A Republican-led congressional committee sought on Friday to assert oversight over inquiries that about 20 states are making into Exxon Mobil and climate change, reiterating demands to know more about state attorneys general’s consultations with environmental groups...
Read moreWHAT WOULD A GLOBAL WARMING INCREASE OF 1.5 DEGREES BE LIKE?
An Indian woman surveys a dried lake bed following an intense heat wave in Bangalore. Indranil Mukherjee/AF/GettyImages
The Paris climate conference set the ambitious goal of finding ways to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, rather than the previous threshold of 2 degrees. But what would be the difference between a 1.5 and 2 degree world? And how realistic is such a target?
Read moreI WROTE A BOOK THE FRACKING INDUSTRY DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ...
Fracking protest; photo credit: © Jacques-Jean Tiziou
Wenonah Hauter reflects on her new book, Frackopoly.
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EXXON SUES A SECOND ATTORNEY GENERAL TO FIGHT OFF CLIMATE FRAUD PROBE...
"The First Amendment does not protect false and misleading statements in the marketplace," the office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (pictured here) said in response to Exxon's June 15 lawsuit. Credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images
The company asks a federal court in Texas to block the investigation by Massachusetts prosecutors, citing its constitutional rights...
Read moreGREENLAND WAS HOTTER THAN NEW YORK CITY LAST WEEK...
Greenland, the Arctic nation that is basically one huge ice cube, is feeling rather balmy lately...
Read moreCATHOLIC ORDERS TAKE THEIR LEAD FROM THE POPE AND DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS...
A nun reads Pope Francis’s encyclical, a collection of principles to guide Catholic teaching, entitled Laudato Si’, at its official presentation, on 18 June, 2015 at the Vatican. Photograph: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images
Four Australian Catholic orders are jointly and publicly divesting from coal, oil and gas: ‘We believe the Gospel asks no less of us’...
Read moreCONGRESS WADES DEEPER INTO THE BATTLE OVER WHETHER EXXON KNEW...
California Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris takes questions from the media after being briefed on the Santa Barbara oil spill at Refugio State Beach, north of Goleta, Calif., on Thursday, June 4, 2015. CREDIT: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes
Congress is joining the battle over state investigations into whether ExxonMobil lied to the public about climate change...
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CO2 levels in atmosphere surpass limit. What now?
Carbon dioxide concentrations in our atmosphere have reached 400 parts per million, and there's no going back in our lifetimes, say scientists...
DISASTERS ARE GETTING WORSE. HOW MUCH ARE WE TO BLAME?
Scientists began searching for human fingerprints on natural disasters in 2003. Our understanding is improving but is still limited. Seen here is damage from record rains over Colorado in 2013. Photo by Army Sgt. Jonathan C. Thibault, courtesy of Flickr.
On the one hand, we live in a changing world, and all extreme events are caused by both climate change and nature. On the other, scientists cannot find a human fingerprint in many extreme weather events with great confidence using the techniques they have at hand...
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