DID THE CLIMATE SPIN OUT OF CONTROL ON ITS OWN?
Scientists dig into the data to see if the world's climate could change dramatically without external drivers and how the system stays stable...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE IN CHARTS: FROM RECORD GLOBAL TEMPERATURES TO SCIENCE DENIAL...
The year 2015 was the hottest on the modern record. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
The world’s hottest year on record has prompted much media coverage. But there haven’t been enough charts and graphs...
Read moreWHY THE U.S. EAST COAST COULD BE A MAJOR ‘HOTSPOT’ FOR RISING SEAS...

Average SST anomaly for Jan. 22-23, 2016 relative to the long-term average from 1981 to present. Courtesy of Vincent Saba, NOAA.
New research published Monday adds to a body of evidence suggesting that a warming climate may have particularly marked effects for some citizens of the country most responsible for global warming in the first place — namely, U.S. East Coasters...
Read moreHERE IS THE WEATHER FORECAST FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS: EVEN HOTTER...
A sunny January day at Mudeford Sandbanks in Dorset. Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Rex/Shutterstock
Long-range forecast predicts generally upward temperature trend, possibly interrupted by La Niña event in 2017...
Read moreREPUBLICANS REJECT CLIMATE CHANGE FEARS DESPITE REBUKES FROM SCIENTISTS...
A woman walks through a flooded street that was caused by the combination of the lunar orbit which caused seasonal high tides and what many believe is the rising sea levels due to climate change, in September in Miami Beach, Florida. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Ted Cruz has presented ‘misleading’ information in the Senate, scientists say, while Marco Rubio rejects ‘destroying our economy’ – despite pleas for action coming from officials in his own state...
Read more'IF THE WORLD ENDS IN 2100, WE’RE PROBABLY OK' ?
This file photo taken on December 12, 2015 shows French Ecology Minister Segolene Royal (L), French President Francois Hollande (2ndL), French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (C) and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (2ndR) applauding after a statement at the COP21 Climate Conference in Le Bourget, north of Paris. Some scientists worry that the agreement focused on short-term climate change. Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images
Two scientists take the long view on climate change...
There’s a myopia in the climate discourse today.
Read moreEL NIÑO IS HERE, SO WHY IS CALIFORNIA STILL IN DROUGHT?
A parade of El Niño-fueled storms has marched over California in the last few weeks, bringing bouts of much needed rain and snow to the parched state. But maps of drought conditions there have barely budged, with nearly two-thirds of the state still in the worst two categories of drought.
So what gives?
Read moreOUR OIL ADDICTION, BY THE NUMBERS...
Jan. 30, 2016
In 2006, then-President George Bush told the nation "we have a serious problem ... America is addicted to oil." Here's what's happened since:
Read moreAS THE ‘BLUE ARCTIC’ EXPANDS THANKS TO GLOBAL WARMING, AN ICEBREAKER FINDS NO ICE TO BREAK...
Shrinking Arctic sea ice — now at record-low levels — has implications for ecosystems, climate, weather, and people...
Read moreAMERICA'S CLIMATE REFUGEE CRISIS HAS ALREADY BEGUN...
In the small town of Newtok, Alaska, a Yupik village of about 350 people, children once played on endless fields of frozen permafrost. Now, they splash in salt water pools and teeter on boardwalks as the permafrost below thaws and the Ninglick River chips away at the community. Soon even the boards will be swallowed by the rising tides...
Read moreREPUBLICANS=BIG OIL? REPUBLICANS' LEADING CLIMATE DENIER TELLS THE POPE TO BUTT OUT OF CLIMATE DEBATE...
James Inhofe, infamous for tossing a snowball across the Senate floor to demonstrate ‘the greatest hoax ever perpetrated against the American people’, says Pope Francis should ‘stay with his job’ during a pitch to fellow unbelievers...
Read moreEUROPEAN SUMMERS ARE THE WARMEST THEY’VE BEEN IN TWO MILLENNIA, STUDY SAYS...

CREDIT: (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki) Children play as they cool down in a fountain beside the Manzanares river in Madrid, Spain.
Since the turn of the century, most of Europe has experienced record-hot summer months that at times were deadly.
Read moreDRINKING WATER: AN IMPERILED RESOURCE...
First in a three-part series, parts 2&3 at end of part 1
WILMINGTON – There’s an old saying, “You don’t miss your water until the well runs dry.”
Read moreHAUNTING PHOTOS SHOW EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN BANGLADESH...
The number of climate change refugees in Bangladesh is expected to increase dramatically in the coming decades...
THERE'S A SECRET WORLD UNDER THE SNOW, AND IT'S IN TROUBLE...
The porcupine is among the animals that thrive beneath winter snows. (Doug Lindstrand/Design Pics/Corbis)
How do animals survive under the snow? We're only beginning to understand—just as climate change may rewrite everything...
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SOIL PRODUCTIVITY CUT BY CLIMATE CHANGE, MAKING SOCIETIES MORE MARGINAL: STUDIES...

Ethiopia, one fragile dryland nation, is in the grip of its worst drought in 50 years. Photo: Jay Court
The health of the world's soils hinges on the abundance and diversity of the microbes and fungi they contain, and environmental changes including from global warming will undermine their ability to support humans and other species, according to two new studies...
Read moreBY 2030, RENEWABLES WILL BE THE WORLD’S PRIMARY POWER SOURCE...
In November, the International Energy Agency quietly dropped this bombshell projection: “Driven by continued policy support, renewables account for half of additional global generation, overtaking coal around 2030 to become the largest power source.”
Read moreCOUNTING THE COST OF ENERGY SUBSIDIES...
A gas facility in Qatar: The Middle Eastern nation has the world’s highest energy subsidies per capita (photo: Olivier Polet/Corbis)
IMF Survey
July 17, 2015
- Energy subsidies sizeable worldwide and projected to stay high
- China top subsidizer in dollar terms, Ukraine in percent of GDP, and Qatar in per capita terms
- Countries can reap fiscal and environment gains by reforming energy subsidies
Energy subsidies are projected at US$5.3 trillion in 2015, or 6.5 percent of global GDP, according to a recent IMF study. Most of this arises from countries setting energy taxes below levels that fully reflect the environmental damage associated with energy consumption...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE MAKES BIBLICAL PLAGUES A MORE REGULAR THREAT TO FARMERS...
(Photo: Samuel Aranda/Getty Images)
Locust swarms can be devastating to farmers and, potentially, the food supply...
Read moreJAPAN’S INNOVATIVE SOLUTION TO ITS ENERGY AND SPACE CRISIS: THE WORLD’S LARGEST FLOATING SOLAR POWER PLANT...
Weirdly like Minecraft. (Kyocera/YouTube)
Space is a big problem in Japan. The small, mountainous island nation has limited flat ground for building, and what there is comes at a premium...
Read moreOCEAN WARMING IS MAKING FLOODS WORSE, STUDY FINDS...
Floodwaters that washed icy brine into streets and homes along the eastern seaboard during Saturday’s blizzard reached heights in some places not experienced since Hurricane Sandy. “I just hope it isn’t a sign of things to come,” Pam Bross told a local newspaper as she mopped up the market she operates on a New Jersey street not normally reached by storm surges...
Read moreTHE U.S. COULD MAKE A FAST, CHEAP SWITCH TO CLEAN ENERGY...

A new study shows that the nation could shutter coal-fired power plants by 2030, maintain a steady power supply, and save billions of dollars...
Read moreACCUMULATING QUESTIONS: WHAT'S A BLIZZARD? IS THIS EL NINO?
Questions pile up with big snow, so here are some answers to questions people may have about the storm hitting the eastern U.S. Wind is the key difference between regular snowstorms and blizzards...
Read moreWHAT'S POWERING THIS EPIC BLIZZARD ON THE EAST COAST?
Cars make their way down Electric Road in southwest Roanoke County past Tanglewood Mall on Friday morning, Jan. 22, 2016, near Roanoke, Va.
What makes this blizzard to end all blizzards tick? The factors making it so formidable are also helping it to deliver upwards of two feet of snow on the nation's capital, where a big storm is usually defined in inches (not feet), yet nearly entirely miss southern New England, which has been a blizzard magnet in recent years...
Read moreJUST HOW MUCH DOES KOCH INDUSTRIES POLLUTE?
The amount of toxic waste generated by U.S. companies, and what happens to it, is hiding in plain sight...
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ECOLOGY’S $434,000,000 TEST...
Chris Maddaloni/Nature Instruments on a 50-metre-tall tower in western Virginia will monitor the metabolism of the forest by measuring carbon dioxide and water vapour.
The United States has invested in a grand ecological observatory, but the project has been dogged by budget overruns and delays...
FAST-ACTING METHANE FROM ALISO CANYON LEAK IS BOOSTING GLOBAL WARMING...
Stephen Conley has flown pollution-detecting airplanes over some of the largest oil and gas fields in the nation. But never before has the UC Davis scientist encountered as much methane in the air as in recent months over suburban Los Angeles...
Read moreWHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR AMERICA TO GO 100 PERCENT RENEWABLE?
In 2013, Greensburg, KS — a town of less than 800 residents about 100 miles from Wichita — became the first city in the United States to go 100 percent renewable, powering their homes, businesses, and municipal buildings via wind power...
Read moreCANADA'S TRUDEAU TO DICAPRIO: YOUR CLIMATE REMARKS DON'T HELP...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged Leonardo DiCaprio to tone down his "inflammatory rhetoric" on climate change saying it was not helping those who have lost their oil-industry jobs...
Read moreSEE THE INNOVATIVE EARTH-SAVING IDEAS LEONARDO DICAPRIO'S FOUNDATION IS BRINGING TO LIFE.
When he's not fighting off bears or trying to win an Oscar, Leonardo DiCaprio is busy saving the environment.
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE RAISES A TROUBLING QUESTION: WHO GETS TO EAT?
Poorer countries like many in Africa will have their food supply threatened most by climate change. Credit: Reuters
Global warming's threat to the global food supply gets worse the more the world warms, researchers tell federal regulators...
Read moreSANDERS CAMPAIGN BADGERS CLINTON ON CLIMATE...
Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign blasted out a statement after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA reported that 2015 was the hottest year on record. | Getty
Read morePRESIDENT OBAMA: PROCLAIMS A 3 YEAR MORATORIUM ON NEW COAL MINES...
Open cut hard rock mining (Kalgoorlie, Western Australia) author Stephen Codrington source Wikimedia
President Obama has just announced a 3 year moratorium on leasing federal land for new coal mines, pending a review of the impact of coal on the global climate...
Read moreSTUDY: MAN-MADE HEAT PUT IN OCEANS HAS DOUBLED SINCE 1997...
Two people paddleboard at sunset along the beach as a heatwave begins to subside in Cardiff, California August 17, 2015. (REUTERS/Mike Blake)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The amount of man-made heat energy absorbed by the seas has doubled since 1997, a study released Monday showed.
Read moreGLOBAL WARMING STRIKES DEEP INTO OCEANS: STUDY...
"We estimate that half of the total global ocean heat uptake since 1865 has accumulated since 1997," a team of scientists led by Peter Gleckler of the Laurence Livermore National Laboratory in California reported (AFP Photo/Bas Czerwinski)
Paris (AFP) - The oceans have soaked up as much heat from global warming over the last two decades as during the preceding 130 years, according to a study published Monday...
Read moreMARINE LIFE CAN’T KEEP UP WITH CLIMATE CHANGE...
Marine Life Can’t Keep Up With Climate Change
If you want an idea of what oceans around the world may be like in the not-too-distant future, look to the Pacific Ocean off the West Coast of the United States....
Read more2015 WAS BY FAR HOTTEST IN MODERN TIMES...
Blistering heat blanketed the Earth last year like never before, making 2015 by far the hottest year in modern times and raising new concerns about the accelerating pace of climate change...
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THE OCEANS ARE HEATING UP MORE RAPIDLY THAN WE THOUGHT. WHY THAT MATTERS...
Vacationers cool off in the Pacific Ocean in Vina del Mar city, Chile, in this January 15. The world's oceans appear to be absorbing more heat from global warming than previously thought, according to research published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. But a new study that culled data from the 1870s British research ship Challenger's archives, and from modern Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters
The deep ocean has warmed as much in the past two decades as it did in the previous 100 years, researchers found...
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Congress Actually Dealt with Climate Change in the 2016 Budget Bill. Really!
Flooding, like the current Mississippi River overflow in places like St. Louis, creates the most damage of all natural disasters in the U.S. Credit: Reuters.
It flew under the radar, but the approval of a new flood standard for federal projects means the federal government took a big step...
Read moreMARTIN LUTHER KING AND THE CALL TO DIRECT ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE...
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” wrote Martin Luther King Jr. from a Birmingham jail on April 16, 1963. “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.”
Read more2015 A 'TIPPING POINT' FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: EXPERTS...
2015 was almost certainly the hottest on record for the planet as a whole (AFP Photo/Antony Dickson)
Paris (AFP) - When future generations write the history of humanity's faltering quest to repair Earth's climate system, 2015 will have its own chapter...
Read moreWOMAN CYCLES ACROSS SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE TO COLLECT 1,001 CLIMATE CHANGE STORIES...
With little more than an audio recorder, Devi Lockwood has been traveling on a green touring bike, covered in stickers with a jaunty yellow flag flying off the back, across the Southern Hemisphere for more than one year...
Read moreWHY PSYCHOLOGY SHOULD BE A PART OF THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE...

Up until now, psychology had been largely left out of the conversation about climate change, but researchers in the field of environmental psychology are seeking to change that...
THE WORLD IS HEMORRHAGING METHANE, AND NOW WE CAN SEE WHERE...
The Aliso Canyon breach is accidental, but thousands of other sites are flaring off methane intentionally, as waste...
Read moreCOP21 REFLECTIONS... IT’S TIME TO LIGHT THE FLAME...

Read more“I look at the room. I see that the reaction is positive. I don’t hear any objections.”
SCIENTISTS IN BELGIUM FIND A SURPRISING REASON WHY GREENLAND'S GLACIER IS MELTING SO FAST...
Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.
A team of scientists in Belgium has discovered a somewhat counterintuitive reason the Greenland ice sheet is melting at night...
Read moreDANGER AHEAD: MIGRATION, CLIMATE TOP RISKS FOR DAVOS LEADERS...
We live in an increasingly dangerous world, with political, economic and environmental threats piling up, according to experts polled by the World Economic Forum...
Read moreIN CLIMATE MOVE, OBAMA HALTS NEW COAL MINING LEASES ON PUBLIC LANDS...

Full rail cars outside Cloud Peak Energy’s Antelope Coal loading terminal in Rawlins, Wyo. About 40 percent of the nation’s coal is mined on public land in the state. Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration announced on Friday a halt to new coal mining leases on public lands as it considers an overhaul of the program that could lead to increased costs for energy companies and a slowdown in extraction...
Read morePRESIDENTIAL DEBATES IGNORE CLIMATE CHANGE, SO CHILDREN ARE DEMANDING ANSWERS...

Few issues have as much impact on the future as climate change. Sadly, the issue of climate change has taken a backseat to economic policy, divisive cultural issues, and the threat of terrorism. The main reason for this is the media coverage of these issues...
Read more"LOOKING OUT FOR THE AVERAGE GUY..." 8 TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP...
Pay special attention to #2...
There is a lot at stake with the TPP agreement.
It’s no wonder the Obama administration tried to keep this secret—the corporate-friendly trade agreement, decoded...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE ON PACE TO OCCUR 10 TIMES FASTER THAN ANY CHANGE RECORDED IN PAST 65 MILLION YEARS, STANFORD SCIENTISTS SAY...
Not only is the planet undergoing one of the largest climate changes in the past 65 million years, Stanford climate scientists Noah Diffenbaugh and Chris Field report that it's on pace to occur at a rate 10 times faster than any change in that period. Without intervention, this extreme pace could lead to a 5-6 degree Celsius spike in annual temperatures by the end of the century...
Read moreTHE LAST TIME CO2 WAS THIS HIGH, HUMANS DIDN’T EXIST...
The last time there was this much carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere, modern humans didn't exist. Megatoothed sharks prowled the oceans, the world's seas were up to 100 feet higher than they are today, and the global average surface temperature was up to 11°F warmer than it is now.
Read moreEARLY DATA SHOWS 2015 BLEW AWAY PREVIOUS RECORDS TO BECOME EARTH'S HOTTEST YEAR...
Global temperature anomaly for 2015 compared to the 1951-1980 average. Image: Berkeley Earth
During the next week, the official climate agencies around the world that are responsible for tracking the planet's average temperatures will almost certainly come to the same conclusion: 2015 was the warmest year on record. This would mean that 2015 would beat the previous warmest year, which occurred in 2014 — remember that?
Read moreOBAMA SAYS MUST CHANGE THE WAY NATION MANAGES FOSSIL FUEL RESOURCES...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday said he would seek changes in the way U.S. oil and coal resources are managed, prompting a flood of reaction from environmental groups pushing him to do more to limit fossil fuel production - and producers anxious about regulatory changes...
Read moreSOTU: OBAMA VOWS TO REVAMP FEDERAL COAL LEASING PROGRAM...
President Barack Obama delivers his final State of the Union address on January 12, 2016. Credit: REUTERS/Evan Vuccil
President pushes for changes in how government manages public-land fossil fuels, but overall his address does not outline plans for bold action this year...
Read moreO'S FINAL SOTU ADDRESS... OBAMA VOWS TO OVERHAUL COAL MINING ON PUBLIC LANDS TO 'INVEST IN THE FUTURE'
The White House said further details on the ‘transition to a low-carbon economy’ would come in the next few weeks. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images