NORWAY LEADS THE CHARGE AGAIN! BRINGS FORWARD CARBON NEUTRALITY GOAL TO 2030...
Norway's parliament has agreed on a goal to cut the country's net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2030, moving the target forward by 20 years, an official at the national assembly said on Tuesday...
Read moreUNABATED GLOBAL WARMING THREATENS WEST'S SNOWPACK, WATER SUPPLY...
The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, as well as mountains across the West, has been shrinking and threatening water supply as the globe warms. Credit: Getty Images
New study shows a snowline creeping higher in the Rockies, Sierra Nevada and Cascades and the resulting decrease in spring runoff endangers those below...
Read moreSCIENTISTS SAY THAT ‘NATURE,’ UNTOUCHED BY HUMANS, IS NOW ALMOST ENTIRELY GONE...
Add your reaction ShareFOR-PROFIT PIPELINES ARE GROWING AND SO ARE EMINENT DOMAIN BATTLES...
CREDIT: AP Photo/Charles Krupa
When an oil pipeline now poised to cut through four Midwestern states was first proposed in 2014, the project quickly got pushback from environmentalists and some landowners on the pipeline’s route...
Read moreHOW A NORTH DAKOTA OIL BILLIONAIRE IS HELPING SHAPE TRUMP’S VIEWS ON ENERGY...
Add your reaction ShareUS AND CHINESE MAYORS ARE LEADING THE WORLD IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE AND BOSTON IS OUT IN FRONT...
Representatives from Wuhan, C40, Boston, Zhenjiang, Guangzhou
Seventy percent of global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions originate in cities. Moreover, by 2050, more than one billion people will live in cities that are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, including flooding and extreme weather events...
Read moreGROUPS URGE U.S. CONGRESS TO REJECT TPP OVER ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS...
People protest against fracking and neighborhood oil drilling in Los Angeles, California, U.S., May 14, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
Activists say trade deal would allow fossil fuel firms to contest US environmental rules in extrajudicial tribunals...
Read moreNORWAY TO 'COMPLETELY BAN ALL PETROL POWERED CARS BY 2025'...
Almost a quarter of all of Norway's cars already run off electricity rather than fossil fuel. credit: Rex Features
'What an amazingly awesome country', Elon Musk tweeted in response to the plan...
Read moreTHERE'S A SOLAR FARM IN MOROCCO THAT'S SO BIG YOU CAN SEE IT FROM SPACE...
Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images.
"Maybe one day every desert in the world will have a gigantic oasis of mirrors soaking up sunlight and pumping out delicious clean energy. I certainly hope so..."
Read moreFOR OIL INDUSTRY, CLEAN AIR FIGHT WAS DRESS REHEARSAL FOR CLIMATE DENIAL...
Caltech scientist Arie Haagen-Smit (pictured) discovered in the early 1950s that oil was the cause of the dangerous smog shrouding L.A. Industry then conducted its own research to discredit Haagen-Smit's findings and manufacture doubt around the link between oil and smog. It continues to fight attempts to tighten smog regulation. Photo courtesy of the California Institute of Technology
Through the Smoke and Fumes Committee, industry blurred the science surrounding air pollution and worked to forestall unwanted regulation...
Read moreSHOULD LAWYERS BE ETHICALLY OBLIGATED TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT?
The "time has come to remedy the conspicuous omission of environmental protection from the list of lawyers' ethical duties." -Tom Lininger, University of Oregon School of Law Credit - University of Oregon School of Law
As states and corporations increasingly head to court over climate change, a lawyer lays out an ethical roadmap to give the environment a louder legal voice...
Read moreTHE SHEER TERROR OF LOOMING BIOSPHERE COLLAPSE...
Ecosystem loss is biosphere collapse
The global ecological system is collapsing and dying as humanity overruns natural ecosystems and the climate. We are entering an age of unrelenting violence and suffering, prior to biosphere collapse and the end of being, unless dramatic social change based upon a global ecology ethic arises quickly...
Read moreWORLD’S SPACE AGENCIES UNITE TO FACE CLIMATE CHALLENGE...
For the first time, under the impetus of ISRO and the French Space Agency (CNES), space agencies of over 60 countries have agreed to engage their satellites, to coordinate their methods and their data to monitor human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. (PTI)
For the first time, under the impetus of ISRO and the French Space Agency (CNES), space agencies of over 60 countries have agreed to engage their satellites, to coordinate their methods and their data to monitor human-induced greenhouse gas emissions...
Read moreTRUMP’S CONTRADICTORY PROMISE: BRING BACK COAL AND BOOST NATURAL GAS...
Experts say low natural gas prices are the biggest cause of coal’s downturn...
SYDNEY HIT BY WILD WEATHER FROM NORTH TO SOUTH, EAST TO WEST...
Surfers brave the dangerous surf in Bondi. Photo: Edwina Pickles
A severe weather warning remains in place for much of NSW, with parts of the city receiving more than 200mm of rain in the previous 48 hours. Weatherzone meteorologist Brett Dutschke said that Sydney has experienced its "most intense" wind, rain and surf since April last year...
Read moreFRANCE FLOODS CLAIM THREE MORE LIVES AS MASSIVE MOP-UP BEGINS...
Crates with pieces of artworks from the collections of the Louvre Museum are seen near statues after it was closed to the public due to the rising Seine River in Paris. REUTERS/John Schults
Paris (CNN)Parisians let out a cautious sigh of relief Saturday as they watched water levels in the Seine River finally begin to drop following days of miserable flooding. But the rest of the country was not so lucky, with three new deaths reported...
Read moreHERE'S A LOOK INSIDE BIG OIL'S "GROUND WAR" TO CHANGE HOW YOU THINK...
Adam Harmes presented his findings at the 2016 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences held at the University of Calgary. Photo courtesy of Western University.
Canadian oil and gas companies are becoming more sophisticated in their approach to winning public support...
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