WHY NATURAL GAS COULD BE THE BRIDGE FUEL TO NOWHERE...
Crews drilled this relief well to help stop a massive methane leak at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage field in northwest Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Dean Musgrove/Pool/Reuters)
As carbon emissions from gas-fired power surpass those of coal in the U.S., some argue it’s time to prioritize zero-carbon energy...
Read moreHERE’S WHAT CHINA, U.S. JUST COMMITTED TO ON CLIMATE...
Pres. Obama shakes hands with UN official Ban Ki-moon on Saturday and hands key paperwork to him.
Credit: How Hwee Young/Reuters
The leaders of the U.S. and China committed their nations to the fight against global warming on Saturday when they handed arcane but momentous documents to the United Nation’s top official...
Read moreCONSERVATIVE MEDIA BIAS IS INFLATING AMERICAN CLIMATE DENIAL AND POLARIZATION...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to media mogul Rupert Murdoch as they walk out of Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen. Rupert Murdoch and his conservative media outlets like the WSJ are among the worst influences on perceptions of climate change. Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters
New studies show that climate polarization is on the rise in the US; WSJ climate coverage is full of denial...
Read moreCAN EXXONMOBIL BE FOUND LIABLE FOR MISLEADING THE PUBLIC ON CLIMATE CHANGE?
Satellite image of Typhoon Nari via NASA.
Scientists at the biggest U.S. oil company understood as early as anyone that fossil fuel emissions were heating up the earth’s atmosphere...
Read moreWARMING OCEANS ARE 'SICK,' GLOBAL SCIENTISTS WARN...
The world's waters have absorbed more than 93 percent of the enhanced heating from climate change since the 1970 (AFP Photo/Joe Raedle)
Global warming is making the oceans sicker than ever before, spreading disease among animals and humans and threatening food security across the planet, a major scientific report said on Monday...
Read moreASIAN TYPHOONS BECOMING MORE INTENSE, STUDY FINDS...
On 7 July 2015, satellite images showed the Pacific Ocean with two typhoons, one tropical storm, one formation alert and one large area of increased convection. Photograph: JMA MTSAT-2/NOAA
Giant storms that wreak havoc across China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines have grown 50% stronger in the past 40 years due to warming seas...
Read moreSOARING OCEAN TEMPERATURE IS 'GREATEST HIDDEN CHALLENGE OF OUR GENERATION'...
The scale of warming in the ocean is ‘truly staggering’, the report warns. Photograph: Ralph Lee Hopkins/Alamy
IUCN report warns that ‘truly staggering’ rate of warming is changing the behavior of marine species, reducing fishing zones and spreading disease...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE AUTHORITY'S PLAN IS 'A DOG'S BREAKFAST', SAY DISSENTING MEMBERS...
Loy Yang brown coalmine in the Latrobe Valley. Climate scientist David Karoly and economist Clive Hamilton have called for brown-coal-fired power plants to be closed. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images
Climate scientist and economist publish minority report calling for full emissions trading scheme and closure of brown-coal-fired power plants...
Read moreWE HAVEN’T SEEN MANY STORMS LIKE HERMINE...
A satellite image of Hurricane Hermine, before it was a post-tropical cyclone, approaching Florida’s Gulf Coast on Thursday. NOAA via Getty Images
Which is what makes its future harder to predict...
Read moreCLIMATE CHANGE SPELLS WORSE TYPHOONS FOR CHINA, JAPAN: STUDY SAYS...
The world's nations concluded a pact in Paris to halt the march of climate change, which threatens stronger storms, longer droughts and land-gobbling sea-level rise (AFP Photo/Tokachi Mainichi)
Paris (AFP) - China, Taiwan, Japan and the Koreas will experience more violent typhoons under climate change, said researchers Monday, presenting evidence for a recent rise in storm intensity caused by ocean warming...
Read moreFISH DEATHS IN MONTANA'S YELLOWSTONE RIVER TIED TO WARMING WATERS...
The mountain whitefish is among those dying in large numbers in Montana because of a parasite thriving in slower, warmer streams. Credit: Wikimedia
A parasite that is killing tens of thousands of fish is blamed on low stream flow and warming waters, both impacts of climate change in the West...
Read morePRI'S ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS MAGAZINE: BEYOND THE HEADLINES...
Fungal infections take about a million lives worldwide every year. (Photo: Ed Uthman, Flickr CC BY 2.0)
In this week's round-up, Peter Dykstra speaks with host Steve Curwood about new research into drug-resistant fungus, and the threat to one of America’s favorite fruits. Also, he presents a roundup of changes warmer ocean waters are bringing to sea creatures off the Atlantic coast, and remembers the failure of a big solar leader and a win for blue whales...
Read moreHERE WE GO AGAIN: FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY TAKES A PLAY FROM BIG TOBACCO’S PLAYBOOK...
"It’s because mounting evidence indicates that, like tobacco, the fossil fuel industry may have engaged in a deliberate, protracted fraud to mislead the public, to protect their profits, to the peril of us all...."
Read moreNASA: EARTH IS WARMING AT A PACE 'UNPRECEDENTED IN 1,000 YEARS'...
The sun sets beyond visitors to Liberty Memorial as the temperature hovers around 100F in Kansas City, Missouri, last month. Photograph: Charlie Riedel/AP
Records of temperature that go back far further than 1800s suggest warming of recent decades is out of step with any period over the past millennium...
Read moreHERMINE IS NO SANDY—IT COULD BE EVEN WORSE...
A resident inspecting the seawall near his house in Holmes Beach, Florida as Hermine prepares for landfall on September 1, 2016. (Photo: Brian Blanco/Getty Images)
New York City is probably in the clear, but the storm could prove catastrophic for some parts of coastal New Jersey...
Read moreFLOODING OF COAST, CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING, HAS ALREADY BEGUN...
Credit Stephen B. Morton for The New York Times
Scientists’ warnings that the rise of the sea would eventually imperil the United States’ coastline are no longer theoretical...
Read morePRESIDENT OBAMA AND XI JINPING TAKE BIG STEP ON CLIMATE CHANGE AHEAD OF G20...
How Hwee Young—AP
It's the latest in an unlikely partnership between the two countries on climate change...
Read more7 SHOCKING CLIMATE CHANGE HEADLINES FROM 3 YEARS AGO AND IT HASN'T GOTTEN ANY BETTER...
We’ve seen a lot of bad news about our planet in the past several years. Here are the seven most worrisome climate change headlines...
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