WHO: GLOBAL AIR POLLUTION IS WORSENING, AND POOR COUNTRIES ARE BEING HIT THE HARDEST...
Add your reaction ShareWORLD'S CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATION TEETERING ON THE POINT OF NO RETURN...
‘We’re going into very new territory’: James Butler, of the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, says the amount of carbon dioxide is locking in future warming. Photograph: John Giles/PA
Future in which global concentration of CO2 is permanently above 400 parts per million looms...
Read moreTINY ENGLISH VILLAGE FIGHTS FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY TO AVOID BECOMING GROUND ZERO FOR BRITISH FRACKING...
Add your reaction ShareHUMANS DAMAGING THE ENVIRONMENT FASTER THAN IT CAN RECOVER, UN FINDS...
The dried-up river Tawi in Kashmir, India. Water scarcity is an increasing problem in poorer parts of the world. Photograph: Jaipal Singh/EPA
Radical action is needed to combat increasing rate of environmental damage to water sources, land, biodiversity and marine life, report shows...
Read moreINDIA JUST RECORDED ITS HOTTEST TEMPERATURE ON RECORD: 51 DEGREES CELSIUS/123.8 FAHRENHEIT
Misery Index showing temperatures plus dewpoint levels across India on May 19, 2016. Image: Earth Simulator
India just set a new national record heat benchmark when the small city of Phalodi, in northwest India, recorded a high temperature of a whopping 51 degrees Celsius, or 123.8 degrees Fahrenheit, on May 19...
Read moreYES IT CAN BE DONE. PORTUGAL RUNS FOR FOUR DAYS STRAIGHT ON RENEWABLE ENERGY ALONE!
As recently as 2013, renewables provided only about 23% of Portugal’s electricity. By 2015 that figure had risen to 48%. Photograph: Pete Titmuss/Alamy Stock Photo
Zero emission milestone reached as country is powered by just wind, solar and hydro-generated electricity for 107 hours...
Read moreOBAMA IS LEAVING ONE BIG BLACK MARK ON HIS STRONG CLIMATE CHANGE LEGACY...
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The Obama administration says it's working to boost renewable energy and head off the threat of climate change, but it's not ready to pull the plug on fossil fuels...
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THE DISAPPEARING WEST...
A football field worth of natural area in the West is disappearing every two and a half minutes. And every year, the Western United States loses an Los Angeles-sized amount of natural area to development...
Read moreGREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM THIS SURPRISING SOURCE COULD DOOM THE PARIS CLIMATE ACCORD GOAL...
Add your reaction Share'SLEEPING GIANT' GLACIER MAY LIFT SEAS TWO METRES: STUDY...
To date, scientists have mostly worried about the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets as dangerous drivers of sea level rise (AFP Photo/Eitan Abramovich)
Paris (AFP) - A rapidly melting glacier atop East Antarctica is on track to lift oceans at least two metres, and could soon pass a "tipping point" of no return, researchers said Wednesday...
Read moreSTATE'S HIGH COURT RULES FOR ENVIRONMENTALISTS IN GLOBAL WARMING LAWSUIT AGAINST MASSACHUSETTS...
The state's highest court has mandated new standards for carbon pollution in Massachusetts. ( File photo)
A closely watched lawsuit concerning climate change has been decided in favor of environmentalists who sued Massachusetts over its failure to implement carbon-reduction goals mandated by the 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act...
Read moreAS FLOODING INTENSIFIES, COASTAL MEGACITIES TURN TO SOCIAL MEDIA TO STAY AFLOAT...
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May 17, 2016 — Coastal cities around the world are facing multiple environmental challenges, including rising seas, increasing storm surges and more frequent flooding...
Read moreWILDFIRE-FIGHTERS WARN 2016 COULD BE BAD IN CALIFORNIA, AVERAGE IN OTHER STATES...
Add your reaction ShareTHE FRACKING CONTEXT FOR THE EPA’S NEW METHANE RULES...
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The Obama administration’s new rules to curb methane come in the wake of two reports that illustrate the dangers of hydraulic fracturing (fracking). These reports show that methane is leaking throughout the fracking process from extraction to the end users...
Read moreREDUCING TORNADO FATALITIES OUTSIDE TRADITIONAL “TORNADO ALLEY”...
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Atmospheric scientists have long suspected that climate change produces an increase in weather extremes of all varieties, but tornadoes are an unusually tricky case...
Read moreWHY EVEN THE PEOPLE WHO WORRY THE MOST ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE OFTEN TAKE LITTLE ACTION...
1 reaction ShareCITIES "WOEFULLY UNPREPARED" FOR RISING DISASTER RISK - WORLD BANK...
A man pushes his bicycle cart through waist-deep flooding caused by typhoon Linfa, locally named Egay, at Longos town in Malabon city, north of Manila July 6, 2015. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
By 2050, 1.3 billion people and $158 trillion in assets will be menaced by worsening river and coastal floods alone...
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