An aggregation of recent climate news feeds:
2022-02-03 Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. No matter your favorite news source, you’ve probably been seeing more stories on climate change lately. A new report by the Media and Climate Change Observatory at the University of Colorado Boulder, which mo …›
2022-02-03 California power companies choose lithium-ion batteries for an eight-hour storage project, passing on some newer options.By Dan GearinoPower providers continue to work on developing long-duration energy storage, the kinds of systems that can fill in th …›
2022-02-03 For the past year, scientists have been looking for the source of strange coronavirus sequences that have appeared in the city’s wastewater. …›
2022-02-03 This story is published in collaboration with the Los Angeles Times, as part of Covering Climate Now. The third weekend of August 2020 was a hectic time for California. Wildfires raged, smoke filled the air, and power shortages had forced state offi …›
2022-02-03 The 'Ebola virus of the amphibian world' is as unpleasant as it sounds, but a species of salamander that lives in Arizona found a way to live with the endemic disease. As the climate changes, viruses change along with it, and this unpredictable virus c …›
2022-02-03 Melting and sublimation on Mount Everest's highest glacier due to human-induced climate change have reached the point that several decades of accumulation are being lost annually now that ice has been exposed, according to a research team that analyzed …›
2022-02-03 After a cataclysmic year of heat and floods, Washington state considers shifting funds from mitigation to adaptationFirst came the heavy snow in late December that blanketed Seattle and the surrounding area. Then the torrential rain and flooding hit in …›
2022-02-03 From “Don’t Look Up” to Greta Thunberg videos to doomsaying memes, we are awash in warnings that we are almost out of time. But the climate crisis is outpacing our emotional capacity to describe it. …›
2022-02-03 As cricketers with resources to hand, we have the opportunity to support our sport in making a tangible differenceOn Saturday 4 January 2020, my local cricket club was smack bang in the middle of the hottest place on earth, with Penrith in Sydney reach …›
2022-02-03 Despite the rise of headline-grabbing megafires, fewer fires are burning worldwide now than at any time since antiquity. But this isn’t good news – in banishing fire from sight, we have made its dangers stranger and less predictableThe hundreds of …›
2022-02-03 European Environment Agency data shows worst-hit countries to be Germany, France and ItalySevere floods and other extreme weather have cost Europe about half a trillion euros in the past four decades, with Germany, France and Italy the worst-hit countr …›
2022-02-03 The president wants an electric federal fleet, but Postmaster Louis DeJoy is spending billions on gas-powered vehicles. That’s prompted scrutiny and calls for his resignation. …›
2022-02-02 Energy analysts say their Hunter Valley plan is just ‘an expensive way to avoid a small amount of emissions’ when there are cheaper, greener alternatives Labor said this week it will back a gas-fired power plant in the Hunter Valley, but only if th …›
2022-02-02 Attempts to study the deteriorating Florida-sized glacier that could raise sea levels by 2ft if it breaks off are being frustratedAntarctica’s so-called Doomsday Glacier, nicknamed because it is huge and coming apart, is thwarting an international ef …›
2022-02-02 Government white paper criticised for overlooking opportunities along road to net zeroThe need to reach net zero carbon emissions, and the green jobs that could be created in doing so, received scant attention in the government’s levelling-up strateg …›
2022-02-02 Court imposes custodial sentences of between 24 and 32 days and hands 11 others suspended sentencesAn activist from Insulate Britain hung a banner proclaiming “insulate or die” at the high court in London on Wednesday as five members of the group w …›
2022-02-02 A community in Vermont took charge after the local hill closed. …›
2022-02-02 Researchers wanted to know if different communities of microbes are making methane gas inside the soils or in the dead trees, which are also known as snags. They found that although the methane gas is generated in the soils, the trees act like filterin …›
2022-02-02 The effort to steer public and private money toward nuclear power stations and gas-fired generators in the European Union was criticized as greenwashing. …›
2022-02-02 Forecasters warned of dangerous icing in the Mid-Atlantic and South as the Midwest dug out from a blast of snow. …›
2022-02-02 Commission’s move widely criticised as undermining efforts to keep global heating below 1.5CThe European Commission has been accused of undermining its climate goals after it defied critics by pushing ahead with plans to include gas and nuclear in an …›
2022-02-02 Researchers found that the occurrence of red snow algal blooms is associated with the occurrence of new snowfall and the duration of snow melt. A revised snow algae model incorporated into a land surface model was used to simulate global snow algal abu …›
2022-02-02 Water Diplomacy MIT OCW Wed, 02/02/2022 - 09:16 MIT OCWTopicsAdaptationFood, Water & AgricultureInternational AgreementsClimate JusticePostFebruary 2, 2022Water Diplomacy Photo Credit The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue …›
2022-02-02 Despite global warming and the sea-ice loss in the Arctic, the Antarctic sea-ice extent has remained largely unchanged since 1979. However, existing climate model-based simulations indicate significant sea-ice loss, contrary to actual observations. As …›
2022-02-02 This winter, wildfires brought the reality of climate change to one reporter's backyard. The music of the icy British producer Burial was the only thing that could make it all make sense.(Image credit: Hart Van Denburg/CPR News) …›
2022-02-02 The waters encircling the island of Roatán offer some of the most accessible reef diving anywhere. As travel picks up, the focus is on balancing the return of tourism (and divers) with the fragility of the marine environment. …›
2022-02-02 “It’s a kink in the system,” says one developer trying to bring solar jobs to coal country. “The planet does not have time for a delay.”By James BruggersThe nation’s largest electric grid operator, PJM Interconnection, is so clogged with re …›
2022-02-02 River Dee initiative comes as rising water temperature from climate heating threatens species’ survivalMillions of trees are being planted beside Scotland’s remotest rivers and streams to protect wild salmon from the worst effects of climate heatin …›
2022-02-02 Plants now bloom in mid-April on average, with scientists warning of mismatches with insects and birdsPlants are flowering a month earlier in the UK as the climate heats up, a study has found.The researchers examined 420,000 recorded dates of first flo …›
2022-02-02 Monsoonal weather systems swept in across central Australia this past week, bringing massive rainfalls and floods in South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Vital roads and rail lines were cut off, with trucks forced to take a 3, …›
2022-02-02 Climate change is causing plants in the UK to flower a month earlier on average, which could have profound consequences for wildlife, agriculture and gardeners. …›
2022-02-01 Most of the U.S. is served by volunteer firefighters, but staffing and operating these departments has never been harder. Many are stretched increasingly thin, sometimes with near fatal consequences. …›
2022-02-01 An approaching winter storm has Texans worried about a repeat of the massive, deadly blackout a year ago. Energy experts say that's not likely this time. …›
2022-02-01 A new study advances the understanding of the role that continents have played in the chemical evolution of Earth's oceans, with implications for understanding atmospheric oxygenation and global climate oscillations. …›
2022-02-01 By 2080, around 70% of the world's oceans could be suffocating from a lack of oxygen as a result of climate change, potentially impacting marine ecosystems worldwide, according to a new study. The new models find mid-ocean depths that support many fish …›
2022-02-01 In 2017, Hurricane Harvey stalled after making landfall over coastal Texas, pouring down record rainfall, flooding communities and becoming one of the wettest and most destructive storms in United States history. A new technique using readily available …›
2022-02-01 Phasing out animal agriculture represents 'our best and most immediate chance to reverse the trajectory of climate change,' according to a new model developed by scientists. …›
2022-02-01 Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels will still be catastrophic for coral reefs, new research suggests. More than 90 percent of tropical coral reefs will suffer frequent heat stress -- their number one threat -- even u …›
2022-02-01 New research reveals excessively warm ocean temperatures driven by climate change are the new normal. The study establishes that more than half of the ocean surface has exceeded a historical heat extreme threshold on a regular basis since 2014. Researc …›
2022-02-01 But one coral reef expert says even reefs that bleach every five years could have corals that surviveFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingAlmost no corals on the planet will esca …›