An aggregation of recent climate news feeds:
2022-02-04 Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance was crushed by Antarctic ice in 1915. Now, a team of researchers is heading to the Weddell Sea where it went down. …›
2022-02-03 A satellite has detected massive leaks of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from natural gas plants and pipelines. Most of these releases are deliberate, resulting from sloppy pipeline repairs.(Image credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) …›
2022-02-03 When hurricanes cause both extreme high tides and heavy rains, devastating floods ensue. Such storms will get much more frequent by the end of the century, according to a new study. (Image credit: Chuck Burton/AP) …›
2022-02-03 A widespread winter storm is dumping snow and causing freezing rain though large parts of the United States, leading to travel disruptions and some power outages. …›
2022-02-03 For the first time ever on a global scale, using satellite imagery, scientists have quantified volumes of massive methane emissions due to fossil-fuel extraction activities and their impact on the climate. Their findings partly explain why official inv …›
2022-02-03 A small number of “ultra-emitters” of methane from oil and gas production contribute as much as 12 percent of emissions of the greenhouse gas to the atmosphere every year — and now scientists know where many of these sources are. Analyses of …›
2022-02-03 Forests around the world have the capacity to pull carbon out of the atmosphere to battle global climate change. But how much carbon they actually absorb is a question that still needs answering, and tree ring data can help, according to a new research …›
2022-02-03 Winters are warming faster than summers in North America, impacting everything from ecosystems to the economy. Global climate models indicate that this trend will continue in future winters but there is a level of uncertainty around the magnitude of wa …›
2022-02-03 Scientists say rocks on the English coast contain clues of the processes that drove the end-Triassic event that killed as much as a quarter of all life on Earth. …›
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. …›