Category Archives: Climate

An aggregation of recent climate news feeds:

Climate : NPR→ Oregon lawmakers debate heat safety measures

2022-02-18 After last year's deadly heat wave, Oregon lawmakers are debating new measures to keep people safe. They include funding and legal rights for air conditioning. …›

Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Onset of modern sea level rise began in 1863, study finds

2022-02-18 Scientists have found that modern rates of sea level rise began emerging in 1863 as the Industrial Age intensified, coinciding with evidence for early ocean warming and glacier melt. The study, which used a global database of sea-level records spannin …›

Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Unexpected fish and squid found in the Central Arctic Ocean

2022-02-18 Single individuals of Atlantic cod and squid occur much further north than previously expected. Scientists have found fish and squid in deep water in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. …›

Climate crisis | The Guardian→ ‘A train wreck’: what happens to workers and towns when the lights go out on coal power?

2022-02-18 Eraring, the country’s largest coal-fired power station, will shut in three years, but transition plans for employees, communities – and the grid – are lacking When Jacqui Coleman heard that Australia’s largest coal-fired power station was t …›

Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Predicting and preparing for the impact of approaching storms

2022-02-18 Climate experts and engineers have created a new model to predict the damage caused by adverse weather. This new framework for 'consequence forecasting' enables first responders to effectively target resources prior to an extreme weather event, such as …›

Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Review of technologies that repurpose carbon finds most aren’t Paris Agreement compatible

2022-02-18 As the climate crisis becomes more immediate, carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technology has been touted as part of the solution. The process involves harnessing carbon dioxide from emissions or the atmosphere and repurposing them. However, a rece …›

Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Trade-off between biodiversity and food security in land use

2022-02-18 Strict reservation of large land areas for animals and plants might save humankind from the collapse of species diversity in the next decades. However, in some countries, particularly in the global South, this might endanger food supply. …›

NYT > Climate and Environment→ At the Sierra Club, a Focus on Race, Gender and the Environment, Too

2022-02-18 A debate about John Muir and racism thrust Ramón Cruz into a new leadership role. …›

Climate crisis | The Guardian→ How bad is Storm Eunice – and is it a result of climate breakdown?

2022-02-18 A rare red warning has been issued as back-to-back storms sweep the UKStorm Eunice is battering parts of the UK, felling trees and scattering roof tiles as forecasters warn of a “significant threat to life”. But is it caused by climate breakdown, a …›

Climate crisis | The Guardian→ The great greenwashing scam: PR firms face reckoning after spinning for big oil

2022-02-18 A comprehensive study confirms that oil companies are largely all talk and no action when it comes to clean energy initiativesThis week a peer-reviewed study confirmed what many have suspected for years: major oil companies are not fully backing up the …›

Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Bitcoin miners revived a dying coal plant – then CO2 emissions soared

2022-02-18 Critics say the enormous electricity consumption needed to sustain cryptocurrency is fueling the climate crisis and now threatens a partial resurrection of coal in the USEnvironmentalists in Montana called it the “death watch”. Following years of f …›

Climate : NPR→ There’s a fight brewing in California over incentives to go solar

2022-02-18 California has one of the country's most successful programs to subsidize residential rooftop solar. But utilities say it doesn't leave them enough money to make the grid resilient to climate change. …›

Inside Climate News→ A Florida Chemical Plant Has Fallen Behind in Its Pledge to Cut Emissions of a Potent Greenhouse Gas

2022-02-18 Documents show that Ascend Performance Materials, the nation’s largest emitter of nitrous oxide, is still emitting significant amounts of the climate super-pollutant.By Phil McKennaEfforts by the nation’s largest emitter of nitrous oxide to rein in …›

NYT > Climate and Environment→ New York Was Set to Expand Composting. Now It’s on the Chopping Block.

2022-02-18 Mayor Eric Adams wants to suspend the expansion of New York’s composting program, but experts say the program is crucial to the city’s climate targets. …›

Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Fewer rainy days leading to earlier spring in northern climes

2022-02-17 A drop in the total number of rainy days each year is contributing to an earlier arrival of spring for plants in northern climates, a new study finds. …›

Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ U.S. coastline to see up to a foot of sea level rise by 2050

2022-02-17 The United States is expected to experience as much sea level rise by the year 2050 as it witnessed in the previous hundred years. That's according to a NOAA-led report updating sea level rise decision-support information for the U.S. released in partn …›

Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ London produces up to a third more methane than estimates suggest

2022-02-17 Measurements of London's atmosphere show the city is releasing more of the potent greenhouse gas methane, primarily from natural gas leaks. …›

Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Tall trees in the Amazon can suffer from warmer temperatures

2022-02-17 Tall trees in Central Amazonia are impacted by periods of high maximum temperatures, which can cause them to shed their leaves and branches. With deforestation increasing, forests are becoming fragmented and this exposes their interiors and increases t …›

Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Sediment cores from ocean floor could contain 23-million-year-old climate change clues

2022-02-17 Sediment cores taken from the Southern Ocean dating back 23 million years are providing insight into how ancient methane escaping from the seafloor could have led to regional or global climate and environmental changes, according to a new study. …›

Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Staff from climate sceptic group recruited by Tory MP behind net zero attacks

2022-02-17 Further links emerge between Craig Mackinlay’s Net Zero Scrutiny Group and Global Warming Policy FoundationA Tory MP who leads a group which campaigns against the government’s net zero measures has recruited two members of staff from a controversia …›

Inside Climate News→ Inside Clean Energy: Texas Is the Country’s Clean Energy Leader, Almost in Spite of Itself

2022-02-17 The Lone Star State led the nation in new renewable energy capacity in 2021, and is poised to continue to be the leader.By Dan GearinoIn the race to build renewable energy projects in 2021, Texas lapped the competition. …›

Climate Beat – Covering Climate Now→ The Best Science You Probably Haven’t Heard of

2022-02-17 Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. At noon today, CCNow and Scientific American are co-sponsoring a briefing for journalists on a little-known scientific development that carries paradigm-shifting implications for how people, especially young p …›

Climate Beat – Covering Climate Now→ Putting the Ukraine story in a Climate Context

2022-02-17 Last Friday, as speculation that Russia was preparing to invade Ukraine mounted, ABC News reported that “the specter of a military confrontation” was “pumping fresh life into the debate over whether president Joe Biden’s climate agenda is brush …›

Covering Climate Now – Columbia Journalism Review→ Putting the Ukraine story in a climate context

2022-02-17 This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration co-founded by CJR and The Nation strengthening coverage of the climate story. LAST FRIDAY, AS SPECULATION that Russia was preparing to invade Ukraine mounted, ABC News report …›

Climate crisis | The Guardian→ ‘Loading the dice’: climate crisis could increase southern California wildfires

2022-02-17 Global heating will cause ‘megafires resistant to fire suppression practices’ with 25% of land being burned by 2040A convergence of dangerous weather conditions, exacerbated by the climate crisis, has set the stage for southern California to see an …›

Inside Climate News→ California Has Begun Managing Groundwater Under a New Law. Experts Aren’t Sure It’s Working

2022-02-17 The amount of water pumped from underground vastly exceeds what nature can replenish. And conservation has been a tough sell, especially amid worsening droughts.By Elena ShaoIn the rural county of Madera in California’s San Joaquin Valley, some farmw …›

Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Guidance on political impartiality in English classrooms ‘confusing’ say teachers’ unions

2022-02-17 Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi warns against promoting contested theories as factNew guidance on political impartiality in the classroom is confusing and likely to scare teachers in England away from tackling important subjects such as climate chang …›

Climate crisis | The Guardian→ World spends $1.8tn a year on subsidies that harm environment, study finds

2022-02-17 Research prompts warnings humanity is ‘financing its own extinction’ through subsidies damaging to the climate and wildlifeThe world is spending at least $1.8tn (£1.3tn) every year on subsidies driving the annihilation of wildlife and a rise in gl …›

Climate crisis | The Guardian→ News Corp claims coal and gas moratorium would be a revenue ‘black hole’. How much would it really cost?

2022-02-16 Grattan Institute energy experts say News Corp’s eye-watering figures on the projected costs and job losses of an improbable moratorium are ‘inflated’Temperature Check is a weekly column examining claims about climate change made by governments, …›

Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ City trees and soil are sucking more carbon out of the atmosphere than previously thought

2022-02-16 Research uncovers new information about the role that forest edges play in buffering global impacts of climate change and urbanization. …›

Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Can a planet have a mind of its own? Thought experiment

2022-02-16 Astrophysicists combine current scientific understanding about the Earth with broader questions about how life alters a planet to ask: if a planet with life has a life of its own, can it also have a mind of its own? The research raises new ideas about …›

Climate : NPR→ Accusations of ‘greenwashing’ by big oil companies are well-founded, a new study finds

2022-02-16 Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell used terms like "climate" and "low-carbon" more frequently in recent annual reports, but their actions on clean energy didn't match their words, researchers conclude.(Image credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images) …›

Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Oil firms’ climate claims are greenwashing, study concludes

2022-02-16 Most comprehensive scientific analysis to date finds words are not matched by actions Accusations of greenwashing against major oil companies that claim to be in transition to clean energy are well-founded, according to the most comprehensive study to …›

NYT > Climate and Environment→ Taking Aim at Environmental Racism, Without Mentioning Race

2022-02-16 President Biden says he wants to alleviate the outsize burdens that Americans of color face from pollution. But using race to allocate help could mean legal trouble. …›

Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Land clearing in NSW tripled over past decade, State of the Environment 2021 report reveals

2022-02-16 EPA analysis paints grim picture for ecosystems under increasing threat from habitat destruction, invasive species and climate crisisGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe New South Wales government has admitted that land clearing has …›

Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ How politics, society, and tech shape the path of climate change

2022-02-16 Public perceptions of climate change, the future cost and effectiveness of climate mitigation and technologies, and how political institutions respond to public pressure are all important determinants of the degree to which the climate will change over …›

Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Looking back from the future: How does Germany become carbon neutral?

2022-02-16 Researchers have developed a vision for Germany in 2050 that illustrates ways to achieve a carbon dioxide-neutral life and economy. In their study they look back from a fictitious future to the present day. …›

Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Hotter, drier nights mean more runaway fires

2022-02-16 A new study shows that an increase in hot, dry nights in recent decades has resulted in nighttime wildfires becoming more intense and more frequent. Researchers found there are 11 more flammable nights every year in the U.S. West compared to 1979 -- a …›

Climate crisis | The Guardian→ Constituents set up ‘Steve Baker Watch’ over MP’s climate stance

2022-02-16 Campaigners say Tory MP for Wycombe is trying to ‘wreck’ government plans for environmentConstituents of Steve Baker MP who are concerned about his environmental position have set up a “Steve Baker Watch” group and are launching a crowdfunding …›

Climate News -- ScienceDaily→ Breakthrough in converting carbon dioxide into fuel using solar energy

2022-02-16 A research team has shown how solar power can convert carbon dioxide into fuel, by using advanced materials and ultra-fast laser spectroscopy. The breakthrough could be an important piece of the puzzle in reducing the levels of greenhouse gases in the …›