Climate Change

With renewables, new technologies, and electrification, we can just stop buying them. Published November 25, 2022 01:00PM EST Everyone has been saying for some time that the 1.5-degree target is lost, especially after the failure of the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, held in Sharm el-Sheikh,…

What we need in the U.S. is rapid, complete, fair, and equitable decarbonization. Published November 25, 2022 02:00PM EST The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) has drawn to a close, and there have been countless headlines about the wins (funding for climate victims), the losses (no agreement to…

Luv FM’s journalist, Emmanuel Bright Quaicoe is the only Ghanaian among ten journalists selected for the 2022 Climate Change Journalism (CCJF) of the Media Foundation For West Africa (MFWA). The maiden edition of the Fellowship received over 400 applications from 11 West African countries, of which five males and five…

The UN climate conference wrapped up over the weekend after marathon negotiations that ran way over. The most notable outcome was the establishment of a fund to help poor countries pay for climate damages, which was hailed as a win. Beyond that, some leaders are concerned there wasn’t enough progress at this year’s…

Unsustainable fishing practices are decimating the oceans. Close to 80% of the world’s fisheries are already fully exploited, over-exploited, depleted, or in a state of collapse. And yet, global fish consumption is on an upwards trajectory, having nearly doubled since 1998. Some researchers predict global fish consumption will increase a…

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The United States is looking to crack down on environmental criminals behind surging deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, using penalties such as Magnitsky sanctions to tackle climate change more aggressively, U.S. sources and officials told Reuters. The plan represents a major shift in…

The Colorado river is the lifeblood of the US Southwest, but today it is drastically depleted due to overuse, megadrought and climate change. Here’s how to rescue it Environment 22 November 2022 By Chelsea Whyte Water levels at Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir in the US, are falling fast Michael…

The first match of the men’s football World Cup kicked off in Qatar on 20 November, when the temperature was expected to be around 30 °C and humidity approaching 60%. When Qatar first won the bid to host the tournament 12 years ago, extreme heat was one of several concerns; since then, the average annual temperature in…

Trying to save the planet looks less like a Marvel movie and more like tense climate negotiations that just wrapped up in Egypt over the weekend. Tens of thousands of delegates and activists from around the world gathered for the United Nations climate summit called COP27. It’s become more urgent…

Liberals and conservatives are criticizing a U.N.-backed deal supported by the Biden administration for richer nations to pay reparations to poorer countries for the impacts of climate change. Attendees of the COP27 climate summit held in Egypt went into overtime last weekend to establish a global “loss and damage” fund.…