Climate Change

In 2014 tens of thousands of sea birds washed up dead on the shores of French island Ile-de-Re. Thousands of seabirds that wash up on Atlantic coasts every year could have been starved to death by cyclones that whip up "washing machine" waves, a new study says, with experts warning…

Sep. 15, 2021Updated: Sep. 15, 2021 6:39 a.m. 1of3A car is seen flooded in Bernis, southern France,Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021 in Paris. Emergency workers rescued or evacuated hundreds of people in southern France as flash flooding abruptly turned roads and fields into rivers and lakes. As new heavy rainfall threatened the…

Sky News Washington Correspondent Annelise Nielsen says there is a “significant couple of weeks” coming up for the Australia-United States alliance. Defence Minister Peter Dutton and Foreign Minister Marise Payne are currently in the United States and Prime Minister Scott Morrison will be visiting from September 21 for an in-person…

President Biden took his pitch for a massive spending bill to the West Coast on Monday, saying the federal money will combat climate change and reduce wildfires. In his first trip to western states as president, Mr. Biden surveyed areas that have been devastated by one of the worst wildfire…

A best-case scenario has 44 million people displaced from their homes by 2050 because of climate change, a new World Bank report published Monday has found, the Associated Press reported. The report examined three different scenarios for the effects of slow-onset climate change, such as water scarcity, decreased crop yield…

Without immediate action to combat climate change, rising sea levels, water scarcity and declining crop productivity could force 216 million people to migrate within their own countries by 2050, the World Bank said in a new report on Monday. The report, Groundswell 2.0, modeled the impacts of climate change on…

Alexander I. Platt Contributor Alexander I. Platt is an associate professor at the University of Kansas School of Law. Once upon a time, a successful startup that reached a certain maturity would “go public” — selling securities to ordinary investors, perhaps listing on a national stock exchange and taking on…

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A third of shark and ray species have been overfished to near extinction, according to an eight-year scientific study. “Sharks and rays are the canary in the coal mine of overfishing. If I tell you…

Home News Appliances (Image credit: NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory) Leading off the post-Labor Day science news this week were a couple of newly-announced launch dates for some historic space flights, as well as a new study that examines how a severe solar storm could trigger a months-long internet apocalypse. Inspiration4 set…

Fossil fuels helped to catapult Norway from a stable but small fishing and timber economy into one of the wealthiest and most progressive welfare states in the world. Now, climate change is forcing the country to consider slaughtering its cash cow/golden goose (pick your preferred animal metaphor) in exchange for…