Climate Change

If Hollywood has the power to shape our collective imagination for good, it has too often failed when it comes to compelling stories about climate. But that untapped power is part of what makes Extrapolations, the new Apple TV+ series being touted as the biggest-budget scripted TV show ever made…

President Joe Biden talks with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm during a tour of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Flatirons Campus in Arvada, Colorado, Tuesday, September 14, 2021. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz) Analysis from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory predicts that recent federal legislation could lead to a…

Farmers at Baragoni community in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) the Nigerian capital, are recounting how climate change is adversely affecting them, pushing them into poverty and hunger. Driving into the Baragoni community, 15 kilometres away from Bwari main town, on your right where the Caritas…

Major changes to a key planning document could help clients push through road and rail projects designed with climate change in mind. Proposed alterations to the national networks national policy statement (NNNPS) recognise the need to reduce transport infrastructure’s impact on the environment – and to boost its resilience to…

Droughts and floods are already intensifying as the world warms, putting solid observational data behind a trend scientists have long predicted and one that’s becoming increasingly visible to ordinary people.  Over the past 20 years, there’s been a sharp increase in both the wettest and driest weather events on the…

A global biomass boom continues unabated with Japan, the European Union and United Kingdom among those governments providing large subsidies for the burning of wood to make energy.All three governments have developed life cycle greenhouse gas emission standards for biomass power plants, but forest advocates say those standards rely on…

Published Mar 14, 2023  •  Last updated 2 days ago  •  1 minute read This image was taken from a City of Toronto tweet which warned motorists not to park along snow routes. Photo by https://twitter.com/cityoftoronto/status/1632409569426022403 /Toronto Sun Here we snow again. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but…

Japan's capital is already seeing cherry blossoms blooming, making this year's flowering about 10 days earlier than average. Photo: RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images Cherry blossoms in Japan’s capital have begun blooming, making this year’s flowering the earliest since records began in 1953, in a trend driven in part by…

Landscapes are showing signs of losing their ability to absorb the amount of carbon they once could, a new study revealed. That would pose serious obstacles to the fight against climate change.The study reviewed the productivity of carbon storage of different ecosystems between 1981 and 2018, finding that many fluctuated…

A noxious red tide has descended on the U.S. East Coast, killing fish and ruining spring break before it's even begun. The red tides have been plaguing the Florida coast for the past few months, but this week has been particularly bad, with 89 out of 157 samples from the…