Climate Change

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — America remains awash in refuse as new cases of the coronavirus decline — and that has reignited a debate about the sustainability of burning more trash to create energy. Waste-to-energy plants, which produce most of their power by incinerating trash, make up only about half a…

Empathy Action is inviting schools, businesses, community groups and churches to consider climate justice as it launches its new immersive workshop, 'The High Life', online. When it comes to climate change, everything is connected. Everyday decisions made in one country could mean the difference between livelihood destruction and sustainable development…

1of15Gov. Gavin Newsom and interpreter Julia Townsend stand at the edge of a diminished Lopez Lake near Arroyo Grande, Calif., Thursday, July 8, 2021. Newsom has asked people and businesses in the nation's most populous state to voluntarily cut how much water they use by 15% amid a drought. Newsom's…

North Dakota has sued the Biden administration over its suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water, saying the move will cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue. Joe Biden shut down oil and gas lease sales from the nation’s public lands…

By Robert Preidt HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, July 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Climate change has already become deadly enough to cause 5 million extra deaths worldwide each year, researchers report. "This is the first study to get a global overview of mortality due to non-optimal temperature conditions between 2000 and 2019,…

The heatwave that wracked the US northwest and western Canada over the last few weeks, leaving hundreds dead and fueling an ongoing wave of catastrophic wildfires, would have been “virtually impossible without human-caused climate change,” according to a new scientific report. Temperatures in the northwest and Canada have moderated this…

If it seemed like June was a little hotter than usual, it’s because it was. In fact, it was hotter than it’s ever been in North America. The Copernicus Climate Change Service reported on Wednesday that the average surface air temperature in North America last month exceeded that of any…

To summarize North American fossil fuel derangement, you only need two sentences: The Gulf of Mexico was on fire this weekend. On Monday, the company responsible got a new offshore drilling gig. Mexico’s state-owned utility company Petróleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, first noticed a leak in its subaqueous pipeline early Friday…

There are three leaks that happened in the last two weeks that pertain in very serious ways to the future survival of our species.  The first leak is from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The second leak is from ExxonMobil lobbyists. And the third leak is from a…

The effect of climate change is well known. Although, observing the trends over time is quite challenging. This requires several decades to get a handle on these trends. You need to set apart what’s happening due to greenhouse gas emissions, solar cycle changes, and other effects on the atmosphere of…