Climate Change

Elise Stefanik knows how to pick her battles. At a small town-hall meeting in 2018, she called for President Donald Trump’s EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, to resign. The demands burnished the New York Republican’s brand as an independent thinker in her politically heterodox upstate district, which voted for Trump even…

Green Index highlights UK’s need for improvement in Renewable Energy Use London is falling behind worldwide leaders in the index for renewable energy and carbon emissions New ‘Green Index’ ranks 20 major worldwide cities on eight key categories related to an environmentally friendly future. London falling behind in terms of…

America’s new normal temperature is a degree hotter than it was just two decades ago. Scientists have long talked about climate change — hotter temperatures, changes in rain and snowfall and more extreme weather — being the “new normal.” Data released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration put…

LONDON (AP) — The wine is out of this world. The price is appropriately stratospheric. Christie’s said Tuesday it is selling a bottle of French wine that spent more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station. The auction house thinks a wine connoisseur might pay as much…

Faith Kearns thought she knew how to talk about science. In 2008, she was working in a fire center at the University of California, Berkeley, not long after getting her doctorate there. Kearns had already worked in communications for years. Then she spoke at a community fire safety demonstration in…

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Migratory waterbirds are particularly exposed to the effects of climate change at their breeding areas in the High Arctic and in Africa, according to a new study published in Bird Conservation International. The research team came to this conclusion after modelling climatic and hydrological conditions under current and future climate…

Today, the Victorian Government has finally announced a suite of EV-friendly policies to help accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles in the state. This forms part of the strategy to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Included in the new policy by Labor’s Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change…

Deforestation in the Amazon, including through fires, increased nearly four-fold in 2019 The Brazilian Amazon released nearly 20 percent more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the last decade than it absorbed, according to a stunning report that shows humanity can no longer depend on the world's largest tropical forest…

In recent years, climate change has loomed like a dark specter over the globe, contributing to everything from gentrification in Miami to refugees fleeing drought and crop shortages in Guatemala. But the urgency around the issue reached new heights in 2018 when the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…