Climate Change

Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Michael Regan, President Joe Biden's selection to head the Environmental Protection Agency, pledged Wednesday to place a focus on environmental justice if confirmed. During his confirmation hearing before the Senate environment and public works committee, Regan said that limiting the impact of pollution and other environmental…

Multilateralism and international cooperation have faded as vehicles for global action in the public interest in recent years. It is time to encourage effective multilateralism as a vital tool in meeting our many global challenges Published: 1:00am, 3 Feb, 2021 Updated: 2:00am, 3 Feb, 2021 Read More

Navigation for News Categories The minerals sector has taken exception to the independent Climate Change Commission's draft advice. The Stockton coal mine on the West Coast of the South Island. Photo: Supplied Straterra, the industry body representing the country's mineral companies, said the report highlighted the many challenges people would…

Somewhere on Earth 2, President Boe Jiden, after committing to a thorough review of the groaning, creaking, top-heavy agriculture industry, has decided that the time has come to start fresh. There, the Jiden administration is setting its sights on breaking up the corporations that, during a global pandemic, forced workers…

What does it mean to “elevate climate change as a national security priority?” President Joe Biden is already well on his way to keeping this campaign promise, tapping John Kerry for a new Cabinet-level “climate czar” position housed on the National Security Council and directing the intelligence community, last Thursday, to…

Rhodina Villanueva (The Philippine Star) - February 1, 2021 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines welcomes the announcement by United States President Joe Biden that the US is rejoining the Paris Agreement on climate change, according to Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez. “This is a welcome development that comes on…

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Holocene temperature conundrum is a long-standing mystery, with certain cynics fighting that climate model predictions of future warming must be wrong. A new study challenges long-held views on the temperature history in the Holocene era. Scientists from Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences have resolved this long-standing mystery,…

SALINAS, Calif. — It was 4 a.m. when Crystal Urite and her family were awakened by firefighters knocking at the door of her home in Monterey County. Mudslides were starting to flow in the burn scar left by last summer’s River Fire, and the firefighters recommended she evacuate. Because of…

Climate change is back in the spotlight as a growing number of groups urge the Morrison government to commit to net zero emissions by 2050. Business leaders, scientists and government department officials have appeared before a parliamentary hearing looking at enshrining the target in legislation. The climate change bill is…