Climate Change

Survey show that Americans want NASA to monitor climate change and asteroid threats, not land astronauts on the moon Credit: Jay Bendt On January 31, 1958, the U.S. put its first satellite into space. As the Jupiter C rocket carrying the satellite burned its way through the upper atmosphere, engineers…

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Cambridge, Massachusetts, has become the first U.S. city to mandate the placing of stickers on fuel pumps to warn drivers of the resulting dangers posed by the climate crisis. The final…

In 2011, as an anxious Republican from Utah, I fly with my husband and nine-month-old son to Majuro Atoll, the capital of the Marshall Islands. We fly D.C. to L.A., L.A. to Honolulu, then Honolulu southwest for 2,300 miles to Majuro. I don’t blink at the carbon footprint of my…

There’s a case to be made that 2020, for all the sacrifices it demanded and tragedies it inflicted, could at least mark a turning point on climate change. It's now possible that global oil demand and greenhouse-gas emissions may have already peaked in 2019, since the pandemic could slow economic…

Exaggerating the role of global warming in U.S. wildfires only diverts attention from real solutions to both issues. A boat motors by as the Bidwell Bar Bridge is surrounded by fire in Lake Oroville during the Bear fire in Oroville, California on September 9, 2020. - Dangerous dry winds whipped…

Home News Human-caused climate change has resulted in record rates of glacial melting. (Image: © Shutterstock) As the world turned its eyes to a dire pandemic, another global catastrophe was not-so-quietly gaining steam: Climate change has been simmering since the Industrial Revolution, but 2020 was a year that really drove…

For good and ill, fishing and farming on P.E.I. are already different because of climate change. Peaches are a new crop on P.E.I., one that could not have been grown in previous decades. (Arlington Orchards/Facebook)When Barry Balsom started growing apples at Arlington Orchards in 1993 he never considered peaches might…

Tzeporah Berman has some words of warning for climate advocates elated that Donald Trump will no longer be president: Don’t do what Canadian activists did five years ago. Just as the American left celebrated Trump’s defeat, environmentalists in Canada felt a profound sense of relief when Liberal leader Justin Trudeau…

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On December 17, 2020, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food announced the launch of public consultations to establish a new Canada Water Agency ("CWA") and improve freshwater…

The Paris Agreement, which celebrated its fifth birthday on December 12, is among the most remarkable diplomatic achievements in world history, representing decades of work to arrive at a common framework for capping global temperature rise at “well below” 2 degrees Celsius. It’s also basically toothless—as is the body in…