Climate Change

An unusually busy Atlantic hurricane season is showing no signs of letting up. Hurricane Delta is currently churning toward the Gulf Coast, expected to make landfall in Louisiana later today. Delta is the 25th named storm this season and the ninth hurricane. It’s the earliest in the year that any…

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It wasn’t just the fly momentarily stuck on Mike Pence’s head that caught unsuspecting viewers off guard during Wednesday night’s debate with Kamala Harris. The vice presidential candidates spent a shockingly substantial part of the night discussing an issue frequently absent from presidential debates: climate change. The exchange lasted seven…

Salt Lake City Trading barbs through plexiglass shields, Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Kamala Harris turned the only vice presidential debate of 2020 into a dissection of the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with Ms. Harris labeling it “the greatest failure of any presidential administration.”Mr. Pence, who leads…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mario Molina, winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1995 and the only Mexican scientist to be honored with a Nobel, died Wednesday in his native Mexico City. He was 77 years old.Molina’s family announced his death in a brief statement through the institute that…

Britain’s Prince William has teamed up with celebrities to launch a multi-million-pound environmental prize aimed at tackling the world’s climate problems.The Earthshot Prize will award five one-million-pound ($A1.80 million) prizes each year for the next 10 years under the categories of protecting and restoring nature, cleaner air, reviving oceans, waste-reduction…

Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Warming temperatures may inspire a feedback loop of climate-altering flatulence, according to a new paper published Wednesday in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Over the last decade, atmospheric methane concentrations have risen dramatically, and studies suggest livestock and their digestive systems are responsible for…

The European Parliament has voted in favour of a legally binding target for the European Union to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2030, against 1990 levels, according to vote results released on Wednesday.Reuters Last Updated: October 7, 2020, 1:30 PM ISTFOLLOW US ON:BRUSSELS: The European Parliament has…

Supporters of President Donald Trump ranked climate change last among issues they view as important to their 2020 election decisions, with just 11 percent of Trump backers saying it's a high priority topic this November 3.Less than 30 days before Election Day, a sizable overall majority of U.S. registered voters…

On a scorching day this August, Caleb Woodall wielded his shovel like a spear, stabbing it into the hardened crust of an asbestos-filled pit near Coalinga, California. Woodall, a graduate student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, was digging out samples from an asbestos mine that’s been shuttered since 1980,…