Global Warming

Soaring temperatures across China, India, Pakistan, Japan, the US and Europe are endangering people’s health and countries’ energy grids Cooling buildings and warming the planet could become a vicious cycle, potentially blowing the world’s ‘energy budget’ needed to limit the global temperature rise to 2 degrees Read More

LA TESTE-DE-BUCH, France (AP) — A heat wave broiling Europe spilled northward Monday to Britain and fueled ferocious wildfires in Spain and France, which evacuated thousands of people and scrambled water-bombing planes and firefighters to battle flames spreading through tinder-dry forests. Two people were killed in the blazes in Spain…

A wide-ranging new Pew Research Center poll shows large age-related divides in Republicans' views on global warming. Driving the news: Nearly half of Republicans (or who "lean" Republican) age 18-29 say the federal government is doing too little on the topic. But as you can see above, this concern drops…

A schematic diagram indicating that warming causes a northward shift in the southern limit of the temperate seagrass Zostera marina. Credit: IOCAS Global warming has caused an increase of the average upper ocean temperature by 0.07°C per decade. These temperature increases affect marine species and ecosystems in many ways, including enhanced…

JAKARTA, July 15, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - Indonesia's oil and gas state-owned enterprise PT Pertamina has encouraged collaboration between countries for energy transition in order to tackle global warming. Pertamina President Director Nicke Widyawati (middle) in a B20 dialogue themed "Sustainable Finance for Climate Transition" held in Bali on…

Albanese declares ‘climate emergency’ as Pacific leaders tell Australia to do more Suva: Anthony Albanese has declared a climate emergency in the Pacific, after joining regional leaders in Fiji to warn Australia’s neighbours face an immediate threat to their security and wellbeing. Following two days of meetings at the Pacific…

Carbon dioxide levels in the air have reached a record along with methane, another culprit behind global warming.   According to the National Institute of Meteorological Sciences on Tuesday, the average level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 423.1 ppm last year, which was the highest since Korea began tallying…

A sound scientific basis exists for climate liability claims between individual countries, according to a Dartmouth study. The study is the first to assess the economic impacts that individual countries have caused to other countries through their cumulative national-level contributions to global warming. The research draws direct connections between national…

Researchers from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have found that the Gulf of Mexico escaped an ancient extinction event due to its unique sheltered geology. The scientists found that during a cycle of global warming 56 million years ago, lots of marine life around the world was…

Three degrees warmer: what it means for AustraliaThe IPCC’s new report details the drastic steps that will have to be taken in order to stop the planet warming above 1.5 degrees. There is more to this story But it’s a member-only story. Subscribe today to unlock it and more… Three…