Global Warming

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…

“Las Vegas is the fastest warming, fastest growing city in the country,” reads Amy Vilela’s campaign website, “and we’re rapidly running out of water. We need a Green New Deal now.” Vilela, a progressive challenging a centrist Democrat for Congress in an upcoming primary, has been emphasizing the vulnerability of…

WavebreakmediaMicro - stock.adob Research commissioned and compiled by Schneider Electric reveals industry-wide disconnect between words and actions on sustainability By Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK Published: 09 Jun 2022 11:00 Large swathes of the IT industry are struggling to make their words match their actions on addressing sustainability, research commissioned…

Using future projections of the latest generation of Earth system models, a U.S. National Science Foundation-supported study published in Science Advances found that most of the world's ocean is steadily losing its year-to-year memory under global warming. "We have leveraged the ocean's memory to help us assess future changes in…

Philanthropists could help ease the damage from climate change by donating more money to address global warming and the communities most at risk from it, according to a report that the research organization Candid released Wednesday. “There can be huge climate value-for-money in supporting communities to address the inequalities that…

Scientists say it is still theoretically possible to limit global warming to 1.5°C, but realistically that now seems practically impossible. Should we admit our failure and double down on holding warming below 2°C? Environment 7 June 2022 By Adam Vaughan Houses in Ilulissat, Greenland, near the Jakobshavn glacier Ashley Cooper/Construction…