Global Warming

FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press Oct. 19, 2021Updated: Oct. 20, 2021 4:51 a.m. 1of6FILE- In this Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 file photo, an oil pump works at sunset in the desert oil fields of Sakhir, Bahrain. A U.N.-backed study has found that the world needs to cut by more than half its production…

Environment 20 October 2021 By Adam Vaughan and Carissa Wong The Buckskin coal mine near Gillette, Wyoming TANNEN MAURY/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Countries around the world are planning to extract more than double the amount of fossil fuels permitted by the toughest climate change goal of the Paris Agreement, an analysis for the…

Findings based on analysis of 15 major economies published : 20 Oct 2021 at 11:28 Using The World's First Green Steal To Make a Dump Truck An entrance to the construction site for an underground storage system for green hydrogen at the Hybrit fossil-free steel plant in Lulea, Sweden. Sweden's…

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas, with 300 times the warming ability of carbon dioxide. Due to fertilizer runoff from farm fields, an increasing load of nitrogen is washing into rivers and streams, where nitrogen-breathing microbes break some of the fertilizer down into N2O, which the river releases…

CILEGON: Smokestacks belch noxious fumes into the air from a massive coal-fired power plant on the Indonesian coast, a stark illustration of Asia's addiction to the fossil fuel, which is threatening climate targets. Asia-Pacific accounts for about three-quarters of global coal consumption — even as the region struggles with the…

WELLINGTON: New Zealand pledged on Monday to quadruple foreign aid spending on climate change, addressing its "woefully inadequate" response to the challenge in recent decades. As representatives from around the world prepare for a landmark UN summit on global warming, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Wellington would lift its climate…

Federal President presents German Environmental Prize Osnabrück/Darmstadt. With an appeal to our sense of solidarity as a global community, yesterday (Sunday), at the darmstadtium conference centre in Darmstadt, Germany’s Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called for a change of course to conserve biodiversity and stop global warming. At the awards ceremony…

REAL ACTION NEEDED Massive video screen outside the White House plays ad critical of the Biden administration for pledging climate action while expanding oil and gas drilling on public lands on Oct. 7, 2021 in Washington, D.C. AFP PHOTO SUVA, Fiji: Pacific island leaders have urged industrialized nations to bring…

Throughout September, as the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow approached, The Wall Street Journal ran a series of opinion articles by Bjorn Lomborg, a notorious climate “skeptic” from Denmark who has downplayed the threat of global warming. The articles purported to offer readers “a better understanding of the true…

Today’s Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll highlights the significant challenges the Government is likely to face in getting voters on board with initiatives to tackle climate change. Our poll was conducted between 2nd and 5th of October among a national quota sample of 1,200, representative of the about 3.6 million adults…