Global Warming

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…

YouTube's reduced tolerance for misinformation now extends to climate science. The Google service has enacted a new policy barring ads and monetization for content that contradicts the "well-established scientific consensus" surrounding climate change, including videos that claim climate change is a hoax or reject the human link to global warming.…

Climate change activists have mounted a series of high-profile protests in recent months. — AFP/FileLONDON: Grappling with mounting protests from climate activists, Britain is eager to brandish its environmental credentials before the upcoming COP26 summit. Direct action group Extinction Rebellion has brought cities to a standstill and vowed to do…

2021 is a critical year for climate change. According to the Paris Climate Agreement, governments must decide now on how to reduce the amount of carbon they pump into the atmosphere in order to avoid the most devastating consequences of global warming. So, are we on track to limit global…