Global Warming

Plastic permeates the oceans, clutters landfills, and threatens to create a “near-permanent contamination of the natural environment,” according to researchers. As if that weren’t bad enough, it is also a major contributor to climate change. A new report from the advocacy group Beyond Plastics says that emissions from the plastic…

BERLIN (AP) — Environmental campaigners staged protests on several continents on Friday to press their demands for more government action to curb global warming ahead of the upcoming U.N. climate summit in Glasgow. Protesters rallied in Uganda, Bangladesh, India, Italy, Sweden and Germany to call for measures preventing dangerous global…

The outline of the government’s climate policy is now clear, even if some detail remains to be filled in. It will involve an overall increase in Australia’s total greenhouse emissions as it looks to take advantage of continuing use of fossil fuels — and coal in particular. Documents leaked to…

I remember the widespread public anxiety and depression in the 1960s and 1970s at the prospect of mutually-assured destruction and nuclear winter in the event of a global nuclear war. And today, public anxiety (“eco-anxiety”) over climate change is growing worldwide. The American Psychiatric Association recognises climate change as a…

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The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow is the world's last chance to spur real action on global warming. But what issues are at stake – and what does a good outcome look like? Environment 20 October 2021 By Adam Vaughan Ben Giles IT ISN’T often that international summits are pitched…

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…