Global Warming

Photo: Getty ImagesCondé Nast, the publisher behind Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker and more, announced on Wednesday its commitment to become carbon neutral by 2030."The credibility of our environmental journalism depends on our willingness as a company to improve our own operations and supply chains in ways that dramatically reduce our…

In this April 26, 2020, photo, the 110 Arroyo Seco Parkway that leads to downtown Los Angeles stands empty during the coronavirus outbreak. /AP  KENSINGTON, Maryland — The world cut its daily carbon dioxide emissions by 17% at the peak of the pandemic shutdown last month, a new study found.…

Population confinement has led to drastic changes in energy use and CO2 emissions. Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are set to drop by up to seven percent in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, but even this dramatic decline—the sharpest since WWII—would barely dent longterm global warming, researchers reported…

As heat waves intensify, low-income and disadvantaged communities across south Los Angeles are most at risk, USC researchers say. Disruptions such as climate change and coronavirus underscore threats to vulnerable populations and the need for solutions. Credit: USC People living in low-income, disadvantaged communities across much of urban Los Angeles…

The United States is today more than twice as likely to endure a devastating 'dust bowl' scenario than during the Great Depression Due to global warming, the United States is today more than twice as likely to endure a devastating "dust bowl" scenario than during the Great Depression, researchers said…

President Donald Trump said that former Vice President Joe Biden had "no idea what's happening" and seconds later accused New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of wanting wind energy that "kills all the birds.""Joe has absolutely no idea what's happening," Trump told the Washington Examiner on Thursday. "AOC is a disaster.…

Oil and Gas UK (OGUK) wants action from the UK government to allow businesses in its sector to access finance to help them through the Covid-19 crisisClaims by oil and gas companies that they are curbing their carbon emissions in line with net zero targets are overstated, according to a…

In the hierarchy of allegories for human society, the 1,001-car train Snowpiercer is up there with the Tower of Babel. Introduced in a 1980s French comic, then revived in Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 film and now a TNT drama, both titled Snowpiercer, it carries the only survivors of an ice age…

An example of boreal peatlands and forest in Canada's Northwest Territories. Credit: Manuel Helbig, McMaster University A group of 59 international scientists, led by researchers at Canada's McMaster University, has uncovered new information about the distinct effects of climate change on boreal forests and peatlands, which threaten to worsen wildfires…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Unless greenhouse gas emissions fall, large numbers of people will live in places with average temperatures of 29C More than three billion people will be living in places with "near un-liveable" temperatures by 2070, according to a new study. Unless greenhouse gas emissions fall,…