Global Warming

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,…

Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans is manipulative, and in many ways an exercise in lazy documentary making. The film is rife with out-of-date facts and figures about the efficacy of solar and wind power. And it’s so strong on gloom that it ignores many potential solutions to the world’s…

A new study from University of Michigan climate researchers concludes that some of the latest-generation climate models may be overly sensitive to carbon dioxide increases and therefore project future warming that is unrealistically high. In a letter scheduled for publication April 30 in the journal Nature Climate Change, the researchers…

Significant quantities of carbon and trace elements are flowing across the central Arctic Ocean under the sea ice via freshwater runoff from rivers and continental shelf sediments, according to a new study. “This research is critical to understanding the current and future health of the Arctic Ocean, which is warming…