Global Warming

An edge of Thwaites Glacier. Image: NASA / James Yungel / Edited by Stuart Rankin By Mark Kaufman2020-02-27 11:00:00 UTC Some 8,000 miles from the elegantly carpeted U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., lies an eerie, dark, underwater place — a place that threatens to redraw maps all over the globe. This…

So far in short-lived 2020, Antarctic scientists measured warm waters eating away at the planet's most threatening glacier, Earth experienced its warmest January in over 140 years of record-keeping, and the Australian Navy rescued 1,000 residents trapped by the nation's historic, climate-enhanced fires.  Sen. Bernie Sanders has an ambitious, though…

(SALEM, Ore.) — Republican lawmakers on Monday boycotted the Oregon Legislature, denying Democrats a quorum in an attempt to doom a contentious climate change bill. Senate Majority Leader Ginny Burdick, a Democrat from Portland, accused Republican senators of “a dereliction of duty.” “These Oregon Senate Republicans are denying their constituents…

A locust swarm in Africa. Image: SVEN TORFINN / FAO / Penn State By Mark Kaufman2020-02-23 08:24:34 -0800 No, these aren't fields blossoming with yellow flowers. It's a swarm of ravenous locusts.  A biologist at Penn State University, David Hughes, posted footage of locusts swarming over Kenya on Saturday. Hughes…

How Artificial Shrimps Could Change the World (economist.com) Posted by BeauHD on Saturday February 22, 2020 @11:34AM from the environmental-destruction dept. Singaporean company Shiok Meats aims to grow artificial shrimp to combat the negative environmental effects associated with farmed shrimp. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from The Economist: For…

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders fell out on Friday over their next long-term budget after fraught talks over a gaping Brexit hole in their joint coffers, with poorer countries demanding more aid and their “frugal” peers determined to rein in spending. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis,…

SYDNEY (Reuters) - As bushfires and floods fuel public concerns in Australia about global warming, the country’s powerful mining lobby is facing increasing pressure from investors to drop support for new coal mines, according to a dozen interviews with shareholders in global mining companies. FILE PHOTO: Retired teacher Libby Dougas…

Aerosol emissions from burning coal and wood are dangerous to human health, but it turns out that by cooling the Earth they also diminish global economic inequality, according to a new study by Carnegie's Yixuan Zheng, Geeta Persad, and Ken Caldeira, along with UC Irvine's Steven Davis. Their findings are…

According to forecasts by the French Institute for Demographic Studies, there will be nearly 10 billion humans on Earth by 2050.Between now and 2050, it's been estimated that food needs will increase by 56%, in a report by the World Resources Institute (WRI).While these figures may seem worrying, the WRI…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The temperature was logged on Seymour Island, off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula Antarctica has exceeded 20C for the first time, after researchers logged a temperature of 20.75C on an island off the coast of the peninsula.Brazilian scientist Carlos Schaefer told AFP they…