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Trying to have it both ways: Investigation reveals BP and Shell still back anti-climate lobby groups, despite pledges
Oct 07, 2020 17:50Fossil fuel giants Royal Dutch Shell and BP remain active members of numerous Big Oil lobby groups fighting against climate legislation and regulation—without disclosing this in their transparency reports—an Unearthed and HuffPost investigation revealed.
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New report links mass extinction of animals to human activity
Oct 01, 2020 16:10A new report by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) shows that humans are overusing earth’s biocapacity by over 50%, rendering over 68% of all the world’s animal life extinct.
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'Another alarm bell in the climate emergency' as Arctic Sea ice shrinks to second lowest extent on record
Sep 27, 2020 17:16Rising temperatures in the Arctic shrank the ice covering the polar ocean this year to its second-lowest extent in four decades, scientists have announced, in yet another sign of how the climate crisis is rapidly transforming the region.
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Climate floods, climate droughts, climate fires: Interactive map illustrates how planetary crisis threatens every corner of US
Sep 22, 2020 19:04Hurricanes threaten the second-largest number of people in the U.S., with 104 million people living in areas at high risk for extreme storms. Many places in the U.S. face high risk of multiple extreme weather events; Sonoma County in Northern California is at highest risk for wildfires and extreme rainfall, but also faces a medium-level risk of water stress and extreme heat.
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Hunger threatening to kill more people than COVID this year
Sep 03, 2020 14:34COVID-19 has exposed some of the world's deepest inequalities. It's also a determining force in who gets to eat and who doesn't, underscoring global social divides as the richest keep enjoying a breakneck pace of wealth accumulation. Millions of people have been thrown out of work and don't have enough money to feed their families, despite the trillions in government stimulus that's helped send global equities to all-time highs.
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Curb climate fear to tackle other priorities
Aug 28, 2020 11:31One survey of 28 countries shows that almost half of all people believe climate change will likely lead to the extinction of the human race. Global warming is a real challenge and a problem we need to tackle. But the alarmism makes it difficult for us to think smartly about climate solutions, and it swamps our attention away from the many other important global issues. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, this panic was vastly exaggerated.
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As planet edges closer to multiple climate tipping points, scientists identify first active methane gas leak in Antarctica
Aug 21, 2020 17:33Just below the freezing Antarctic ice shelves, researchers have discovered a gas leak that could change the region's climate destiny. For the first time, scientists have detected an active leak of methane gas — a greenhouse gas with 25 times more climate-warming potential than carbon dioxide — in Antarctic waters.
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What warmer summers mean for Artic wildlife
Jul 03, 2020 01:08Changes like summer heatwaves, unusually mild winters and the early onset of spring have all sorts of consequences for cold-adapted Arctic wildlife. Warmer summers can transform the landscape. Permanently frozen ground (known as permafrost) is thawing and taller shrubs are growing in the grassy tundra.
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2019 was the second-hottest year ever, closing out the warmest decade
Jul 02, 2020 08:00Researches announced that the past decade was the hottest on record the latest sign of global warming’s grip on the planet, and 2019 was the second-warmest year ever, just shy of the record set in 2016.
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Mysterious radio burst coming from deep space
Jun 17, 2020 13:17For the second time ever, astronomers have found a fast radio burst (FRB) that repeats on a regular, predictable cycle. This could mean that - at least in some cases - the wild unpredictability of mysterious deep-space FRBs could actually be a problem with our detection capabilities.