Faith groups mobilize to keep fighting climate change as Trump pulls U.S. out of Paris accord
World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study. Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targets.
Trump names oil and gas advocate to lead agency that manages federal lands. Kathleen Sgamma has been a leading voice for the fossil fuel industry, calling for fewer drilling restrictions on public lands.
Can Bogotá bring its wetlands back from the brink? The marshes in Colombia’s capital are sacred to Indigenous peoples, provide vital wildlife habitats and could help the city adapt to climate change. But after centuries of development they are close to collapse.
Planting fast-growing crops, burning them, capturing the released CO2 and storing it: this is being discussed as a way to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and limit global heating to 1.5 degrees.
Scientists record never-before-seen 'ice quakes' deep inside Greenland's frozen rivers. Quakes recorded for the first time inside Greenland's biggest frozen river, the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, suggest this river and others switch between moving jerkily and flowing like honey.
McDonald’s flames highlight our failure to face facts about food, a another powerful symbol of the role the food system, in particular meat and dairy production, plays in fuelling climate change.
Siberia forecast to experience +25°C anomaly
Moroccan fly maggot uses fake face on its butt to infiltrate termite colony
Global warming and mass extinctions: What we can learn from plants from the last ice age
Consumerism is thwarting the transition from fossil fuels. Climate change mitigation strategies that don’t address overconsumption and reduce dependence on fossil fuel-derived chemicals will exacerbate health harms and biodiversity loss, scientists warn.
Spooky floating lights in South Carolina could be earthquake farts.
Alberta’s energy regulator is ‘fully captured’ by industry, study finds. The AER significantly underreports the number and scale of spills, says researcher.
More than 2 million acres of land in California designated as ‘high’ or ‘very high’ fire danger areas
California’s smart and vocal farmers keep silent as Trump wastes water. Not a peep of opposition as Trump betrays state’s farmers by placing a political tactic above promised water supply.
Intense heatwave in southern Brazil forces schools to suspend return. Record highs delay start of classes in Rio Grande do Sul, where floods fueled by climate crisis left 180 dead last May.
Just a small rise in global temperatures could be deadly. By mid-century, lots of spots around the globe could hit temperatures hazardous for human health.
The best trade retaliation? Hit the U.S. with a carbon-tax tariff
Colorado forests are releasing more carbon than they capture each year
BP set to scale back green investments as profits drop sharply
Trump promised to “Drill, Baby, Drill.” Big oil won’t let him.
Climate impacts are forcing people from their homes. When, how and why do they have valid refugee claims?
Greenland ice sheet could fully melt after reaching specific tipping point, study finds
Coca-Cola says it will sell more soda in plastic bottles if aluminum tariffs take effect
