SAN DIEGO — While some people pay a premium for parking, most cities have too much. It's estimated that the U.S. has eight parking spaces for every car. More than an eyesore, policy experts say America’s problem of excess parking is also hazardous to the environment. “You have automobile fluids, pet waste, trash that falls... Continue Reading →
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Is it possible to heal the damage we have already done to the Earth? – Anthony, age 13 Sometimes it may seem that humans have altered the Earth beyond repair.... Continue Reading →
Is it possible to heal the damage we have already done to the Earth?
Top executives were warned of possible catastrophe from greenhouse effect, then led efforts to block solutions. At a meeting in Exxon Corporation’s headquarters, a senior company scientist named James F. Black addressed an audience of powerful oilmen. Speaking without a text as he flipped through detailed slides, Black delivered a sobering message: carbon dioxide from... Continue Reading →
Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels’ Role in Global Warming Decades Ago
Editor's Note: The eyes of the world are turning to China. In this ongoing series How-to China, we tell stories about how Chinese approaches promote understanding and solve problems around the globe and how Chinese and foreign cultures meet and mingle. The government of Daur Autonomous Banner of Morin Dawa – administered by Hulunbuir city... Continue Reading →
How-to China: Tree-planters turn barren mountains green
The climate emergency demands more and louder coverage—and that journalists be free to provide it. The climate emergency demands more and louder coverage—and that journalists be free to provide it. Journalism continues to be a dangerous profession around the world—and not just in war zones such as Ukraine. In the first quarter of this year,... Continue Reading →
Press Freedom Is an Essential Climate Solution
An elderly farmer from Burkina Faso (a country, in the African Sahel) named Yacouba Sawadogo is garnering praises recently for the relentless work he has done to coax a forest out of desert-like soil in the country. The 70-year-old man is hailed as “the man who stopped the desert” for his efforts to bring about... Continue Reading →
Meet Yacouba Sawadogo, who turned Desert in a Full-fledged Forest
A methane feedback loop that is beyond humans' ability to control may have begun, scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have said. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas emitted into the atmosphere from both human activities and natural processes. It is the second biggest contributor to climate change after carbon dioxide. According... Continue Reading →
Methane Feedback Loop Beyond Humans’ Ability to Control May Have Begun—NOAA
Communicating Nature Since 1788 The Linnean Society of London is the world’s oldest active society devoted to natural history. Founded in 1788 by Sir James Edward Smith (1759–1828), who was its first President, the Society takes its name from the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) whose botanical, zoological and library collections have been in our... Continue Reading →
The Linnean Society of London
A key finding in the latest IPCC climate report has been widely misinterpreted, according to scientists involved in the study. In the document, researchers wrote that greenhouse gases are projected to peak "at the latest before 2025". This implies that carbon could increase for another three years and the world could still avoid dangerous warming.... Continue Reading →
Climate change: Key UN finding widely misinterpreted
Bilge dumping: The worst pollution you’ve never heard of
Vessels continue to pollute the world's oceans with oily wastewater. A DW investigation shows how seafarers circumvent environmental laws to save time and money, with devastating effects. We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our channel explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges... Continue Reading →
Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Biden’s stalled climate agenda
NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including President Biden’s predicament of trying to fulfill his climate change agenda while addressing rising energy prices, a new poll finding that Biden is losing support from young people, plus former President... Continue Reading →
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