Dubai has come up with a genius way to combat its scorching 50C/122F temperature problem by creating ‘enhanced rain.’ The United Arab Emirates city has been going through hellish summers and in response, the National Center of Meteorology has started using drones that fire electrical charges into clouds, causing them to clump together and create... Continue Reading →
Wildfires are threatening homes on the West Coast and in Canada, but their smoke is polluting air as far away as New York. From his uptown Manhattan home in Morningside Heights, Samir Kumar can usually see skyscrapers downtown. But this week, as smoke from wildfires raging in the western United States and Canada rode the jet... Continue Reading →
Wildfire smoke blowing across the U.S. is more toxic than we thought
It is unlikely that you know how much carbon was produced by making your driveway. But if you did, you might think about ways to build it better. That is the concept behind the “Buy Clean Colorado” legislation signed into law July 6 by Colorado Governor Jared Polis. Under the new law, future public construction... Continue Reading →
Colorado Passes Embodied Carbon Legislation — The Most Important Climate Solution You’ve Never Heard of
Just 2% of the Covid-19 stimulus funding promised by nations has been spent on clean energy, meaning that global emissions are likely to hit a record high in 2023 and continue rising thereafter. That is the key finding of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Sustainable Recovery Tracker. Published today (20 July), the Tracker analyses more... Continue Reading →
IEA: Global emissions to reach record high by 2023, with governments breaking green recovery promises
The commercial race to get tourists to space is heating up between Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson and former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. On Sunday 11 July, Branson ascended 80 km to reach the edge of space in his piloted Virgin Galactic VSS Unity spaceplane. Bezos’ autonomous Blue Origin rocket is due to launch... Continue Reading →
Space tourism: rockets emit 100 times more CO₂ per passenger than flights – imagine a whole industry
Measurements over Canada's Mackenzie River Basin suggest that thawing permafrost is starting to free greenhouse gases long trapped in oil and gas deposits. Global warming may be unleashing new sources of heat-trapping methane from layers of oil and gas that have been buried deep beneath Arctic permafrost for millennia. As the Earth’s frozen crust thaws,... Continue Reading →
Methane Seeps Out as Arctic Permafrost Starts to Resemble Swiss Cheese
A crawl in several parts of Europe on Wednesday caused flooding caused by a gentle storm, with about six inches of rain falling in the region near Cologne and forests before the end began on Friday. There were also floods in Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, but the worst affected were Germany, where the official... Continue Reading →
‘It Is All Connected’: Extreme Weather in the Age of Climate Change
“how restoring the water cycle can help stop climate change”
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Growing global meat consumption threatens to derail the Paris Agreement, but that hasn’t stopped the meat industry insisting it is part of the solution to climate change. In February last year, the head of a leading global meat industry body gave a “pep talk” to his colleagues at an Australian agriculture conference. “It’s a recurring... Continue Reading →
Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model
One to 2 degrees Celsius of warming can do a lot of damage. Climate scientists have long warned that global warming would lead to extreme heat in many parts of the world. But the 120 degree Fahrenheit temperatures brought on by the heatwave in the Pacific Northwest in June were more in line with what... Continue Reading →
Is climate change happening faster than expected? A climate scientist explains.
Global decarbonisation : Lies, damn lies, and statistics?
Decarbonisation is the only way out of our climate emergency. The quicker we do it the less damage we will incur. But just about every mainstream agency and organisation around the world is advising policymakers not to move too quickly away from fossil fuels for fear of disrupting economies and societies. The real world statistics... Continue Reading →
