17 June 2017 (United Nations) – With hundreds of millions of people around the globe directly affected by desertification – the degradation of land ecosystems due to unsustainable farming or mining practices, or climate change – United Nations agencies have called for better management of land so that it can provide a place where individuals […]
By Brad Plumer 15 June 2017 WASHINGTON (The New York Times) – The Energy Department is closing an office that works with other countries to develop clean energy technology, another sign of the Trump administration’s retreat on climate-related activities after its withdrawal from the Paris agreement this month. The 11 staff members of the Office […]
By Chelsea Harvey 15 June 2017 (The Washington Post) – It’s common knowledge that the coast of Louisiana is quietly sinking into the balmy Gulf waters. But new research suggests we may have been underestimating how quickly it’s happening.A new paper, published Wednesday in the Geological Society of America’s bulletin GSA Today, includes an updated […]
By Jeff Grabmeier 8 June 2017 COLUMBUS, Ohio (OSU) – While climate change is expected to lead to more violence related to food scarcity, new research suggests that the strength of a country’s government plays a vital role in preventing uprisings.“A capable government is even more important to keeping the peace than good weather,” said […]
By Joshua S. Hill 7 June 2017 (CleanTechnica) – The long-proposed and highly unpopular Adani Carmichael coal mine in Australia’s northeast has been given the go-ahead by the Adani Group’s board. The US$16 billion project was given the final go-ahead by the Adani Group’s board late Tuesday after months of delays and speculation that left […]
By Pam Frost Gorder 15 June 2017 COLUMBUS, Ohio (OSU) – An area of West Antarctica more than twice the size of California partially melted in 2016 when warm winds forced by an especially strong El Niño blew over the continent, an international group of researchers has determined.In the June 15 issue of the journal […]
Irvine, California, 7 June 2017 (UCI) – An increase in mean temperature of 0.5 degrees Celsius over half a century may not seem all that serious, but it’s enough to have more than doubled the probability of a heat wave killing in excess of 100 people in India, according to researchers at the University of […]
By James Hakner 29 May 2017(University of Sussex) – Overheated cities face climate change costs at least twice as big as the rest of the world because of the “urban heat island” effect, new research shows.The study by an international team of economists of all the world’s major cities is the first to quantify the […]
By Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis 2 June 2017 (The Washington Post) – Less than four months ago, Scott Pruitt arrived in Washington with few connections to President Trump’s inner circle and took the helm of an agency where many employees were openly hostile to him.But the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency has emerged […]
11 April 2017 (Greenpeace) – Last week EU energy industry group Eurelectric released what seems on the surface to be a seismic announcement.With just a few exceptions, Europe’s utilities pledged that they would stop investing in new coal plants after 2020.The Guardian declared it “the end of coal” in Europe, and the story even found […]
