19 October 2015 (AFP) – Residents of flooded farming villages in the Philippines were trapped on their rooftops on Monday and animals floated down fast-rising rivers, as the death toll from Typhoon Koppu climbed to 16. Koppu, the second strongest storm to hit the disaster-plagued Southeast Asian archipelago this year, had also forced more than […]
By Natasha Geiling 1 October 2015 (ClimateProgress) – On Thursday, ten leaders from some of the world’s biggest food companies urged Congress to support a strong global agreement on climate action, in advance of the U.N. climate talks happening in Paris this December. In a letter published in both the Washington Post and Financial Times, […]
By Sara Jerving, Katie Jennings, Masako Melissa Hirsch, and Susanne Rust9 October 2015 (Los Angeles Times) – Back in 1990, as the debate over climate change was heating up, a dissident shareholder petitioned the board of Exxon, one of the world’s largest oil companies, imploring it to develop a plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions […]
By Jim Salter14 October 2015 ST. LOUIS (AP) – A report card is out on the Mississippi River basin, and the grade is not good: a D+, with an aging transportation infrastructure topping the list of concerns. The report by America’s Watershed Initiative, released Wednesday in St. Louis, assesses categories such as the abundance of […]
By Denis Balibouse and Alister Doyle; Editing by Frances Kerry17 October 2015 (Reuters) – One of Europe’s biggest glaciers, the Great Aletsch, coils 23 km (14 miles) through the Swiss Alps – and yet this mighty river of ice could almost vanish in the lifetimes of people born today because of climate change. The glacier, […]
By Andrew Freedman17 October 2015 (Mashable) – Super Typhoon Koppu, known as Typhoon Lando in the Philippines, made landfall close to 1 a.m. local time on Sunday morning near the town of Casiguran in Luzon’s Aurora Province, as a powerful Category 4 or 5 storm. The storm was on the cusp of being declared a […]
By Peter Frumhoff10 October 2015 (UCS) – Internal Exxon memos recently brought to light through meticulous investigative reporting by Inside Climate News (ICN) show that senior company executives knew by 1978 that emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels posed significant risks of disrupting the climate. Over the decade before NASA scientist James Hansen’s 1988 […]
15 October 2015 (National Geographic) – Record heat, melting ice, and rising seas show how climate change is affecting us. But there’s new hope we can cool the planet. Here’s how. [more] The Climate Change Issue Technorati Tags: global warming,climate change,Greenland,sea ice,Amazon,rainforest,alternative energy,Arctic,sea level,Oceania
By Brian Kahn14 October 2015 (Climate Central) – This year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest winners were officially announced on Wednesday. All the images are stunning displays of the natural world, but this year’s winner also has a climate change tale to tell. The image, titled “A Tale of Two Foxes,” was taken by […]
By Kerry Sheridan 13 October 2015 Miami (AFP) – Say goodbye to Miami and New Orleans. No matter what we do to curb global warming, these and other beloved US cities will sink below rising seas, according to a study. But making extreme carbon cuts and moving to renewable energy could save millions of people […]
