Climate change has taken up a permanent presence in our global discourse. The broad issue is complex, riddled with an assortment of challenges.Yet in the mainstream, the idea of climate change is regularly oversimplified, and the conversation around this multifaceted topic invariably circles back to one element: carbon.As the primary contributor to the greenhouse effect and our changing climate, it’s understandable why carbon – and its capture and removal – has become the central character in...
Addressing the climate crisis, not wars, should be on top of world’s to-do list, one of the world’s top climate scientists said on Sunday. India should be prepared to face killing heat and related disasters, Friederike Otto, senior lecturer at the Grantham Institute of Climate Change and the Environment at London’s Imperial College, said in an interview with Jayashree Nandi. The climate emergency is supercharging floods, droughts and heavy rain across the world, said the leading climate...
Tallahassee - A federal appeals court is looking at whether Florida could legally challenge Biden administration immigration policies, after a district judge sided with the state in a fight spearheaded by Attorney General Ashley Moody and Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The battle against climate change is increasingly being fought in the courtroom, as national governments, specific laws and individual companies are targeted over their role in the crisis—sometimes successfully.
The influence of just a small number of companies on global warming is stark and disproportionate. Recent data reveals that only 57 companies, primarily in the oil, gas, coal, and cement industries
Sir, – Amid the disconcerting developments in European environmental
The Scottish government is to scrap its flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030.
The Federal Reserve (Fed), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) jointly established principles to ostensibly offer a framework for banks, savings associations, and nonbank systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs) with at least $100 billion in total consolidated assets to focus on material climate-related risks. The regulators indicated […]
Recovery efforts for the iconic Lahaina Banyan Tree continue. While it has been an uphill battle, the tree continues to show sign of recovery.
Landfill trash is the third-largest source of human-caused methane pollution in the US. To fight global heating, curb wasteAn elusive climate menace is now easier than ever to see. In early March, a rocket launched into the sky with a satellite that spots methane emissions from space. MethaneSAT joined more than a dozen similar satellites now in orbit, scanning the Earth for pollution and feeding that information back to scientists, policymakers, industry and the public.What story does the data...
Behind a chain-link fence in a corner of San Joaquin County sits one of California's — and perhaps the world's — best hopes for combating climate change. Here at the nation's first commercial direct air capture facility, towering trays of limestone mineral powder are working round-the-clock to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Robots skitter and whir around the 40-foot-tall columns, which are part of a multi-step process that will ultimately convert the CO2 to concrete, rendering the...
On the count of three, let's all say it together: "Never let a crisis go to waste." Even if you have to manufacture it.