Climate

Scientists have found that Earth may soon pass another planetary boundary, meaning it could be operating outside of the safe limits for seven of the nine defined planetary boundaries. The Planetary Health Check report, prepared by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), is a new assessment that determines the state of the planetary […]

Elite universities in the United States — which conduct important climate research — are raking in millions from fossil fuel interests, potentially creating conflicts of interest. This is according to a collection of new reports compiled by student organizers and released by the student-led Campus Climate Network, as The Guardian reported. “Universities globally are often […]

Canada’s carbon emissions are down for the first time since the pandemic, according to a 2023 estimate from publicly funded think tank the Canadian Climate Institute. The drop of 0.8 percent between 2022 and 2023 brings the total reduction since the baseline year of 2005 to eight percent — a long way from the 2030 […]

Raging wildfires across Portugal — likely caused at least in part by arsonists and exacerbated by the country’s unique climate — have killed seven, injured dozens and prompted a state of calamity for areas hit hardest, mostly in the north. Although firefighters have since quelled most of the flames, the fires have destroyed multiple homes, […]

According to a new report by Rystad Energy, converting production facilities for upstream oil and gas so that they are powered by electricity fueled by renewable sources or natural gas that would have otherwise been burned and flared could eliminate more than 80 percent of the sector’s associated emissions. In the Norwegian Continental Shelf, oil […]

As the tail end of Storm Boris hit Italy’s northeast and central regions — including the Emilia-Romagna region in the north — two people were missing, with roughly 1,000 others having been evacuated following devastating floods and landslides. This just days after causing deadly widespread floods across central Europe. “The population is on high alert,” […]

A new tool from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) maps properties that experience repeated flooding around the U.S. NRDC found more than 250,000 properties in the country have made multiple insurance claims under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The tool and report, called Flooded Again, maps out areas with the highest repetitive loss […]

A new report by Earth Track has found that the world is spending a minimum of $2.6 trillion annually on subsidies that destroy the environment and fuel global heating. One of the biggest achievements of the 2022 COP15 Convention on Biodiversity was the passage of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), which has a target […]