The most important international climate talks since the Paris agreement was reached in 2015 have been delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic. At the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26), originally scheduled for November of this year in Glasgow, the world’s nations were expected to up their emissions reduction pledges. Now, the conference is being pushed […]
The British government’s plan to reach net zero emissions by 2050 conflicts with its long-standing plan to level a village to expand Heathrow Airport, one of the world’s busiest airport hubs. Now an appeals court in Britain has ruled that the expansion is illegal since the government did not take into account how building a […]
The climate crisis got its moment in the sun during the ninth Democratic primary debate in Las Vegas Wednesday. The six qualifying candidates discussed the issue for a full 16 minutes, Grist reported. The debate also marked the first time that a climate journalist was numbered among the moderators: Telemundo climate correspondent Vanessa Huac, who […]
By Douglas Broom Endurance swimmer and UN Patron of the Oceans Lewis Pugh has completed a 1 kilometer swim under the East Antarctic ice shelf. The feat was part of his campaign to secure a series of protected zones in the seas around the continent. He chose the 200th anniversary of the discovery of Antarctica […]
By Dana Nuccitelli Killer hurricanes, devastating wildfires, melting glaciers, and sunny-day flooding in more and more coastal areas around the world have birthed a fatalistic view cleverly dubbed by Mary Annaïse Heglar of the Natural Resources Defense Council as “de-nihilism.” One manifestation: An increasing number of people appear to have grown doubtful about the possibility […]
The Doomsday Clock is now 100 seconds to midnight, partly because of the climate crisis. That’s the closest the clock has moved to the apocalypse since it was first started in 1947 to warn of the dangers of nuclear war, BBC News reported. “It is 100 seconds to midnight. We are now expressing how close […]
By Gero Rueter Heating with coal, oil and natural gas accounts for around a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions. But that’s something we can change, says Wolfgang Feist, founder of the Passive House Institute in the western German city of Darmstadt. “Buildings can be powered in a climate-neutral way, and that’s possible worldwide with […]
Talk is cheap, says the acting executive secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, who begged governments around the world to make sure that 2020 is not another year of conferences and empty promises, but instead is the year to take decisive action to stop the mass extinction of wildlife and the destruction […]
An additional 2,100 deaths from fatal injuries may occur in the U.S. every year from a 2 C rise in temperatures, which could have grave implications for global changes associated with the climate crisis. Under the Paris agreement, international leaders have agreed to limit global temperature increases to well below 2 C above pre-industrial levels […]
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