Fourteen states and Puerto Rico are on track to meet and potentially exceed their portion of the U.S. commitment under the Paris agreement. The report shows that the member states of the U.S. Climate Alliance (USCA), which has grown to represent 36 percent of the U.S. population and more than $7 trillion of America’s GDP, […]
Flooding breached a supposedly impregnable Arctic “doomsday” vault containing a collection of seeds stored for an apocalypse scenario last week, after warmer-than-average temperatures caused a layer of permafrost to thaw. Buried into a hillside on the Norwegian archipelago, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault contains more than 930,000 different varieties of seeds intended to ensure the […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is editing pages from its website related to climate policy to better “reflect the views of the leadership,” the agency announced Friday. One of the pages that is no longer accessible is the EPA’s decades-old climate change information hub, which had been widely cited in response to EPA chief […]
Renewable energy provided a record 55 percent of power generating capacity worldwide in 2016, according to a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Bloomberg New Energy Finance report. The new capacity comes with a smaller price tag for investors due to the plummeting costs for renewables: average PV solar generation costs dropped 17 percent, while […]
Despite having fellow deniers at the wheel at both the White House and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), reports surfaced this week that climate deniers are unhappy with rhetoric and actions coming from the Trump administration. Prominent deniers have expressed disappointment that the administration seems to have ignored Myron Ebell’s transition plan for the EPA […]
The global coal boom took a nosedive in 2016 as construction starts on coal-fired power plants fell to nearly two-thirds of 2015 levels, according to a report, from Coalswarm, Sierra Club and Greenpeace. “Markets are demanding clean energy, and no amount of rhetoric from Donald Trump will be able to stop the fall of coal […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that carbon dioxide levels in 2016 broke records for the second year in a row with an increase of 3 parts per million (ppm). The measurements are coming from the Mauna Loa Baseline Atmospheric Observatory in Hawaii and were confirmed by NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory in […]
The only hope to save the world’s coral reefs is to take immediate action to stop climate change, according to new research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The study analyzed 2016 bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef, finding that they were mostly driven by rising temperatures and that local efforts to reduce pollution […]
Rex Tillerson used an email address registered under the name “Wayne Tracker” to discuss climate policies while CEO of ExxonMobil, according to a letter sent by the New York attorney general’s office to a New York Supreme Court justice Monday. OMG! White House Plagiarizes Statement From Exxon Touting Plans for Expanded Fossil Fuel Projects https://t.co/ScgWFNA7xY […]
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