The Trump administration announced Wednesday it would decline to list the Pacific walrus on the endangered species list, reversing an Obama-era finding that the walruses should be protected under the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recommended in 2011 that the walrus be considered for endangered species status in the near future […]
Despite penning breathless tweets on the record-breaking size of both storms, President Trump rejected the connection between Hurricanes Harvey and Irma and climate change on Thursday. “We’ve had bigger storms” than these two most recent storms, Trump told reporters on Air Force One after being asked if the storms had shifted his views on climate […]
Eight patients have died and 120 were evacuated Wednesday after a Florida nursing home lost air conditioning due to Hurricane Irma. The deaths of the patients at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, whose ages ranged from 71 to 99, occurred after a transformer powering the facility’s air conditioner was damaged by the storm. Temperatures […]
Glaciers in Asia could shrink to one-third of their current size by the end of the century even if warming stays below 1.5 degrees C, according to new research. A study published Wednesday in the journal Nature finds that glaciers in the Tibetan plateau experience higher levels of warming than the global average. The study’s […]
Jacksonville and Charleston, South Carolina are facing record-breaking flooding in the wake of Hurricane Irma. Jacksonville officials say the “historic” flooding in the city exceeds levels not seen since 1846, while tidal levels in Charleston reached nearly 10 feet—8 inches higher than levels during Hurricane Matthew last year. Much of the flooding in these two […]
By Lisa Hymas Energy Sec. Rick Perry has ordered his department to produce a study on whether the ongoing shift toward renewable energy is affecting the reliability of the electrical grid. A number of experts, clean-energy advocates and politicians on both sides of the aisle believe the study is intended to be biased in favor […]
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 […]
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