If all of the world’s forests disappeared tomorrow, how much hotter would the world be? A first-of-its-kind study published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change Thursday found that the world’s forests keep the planet around 0.5 degrees Celsius cooler than it would be otherwise. That 0.5 degrees is the same crucial difference between two […]
ClientEarth is not only a nonprofit environmental law organization — it has also been a shareholder in the Shell oil company since 2016. Now, ClientEarth is suing Shell’s 13 directors and holding them personally and legally responsible for failing to devise a strategy to prepare the company for net zero emissions, which it says is […]
In another unexpected outcome of the climate crisis, wildfire smoke may be putting the recovery of the ozone layer at risk. A new study from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) chemists published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week found that the devastating Australian wildfires of 2019 and 2020 contributed to […]
A new report analyzing Amazon’s emissions reporting has found that the retailer is vastly undercounting its emissions. Amazon reports emissions for its own products, but not those sold by third-party retailers, even if Amazon fulfills those orders. Amazon-branded products only make up about 1% of the company’s total sales. The majority of its sales come […]
A new scientific report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a panel of 270 researchers from 67 countries called together by the United Nations, concludes that urgent action must be taken by countries to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions before the effects of climate change — which are already reshaping the planet in […]
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may have effectively killed a controversial fossil-fuel project. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced sanctions against the company and CEO behind the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany after the Russian government recognized two separatist territories in Ukraine as independent. “Through his actions, President (Vladimir) Putin has provided […]
USPS will buy nearly 150 thousand gas-powered mail delivery trucks, defying objections from the Biden administration and advocates. The new postal delivery fleet, which includes more vehicles than any other government agency and accounts for nearly one-third of all federally owned cars and trucks, will achieve only a 0.4-mpg fuel efficiency improvement over the current […]
One environmental concern to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic is the phenomenon of “ghost flights.” A ghost flight is defined as a flight that occurs when an airplane has zero passengers or has less than 10 percent of its passenger capacity filled, The Guardian explained. New data from the UK government reveals that nearly 15,000 […]
One of the biggest questions surrounding the cryptocurrency boom is whether or not the climate can afford such an energy-intensive trend. Much of this concern has focused on Bitcoin, which has a current annual energy consumption of 147.67 terawatt hours, more than Norway and Ukraine, according to the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index. And the […]
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