UN Climate Chief Calls on Coal Industry to Change
The U.N.’s chief climate diplomat on Monday urged the coal industry to diversify toward cleaner energy sources and leave most of the world’s remaining coal reserves in the ground.
Safety In Numbers? Not So For Corals
A new study revealed that global changes in climate and ocean chemistry affect corals whether scare or abundant, and often it is the dominant, abundant corals with wide distributions that are affected the most.
French Islanders Face Rising Seas
The 130 inhabitants of Île de Sein, a tiny island off the coast of Brittany, are survivors… now facing a new threat.
China’s Children May Become The Drivers Of Environmental Change
The world’s eyes on China’s pollution will continue to act as a key force in influencing how bold government policies to cut pollution are in the future, but internal discontent will ring louder and resonate more.
Watching The Rising Tides Along North Carolina’s Coast
Professor Robert Young with North Carolina Public Radio host Frank Stasio, discussing the consequences of climate change and how rising sea levels have a strong effect on the beaches of North Carolina.
Coastal States Are Preparing The Most For Climate Change: A Study
The Columbia Center for Climate Change Law released a report showing that land-locked states are doing the least to prepare for climate change, while many coastal states vulnerable to sea level rise and storm surges are doing the most to prepare.
Reprieve For Whales At Risk From Oil Platform
Across the globe the world’s most extraordinary places and rare species are coming increasingly under threat from oil and gas exploration activities. In a victory for conservationists, an oil platform planned near the habitat of a critically endangered whale population has been postponed for at least five years.
Sea Level Rise in Metro Miami, Video
Prepared as part of the High Water Line | Miami project/movement, this video depicts sea level rise in greater metropolitan Miami at one-foot intervals, ranging from one foot to ten feet.
Cops Believe Illegal Sand-Mining Operation Had Huge Reach
A police operation recently uncovered a multimillion-dollar illegal sand mining site in St Catherine, Jamaica.