Reduced Sea Ice Disturbs Balance of Greenhouse Gases
The widespread reduction in Arctic sea ice is causing significant changes to the balance of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This is shown in a new study conducted by researchers from Lund University in Sweden, among others.
Filipino Super-Typhoon An Ominous Warning Of Climate Change Impact
Philippines is having to adapt and adjust to rapidly deteriorating climatic trends at a great cost to its economy
Tribal Farmers Fall Back on Ancient Wisdom
While tens of thousands of Indian farmers succumb to the pressures of debt, hunger and poverty, members of the Bhumia tribe are simply falling back on a 3,000-year-old agricultural system, utilizing sustainable farming practices to counter the impacts of deforestation and climate change.
Islands Want UN To See Climate As Security Threat
The Marshall Islands and other low-lying island nations appealed to the U.N. Security Council to recognize climate change as an international security threat that jeopardizes their very survival.
Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks
Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science.
EPA Releases First Climate Adaptation Plan
For the first time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has publicly released a draft plan on how the department’s programmes will adapt to global warming, in a move that could lay additional groundwork for important new emissions rulemaking the agency may announce in coming months.
Windfarms Break Energy Record In Spain
Over the last three months wind farms produced more electricity than any other power source in Spain for the first time ever.
The Scariest Environmental Fact in the World
As the data show, China is now burning almost as much coal as the rest of the world, combined. And despite impressive support from Beijing for renewable energy and a dawning understanding about the dangers of air pollution, coal use in China is poised to continue rising, if slower than it has in recent years…
The Unwelcome Renaissance
Europe’s energy policy delivers the worst of all possible worlds…