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Oil and gas companies were the worst of all sectors for underreporting emissions, according to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. (Photo: fotorince - stock.adobe.com)

9 November 2022

Oil and gas greenhouse emissions ‘three times higher’ than producers claim

Fiona Harvey in Sharm el-Sheikh Courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd. Climate Trace reports half of 50 largest sources of greenhouse gas are oil…

Global warming

Oil and gas companies were the worst of all sectors for underreporting emissions, according to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. (Photo: fotorince - stock.adobe.com)

9 November 2022

Oil and gas greenhouse emissions ‘three times higher’ than producers claim

No, the good cop/bad cop Hollywood trope has nothing to do with the climate emergency, but this year's intergovernmental gathering on climate change, COP 27, may finally result in meaningful change. Pictured above, Russell Crowe restrains Guy Pearce in L.A. Confidential.

6 November 2022

Good COP, bad COP — but not the Hollywood trope

Researchers have newly estimated how Earth's global mean surface temperature (GMST) will continue rising, albeit relatively briefly, even if all greenhouse gas emissions suddenly stop. The graph's thick dashed line represents the expected extra 0.2 degrees Celsius rise in GMST, followed by a sharp decline, indicating even more cooling with the cessation of all GHG emissions. Previous research focused only on carbon dioxide emissions (dotted line). The orange line reflects a rising GMST if emissions continue under a moderate business-as-usual scenario.

25 August 2022

More global heating ‘baked in’ than previously thought, but so is more cooling, new research finds

Global scorching

The latest book about the climate emergency highlights how the weakening Gulf Stream, which carries a prodigious amount of heat from the tropics to the seas around Europe, could collapse and trigger powerful winter storms.

30 July 2022

In new climate book, Hothouse Earth, scientist warns worst is yet to come

The 1974 holiday classic "The Year Without a Santa Claus" introduced us to Mother Nature's incorrigible son, Heat Miser, who controlled hot weather on Earth. But the rapidly increasing heating resulting from ever-rising greenhouse gas emissions is no laughing matter, as humanity careens toward more extreme weather events faster than expected.

9 May 2022

Global scorching ahead of schedule. Well done, humanity.

The 2013 Alder Fire (pictured above) in Yellowstone National Park was one of five at the time caused by lightning strikes and fueled by warmer and drier weather and spread by strong winds. Lightning is attributed to 55 percent of burned acreage between 2016 and 2020. In 2020, California's largest fires were caused by lightning.

8 May 2021

How climate and wildfire risk are linked

Alternative energy

In a scene from the docuseries "Meltdown: Three Mile Island," CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite reports on the pending nuclear disaster in central Pennsylvania that came shockingly close to a "China syndrome" meltdown, and required a 14-year clean-up operation.

7 May 2022

Is nuclear power safe enough to be part of our non-carbon future?

Norway's Havyard Group ASA is filling 13 orders for zero-emission ferries received since 2016 (Photo: Carina Johansen/Bloomberg)

14 March 2018

Batteries a clean energy solution for shipping

For every one bird killed by a wind turbine, fossil fuel-powered plants kill 2,188 birds. (Photo: David Clarke)

8 March 2018

Wind farms least threat to birds

Marine life

A SCUBA diver approaches corals in the Great Barrier Reef, which lost more than half of its coral between 1995 and 2017 due to bleaching events and other stressors.

25 June 2022

Saving the Great Barrier Reef from ourselves: a case study

Biodiversity -- and carbon -- abound in a kelp forest.

3 July 2020

How sea otters are good for the climate and other things

The orca Tahlequah grieved the death of her calf for 17 days and 1,000 miles.

19 June 2019

Time for a Puget Sound Bill of Rights

Pollution

New research confirms Dr. King's declaration that segregation is bad for our health.

4 April 2018

Pollution discriminates: worse in segregated areas, research shows

The River Tame, near Manchester, U.K., has the highest microplastic pollution yet discovered anywhere in the world.

12 March 2018

Microplastic pollution in ocean numbers beyond trillions

6 March 2018

How plastic pollution harms marine life

Available now: The Climate Book

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