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Highly unusual upward trends in rapidly intensifying Atlantic hurricanes are caused by global warming
Environment | Feb 15 2019 10:44104
Global insect population faces “catastrophic” collapse – “If we destroy the basis of the ecosystem, which are the insects, then we destroy all the other animals that rely on them for a food source”
Environment | Feb 15 2019 10:0325
GoFundMe: Protect the National Butterfly Center from Trump border wall – $82K of $100K goal raised
Environment | Feb 12 2019 18:4420
U.S. wealth concentration returns to levels not seen since the Roaring Twenties – The 400 richest Americans own more than bottom 150 million – “For the rich, wealth begets power”
Environment | Feb 12 2019 11:0225
Lawmakers tell Pentagon: Revise and resubmit your climate-change report
Environment | Feb 12 2019 09:4429
New study establishes link between climate change, conflict, and migration – “In a context of poor governance and a medium level of democracy, severe climate conditions can create conflict over scarce resources”
Environment | Feb 12 2019 09:0327
Could climate change make it harder to get insurance in Australia? “There's $88 billion at risk in terms of damage from coastal erosion in Australia”
Environment | Feb 12 2019 09:0318
2018 fourth warmest year in continued warming trend, according to NASA, NOAA – The past five years are, collectively, the warmest years in the modern record
Environment | Feb 11 2019 21:02410
Colombia’s disaster-ridden hydropower project runs second largest river dry – “The greatest environmental crime that has ever happened in Colombia”
Environment | Feb 11 2019 21:02405
Huge ice chunks break off New Zealand glacier – “We’ve got skyscraper-size icebergs floating around on the lake”
Environment | Feb 11 2019 19:44170
1.4 million Puerto Ricans face deep cuts in food aid without federal action – Trump administration calls funding “excessive and unnecessary”
Environment | Feb 11 2019 19:4454
Calls for emergency action plan as myrtle rust pushes Australia plants to extinction – “That extinction is the end point of millions of years of evolution so, to me, that’s pretty profound”
Environment | Feb 11 2019 19:4444
The anti-vaxx movement is a worldwide pandemic – “Parents need to understand that vaccines save lives”
Environment | Feb 11 2019 19:0239
Trump chooses David Bernhardt, a former oil lobbyist, to head the Interior Department – “David Bernhardt is the most dangerous man in America for endangered species and public lands”
Environment | Feb 11 2019 19:0230
National Butterfly Center to file restraining order to stop Trump border wall construction
Environment | Feb 07 2019 09:0328
Trump State of the Union 2019: “The leaders of men conceived of their most desperate strategy yet”
Environment | Feb 06 2019 19:44104
The glaring hole in Trump’s address: Climate change – “Trump and, more to the point, the fossil fuel interests whose bidding he is doing, have weaponized the public’s poor understanding of science”
Environment | Feb 06 2019 17:0233
The retreat of global democracy stopped in 2018 – Or has it just paused?
Environment | Feb 04 2019 20:2319
Crocodile Warning Issued as Australia City Faces “Unprecedented Areas of Flooding” – Authorities Deliberately Flood 2,000 Queensland Homes After Record Downpours
Environment | Feb 04 2019 18:23227
U.S. prepares to build part of Trump border wall through National Butterfly Center and Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge
Environment | Feb 04 2019 17:0248
Greta Thunberg: “When I say that I want you to panic, I mean that we need to treat the crisis as a crisis”
Environment | Feb 04 2019 09:4441
Youth climate protests spread through Belgium in fourth week – “It’s you who decided … it’s us who will suffer”
Environment | Feb 03 2019 16:2340
January was officially Australia’s hottest month on record – “The exceptional story here was temperature: maximum temperatures, minimum temperatures, and mean temperatures, and those records go back to 1910”
Environment | Feb 03 2019 10:2332
What a burning world tells us about climate change – “The devastation of human life is in view”
Environment | Feb 03 2019 10:2324
Study says sea level may be rising faster than thought – “We need to completely rethink how we measure sea-level rise in rapidly subsiding coastal lowlands”
Environment | Feb 02 2019 11:4435
America conquest cooled Earth’s climate – The Great Dying of the indigenous peoples of the Americas contributed to the Little Ice Age
Environment | Feb 02 2019 11:4431
Historic flooding in Australia to continue, worsen across Queensland into the new week – “Unprecedented” rainfall drives Daintree River level to break 118-year record
Environment | Feb 02 2019 11:0260
Researchers examine political divide behind climate change beliefs – “This is a depressing scenario for those hoping to get movement on climate change opinions”
Environment | Jan 31 2019 10:2333
Trump tweeted “we need” global warming to deal with record cold temperatures. Here’s why that doesn’t make sense
Environment | Jan 30 2019 09:4443
Monarch butterfly numbers plummet 86 percent in California – “It’s been the worst year we’ve ever seen”
Environment | Jan 29 2019 17:4436
Japan’s squid industry in crisis amid record low catches
Environment | Jan 29 2019 09:4434
Counting the cost of the 2018 heatwave in New Zealand
Environment | Jan 29 2019 09:4430
Decreasing snow cover causes increasing methane production in frozen lakes
Environment | Jan 28 2019 10:2415
Germany sets 2038 deadline to end coal use
Environment | Jan 28 2019 10:2425
Climate tipping point could be coming sooner than we think – “Should the land reach a maximum carbon uptake rate, global warming could accelerate”
Environment | Jan 27 2019 15:0249
“To their faces,” 16-year-old Greta Thunberg tells Davos elite that climate crisis their fault – “I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.”
Environment | Jan 27 2019 09:4475
Miners, environmentalists protest outside German coal talks
Environment | Jan 25 2019 09:4514
Earth’s 39 billion-dollar weather disasters of 2018: 4th-costliest on record
Environment | Jan 24 2019 20:2324
Image of the Day: Mass death of feral horses at dried-up waterhole in record Australia heatwave – “I just couldn’t believe something like that happened out here, first time it happened like that”
Environment | Jan 24 2019 19:4483
Brazil’s government may push the Amazon to destruction
Environment | Jan 24 2019 19:4426
Electric cars will not stop rising oil demand, says energy agency chief
Environment | Jan 24 2019 19:0220
Study finds aerosol cooling effect on climate nearly two times higher than previously thought – “The warming effect of the greenhouse gases has also been larger than we thought, enabling greenhouse-gas emissions to overcome the cooling effect of aerosols”
Environment | Jan 24 2019 10:2327
Public health emergency declared over measles in anti-vax hotspot near Portland, Oregon
Environment | Jan 24 2019 09:4592
Adelaide breaks its all-time heat record, hitting 46.6C, in extreme Australia heatwave – 2,500 camels dying of thirst shot
Environment | Jan 24 2019 09:02323
More animal species under threat of extinction, new method shows
Environment | Jan 21 2019 12:2323
AP fact check: Trump’s murky claims on weather and global warming
Environment | Jan 21 2019 11:0218
Drilling toward disaster: Why U.S. oil and gas expansion Is incompatible with climate limits – “The U.S. is moving further and faster than any other country to expand oil and gas extraction”
Environment | Jan 21 2019 11:0223
Tamino: The Oz heat distribution – In Alice Springs, “the number of very hot days each year (100°F or hotter) has nearly tripled” since early 20th century
Environment | Jan 20 2019 15:4425
2018 Was the Fourth Costliest Year Since 1980 in Terms of Insured Losses – Camp Fire in California Caused Highest Overall Wildfire Loss on Record
Environment | Jan 20 2019 15:02102
World Economic Forum Posts “Global Risks Report 2019” – In the “Age of Anger”, a Tremendous Increase in Mutual Hatred
Environment | Jan 20 2019 12:23131
Records show 100 percent of Texas coal power plants contaminating groundwater – “We found contamination everywhere we looked, poisoning groundwater aquifers and recreational fishing spots across the state”
Environment | Jan 20 2019 11:0237
Antarctic sea ice dips to record-low extent for early January
Environment | Jan 19 2019 12:2327
Davos climate obsessions contain clues for policymaking – The environment has replaced the economy and finance on the global elite’s worry list
Environment | Jan 19 2019 11:4427
The hottest 15 places in the world today are all in Australia as record heatwave rages on – Thousands of flying foxes dead – “One of the worst things is in the aftermath and you hear the mums calling out for their pups”
Environment | Jan 18 2019 19:02929
New global study reveals rising soil temperatures in permafrost regions around the world – “The permafrost isn’t simply warming on a local and regional scale, but worldwide and at virtually the same pace as climate warming”
Environment | Jan 17 2019 19:0241
Washington Governor Jay Inslee uses State of the State address to urge action on climate change – “This is the eleventh hour, but it is Washington state’s hour to shine”
Environment | Jan 16 2019 10:2324
Protesters disrupt confirmation hearing of proposed EPA head during Trump shutdown – Bernie Sanders grills Andrew Wheeler on climate science
Environment | Jan 16 2019 10:2322
Fixing the environment: when solutions become problems
Environment | Jan 16 2019 09:4425
U.S. forces employees to work on oil-drilling land sales during Trump government shutdown – “A government that prioritizes fossil fuel industry profits at all costs, while American families are left out in the cold”
Environment | Jan 16 2019 09:4428
To those who think we can reform our way out of the climate crisis
Environment | Jan 16 2019 09:0225
PG&E’s bankruptcy could slow California’s fight against climate change – “This is going to put the entire state of California at risk”
Environment | Jan 16 2019 09:0231
Scientists observe bottom-up trophic cascade as rainforest insect populations collapse – “It is just horrifying to watch us decimate the natural world like this”
Environment | Jan 16 2019 08:2326
Australia extreme heatwave continues – “code red” issued as Port Augusta hits 48.9C – Sydney is hottest place on Earth
Environment | Jan 15 2019 10:2462
Massive fish kill in Australia – Up to a million fish in Murray-Darling Basin have perished in algae bloom – “It’s a devastating ecological event”
Environment | Jan 15 2019 09:4437
Antarctica losing six times more ice mass annually now than 40 years ago – “We expect multi-meter sea level rise from Antarctica in the coming centuries”
Environment | Jan 14 2019 20:2345
The mysterious life (and death) of Africa’s oldest trees
Environment | Jan 14 2019 12:2426
Americans’ health at risk as shutdown slashes EPA – “It’s a nightmare”
Environment | Jan 14 2019 12:2423
The climate papers most featured in the media in 2018
Environment | Jan 14 2019 12:2414
Visitors chainsaw iconic Joshua trees in U.S. national park – “What’s going on at Joshua Tree National Park is a travesty to this nation”
Environment | Jan 14 2019 10:03338
Interview with climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe – “A thermometer is not liberal or conservative”
Environment | Jan 14 2019 10:0338
A brief guide to David Bernhardt, Ryan Zinke’s replacement at the Interior Department – Three things to know about the former oil lobbyist who’s now acting Interior secretary
Environment | Jan 14 2019 10:0336
Global warming of oceans equivalent to an atomic bomb per second – Total heat taken up by oceans over the past 150 years was 1,000 times the annual energy use of the entire global population
Environment | Jan 14 2019 10:0251
U.S. had world’s three costliest natural disasters in 2018, and California’s Camp Fire was the worst – “Such massive wildfires appear to be occurring more frequently as a result of climate change”
Environment | Jan 14 2019 10:0232
Policymakers are not adequately factoring land use and human diets into climate mitigation strategies – “The fundamental problem is that policymakers and researchers have not truly confronted the fact that global land area is limited”
Environment | Jan 14 2019 10:0226
Sushi king pays record $3.1m for endangered bluefin tuna in Japan, more than double the price five years ago
Environment | Jan 10 2019 12:2332
In climate change fight, Brazil owes nothing, minister says
Environment | Jan 10 2019 10:0223
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte wants state auditors “kidnapped, tortured”
Environment | Jan 10 2019 10:0225
U.S. carbon emissions surged in 2018 even as coal plants closed – “We haven’t yet successfully decoupled U.S. emissions growth from economic growth”
Environment | Jan 09 2019 11:0441
Millions of tons of debris from California’s Camp fire needs to go somewhere — but no one wants it
Environment | Jan 09 2019 11:0326
Democrats renew push to investigate Trump’s Hurricane Maria response in Puerto Rico
Environment | Jan 09 2019 11:0316
Trump says he’s cutting off FEMA money for California fires
Environment | Jan 09 2019 11:03289
Data mining adds evidence that war is baked into the structure of society – “There is little evidence that humankind is progressing toward a more peaceful world”
Environment | Jan 07 2019 16:4429
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Exxon Mobil appeal in climate case
Environment | Jan 07 2019 12:0337
Journalists reporting on the environment faced increased dangers in 2018
Environment | Jan 06 2019 10:4424
Devastating Wildfires Force California’s Largest Utility to Plan Sale of Gas Assets
Environment | Jan 06 2019 10:44216
Antarctic sea ice is “astonishingly” low this melt season
Environment | Jan 05 2019 12:4447
Former U.S. Interior Secretary says national park visitors should “grab a trash bag”
Environment | Jan 05 2019 10:4436
One dead in Tropical Storm Pabuk, most powerful storm to hit Thailand in 30 years and first tropical cyclone on record so early in the year
Environment | Jan 05 2019 10:4451
Worst mass extinction event in Earth’s history was caused by global warming analogous to current climate crisis
Environment | Jan 04 2019 10:4527
The audacious plan to clean plastics from the Pacific Ocean has broken down
Environment | Jan 04 2019 10:4429
U.S. national debt rises $2 trillion under Trump
Environment | Jan 04 2019 10:4424
Thousands stranded on Thai islands as rare tropical storm hits – “It’s quite scary being here because we don’t know what’s going to happen and there is no way to leave”
Environment | Jan 04 2019 10:4437
All-time U.S. precipitation records in 2018 – Five states and 24 cities had wettest year on record
Environment | Jan 04 2019 10:4425
Methane release from beneath Greenland’s melting ice sheet rivals major world rivers
Environment | Jan 03 2019 14:2352
Amazon deforestation increase continued in November 2018 – Deforestation was four times higher than in November 2017
Environment | Jan 02 2019 12:0322
Brazil’s new far-right government issues decrees across sectors – Indigenous land claims handed over to Agriculture Ministry
Environment | Jan 02 2019 12:0337
Can a Democrat win the U.S. presidency on climate change? “We have two existential threats right now: one is to our natural systems, and one is to our economic systems”
Environment | Jan 02 2019 12:0225
Jordan to drill fossil water wells a half-mile underground – “After this, we are out of chances”
Environment | Jan 01 2019 20:44129
Doomiest images of 2018
Environment | Jan 01 2019 18:44487
Doomiest graphs of 2018
Environment | Dec 31 2018 16:02119
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