The dominant influence on Earth’s climate & environment is human activity fuelled by the world energy system. This has been identified as a unique geological…Continue readingIntroduction
The Anthropocene
Heavy rains in Iran have set off flash floods and landslides in 21 of the country’s 31 provinces, killing at least 53 people, heavily damaging…Continue readingHeavy Rain Causes Deadly Flooding Across Iran
Moscow-based integrated energy company Rosneft has started production drilling at the Payakhskoye field on the Taimyr Peninsula in Russia. The field is part of Rosneft’s…Continue readingRosneft starts production drilling at Payakhskoye field in Russia
Wintershall Dea and its partners Sval Energi and Pandion Energy Norge have started production from the Nova oil field (previously Skarfjell) located in the Norwegian…Continue readingWintershall Dea begins production from Nova oil field, offshore Norway
A team of researchers have found that the global forest area has declined by 81.7 million hectares from 1960 to 2019, equivalent to an area…Continue readingNew study finds global forest area has declined by 81 million hectares from 1960 to 2019
Mangroves are enormously valuable coastal ecosystems. Healthy mangrove ecosystems not only buffer shorelines against rising sea levels, but they also provide valuable protection against erosion,…Continue readingClimate change killed 40 million Australian mangroves in 2015. Here’s why they’ll probably never grow back
In the last two years, fires have consumed nearly 20% of them, according to the Forest Service. In Kings Canyon, hundreds of giant sequoias have…Continue readingGiant Sequoias Are Built to Withstand Fire, But Not These Fires
The 127-gram hatchling was found lying on its back in a rockpool near Sydney’s Tamarama beach. It was missing one of its four flippers, had…Continue readingTurtle pooed ‘pure plastic’ for six days after rescue from Sydney beach
Illegal ivory poaching once posed a significant threat to Kenya’s elephants. But now the giants of the animal kingdom are facing an even bigger risk:…Continue readingClimate change is killing more elephants than poaching
BP reported a profit of $8.5 billion for its second quarter on Tuesday, its biggest windfall in 14 years. Just days earlier, the two largest…Continue readingBP profits highest in 14 years, raking in $8.5 billion
The nation’s biggest oil companies — ExxonMobil and Chevron — saw their profits roughly triple in the second-quarter. On Friday, Exxon reported net income of…Continue readingExxon, Chevron post blockbuster profits on oil price boom
The UK-headquartered group, Europe’s largest oil company, reported adjusted earnings of $11.5 billion in the second three months of the year, breaking the record $9.1…Continue readingShell reports record profits on surging oil and gas prices
The Ghasha gas project is located on the north-western shore of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is developing…Continue readingADNOC Drilling wins $2 billion worth of contracts for Ghasha mega-project
The more than 4,000km (2,485 mile) long onshore gas pipeline is planned to start in Warri in Nigeria, travel through Niger, and end in Hassi…Continue readingAlgeria, Nigeria, and Niger sign MoU for $13 billion Trans Saharan gas pipeline
Supporters of Australia’s coal export industry have been arguing for the past decade that global greenhouse gas emissions would go up if overseas customers had…Continue readingAustralian Prime Minister parrots a pro-coal talking point as Ampol offers ‘carbon neutral’ petrol
Japan has begun restarting nuclear plants that have been idle since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledging to get at least…Continue readingAsia goes nuclear
The $2.17 billion Hunutlu coal fired power plant is the largest foreign direct investment in Turkey by China. Despite the efforts of campaigners, and several…Continue readingTurkey’s new power plant exposes ‘huge contradictions’ of net zero pledge
More than 900 million Chinese, about 65% of the population, are living under some kind of heat warning. Temperatures have reached, or exceeded, the highs…Continue readingHotter, Longer and More Widespread Heat Waves Scorch China
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Labor will not support a moratorium on fossil fuel projects. “That’s not in our policy and we won’t be…Continue readingAustralian Prime Minister rules out banning fossil fuel projects
INPEX CORPORATION (INPEX) announced it has signed a statement of commitment to a net zero emissions future with the government of Australia’s Northern Territory, where…Continue readingINPEX gas company and Northern Territory Government sign statement of commitment to a net zero emissions future
GAZ-SYSTEM said that the Baltic Pipe project, a 900km long offshore and onshore natural gas pipeline has been connected to the Polish and Danish transmission…Continue readingGAZ-SYSTEM connects Baltic Pipe to Polish and Danish transmission systems
The health of Australia’s environment is poor and has deteriorated over the past five years due to pressures of climate change, habitat loss, invasive species,…Continue readingAustralia State of the Environment Report
Oil and gas giant Woodside Energy been given the green light to operate the North West Shelf gas processing facility on the Burrup peninsula, in…Continue readingFifty-year extension for Australia’s biggest CO₂ emitter
In its State of the Climate report for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) for 2021, the WMO said ecosystems, food and water, human health…Continue readingBattered by climate change, Latin America must brace for worse
At a sprawling landfill near Madrid, hundreds of white storks dodge garbage trucks as they look for scraps of food among the mountains of multicoloured…Continue readingStorks give up migrating to live on landfill in Spain
Italy faced the hottest day of the current heatwave Friday with red extreme heat warnings issued for 16 cities across the country, as firefighters battled…Continue readingItaly heatwave peaks with 16 cities on red alert as Tuscany burns
China’s year-old carbon market has given more than 2,000 power plants a taste of emissions trading, but design flaws and data fraud have meant limited…Continue readingA year on, China’s CO₂ market fails to drive big emission cuts
India’s thermal coal imports hit a monthly record in June of 20.9 million tonnes, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government called for increased purchases in…Continue readingGautam Adani ramps up share of coal imports as power crisis grips India
A heat wave that brought record temperatures to Britain and parts of France swelled over Central Europe. The toll from a heat dome is rising,…Continue readingBrutal heat dome moves east, with Central Europe sweltering
In the 2000s, Le Quéré was a lead author of the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won a Nobel Peace Prize.…Continue readingCorinne Le Quéré: ‘Could we just adapt to climate change? The answer is no’
Wildfires and heatwaves wreaking havoc across swathes of the globe show humanity facing “collective suicide”, the UN secretary general has warned. António Guterres told ministers…Continue readingHumanity faces ‘collective suicide’
In the first quarter of 2022, Chinese regulators gave the green light to coal plants with a total capacity of 8.63 gigawatts. That is nearly…Continue readingChina speeding up approvals for new coal plants
As dawn breaks over Javed Rahi’s mountain village, a loud boom shatters the silence and a torrent of water comes cascading down from the melting…Continue readingConcerns as Pakistan glaciers melt
Kenya’s remote Marsabit County, in the far north near the border with Ethiopia, is the land of pastoralists. The region has been dubbed the “Cradle…Continue reading‘Everything is dry’- The droughts putting Kenya’s herding cultures at risk
The maximum temperature reached Tuesday in Coningsby, England — 130 miles (209km) north of London — was unlike anything the village had ever observed. It…Continue readingBritain’s freakish heat demolished records
US president Joe Biden said he expected Saudi Arabia to take “further steps” to increase the supply of oil in the “coming weeks” following a…Continue readingBiden expects Saudi Arabia to take ‘further steps’ to boost oil supply
Mongolia expects Russia to begin construction of the “Power of Siberia 2” gas pipeline through its territory to China within two years, as Moscow moves…Continue readingMongolia says Russia-China gas pipeline will break ground in 2024
In 2015, French oil giant TotalEnergies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the governments of Uganda…Continue readingOil drilling to go ahead in Ugandan park despite threat to nature
The migratory monarch butterfly, a North American icon with a continent-spanning annual journey, now faces the threat of extinction. Thursday’s decision by the International Union…Continue readingWhy monarch butterflies, now endangered, are on the ‘edge of collapse’
In the years ahead, sea level rise, more intense storm surge and jacked-up tropical storms will be visiting many of the world’s roughly 3,800 ports.…Continue readingRising Seas Are the Next Crisis for the World’s Ports
No organism on Earth is known to live as long as the Great Basin bristlecone pine. The oldest documented tree, a well-hidden specimen nicknamed “Methuselah,”…Continue readingScientists rush to save 1,000-year-old trees on the brink of death
The Met Office has issued its first ever extreme heat weather red warning for next week across much of England as temperatures hit levels during…Continue readingMet Office issues first ever red warning for extreme heat in England
France, Portugal and Spain are among the European countries particularly affected, with temperatures of more than 45˚C (113˚F) recorded during a heatwave that is also…Continue readingFirefighters tackle southern Europe wildfires as heatwave passes 45˚C
In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report (Assessment Report 5; AR5) concluded that Northern Hemisphere temperatures had reached levels unprecedented in at…Continue readingTechnical Note:Past and future warming – direct comparison on multi-century timescales
Hungary’s government has declared an “energy emergency” in response to supply disruptions and skyrocketing energy prices in Europe, an official said. There is “unlikely to…Continue readingHungary declares ‘energy emergency’ over threat of fuel shortages
United States: In Texas, temperatures hit triple digits Fahrenheit over the weekend, with some places breaking century-old records. On Saturday, Waco reached 108˚F (42˚C), smashing…Continue readingHeatwaves in the US, China and Spain
Deforestation of the Amazon hit a new record during the first half of 2022. Satellite data showed more than 3,980 square kilometers, an area five…Continue readingAmazon deforestation hits six-year high in Brazil
While 425 square kilometres of land lie within the probable maximum flood in the Hawkesbury-Nepean valley, it has also long been identified as fertile for…Continue reading‘Stark raving, barking mad’: experts question the building of homes below ‘worst-case’ flood levels in western Sydney
New Fortress Energy (NFE) has signed a deal to sell 11 liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure vessels to a joint venture (JV) it will form…Continue readingNew Fortress Energy to sell 11 LNG vessels to JV with Apollo for $2bn
Under the plans, gas can be classed as a sustainable investment if “the same energy capacity cannot be generated with renewable sources” and plans are…Continue readingEU votes to class gas and nuclear as green
Salmon famously travel hundreds of miles upstream to reach their home waters to spawn, but climate change is shrinking their destination. A new study offers…Continue readingClimate change is shrinking and fragmenting salmon habitat
Restoring degraded environments, such as by planting trees, is often touted as a solution to the climate crisis. But our new research shows this, while…Continue readingNature restoration no substitute for cutting fossil fuels
From ocean depths to mountain peaks, humans have littered the planet with tiny shards of plastic. We have even absorbed these microplastics into our bodies—with…Continue reading‘They’re everywhere’: microplastics in oceans, air and human body
A potent weather system near Australia’s east coast has unloaded tremendous rainfall in the state of New South Wales for days, putting Sydney on track…Continue readingAustralia flood, boosted by climate change, making history in Sydney
Italy is facing an unusually early heatwave and a lack of rainfall, particularly in the northern agricultural Po valley, which has been hit by its…Continue readingItaly declares state of emergency in five regions over drought
Almost a quarter of the world’s population are exposed to significant flood risks, according to new research published Tuesday, which warned those in poorer countries…Continue readingNearly 1 in 4 globally at risk from severe flooding
Millions of native animals, including wallabies, green rosellas, cockatoos and wombats have been killed in Tasmania, Australia, under property protection permits. In Tasmania, landowners can…Continue readingMillions of native animals killed under Tasmania’s property protection permits
One of the world’s biggest gliding mammals – the once common greater glider – has been pushed closer to extinction and is now officially endangered.…Continue readingGreater glider now endangered as logging, bushfires and global heating hit numbers
Unless urgent action is taken, emissions are expected to cause the planet to continue heating rapidly over the next few decades, prompting the global average…Continue readingEven temporarily overshooting 2°C would cause permanent damage to Earth’s species
The proposed program for offshore drilling between 2023 and 2028 would ban exploration off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. But by leaving the possibility for…Continue readingBiden opens door to more offshore drilling, despite earlier climate vow
Shell has become the latest international partner in the expansion of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Qatar as global demand for…Continue readingShell signs up to Qatar project as LNG demand booms
The WA Environment Protection Authority (EPA) advised the state government it should give the greenlight to oil and gas giant Woodside Energy to run its…Continue readingWestern Australia’s EPA urges 50-year extension of country’s most polluting gas project
A new analysis of observed temperatures shows the Arctic is heating up more than four times faster than the rate of global warming. The trend…Continue readingArctic temperatures are increasing four times faster than global warming
Japan is enduring one of its worst heat waves on record, raising concern about potential power shortages amid surging demand, even as officials urged people…Continue readingJapan Swelters Through a Punishing Heat Wave
Rome tied its hottest temperature on record, while several other Italian cities set monthly records – Rome hit its highest reliable temperature recorded at 105˚F…Continue readingHeat wave sweeps Northern Hemisphere
Queensland has granted environmental approval to a plan to expand an open-cut coalmine near Toowoomba and extend its life for another 12 years, in a…Continue readingAustralian Queensland state government gives environmental approval to coalmine expansion
Millions in Assam have been affected by the floods since heavy pre-monsoon rains first hit the region last month, inundating large parts of the valley.…Continue reading‘All is lost’: Floods in India’s Assam leave trail of destruction
Most rain on the Iberian peninsula (most of Spain and Portugal, as well as a small area of Southern France, Andorra, and Gibraltar) falls in…Continue readingSpain and Portugal suffering driest climate for 1,200 years
Scientists have been able quickly to prove that record-breaking temperatures are no natural occurrence. A study published last month showed that the south Asian heatwave…Continue readingBurning planet
Scientists estimate that Australia’s east coast estuaries are warming four times faster than anywhere else in the world. Prof Maria Byrne from the Sydney Institute…Continue readingExperts warn the NSW South Coast marine environment is undergoing a ‘dynamic state of change’
Land clearing in New South Wales (NSW), Australia continues to exceed the long-term average. 51,400 hectares (127,012 acres) of woody vegetation was cleared across the…Continue readingEmissions warning: calls to stop ‘skyrocketing’ land clearing in NSW
The US supreme court has sided with Republican-led states to in effect hobble the federal government’s ability to tackle the climate crisis. In a 6-3…Continue readingUS supreme court rules against EPA and hobbles government power to limit harmful emissions
In 2021, worldwide emissions from making cement for buildings, roads and other infrastructure hit nearly 2.6GtCO₂ (billion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide), which is more…Continue readingCement carbon dioxide emissions double in 20 years
US liquefied natural gas (LNG) producers have announced a string of deals to boost exports. Cheniere Energy, the biggest American exporter, said it had reached…Continue readingUS gas exporters sign flurry of deals
When the U.S. Forest Service started an intentional fire in the Santa Fe National Forest in early April, the aim was to reduce the risk…Continue readingForest Service says it failed to account for climate change in New Mexico blaze
In a study just released in the journal Communications Earth and Environment, Dr. Armineh Barkhordarian confirms that this systematic warming pool is not the result…Continue readingSystematic warming pool discovered in the Pacific due to human activities
Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in southern China, according to state media, amid floods and landslides triggered by the…Continue readingHundreds of thousands evacuated in China amid heavy rains, floods
Experts say the catastrophic rain-triggered floods, which submerged large part of the country’s northern and northeastern areas, are an outcome of climate change. Saiful Islam,…Continue readingBangladesh floods: Experts say climate crisis worsening situation
Floodwaters have inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India, officials say, as authorities struggle to reach more than 9.5 million people stranded with little food…Continue readingBangladesh, India floods kill over 100; millions in need of aid
Niger is on the frontline of the climate crisis. Increasingly erratic rainfall and longer dry seasons mean that many parts of the country have not…Continue readingNiger is in the eye of the climate crisis – and children are starving
The Netherlands said it would lift all restrictions on power stations fired by the fossil fuel, which were previously limited to just over a third…Continue readingDutch join Germany, Austria, in reverting to coal
Germany will significantly increase its use of coal to preserve energy supplies ahead of the winter, as Russian cuts to gas exports threaten shortfalls in…Continue readingGermany fires up coal plants to avert gas shortage as Russia cuts supply
Firefighters in Spain and Germany are struggling to contain wildfires amid a heatwave in Western Europe, unusual for this time of year. The worst damage…Continue readingSpain, Germany battle wildfires amid unusual heatwave in Europe
In just more than two decades, the continent has experienced its five hottest summers since 1500. 2021: Hottest ever Last year was Europe’s hottest summer…Continue readingEurope’s five hottest summers since 1500
In the shallow waters and seagrass meadow of Spain’s Ebro delta, there are almost no solid surfaces for creatures to latch on to. That’s where…Continue readingMollusc mass mortality event
The historic drought in the western United States is about to get worse. Much of the West is already experiencing severe to exceptional drought, but…Continue readingThese maps illustrate the seriousness of the western drought in the U.S.
“China’s influence on coal markets is difficult to overstate”, says the International Energy Agency’s Coal 2021 report, which was published in mid-December China’s overall coal…Continue readingGlobal coal consumption: Spotlight on China’s consumption for power generation
Antarctic ice sheets are melting, the continent’s climate is changing, and the Southern Ocean is warming, becoming more acidic and losing oxygen. Locally, changing climates…Continue readingAntarctic is changing dramatically, with global consequences
A significant heat dome has been crowding weather maps over the Lower 48 states for the past week, bringing blistering temperatures that have toppled records.…Continue readingProlonged heat wave baking much of central, eastern Lower 48
Most people see Antarctica as a pristine, relatively untouched place, but a new study published today has revealed the presence of microplastics – plastic pieces…Continue readingFirst evidence of microplastics in Antarctic snow
Sea level rise will force the abandonment of about 200,000 coastal properties in England within 30 years, new data suggests, as the climate crisis takes…Continue readingSea level rise in England will force 200,000 to abandon homes
Global economic production – the world gross domestic product (GDP) – has been rising steadily relative to global primary energy demands, lending hope that technological…Continue readingHow does the distant past determine today’s global rate of energy consumption?
Iraq temporarily closed Baghdad airport Monday as choking clouds of dust blanketed the capital, the latest crippling sandstorm in a country that has warned climate…Continue readingIraq swept by tenth sandstorm in weeks
Climate change is slowing down the conveyor belt of ocean currents that brings warm water from the tropics up to the North Atlantic. Our research,…Continue readingA huge Atlantic ocean current is slowing down—if it collapses, La Niña could become the norm for Australia
QatarEnergy signed a partnership deal with TotalEnergies for the North Field East expansion of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, and said more…Continue readingQatarEnergy signs deal with TotalEnergies for North Field East
Tanzania has signed a framework agreement with Norway’s Equinor and Britain’s Shell that will bring them closer to starting construction on a $30 billion project…Continue readingTanzania signs natural gas deal with Equinor and Shell
Alberta’s producers — forced to contend with sub-zero oil prices just a couple of years ago — are using the windfall from $100 a barrel…Continue readingCanada’s oil sands: why some of the world’s dirtiest fuel is now in hot demand
Oil and gas is back in fashion — at least on the stock market. Soaring fossil fuel prices, pushed higher by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,…Continue readingOil and gas back in vogue for retail investors
Almost the whole of Portugal was in severe drought at the end of May. The month of May was the hottest in the southern European…Continue reading97% of Portugal in severe drought
A world severely blighted by plastic pollution is on track to see the use of plastics nearly triple in less than four decades. Even with…Continue readingGlobal plastic use and waste on track to triple by 2060
Carbon dioxide measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked for 2022 at 421 parts per million in May, pushing the atmosphere further into…Continue readingCarbon dioxide peak for 2022 more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels
Fueled by abnormally dry, warm conditions and spread by strong winds, wildfires have burned more than 600,000 acres across New Mexico this spring — making…Continue readingA ‘Perfect Recipe for Extreme Wildfire’:
New Mexico’s Record-Breaking, Early Fire Season
Coal prices are soaring, hitting $462 per tonne today, up from $186 on the 23rd of February and likely to pass $500 this year. Russia is Europe’s…Continue readingOld King Coal: price reaches highest level in more than 200 years, on track for $500
Muhammad Akbar, 40, sells dried chickpeas on a wheelbarrow in Jacobabad, and has suffered heatstroke three times in his life. But now, he says, the…Continue reading‘It seems this heat will take our lives’: Pakistan city fearful after hitting 51˚C (124˚F)
Basra, Iraq – Southern Iraq was once known as the “black land” – the vast swaths of palm trees blocking out everything else, and providing…Continue readingClimate change ravages Iraq as palm trees make way for desert
Venture Global LNG has said it will build one of the US’s largest new liquefied natural gas export plants on the Louisiana coast, the first…Continue readingVenture Global to build $13 billion LNG plant on US Gulf coast
The summer monsoon, which typically arrives in June and continues till September, is life and livelihood. More than 75% of India’s annual rainfall occurs during…Continue readingIn India, waiting for the monsoon
Four key climate change indicators—greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification—set new records in 2021. “It is just a matter of…Continue readingFour climate change records broken in 2021: WMO State of the Climate Report
In their effort to provide decision makers with insight into the consequences of climate change, climate researchers are bringing order to the large number of…Continue readingBringing order to the chaos of sea level projections
Iraq closed public buildings and temporarily shut airports Monday as another sandstorm—the ninth since mid-April—hit the country. More than 1,000 people were hospitalised across the…Continue readingIraq sandstorm grounds flights, sends 1,000 to hospitals
After two years of delays, governments had been scheduled to meet in Kunming, China, for COP15 in late April to negotiate this decade’s targets to…Continue reading‘Sleeping through extinction’: China urged to end delays to COP15 summit
The Finnish company said the move by Russia would not cause disruptions in supplies. “It is highly regrettable that natural gas supplies under our supply…Continue readingRussia to cut gas supplies to Finland on Saturday: Gasum
Qatar and Germany have signed a declaration to deepen their energy partnership, with a focus on trade in hydrogen and liquefied natural gas (LNG), as…Continue readingGermany, Qatar sign energy partnership agreement
The outgoing head of Australia’s offshore oil and gas regulator has helped hand out awards to fossil fuel companies, including Santos, Inpex and Beach Energy,…Continue readingAustralia’s oil and gas regulator criticised after chief hands out environmental ‘excellence’ awards at industry dinner
Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani are profiting from a surge in global commodity prices triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, burnishing their fossil-fuel credentials even…Continue readingCoal, oil price surges on Ukraine war make Asia’s richest richer
Brussels has given the green light for the EU to burn more coal over the next decade as it tries to end the use of…Continue readingEU accepts it will burn more coal in move away from Russian gas
Background (Nino neutral) global warming (relative to 1880-1920) is now at least 1.2°C (2.2°F) as a result of accelerated warming since 2015. What else is…Continue readingHotter Hotspots, Drier Dryspots, Wetter Wetspots, and Stronger Storms
America’s shale oil companies are enjoying a cash bonanza, as soaring oil prices and months of capital restraint transform the fortunes and balance sheets of…Continue readingUS shale companies enjoy ‘tsunami of cash’ on high oil prices
Australia’s tropical rainforest trees have being dying at double the previous rate since the 1980s, seemingly because of global heating, according to new research that…Continue readingAustralia’s tropical rainforests have been dying faster for decades in ‘clear and stark climate warning’
Sandstorms across the Middle East have delayed flights, closed schools and hospitalised thousands—a phenomenon experts say could worsen as climate change warps regional weather patterns.…Continue readingMideast sandstorms snarl traffic, close schools, harm health
Jacobabad in Pakistan’s arid Sindh province is in the grip of the latest heatwave to hit South Asia—peaking at 51˚C (124˚F). Canals in the city—a…Continue readingExtreme temperatures compound poverty in Pakistan’s hottest city
Pakistan is in the grip of a blistering heatwave, with parts of the nation already scorched by temperatures of nearly 50˚C (122˚F) as officials warn…Continue readingPakistan city hits nearly 50˚C (122˚F) as blistering heatwave grips nation
A new record for the highest daily level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been set this week, ringing alarm bells about the pace…Continue readingRecord carbon dioxide levels alarm scientists
A relentless heat wave has blanketed India and Pakistan since mid-March, causing dozens of deaths, fires, increased air pollution, and reduced crop yields. Weather forecasts…Continue readingNASA’s ECOSTRESS detects ‘heat islands’ in extreme Indian heat wave
If your house was burning down and the emergency services were not answering your call, what would you do? Would you try to put out…Continue readingThe Tories are going all out to shut down protest. Just Stop Oil activists like me will not be deterred
Humanity is “at a crossroads” when it comes to managing drought and accelerating mitigation must be done “urgently, using every tool we can,” says a…Continue readingWorld ‘at a crossroads’ in management of droughts, up 29% in a generation and worsening, reports the UN
Microplastics are being transported to some of the most remote places on Earth by the wind, according to new research involving the University of East…Continue readingHow microplastics in the air are polluting the most remote places on Earth
India has relaxed environmental compliance rules for coal mines seeking to ramp up production as power outages exacerbate a sweltering heatwave, a government notice showed.…Continue readingIndia relaxes environment rules for coal mines, citing heatwave
Saudi Aramco has overtaken Apple as the world’s most valuable company after higher oil prices pushed shares of the world’s biggest crude exporter to record…Continue readingSaudi Aramco overtakes Apple as the world’s most valuable company
Since 2000, more than 71 million hectares of dry forest have been destroyed, an area about twice the size of Germany. Many hotspots of deforestation…Continue readingTropical dry forests disappearing rapidly around the globe
Spanning more than 179,000 km2 (69,000 square miles) in Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia, the Pantanal boasts one of the highest concentration of flora and fauna…Continue readingThe Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, is at risk of collapse
The Reef snapshot: summer 2021-22, quietly published by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority on Tuesday night after weeks of delay, said above-average water…Continue reading‘Devastating’: 91% of reefs surveyed on Great Barrier Reef affected by coral bleaching in 2022
The relentless dry spell that is withering the American West is steadily warping normal life. Major reservoirs have baked down to record lows and are…Continue readingFacing a new climate reality, Southern California lawns could wither
Typically, heat waves in India affect only part of the country, occur in the summer and only last for a week or so. But a…Continue readingIndia tries to adapt to extreme heat but is paying a heavy price
The devastating heatwave that gripped India and Pakistan over the last two months is unprecedented, but worse—perhaps far worse—is on the horizon as climate change…Continue readingIndia, Pakistan must brace for even worse heatwaves
Satellite images show a total area of destroyed forest cover of 1,012.5 square kilometres (391 square miles) from April 1 to 29, with the last…Continue readingBrazil deforestation shatters April record
The world’s birds, described as the planet’s “canaries in the coalmine”, are disappearing in large numbers as the colossal impact of humanity on the Earth…Continue reading‘Canaries in the coalmine’: loss of birds signals changing planet
The number of flying insects in Great Britain has plunged by almost 60% since 2004, according to a survey that counted splats on car registration…Continue readingThe number of flying insects in Great Britain has plunged by almost 60% since 2004
Oyster fisheries in Australia and North America survived for up to 10,000 years prior to colonisation, sustaining First Nations communities even under intense harvest. Oyster…Continue readingPrecolonial First Nations oyster fisheries sustained millennia of intense harvests
Indonesian state-owned oil and natural gas company Pertamina has reportedly received approval for the $2.41 billion investment plan to expand the Rokan oil block. Pertamina…Continue readingPertamina gets planning approval for $2.4 billion Rokan block development
The team building Dogger Bank Wind Farm has officially marked the start of its offshore construction work with the installation of the first length of high voltage…Continue readingConstruction begins on the world’s largest offshore wind farm
The Guanabara floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) has been designed to process up to 180,000 barrels of oil per day and 12 million…Continue readingPetrobras begins production from FPSO Guanabara in Mero field
An unusually early and brutal heat wave is scorching parts of India, with acute power shortages affecting millions as demand for electricity surges to record…Continue readingHeat wave sparks blackouts, questions on India’s coal usage
In the Horn of Africa as a whole, in an area stretching from northern Kenya to Somalia and swaths of Ethiopia, up to 20 million…Continue readingHorn of Africa ravaged by worst drought in four decades
Just 9% of all plastic waste ever created has been recycled. Last year, the U.S. exported 74,000 shipping containers of plastic waste to low-income countries.…Continue readingWhere your recycling actually goes
21% of reptile species are threatened with extinction, including more than half of turtles and crocodiles. More than 40% of amphibians, 25% of mammals and…Continue readingOver 21% of reptile species at risk of extinction
Pristine rainforests were once again destroyed at a relentless rate in 2021, according to new figures, prompting concerns governments will not meet a COP26 deal…Continue reading‘Relentless’ destruction of rainforest continuing despite Cop26 pledge
Coral reefs are rapidly declining due to local environmental degradation and global climate change. In particular, corals are vulnerable to ocean heating. Hotter oceans can…Continue readingPast the precipice? Projected coral habitability under global heating
Investors refused to back resolutions demanding stricter fossil fuel financing policies at three major US banks. Proposals filed at Wells Fargo, Bank of America and…Continue readingInvestors at top US banks refuse to back climate proposals
The world has more than 2,400 coal-fired power plants, for a total capacity of nearly 2,100 gigawatts (GW). An additional 176GW of coal capacity is…Continue readingBoom and Bust Coal 2022
Chinese leaders pledged ahead of climate negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland, last November to peak national emissions before 2030 and stop building coal power plants abroad.…Continue readingWith coal surge, China puts energy security and growth before climate
China is in the throes of a building boom to jump start its economy. The government of President Xi Jinping has “scrambled in recent months…Continue readingChina doubles down on coal
Half of all river basins across the world are now “severely affected” by water diversion projects, which can exacerbate drought conditions and lead to human…Continue readingDead rivers, polluted oceans: Industry adds to world’s mounting water crisis
In this mysterious woodland the cloud drapes over mountain ridges and “the trees are dwarfed and wind-sculpted, gnarled and heavily laden with mosses,” said J…Continue readingLost golden toad heralds climate’s massive extinction threat
The Biden administration announced on Friday that it would resume selling leases for new oil and gas drilling on public lands. The Interior Department said…Continue readingBiden Plans to Open More Public Land to Drilling
As a punishing, record-breaking drought enters its 13th year, Chile has announced an unprecedented plan to ration water for the capital of Santiago, a city…Continue readingChile announces unprecedented plan to ration water as drought enters 13th year
Stuart Crow, chair of Lake Resources, said western companies and governments had failed to build adequate supply chains for lithium, making the sudden boom in…Continue readingElectric vehicle targets ‘impossible’ without changes to lithium pipeline
As one of the world’s most famous game reserves, Murchison Falls National Park is home to some of the largest populations of elephants, giraffes, lions…Continue readingThe oil giants drilling among the giraffes in Uganda
Canada’s environment minister approved Wednesday a controversial offshore oil project expected to see 300 million barrels of oil extracted over 30 years This is equivalent…Continue readingCanada approves controversial Bay du Nord offshore oil project
Amazon rainforest becomes a savanna The 2.5 million square mile rainforest is so vast it creates its own rainfall and is home to 10% of…Continue readingThe world is ‘perilously close’ to irreversible climate change
For the second year in a row, NOAA scientists observed a record annual increase in atmospheric levels of methane, a powerful, heat-trapping greenhouse gas that’s…Continue readingIncrease in atmospheric methane set another record during 2021. Carbon dioxide levels also record a big jump
Scientists from the University of Illinois tracked species of birds in a protected forest reserve in central Panama to determine if and how populations had…Continue readingBird populations in Panama rainforest in severe decline
Large quantities of plastic—transported by rivers, the air and shipping–can now be found in the Arctic Ocean. High concentrations of microplastic can be found in…Continue readingThe global ‘plastic flood’ reaches the Arctic
A $400 million coal mine expansion that would result in almost half a billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions has been conditionally approved by New…Continue readingNarrabri coal mine expansion gets final approval from NSW planning commission
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its sixth massive bleaching event as climate change has warmed the ocean, raising concerns over whether one of the…Continue readingClimate warming has dealt yet another blow to the Great Barrier Reef
Transocean Ltd. announced today that it has purchased a minority interest in Ocean Minerals Ltd., a company engaged in the exploration of seabed resources containing metals critical…Continue readingTransocean Ltd. Invests in Exploration of Seabed Minerals to Support the Renewable Energy Supply Chain
Global industrialization and urbanization processes enabled a diverse cement production boom over the past three decades, as cement is the most important building construction material.…Continue readingA striking growth of CO2 emissions from the global cement industry driven by new facilities in emerging countries
15 years after its was first discovered in a New York cave, white-nose syndrome has decimated the nation’s population of northern long-eared bats, reducing their…Continue readingA disease more lethal than covid-19 has nearly wiped out northern US long-eared bats
The coldest location on the planet has experienced an episode of warm weather this week unlike any ever observed, with temperatures over the eastern Antarctic…Continue readingIt’s 70˚F (40˚C) warmer than normal in eastern Antarctica. Scientists are flabbergasted.
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country’s top economic planner, will launch special investigation into the implementation of medium- and long-term contracts signed…Continue readingMedium- and long-term contracts signed by Chinese coal suppliers shall account for over 80% of their resources: economic planner
Work published in Science Advances shows that large fires have not only become more common, they are also spreading into new areas, impacting land that…Continue readingUS fires have become 4 times larger, 3 times more frequent since 2000
Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose by 6% in 2021 to 36.3 billion tons, their highest ever level, as the world economy rebounded strongly from…Continue readingGlobal carbon dioxide emissions rebounded to their highest level in history in 2021
The study examined four possible scenarios for future carbon emissions, and found increased risk of El Niño events in all four. This means El Niño…Continue readingIncreasing frequency of El Niño events expected by 2040
The Amazon is approaching a tipping point, data shows, after which the rainforest would be lost with “profound” implications for the global climate and biodiversity.…Continue readingAmazon rainforest tipping point is looming
Hundreds of residents in the US state of Florida were evacuated from their homes after a rash of wildfires that ignited dead vegetation swept through…Continue readingFlorida wildfires force hundreds to evacuate their homes