The planet’s largest ice sheet is losing more than 240 billion tons of ice every year -- a threefold increase from what it was less than a decade ago. By Dominique Mosbergen The Antarctic ice sheet is melting at a faster rate than at any previously...
Leading global forecasts widely underestimate the future costs of climate change, a new paper warns. The findings, to be released Monday in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, say projections used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change rely on outdated models and...
SACRAMENTO — Long a leader and trendsetter in its clean-energy goals, California took a giant step on Wednesday, becoming the first state to require all new homes to have solar power. The new requirement, to take effect in two years, brings solar power into the mainstream...
Of all the ways in which our broken planet is preparing to kill us — tropical diseases gone wild, swarms of water refugees, frozen methane rising from the inky depths to smother us in prehistoric microbe farts — the general public has become most fascinated...
Announcing the 2018 Companies Vs Climate Change: USA, Taking Place at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami on 11/28-29 A boutique conference company, CvCC’s mission is to unite the world’s company’s around climate solutions. CvCC is also known as “The B2B Climate Solutions Evebt” which aims...
I. ‘Doomsday’ Peering beyond scientific reticence. It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today. And yet...
Wake Smith imagines a fleet of experimental airplanes, not much larger than Boeing 757s, that could climb to 60,000 feet, high enough for people aboard to see the curvature of the earth, and release gas into the lower stratosphere. In order to ensure global coverage of...
Republished From Marketwatch By Robert Schroeder Hillary Clinton called out Donald Trump at their first debate on Monday night for labeling climate change a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. Trump denied saying that. But his own Twitter feed contradicts him, with the real-estate magnate tweeting back in 2012 that...
Republished From TriplePundit By Leon Kaye New York City was proactive on tackling climate change risks long before Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc across the boroughs in autumn 2012. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his successor, Bill De Blasio, have shown leadership on climate change resilience that inspired other cities to launch similar...
Republished From Yale Environment 360 By Bill McKibben It feels as if we may be getting close, or at least closer, as a nation to putting some kind of price on global warming pollution. Bernie Sanders campaigned all year on a straight-up carbon tax, and though Hillary Clinton...