Mark Poynting and Esme Stallard BBC Climate & Science Getty Images The world’s tropical forests, which provide a crucial buffer against climate change, disappeared faster than ever recorded last year, new satellite analysis suggests. Researchers estimate that 67,000 sq km (26,000 sq mi) of these pristine, old-growth forests were lost in 2024 – an area...
Extinction Rebellion and other climate organizations on Saturday held a funeral for the Paris agreement’s 1.5ºC temperature target in Cambridge, England. “The mock funeral idea grew out of the need to process the enormity and sadness of this moment,” Alex Martin of Extinction Rebellion (XR) Cambridge said in a statement. “While many people are distracted...
Part of the Series Covering Climate Now This article by ExxonKnews is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. Less than a day after the Trump administration filed a lawsuit aiming to stop Hawaiʻi from taking oil companies to court for their role in the climate crisis, the state last...
The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database has been around since 1980. A key database measuring the economic impact of large-scale disasters is being terminated by the Trump administration, dealing a severe blow to the tracking of extreme weather events that has existed for decades. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Billion Dollar...
Part of the Series Covering Climate Now This article by Earth.Org is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. Trump’s current approval rating is the lowest for any newly elected president at 100 days since at least Dwight Eisenhower — including Trump’s own first term. While none of the polls...
Mark Poynting and Justin Rowlatt BBC Climate & Science Getty Images The government has made very little progress in preparing the UK for the growing threats posed by rising temperatures since coming to power, its climate watchdog has warned. In a highly critical report, the independent Climate Change Committee says progress is “either too slow,...
Study authors seek to attribute climate damages to individual corporate polluters in order to hold them accountable. The world’s top corporations have caused $28 trillion in damages related to the climate crisis, a new study seeking to help attribute climate costs to individual polluters finds. In a peer-reviewed paper published in Nature last week, Dartmouth...
The National Climate Assessment is required by law to be published every four years. The Trump administration abruptly announced this week that it is dismissing all contributors and coauthors for the National Climate Assessment, an examination of the global climate crisis and its effects on several aspects of society that is required by law to...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. A forthcoming Supreme Court decision is poised to weaken a bedrock law that requires federal agencies to study the potential environmental impacts of major projects. The case, Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, concerns a proposed 88-mile railroad that...
Getty Images As the threat posed by US President Donald Trump tops Canada’s federal election agenda, the issue of the country’s contribution to global warming has been largely overshadowed. The two main contenders are pushing plans for new energy infrastructure as the country seeks to pivot away from its reliance on the US. Mark Carney’s...
The BBC’s Aleem Maqbool takes us through the life of Pope Frances, and the challenges he faced as pontiff. Read full article at source...
I guess United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres didn’t think his hyping global warming risks brought him enough attention, so now he says, “The era of global boiling has arrived!” Global boiling? Give me a break. Yes, the climate is...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Jim Lively wants to install rooftop solar panels on his family’s local food market, just minutes from the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan. Those panels could help power the RV campground they want to open next to the...
Johanna Carr BBC South West Investigations BBC An area of peatland on Dartmoor restored by the South West Peatland Partnership Healthy peat is the country’s biggest carbon store but when damaged it releases planet-warming greenhouse gases back into the atmosphere. New research shows instead of being part of the answer to climate change, peat bogs...
This story was originally published at Prism. The landmark youth-led climate lawsuit Juliana v. United States has come to a close without ever seeing a trial. The case, filed in 2015 by Our Children’s Trust on behalf of 21 youth plaintiffs, faced 10 years of opposition from the federal government because it argued that the...