August besieged California with a heat unseen in generations. A surge in air-conditioning broke the state’s electrical grid, leaving a population already ravaged by the coronavirus to work remotely by

Published 10 September 2020 comments Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Wildlife is under pressure from habitat loss, including deforestation By Helen Briggs BBC Enviro

Published 9 September 2020 Share page About sharing Media caption, Our chief environment correspondent Justin Rowlatt visited Thwaites in January By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent Scientists

Inequity at the boiling point A Quarter of Bangladesh Is Flooded. Millions Have Lost Everything. The country’s latest calamity illustrates a striking inequity of our time: The people least responsible

Today, 1% of the world is a barely livable hot zone. By 2070, that portion could go up to 19%. Billions of people call this land home. Where will they go? The Great Climate Migration By Abrahm Lustgar

It’s a response that has largely followed increased pressure from consumers, and in some cases, shareholders. Shuli Goodman, executive director of LF Energy said “consumer pressure has finally grown ‘

Climate Change Poses ‘Systemic Threat’ to the Economy, Big Investors Warn Financial regulators should act to avoid economic disaster, according to a letter from pension funds and other investors repre

A polar bear near the coast of Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands, Norway. Credit... Peter Barritt/Superstock, via Alamy Global Warming Is Driving Polar Bears Toward Extinction, Researchers Say By century’

Published 16 July 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital Image caption, Some Singapore health care staff have been working in stifling heat By David Shukman Science

Familiar Culprit May Have Caused Mysterious Mass Extinction A planet heated by giant volcanic eruptions drove the earliest known wipeout of life on Earth. An artist’s concept of marine life during the

Mass Extinctions Are Accelerating, Scientists Report Five hundred species are likely to become extinct over the next two decades, according to a new study. A farmer walked through a burned area of Ama

Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: Bloomberg News Dina Bass Published Jun 04, 2020 • 12 minute read Article content (Bloomberg) — Over the past four years, Lucas Joppa, Microso

COMPANIES ARE often quick to tout their green credentials. So are many of the sophisticated institutional investors who buy and sell their shares. Yet when it comes to pricing the risk of climate chan

F OR MORE than 100,000 years humans derived all their energy from what they hunted, gathered and grazed on or grew for themselves. Their own energy for moving things came from what they ate. Energy fo

Wildlife Collapse From Climate Change Is Predicted to Hit Suddenly and Sooner Scientists found a “cliff edge” instead of the slippery slope they expected. A sea turtle hatchling headed for the ocean i

Think This Pandemic Is Bad? We Have Another Crisis Coming Addressing climate change is a big enough idea to revive the economy. April 15, 2020 Credit... Agnes Lee By Ms. Gunn-Wright is director of cli

Published 22 February 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images A study by researchers at Brown University has found a quarter of posts about climate change on Twitter were written by b

Published 19 February 2020 comments Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images No country offers a child both the chance of a healthy upbringing and an environment fit for their future, the W

Published 20 January 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Kiribati is one of six Pacific island nations most threatened by rising sea levels People fleeing immediate

Published 16 January 2020 Share page About sharing Media caption, China needs to tackle climate change - Attenborough By David Shukman Science editor "The moment of crisis has come" in efforts to tack

A worker pushes Amazon.com Inc. packages in front of a FedEx Corp. delivery truck in New York. Christopher Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Growth in last-mile deliveries over the next decade could cont

Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide As record fires rage, the country’s leaders seem intent on sending it to its doom. Jan. 3, 2020 An out-of-control fire in Hillville, in the Australian state of

Published 3 January 2020 Share page About sharing Image caption, Solar power is one form of renewable energy that is replacing fossil fuels By James Landale Diplomatic correspondent @BBCJLandale If yo

Dispatch From the Land of Flight Shaming, or How I Became a Train Boaster In Sweden, some environmentally conscious travelers are switching from planes to trains. Slower? Yes. But why not embrace the

Published 15 December 2019 Share page About sharing Image source, Kiara Worth/IISD Image caption, Some of the difficult issues proved impossible to resolve in Madrid By Matt McGrath Environment corres

Published 15 December 2019 Share page About sharing Image source, AFP Image caption, Talks in Madrid have gone into extra time as delegates try to agree on measures By Matt McGrath and Paul Rincon Sci

A fresh catch being brought aboard the fishing vessel Asdis in waters off of Bolungarvik, a small fishing town in the Westfjords of Iceland. Warming Waters, Moving Fish: How Climate Change Is Reshapin

Published 10 December 2019 Share page About sharing Media caption, Ice loss from 1992 to 2018 has occurred mostly around the coast (Imbie/ESA/Planetary Visions) By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspond

matter Birds Are Vanishing From North America The number of birds in the United States and Canada has declined by 3 billion, or 29 percent, over the past half-century, scientists find. Sanderlings. Vi

5 Global Trends Shaping Our Climate Future Pump jacks and wind turbines near Stanton, Tex. Renewable energy is on the rise globally. Credit... Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times By Nov. 12, 201

A whirlwind of hot ash and embers tore through the Cave Fire in Santa Barbara, Calif., last month. Credit... David Mcnew/Reuters Climate Change Is Accelerating, Bringing World ‘Dangerously Close’ to I

Published 7 December 2019 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Flooding and landslides in East Africa have killed dozens of people and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes. Mea

Published 7 December 2019 Share page About sharing Image source, IUCN By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, Madrid Climate change and nutrient pollution are driving the oxygen from our oceans, an

Published 29 November 2019 Share page About sharing Image source, Reuters Image caption, The Cold War-era military base at Thule is a key early warning facility for the US By Laurence Peter BBC News D

Representational image (Credits: IANS) These bacteria, which build the entire biomass of their body from the carbon in the air, may help develop future technologies that reduce greenhouse gas accumula

Published 27 November 2019 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Roger Harrabin BBC environment analyst Critical elements in the Earth’s climate may be more likely to break down than

Published 26 November 2019 comments Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Climate change is said to have increased the severity of recent wildfires in Australia By Matt Mc

‘Bleak’ U.N. Report on a Planet in Peril Looms Over New Climate Talks A gas flare at a Shell refinery in Norco, La. By Nov. 26, 2019 With world leaders gathering in Madrid next week for their annual b

A Wet Year Causes Farm Woes Far Beyond the Floodplains Waterlogged, unplanted farm fields near Gardner, Ill., in May. Record rainfall in the area postponed crop planting, and some 19 million acres wen

Economy Federal Reserve governor cited research showing more-frequent heat waves could affect economic output and labor productivity Nov. 8, 2019 11:57 am ET Lael Brainard said rising insurance premiu