BRUSSELS, Oct 5 (Reuters) - This year is on track to become the hottest since at least 1940, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on...
Category: Climate Stories
Climate change: Six young people take 32 countries to court
"What I felt was fear," says Claudia Duarte Agostinho as she remembers the extreme heatwave and fires that ripped through Portugal in 2017 and killed more than 100 people....
‘No left-wing indoctrination’: Climate science under attack in classrooms
Political battles over climate change are increasingly being fought in the classroom.
Conservative activists and...
Founder of Patagonia is giving his company away to help fight climate change
On Wednesday, September 14th Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard announced he is putting his outdoor apparel company in the hands of a trust and a nonprofit organization. All...
Supreme Court Strips Federal Government of Crucial Tool to Control Pollution
The New York Times, July 1, 2022 reports "President Biden vowed to press forward with his climate agenda after a decision that 'risks damaging our nation's ability to keep...
Why You Should Talk About Climate Change Right Now
You don't need to be a climate scientist or as well known as Greta Thunberg to make a difference on climate change. In this Gizmodo piece, The Nature Conservancy chief...
Scientists Who Figured Out How to Predict Climate Change Win Nobel Prize in Physics
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists who have helped to shape our understanding of Earth’s complex climate and how human activity is...
Climate Reparations
In 2009 Maxine Burkett, a law professor at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, coined the phrase “climate reparations,” the understanding of climate change as a...
Pacific Northwest Heatwave
Pacific Northwest heatwave “virtually impossible” without climate change.
The last week of June saw shocking...
The future of transportation
It has been known that the wide-spread use of cars in the United States has detrimental effects on air quality. This is due to their release of carbon dioxide and nitrogen...