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Climate change threatens the coastal Gullah Geechee
Residents of coastal Gullah Geechee communities are at risk of losing their homes with more frequent storm surges, rising sea levels and other impacts of climate change.NBC News - Top stories - Climate -
Scotland Made Big Climate Pledges. Now They’re ‘Out of Reach.’
Despite significant progress, Scotland was falling short on cutting vehicle emissions, switching to heat pumps and even restoring peatland, the government said.The New York Times - Science - Climate -
Blueland Co-Founder's Playbook for Countering Climate Change
As climate change heats up, we sit down with the activist entrepreneur Sarah Paiji Yoo about how she's helping pass laws to curb single-use plastic.Inc. - Business - Climate -
Climate politics and the bottom line — CBS News poll
Many Americans see an economic cost to combating climate change.CBS News - Politics - Climate -
MEPs vote to leave treaty used by investors to sue over climate policies
Coordinated withdrawal agreed after several member states and UK have quit energy charter treaty. European lawmakers have voted to escape a treaty that lets investors sue governments in private courts for pursuing policies that stop the planet ...The Guardian - World - Climate -
Earth Day 2024: A Look at 3 Places Adapting Quickly to Fight Climate Change
Paris is becoming a city of bikes. Across China, people are snapping up $5,000 electric cars. On Earth Day, a look at a few bright spots for emission reductions.The New York Times - World - Climate -
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Energy secretary defends approach on climate after criticism
Claire Coutinho joins the show a day after the head of the climate change watchdog said the UK is now "less ambitious" with green policy.BBC News - Top stories - Climate -
GOP senators, Manchin challenge SEC climate disclosure rule
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) joined a resolution from Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) that aims to overturn a new rule on climate disclosures approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last month. Manchin, the chair of the Senate Energy and ...The Hill - Politics - Climate -
White House considering national climate emergency declaration
The White House is considering declaring a national climate emergency to unlock federal powers and stifle oil development, according to a Bloomberg report. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is announcing several projects this Earth Week. ...CBS News - Top stories - Climate -
Tall flowers, dead shrubs, ephemeral lake: Death Valley has become a picture of climate whiplash
Death Valley has ping ponged between severe drought and record rainfall, giving rise to extra-tall wildflowers, an ephemeral lake and dead bushes.NBC News - Top stories - Climate -
EPA's new heavy-duty vehicle emissions standards are effort to fight climate change
The Environmental Protection Agency announced new vehicle emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles on Friday.ABC News - Top stories - Climate -
New research shows millions of species could face extinction due to climate change
A 2019 U.N. report found around 1 million plant and animal species could be threatened with extinction, but new research shows climate change could drive that number up to 6 million over the next 50 years. Wildlife ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant joined ...CBS News - Top stories - Climate -
World Bank’s funding of ‘hog hotel’ factory farms under fire over climate effect
Environmental and animal welfare groups call on lender to phase out support for ‘industrial’ livestock operations. The private sector arm of the World Bank is facing claims that it contributes to global heating and the undermining of animal ...The Guardian - World - Climate -
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Tuvalu accepts security and climate pact, says Australia’s Pacific minister
Deal had been thrown into doubt during election campaign in Tuvalu over sovereignty concerns. Australia and Tuvalu will go ahead with a security and climate migration pact, after the latter’s new government agreed not to change the deal, ...The Guardian - World - Climate -
Macron calls proposed EU-Mercosur trade pact ‘very bad deal’ lacking strong climate commitments
French president tells Brazil forum both parties need to be ‘much stronger’ on biodiversity and climate. Emmanuel Macron has called a proposed trade agreement between the EU and South America’s Mercosur bloc a “very bad deal” that lacks proper ...The Guardian - World - Climate -
Living to 95 may impact the world as much as AI and climate change
You need an “evergreen” approach to life, work and health, economics professor Andrew Scott says.MarketWatch - Business - Climate -
Climate change: the connection between land and sea
The ocean makes up about 71 percent of the Earth’s surface and what goes on beneath the water is still largely unknown. Organizations like the Schmidt Ocean Institute are working to improve our understanding by using new technology to highlight ...NBC News - Top stories - Climate -
Nowhere for the water to go: Dubai flooding shows the world is failing a big climate change drainage test
Urban environments paved over nature like Dubai with no way to drain the water from more frequent, massive rainfalls need new solutions for climate change fast.CNBC - Business - Climate -
Elmer and the climate crisis: lost story by David McKee set to be published
The late illustrator’s elephant hero is to star in a new ecological fable after the discovery of a rough manuscript and drawings. From the depths of his extraordinarily vibrant imagination, he famously conjured up Mr Benn, Not Now, Bernard, King ...The Guardian - World - Climate -
Easter egg prices soar as cocoa crops are hit by climate crisis and exploitation
Experts say the global shortage of the main ingredient of chocolate is linked to poor conditions for farmers supplying large companies. Every Easter, UK consumers collectively spend more than £1bn on food, drink, gifts, entertainment and about 80m ...The Guardian - World - Climate -
SEC pauses climate disclosure rule pending court challenge
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday announced it will stay implementation of its final rule requiring companies to disclose their climate-related risks pending the results of a legal challenge from GOP-led states. The SEC ...The Hill - Politics - Climate -
Earth Day 2024: A Look at 3 Places Adapting Quickly to Fight Climate Change
Paris is becoming a city of bikes. Across China, people are snapping up $5,000 electric cars. On Earth Day, a look at a few bright spots for emission reductions.The New York Times - Top stories - Climate -
Conspiracies and cynical indifference are the right's latest climate strategy
Science denialism — especially when it comes to climate change — is also embedded in Republican Party orthodoxy.The Hill - Politics - Climate -
After climate tipping points, change will come slowly, then all at once
Climate scientists are beginning to worry we may be at a terrifying juncture, where the climate shifts dramatically from one state to another.The Hill - Politics - Climate -
Amid legal challenges, SEC pauses its climate rule
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday said it would pause the implementation of its new climate disclosure rule while it defended the regulation in courtABC News - Top stories - Climate -
European court rules nations must protect citizens from effects of climate change
Europe’s Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that the Swiss government violated a duty to address the effects of climate change on its citizens, a decision that could have major impacts for other European nations. The court sided with a group of ...The Hill - Politics - Climate -
The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change
Georges-Louis Leclerc proposed species change and extinction back in the 1740s, a new book reveals. Shortly after Charles Darwin published his magnum opus, The Origin of Species, in 1859 he started reading a little-known 100-year-old work by a ...The Guardian - World - Climate -
KKR Homes In on 'Growth-Infra' Climate Investments
The private-equity firm targets clean-energy businesses too big for growth stage and too small for traditional infrastructure investments.The Wall Street Journal - World - Climate -
In Indonesia, deforestation is intensifying disasters from severe weather and climate change
In Indonesia, environmental groups continue to point to deforestation and environmental degradation worsening the effects of natural disasters such as floods, landslides, drought and forest firesABC News - World - Climate -
Today's worsening climate crisis needs the leaders of tomorrow
We will strengthen our leadership when we elect more climate champions and enough potential climate leaders throughout society rise to the challenge.The Hill - Politics - Climate -
Worsening allergies tied to climate change and severe weather
As doctors report more severe allergy symptoms in patients, scientists are blaming climate change and severe weather. NBC News' Anne Thompson reports.NBC News - Top stories - Climate -
The mainstream media’s climate coverage is blinkered and condescending
If we really wanted the media to shift the focus to the issues that matter when it comes to the climate, we’d have a whole lot more coverage of China.The Hill - Politics - Climate -
Climate change endangers 70 percent of world's wine regions: Study
Rising global temperatures could decimate global wine production over the new few decades, according to a study published Tuesday in the science journal Nature. Researchers estimated that as much as 70 percent of the world’s suitable regions for ...The Hill - Politics - Climate -
Hold Azerbaijan accountable before it hosts the next UN Climate Conference
given Azerbaijan’s questionable commitments to preserving the environment and its repressive approach to governance, activists and journalists and others have voiced their skepticism of the U.N.’s choice to hold COP29 in Baku.The Hill - Politics - Climate -
Next UN climate talks are critical to plot aid for poorer nations, says incoming president
The man who will run this year’s United Nations climate talks in November views the upcoming negotiations as a key link in international efforts to curb worsening global warming — if they can be successfulABC News - Tech - Climate -
Cocoa and Coffee Prices Have Surged. Climate Change Will Only Take Them Higher.
Some chocolatiers and coffee makers say they will have to pass on the extra costs to consumers as extreme weather events continue to crimp supplies.The Wall Street Journal - World - Climate -
What Climate Change Looks Like in the Arctic
A polar explorer warns that we are running out of time to understand this unique environment.The Wall Street Journal - World - Climate -
Greta Thunberg arrested at climate protest in The Hague
Climate activist Greta Thunberg was arrested at a climate protest in The Hague, Netherlands Saturday. Thunberg was one of the dozens of people who police detained when in the process of removing protestors who were obstructing part of a road in ...The Hill - Politics - Climate