Water Strategies for Climate Adaption
Arnt Baer, Head of General Affairs & Public Affairs, GELSENWASSER AG Climate change reached the water economy. Providing citizens with spotless drinking water at any place and at all times…
Tag: Climate
New study shows huge variation in how different oil companies manage climate pollution – underscores need for more oversight
By Jon Goldstein and Ben Hmiel For the past several years, researchers have been studying methane emissions in the Permian Basin (the nation’s largest oil field) to try to understand…
Greener School Playgrounds Are An Overlooked Climate Solution
Across the country, cities are turning asphalt schoolyards into spongy, shadowy community centers. Image courtesy of the Trust for Public Land The new schoolyard at PS 184M Shuang Wen, an…
Guest post: How can nature-based solutions help cities achieve their climate goals?
Two things are clear from the recent UN summits on climate change and biodiversity: “nature-based solutions” seem here to stay, and not everyone is happy about it. Delegates fought fiercely…
What The Least Populated Part of the United States Can Teach Us About Climate Change
I recently came across a YouTube video that showed both that there is a heavily unpopulated area in the US that runs from Canada to Mexico and why this happened….
New Study On Coral Reef Persistence Under Climate Change
Coral scientists at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and the University of Miami Cooperative Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Science (CIMAS) developed a new modeling approach for evaluating…
Dutch police arrest dozens of climate activists protesting in The Hague
Activists from Extinction Rebellion had called for the demonstration to protest the government’s energy policy and demand an end to all fossil fuel subsidies.
Climate change could make parts of Lebanon ‘too hot’ for producing olive oil
Olive trees in Lebanon – historically renowned for the high-quality olive oil they produce – are under threat from rising temperatures, new research finds. Olives were first domesticated some 7,000…
Why EVs Aren’t a Climate Change Panacea
“Electric cars will not save the climate. It is completely wrong,” Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has stated. If Birol were from Maine, he might…
How can the world combat the climate crisis?
Climate change is accelerating at an unprecedented rate. With it comes threats such as global warming, pollution, natural disasters, degraded landscapes and threats to biodiversity, to name a few. To…
Climate change: burning trees in the Amazon melts snow in the Himalayas
Scientists have discovered that as the Amazon warms, the Tibetan Plateau also warms, while the more it rains in the Amazon, the less it rains in Tibet.
Youngkin’s Attack on Virginia’s Cars Law Threatens Climate Progress
With the threat of climate change to Virginia’s coastal and inland communities, it is fitting that the Commonwealth is the leading Southern state in cutting its carbon emissions. In addition…
The key to tackling climate change: Electrify shipping
If we do not drastically reduce our emissions – and tackle the climate crisis now – we are running out of time. Having productive conversations, taking impactful action, reversing the…
There is a construction-shaped hole in our global efforts to combat climate change
When you think of carbon emissions, images of belching smoke or tailpipes probably come to mind. But there is a pollution problem hidden in the built environment around us, from…
The corporate hunger for climate tech
Climate tech was inoculated against the worst symptoms of the contraction in startup funding in 2022, but it wasn’t entirely immune. As the excellent newsletter Climate Tech VC reports, total…