House Dems Urge Biden to Push for Removal of Climate-Denying World Bank President "We need a World Bank Group leader who fully appreciates the threat of climate change and the need to accelerate the global transition to a clean just energy future to improve living standards, reduce poverty, and encourage sustainable growth."
2022-09-29 13:06:40
Hurricanes: Are they getting more violent? As Hurricane Ian makes its way through the Caribbean towards the US - we ask if climate change is making these storms more severe?
2022-09-27 00:17:38
80+ Democrats Urge Biden EPA to Accept Union Demands "Improving the rights and protections of EPA employees" will help the agency "address climate change, enhance environmental justice, and protect public health and the environment," the lawmakers wrote.
2022-09-26 09:37:19
Historic Tropical Storm Fiona Sweeps Homes Into Ocean in Eastern Canada "Climate change leads to warmer ocean water at higher latitudes," said one Canadian civil engineering professor. "A warmer future increases the probability that more intense storms will reach Canadian coasts."
2022-09-25 08:33:56
90% of Marine Species Face Extinction Under Emissions Status Quo: Study While the research predicts "a potentially bleak future for many marine species," the authors say it "also measures how much our oceans and the life within them stand to benefit from both climate change mitigation and adaptation."
2022-08-22 14:29:58
Progressives Applaud as Biden Signs 'Landmark' IRA Into Law The bill is "a start to, not the culmination of, our work to reduce global warming pollution and ensure clean air, clean water, and the preservation of open spaces," said one climate campaigner.
2022-08-16 15:55:51
Without Climate Action, Melting of 'Sleeping Giant' Ice Sheet Risks Major Sea Level Rise "The choices that we're making today in terms of emission reductions are going to set in place whether East Antarctica stays largely dormant as a very large ice sheet, or if we start to set in motion some unstoppable changes," said one expert.
2022-08-11 10:23:49
Death Valley Floods Deemed a '1,000-Year Event' "With climate change models predicting more frequent and more intense storms, this is a place where you can see climate change in action," said the park superintendent.
2022-08-11 09:28:28
The science behind the UK heatwave The Met Office estimates that the extreme heat we are seeing has been made ten times more likely because of climate change.
2022-07-19 16:20:09
Model Shows Nuclear War Would Cause Millennia-Long 'Little Ice Age' "We hope that this new study will encourage more nations to ratify the ban treaty," one of the paper's co-authors said, referring to the landmark Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
2022-07-08 11:03:17
Markey, Bowman Join Climate Coalition in Urging SCOTUS Expansion "We cannot sit idly by," said Markey, "as extremists on the Supreme Court eviscerate the authorities that the government has had for decades to combat climate change and reduce pollution."
2022-06-30 18:15:04
Biden DOJ Applauded for 'Long Overdue' Environmental Justice Plan "Communities of color, Indigenous communities, and low-income communities often bear the brunt of the harm caused by environmental crime, pollution, and climate change," said the U.S. attorney general.
2022-05-05 18:49:44
Climate Emergency Could Cause Wildlife Relocations That Spark Next Pandemic "This is happening, it's not preventable even in the best case climate change scenarios, and we need to put measures in place to build health infrastructure to protect animal and human populations," said the co-author of a new study.
2022-04-28 14:00:06
Solar, Wind Surge in 2021 'Another Testament of Renewable Energy's Resilience' "Despite the encouraging global trend," said IRENA Director-General Francesco La Camera, a new publication "shows that the energy transition is far from being fast or widespread enough to avert the dire consequences of climate change."
2022-04-11 11:45:13
Facebook Fails to Label Climate Misinformation From 'Toxic 10': Analysis "The price of Mark Zuckerberg's failure to deal with his platforms' pollution of the information ecosystem," said one advocate, "is catastrophic damage to our physical ecosystem—including climate change, forced migration, drought, and famine."
2022-02-23 13:01:02
Biden's $770B Pentagon Budget Proposal Denounced as 'Absurd' "Devoting this enormous sum to the Pentagon at a time when the greatest challenges to our security—from pandemics to climate change—are not military in nature is both misguided and counterproductive," said one critic.
2022-02-16 15:38:07
Biden Outpaced Trump on Drilling Permits in First Year "Avoiding catastrophic climate change requires ending new fossil fuel extraction," said one advocate, "but Biden is racing in the opposite direction."
2022-01-21 13:00:45
Activist Pressure Pauses Newark Fracked Gas Project Environmental justice campaigner Maria Lopez-Nuñez stressed the need find an alternative to the proposed power plant that "does not hurt the lungs of our children and in no way contributes to climate change."
2022-01-14 12:14:37
