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UK sea temperatures soar after exceptionally warm spring
Sea temperatures in some areas off the UK and Ireland are 4C above average.
Published on: May 22, 2025 | Source:
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Scientists propose novel way of treating mosquitoes for malaria
Normally the insects are targeted with insecticide, but US researchers say anti-malaria drugs absorbed through their legs can stop them spreading disease.
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Fish Threatened By Farms and Mining Set to Be First Species Listed As Endangered in Second Trump Term
DYER, Nev.βA century ago, Fish Lake Valley looked much more like its name than it does today. Ephemeral streams flowed from the mountain ranges surrounding this valley on the California and Nevada border, filling a lake that provided habitat for fish, including an endemic tui chub for which it was the only home. But the [β¦]
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:'Shrinking Nemo': Smaller clownfish sound alarm on ocean heat
Fish made famous by the movie Finding Nemo are shrinking to cope with marine heatwaves.
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Flooding Caused by Atmospheric River Over Maryland Shows How Climate Change Is Stressing Inland Communities
The water surged fast, outpacing local emergency response efforts and trapping nearly 200 students and staff inside Westernport Elementary School in Marylandβs Allegany County. Outside, Georges Creek had already breached its banks, flooding nearby homes and streets, while rain continued to pound the mountain town. Emergency officials scrambled to assemble rescue teams from neighboring counties, [β¦]
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Global wheat yields would be β10%β higher without climate change
Global yields of wheat are around 10% lower now than they would have been without... The post Global wheat yields would be β10%β higher without climate change appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:El Paso Hasnβt Seen This Many Dust Storms Since the Dust Bowl
EL PASO, TexasβOn a Tuesday afternoon in May, earth system scientist Thomas Gill was tracking yet more dust rolling through this border city. Gill, a member of the faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), was waiting to see whether this dusty day would swirl into a full-blown dust storm, in which [β¦]
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:A Restricted Climate Super Pollutant Is Pumped Out at Far Higher Levels Than Countries Admit. What Happens Next?
This article was co-reported with Foreign Policy. A climate super pollutant thousands of times more effective at warming the planet than carbon dioxide is being released at a rate far higher than countries around the world have acknowledged, raising a fraught question: What are they going to do about it? Elevated concentrations of a chemical [β¦]
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Paris Agreement Target for Warming Wonβt Protect Polar Ice Sheets, Scientists Warn
Sea levels in some parts of the world could be rising by as much as 8 to 12 inches per decade within the lifetime of todayβs youngest generations, outpacing the ability of many coastal communities to adapt, scientists warned in a new study published this week. The research by an international team of sea level [β¦]
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Thames Water halts bosses' bonus scheme
The company pauses its "retention scheme", which pays out cash to top executives linked to its rescue loan.
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Global forest loss hits βfrighteningβ record high with climate-fuelled fires
Brazil and Bolivia led forest destruction in 2024 as drought worsened fires and land was cleared for large-scale agriculture and cattle-farming The post Global forest loss hits βfrighteningβ record high with climate-fuelled fires appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Tropical forests destroyed at fastest recorded rate last year
Tropical forests provide a buffer against climate change, but disappeared faster than ever recorded last year.
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:Defending Human Rights Is Dangerous. Defending Nature Makes It Even Riskier
One evening in January 2023, Indigenous leader Antonio DΓaz Valencia and human rights lawyer Ricardo Arturo Lagunes Gasca vanished. Earlier that day, the men had participated in a community meeting focused on the environmental impacts of a mega iron-ore mine that had roiled and divided nearby communities for years. After the gathering, the men climbed [β¦]
Published on: May 21, 2025 | Source:The Chairman of Texasβ Public Utility Commission Has a To-Do List
Ahead of Thomas Gleesonβs unanimous vote from a Senate committee Monday to advance his nomination as the chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, Sen. Angela Paxton asked the energy regulator what three things top his to-do list. No. 1, Gleeson said during a Texas Senate Nominations committee meeting,is reinstilling the publicβs faith in [β¦]
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Veteran Environmentalist Sues Rural School Board Over Exxon Tax Break Decision
An environmental organization on the rural Texas coast sued a local school district on Tuesday, alleging it failed to adequately notify the public before entering into tax break negotiations with ExxonMobil Corp. for a $10 billion plastics plant proposed in the area. The lawsuit said the Calhoun County Independent School District violated state laws requiring [β¦]
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Trump Reverses Course on Empire Wind, Lifting Pause
A major offshore wind project south of Long Island, New York, is back on track. In April, the Trump administration ordered a stop work order on the Empire Wind 1 project, claiming it had βobtained information that raises serious issues with respect to the project approvals,β without further explanation. But on Monday, the Bureau of [β¦]
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Government says water company investigations have increased
The government says it has launched 81 criminal investigations for alleged breaches of environmental law.
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Extreme Weather Slams the Midwest and Southern U.S. Amid Staffing Shortages at the National Weather Service
Over the weekend and through Monday, devastating tornadoes, storms and hail slammed parts of the Midwestern and Southern United States, killing more than 25 people and razing dozens of homes. As survivors take stock of their tattered property, theyβre also prepping for more severe weather today and throughout the week. Meanwhile, the storm front is [β¦]
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Alabama Power Threatened With Lawsuit for Contaminating Groundwater With Coal Ash
GADSDEN, Ala.βCruising upstream on the Coosa River through downtown Gadsden, it would be easy to miss the old coal ash pond sitting on the north bank of the river. Itβs mostly hidden by trees and bushes, except for a narrow opening with an aging chain-link fence and a βno trespassingβ sign. Even from the air, [β¦]
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Why governments should not hide behind forests to meet their emissions goalsΒ
Australia and Brazil are relying on land carbon storage to hit their climate targets, but this is a risky approachthat could see fossil fuel emissions rise The post Why governments should not hide behind forests to meet their emissions goals appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:NC Fires a Disaster Relief Subcontractor Founded by Former ReBuild NC Boss
The North Carolina Division of Emergency Management last week fired a subcontractor that had been founded by top officials at ReBuild NC, the now discredited state agency that botched response efforts after hurricanes Matthew and Florence in 2016 and 2018. The company, PathBuilt, had been hired to work on disaster recovery in western North Carolina. [β¦]
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Coastlines in danger even if climate target met, scientists warn
The goal of limiting warming to 1.5C is too high to avoid continued sea-level rise, scientists warn.
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Michigan Lawmakers Aim to Revisit βPolluter Payβ to Enforce Cleanup of Toxic Sites
Michigan lawmakers are again aiming to boost state environmental cleanup standards and force polluting industries to rehabilitate brownfield sites. βPolluter payβ legislation, facing broad opposition from Republicans, failed last year but Democrats said they are engaging with industry stakeholders to craft laws that will target the worst sites and offenders. Democratic Sen. Jeff Irwin and [β¦]
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Unraveling the Link Between Plastics and Autism
From our collaborating partner βLiving on Earth,β public radioβs environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Dr. Philip Landrigan, director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College. Autism spectrum disorder is now diagnosed in about 1 in 31 children in the United States, based on [β¦]
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Factcheck: Why expensive gas βΒ not net-zeroΒ βΒ is keeping UK electricity prices so high
The UKβs high electricity prices have become intensely political, with competing claims over the cause... The post Factcheck: Why expensive gas βnot net-zeroβis keeping UK electricity prices so high appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: May 20, 2025 | Source:Global Aluminum Producer Announces $4 Billion Smelter for Wind-Rich Oklahoma
The βHay Capital of the Worldβ may soon also be the clean aluminum capital of America. The state of Oklahoma and Emirates Global Aluminum, which produces aluminum with low associated climate pollution, announced plans to build a $4 billion aluminum smelter in Inola, Oklahoma, an agricultural community east of Tulsa heretofore best known for its [β¦]
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Scientists in a race to discover why our Universe exists
Researchers in the US and Japan are competing to explain the existence of the planets, stars and galaxies.
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore Environmental Grant Funding
A federal judge said Monday he would order the Trump administration to restore $176 million granted by Congress to 13 nonprofit groups and six municipalities nationwide. The decision by Judge Richard Gergel, a U.S. District Court judge for the District of South Carolina, represents one of the first final judgments in a case challenging the [β¦]
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Nigerian presidentβs solar panels stir debate over renewables for the rich
Solar systems are a solution to Nigeriaβs frequent power cuts and inadequate grid coverage - but only for those who can afford them The post Nigerian presidentβs solar panels stir debate over renewables for the rich appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Svalbard: Can scientists salvage climate data from rapidly melting glaciers?
On a speedboat in the Arctic Ocean, a team of scientists are hurtling towards a... The post Svalbard: Can scientists salvage climate data from rapidly melting glaciers? appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:In California, Flawed Air Rules Threaten Farmworkers as Wildfires Pump More Smoke Onto Fields
OXNARD, Calif.βThe January wildfires were still raging to the east in Pacific Palisades, torching thousands of homes and painting the Southern California sky a smudgy orange, but Adriana, a farmworker whose name has been changed to protect her identity, recalled trying to get to a strawberry field amid the chaotic response to the fires. It [β¦]
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Svalbard: How it feels to be a climate scientist in the fastest-warming place on Earth
In the Arctic Ocean, around 400 miles from the north pole, lies the island of... The post Svalbard: How it feels to be a climate scientist in the fastest-warming place on Earth appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Report Highlights Community Pushback Stalling $64 Billion in Data Center Development Nationwide
As Elena Schlossberg of Prince William County, Virginia, sees it, the community effort to fight the richest companies in the world seeking to build data centers began about a decade ago when opposition coalesced in the early days of the industryβs development. Then, a couple of years ago, when people began to learn much more [β¦]
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Solving the mystery of a dinosaur mass grave at the 'River of Death'
A group of researchers have come to Pipestone Creek in Canada to figure out why thousands of dinosaurs are buried here.
Published on: May 19, 2025 | Source:Energy boss warns over future of gas storage facility
UK's largest gas storage facility will miss 2bn investment without help, boss of Centrica tells BBC.
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source: