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CCC: UK climate advisers now ‘more optimistic’ net-zero goals can be met
The UK government’s official climate advisers are now “more optimistic” that the country can hit... The post CCC: UK climate advisers now ‘more optimistic’ net-zero goals can be met appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:
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Huge Public Land Sale Stripped from Senate Bill—For Now—But Assault on Federal Land Protections Continues
Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s proposed amendment to the budget reconciliation megabill that would mandate the sell-off of two to three million acres of U.S. public lands has been ruled out by the Senate parliamentarian. Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate parliamentarian whose staff provides advice on rules, precedents and statutes in the Senate, said the proposal, as […]
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Amid Brutal Heat Wave, Officials Stress Health Risks of Hot Nights
Much of the United States is baking amid an unusually severe June heat wave, with more than 150 million people under some sort of heat advisory. The unrelenting heat wave started in the Mountain West over the weekend and has since descended upon the Midwestern and Eastern U.S., where high humidity is making temperatures topping […]
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:Bonn bulletin: Developing nations call for adaptation finance to triple by 2030
The chair of the Least Developed Countries group called for a new and more ambitious goal for adaptation finance The post Bonn bulletin: Developing nations call for adaptation finance to tripleby2030 appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:World’s largest carbon projects unlikely to deliver emissions cuts despite reforms
So far, carbon markets have not led to a promised decrease in planet-heating emissions - and efforts to tighten standards have yet to prove their worth The post World’s largest carbon projects unlikely to deliver emissions cuts despite reforms appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:In North Carolina, Exploding Bulbs and Fridges on the Fritz Reveal a Town’s Fraying Electric System
RED SPRINGS, N.C.—Early one evening this April, Kim Overstreet had just turned off the stove when she heard a boom. The panel box in the kitchen swung open and fuses shot out of their holders, bouncing off the fridge. Less than a block away, Debra Duncan’s robot vacuum bolted off its charging station toward her, […]
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:A New York Rooftop Blossoms with Lessons About Food Literacy
NEW YORK—On the roof of Metro Baptist Church, 52 pink and blue plastic kiddie pools are filled with soil and a bounty of blossoms, legumes and leafy greens. It’s the first hot summer day in New York City, and the air is thick with haze from Canadian wildfires miles away. On this rooftop, there is […]
Published on: June 24, 2025 | Source:As GOP Tries to Pass Tax Bill, Senate Includes Billions in Benefits for Oil Industry
As the Senate works this week to pass major legislation that would slash taxes, climate programs and government spending, Republicans are poised to include billions of dollars in benefits for the oil and gas industry. The new oil-targeted tax changes would cost the federal government about $18 billion in lost revenue over a decade, according […]
Published on: June 23, 2025 | Source:First celestial image unveiled from revolutionary telescope
The telescope should detect killer asteroids and may even find the ninth planet in our solar system.
Published on: June 23, 2025 | Source:Killer whales make kelp tools to 'massage' each other
Orcas have been filmed using kelp as a tool to massage each other
Published on: June 23, 2025 | Source:Killer whales 'massage' each other using kelp
Orcas have been filmed using kelp as a tool to massage each other
Published on: June 23, 2025 | Source:Campaigners issue mass call for reforms to rescue UN climate process
Groups want governments to make decisions by voting - rather than consensus as now - to enable more ambition in negotiations under fire for not delivering enough climate action The post Campaigners issue mass call for reforms to rescue UN climate process appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 23, 2025 | Source:Guest post: Investigating how volcanic eruptions can affect climate projections
Volcanic eruptions pose a fundamental challenge for scientists and their climate models. It is well... The post Guest post: Investigating how volcanic eruptions can affect climate projections appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 23, 2025 | Source:UN expects climate finance roadmap to offer “clear next steps”
But governments, multilateral development banks and civil society are still far apart on how to raise $1.3 trillion a year by 2035 The post UN expects climate finance roadmap to offer “clear next steps” appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 23, 2025 | Source:Figuring Out a Battery Storage System to Fit New York’s Wind and Solar Ambitions Has Not Been Easy
When New York state passed its ambitious Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act in 2019, Brooklyn-based NineDot Energy saw an opportunity. The state needed to establish a 70 percent renewable-sourced grid over the next decade to meet a net zero-emission goal and the startup figured it was poised to be part of the solution. NineDot […]
Published on: June 23, 2025 | Source:How China made electric vehicles mainstream
The world's second largest economy is both the biggest producer and buyer of EVs.
Published on: June 22, 2025 | Source:What are the risks of bombing Iran's nuclear sites?
Destroying Iran's stores of enriched uranium would bring danger for people nearby but not trigger another Chernobyl.
Published on: June 22, 2025 | Source:Searching for Hidden Fungi in the Sonoran Desert
SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.—As the sprawl of homes begins to dissipate on the outskirts of Tucson, forests of saguaro cacti rise in its place, their arms twisting and twirling as if waving a welcome to the Sonoran desert. Fields of prickly pears and cholla cactuses, blooming creosote bushes and green-limbed palo verde trees spread beneath […]
Published on: June 22, 2025 | Source:In California, a Push to Decommission Gas Lines in Low-Income Neighborhoods Moves Forward
In Richmond, California, Zenaida Gomez is ready to say goodbye to the gas stove in the apartment she has rented for over a decade. She has a hunch that the pollution it emits is exacerbating her 10-year-old son’s asthma attacks, and she has heard from public health experts and doctors who’ve said it probably is. […]
Published on: June 22, 2025 | Source:The Ecofeminist Movement Is Surging. Here’s What Its Advocates Want
It was an audacious moment. During a recent government hearing, allies of former President Jair Bolsonaro berated Brazil’s environment and climate minister, telling Marina Silva she was “hindering our country’s development,” didn’t deserve respect and should “know your place.” “You just want me to be a submissive woman,” Silva replied. “But I am not.” A […]
Published on: June 21, 2025 | Source:Scientists’ Letter Urges Brazil’s President Lula to Reject New Amazon and Offshore Drilling
Citing the global increase of heatwaves, mega-fires, floods and mass climate-driven displacement, a group of 250 scientists this week asked Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to champion “a fast, fair, effective, and full phaseout of fossil fuels” in the lead-up to the COP30 climate talks later this year in Brazil. “As we rapidly […]
Published on: June 21, 2025 | Source:Alabama Environmental Groups Secure Rare Win in Fight to Update Water Toxicity Standards
Alabama environmental regulators have agreed to update standards used to limit the amounts of 12 toxic and carcinogenic substances in the state’s waterways, a move that clean water advocates say will help protect those who fish and swim in Alabama’s rivers. Seven Alabama environmental groups petitioned the state’s Environmental Management Commission to update those standards […]
Published on: June 21, 2025 | Source:King's Midwinter message to Antarctic researchers
King Charles is the first monarch to take part in the annual BBC broadcast, which sends a morale-raising message to scientists on remote research bases.
Published on: June 21, 2025 | Source:Guest post: How solar panels and batteries can now run ‘close to 24/365’ in some cities
A few years ago, solar power became the “cheapest electricity in history”, but it still... The post Guest post: How solar panels and batteries can now run ‘close to 24/365’ in some cities appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Ground Source Heat Pump Manufacturers Urge Senators to Preserve Geothermal Tax Credits
Ground source heat pumps, a small but growing segment of the U.S. heating and cooling sector, could help slash energy demands, boost American manufacturing and stabilize the electric grid as AI-fueled power demands soar. That is the argument that executives whose companies manufacture the devices are making to their senators after the Senate’s draft of […]
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Why Is the U.S. Proposing Protections for an Animal That Doesn’t Live Here?
Earlier this week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing seven species of pangolins—scaly, armadillo-like creatures found in Asia and Africa—as endangered. But why would a species that doesn’t live in the country need protections under America’s Endangered Species Act? Pangolins are widely believed to be the most heavily trafficked mammal in the global […]
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:How ‘sophisticated’ climate misinformation gets to the heart of power
The fossil fuel industry and right-wing populists are increasingly targeting key policy-makers through backdoor channels, according to a new report The post How ‘sophisticated’ climate misinformation gets to the heart of power appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Can Solar and Geothermal Energy Help a Church and Its Neighbors Wean Off Fossil Fuels?
SALEM, Mass.—One of the most ambitious clean energy projects under consideration in this state started after a nasty surprise. In December 2022, utility provider National Grid informed Rev. Nathan Ives of the St. Peter’s-San Pedro Episcopal Church in Salem that they had the right to change the building’s gas meter. “The bill went from a […]
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Brazil: Let’s deliver on our old climate promises before making new ones
The COP30 Presidency wants to focus on implementing the agreed response to the 2023 Global Stocktake including transitioning away from fossil fuels The post Brazil: Let’s deliver on our old climate promises before making new ones appeared first on Climate Home News.
Published on: June 20, 2025 | Source:Plastic bag bans and fees curb US shoreline litter, study suggests
Shoreline litter data research shows policies caused a relative decrease in the percentage of plastic bags.
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:How a Data Center Company Uses Stranded Renewable Energy
John Belizaire says he has a secret hiding in plain sight. But before revealing it, the CEO of Soluna, a green data center development firm headquartered in Albany, New York, asks people to picture the last time they drove through a gusty stretch of countryside and saw wind turbines in the distance. But when they […]
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:Guest post: How the world’s rivers are releasing billions of tonnes of ‘ancient’ carbon
The perception of how the land surface releases carbon dioxide (CO2) typically conjures up images... The post Guest post: How the world’s rivers are releasing billions of tonnes of ‘ancient’ carbon appeared first on Carbon Brief.
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:As Wildfires Increase, NJ Considers the Impact on Public Health
The Jones Road fire in New Jersey scorched 15,300 acres for nearly three weeks this spring. Its sickly orange haze vanished hours after the blaze was doused, but a stench from the blackened landscape, including parts of the Pine Barrens, lingered for days. New Jersey public health experts now are trying to understand what, if […]
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:Pollution, Not Drought, Prompts Lawn-Watering Ban in Des Moines
Right before a sweltering weekend in Iowa, the water authority for the Des Moines metro area banned its 600,000 customers from watering their lawns. Though that’s a water conservation practice familiar to residents of drought-stricken states, the Iowa ban isn’t about water scarcity. Instead, it’s due to near-record levels of pollution in the area’s waterways […]
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source:Juneteenth and Its Role in Environmental Justice—for All
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with the Rev. Mariama White-Hammond, pastor of New Roots African Methodist Episcopal Church in Dorchester, Massachusetts. White-Hammond is also the former chief of environment, energy and open spaces for the city of Boston. The federal holiday Juneteenth […]
Published on: June 19, 2025 | Source: