Scientists suffering from insults and mass-spam are abandoning Twitter for alternative social networks as hostile climate-change denialism surges on the platform following Elon Musk’s takeover. Researchers have documented an explosion…
Annotated seismic cross-section of the Fontanelas volcano. Credit: Pereira and Gamboa, 2023A new study suggests that an extinct offshore volcano in Portugal can potentially store 1.2-8.6 gigatons of carbon dioxide,…
More than half of the world’s large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s, chiefly because of climate change, intensifying concerns about water for agriculture, hydropower and human…
For the first time ever, the most likely scenario for global temperatures is that they will breach 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming for at least a year within the next…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear bids by Exxon Mobil Corp, Suncor Energy Inc, Chevron Corp, and others to move lawsuits filed by state and local governments…
By Dave Van Zandt The UK aims to achieve its net zero climate change target by ending the sale of new petrol and diesel cars. However, a loophole has emerged…
China, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are among countries that significantly altered a United Nations document that will shape global climate policy for years to come, according to an account…
Antarctica sea ice as of February 21, 2023. Annotated with the 1981-2010 median sea ice extent.The long-term trend for sea ice in the south is still flat, while the global…
Oslo – Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg was twice detained during a demonstration in favor of Indigenous rights in Oslo on Wednesday, with police removing her and other activists from the…
The European Parliament on Tuesday formally approved a law to effectively ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the European Union from 2035, aiming to speed up…
Washington – Some 400 scientists and climate experts expressed support on Monday for a U.S. government proposal to revise a key metric that estimates the damage from carbon dioxide emissions.…
A California startup using rocks to soak up carbon dioxide from the air has teamed up with a Canadian company to mineralize the gas in concrete, a technological tie-up that…
The world will likely breach the internationally agreed-upon climate change threshold in about a decade, and keep heating to break through a next warming limit around mid-century even with big pollution cuts,…
SciCheck Digest The warming trend in global temperature continued in 2022, which was the sixth-warmest year on record, according to a recent report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.…
According to new ice core data, Greenland has been 2.7 degrees (1.5 degrees Celsius) hotter than its 20th-century average since 1995, making it the warmest in more than 1,000 years.…
Data: Supran et al. Science 2023; Chart: Axios Visuals ExxonMobil's own climate science research, which began in the 1970s, accurately predicted the pace and severity of global warming, a new…
Though the two agencies differed slightly in their rankings, both analyses painted the same broad and alarming picture of persistent warming amid Earth’s changing climate. Visitors at Signal Hill in…
U.S. President Joe Biden addressed the COP27 climate conference in Egypt on Friday, saying the global climate crisis posed an existential threat to the planet and promising that the United States was…
President Joe Biden’s administration will toughen a proposed crackdown on methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas industry by requiring drillers to fix all leaks, not just the biggest,…
Merced Peak Glacier in the Southern Yosemite Valley. Photo: Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Glaciers at some of the world's most famous World Heritage sites are set…