The UK government has announced it will invest almost £22 billion in carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects over the next 25 years. The technology works by capturing CO₂ as it is being emitted by a power plant or another polluter, then storing it underground. Mark Maslin, UCL The Conversation This sounds great in theory. […]
Moral values are the principles that guide a person’s perceptions of good and bad, and right and wrong. They shape our prejudices, political ideologies and many other consequential attitudes and actions. Ian Hohm, University of British Columbia and Mark Schaller, University of British Columbia The Conversation It’s tempting to assume that a person’s moral values […]
The International Energy Agency’s flagship annual report, the World Energy Outlook (WEO), is a widely recognized energy analysis that explores key trends in energy supply and demand. One year since governments around the world pledged to transition away from fossil fuels at the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai, the WEO lays bare how much work […]
Centuries ago, estuaries around the world were teeming with birds and turbulent with schools of fish, their marshlands and endless tracts of channels melting into the gray-blue horizon. Fast-forward to today, and in estuaries such as New York Harbor, San Francisco Bay and Miami’s Biscayne Bay – areas where rivers meet the sea – 80% to […]
Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher latitudes, and that’s changing weather patterns around the world. The shift is worsening droughts in some regions, intensifying flooding in others, and […]
Joining us this week is Nathan Crabbe, editor of The Invading Sea, a website featuring news, commentary and educational content about climate change and other environmental issues affecting Florida. By Chelsea Henderson EcoRight News/ RepublicEN (Note: This was recorded BEFORE Florida was slammed with back-to-back hurricanes…) The website—founded in 2018 as a collaboration among the editorial boards […]
A tiny, vibrant world thrives along the rocky bottom of most streams. As sunlight filters through the water, mayfly nymphs, no larger than your fingernail, cling to algae-coated cobbles. Their brushlike mouthparts scrape the greenish coating, leaving faint trails as they feed. Six spindly legs anchor them against the current, while feathery gills wave gently, […]
When the Paris agreement on climate change was gaveled into being in December 2015, it briefly looked like that rarest of things: a political victory for climate activists and delegates from the poorest regions of the world that, due to colonisation by today’s wealthy nations, have contributed little to the climate crisis – but stand […]
Record-breaking sea temperatures across the Gulf of Mexico have been a key ingredient behind some of the intense hurricanes devastating the region this year. In September, Hurricane Helene made landfall on Florida’s “Big Bend” and then stalled over several states to the north dumping “enormous rainfall totals”, resulting in epic flooding which killed at least 220 people. […]
Hundreds of industrial facilities with toxic pollutants were in Hurricane Milton’s path as it passed over Central Florida, less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene flooded communities across the Southeast. By James R. Elliott, Rice University; Dominic Boyer, Rice University, and Phylicia Lee Brown, Rice University The Conversation Milton targeted boat and spa factories along […]
Hurricane Milton rapidly intensified into a dangerous Category 5 hurricane on Oct. 7, 2024, as it headed across the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida. Twenty-four hours earlier, it was barely a Category 1 storm. As its wind speed increased, Milton became one of the most rapidly intensifying storms on record. And with 180 mph sustained winds […]
On Feb. 3, 2023, a train carrying chemicals jumped the tracks in East Palestine, Ohio, rupturing railcars filled with hazardous materials and fueling chemical fires at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The disaster drew global attention as the governors of Ohio and Pennsylvania urged evacuations for a mile around the site. Flames and smoke […]
Hurricane Helene caused deadly and destructive flooding when it swept through the Southeast on Sept. 26-29, 2024. Across a broad swath of western North Carolina, where the worst flooding occurred, the amount of rainfall exceeded levels that would be expected on average only once every 1,000 years. Russ Schumacher, Colorado State University and Kathie Dello, […]
Solar geoengineering has been suggested as a temporary measure to buy time for the emissions cuts needed to stabilise global temperatures. These arguments have generally considered geoengineering as an independent component of the “toolbox” of options for climate change mitigation. By Dr Susanne Baur Carbon Brief However, this perspective overlooks the knock-on effects that pursuing solar geoengineering […]
Ember’s analysis of the latest data on monthly capacity installations shows that the world is on track to reach 593 GW of solar installations by the end of this year. This would once again surpass most industry forecasts, and comes after 2023 showed record growth in solar installations of 86% compared to 2022. Countries need […]