climatechange News of 11/28/20

Central American Leaders Demand Climate Aid As A Record Storm Season Batters The Region

For Central America, this year’s storm season has been relentless. Already struggling under the economic toll of COVID-19 , the developing region was battered by Hurricane Eta in early November and had little time to regroup before Hurricane ...

The U.S. Just Officially Left The Paris Agreement. Can It Be A Leader In The Climate Fight Again?

The U.S. – the world’s second largest emitter of greenhouse gases – formally withdrew from the U.N.’s 2015 Paris climate change agreement on Nov. 4. Now ratified by 189 countries, the Paris Agreement is the most important ...

Joe Biden Said He Wants To ‘Transition From The Oil Industry.’ That Shouldn’T Be A Surprise

When former Vice President Joe Biden said at Thursday’s presidential debate that he wanted to “transition from the oil industry,” President Donald Trump pounced. “Oh, that’s a big statement,” Trump said, later ...

The Antarctic Ocean Is In Climate Crisis. This Week, The World Could Take A Big Step Towards Protecting Its Future

Sixty years ago a dozen nations, including arch-rivals the United States and the Soviet Union, agreed to preserve the Antarctic continent as a place of peace, research and conservation. Commercial exploitation of its resources and its animals was ...

Switzerland, Austria And Germany Surprised With Early Snowfall

(BERLIN) — Parts of Switzerland, Austria and Germany were surprised by unseasonably early snowfall overnight, after a sharp drop in temperatures and heavy precipitation. The Swiss meteorological agency said Saturday that the town of Montana, ...

Republicans Claim Addressing Climate Change Is Too Expensive. Americans Aren’T Buying It, A New Poll Shows

“It’s too expensive.” Republicans have uttered this refrain time and again to reject nearly every proposal aimed at addressing climate change . It’s what drove the U.S. rejection of global climate deals in the 1990s and ...

Donald Trump’S Campaign Crafted A Careful Climate Message. Trump Ignored It

For months, the Trump campaign’s public statements and the President’s prepared remarks have repeated a message on climate change carefully calibrated not to alienate Republicans worried about the health of the planet: regardless of the ...

‘A Climate Emergency Unfolding Before Our Eyes.’ Arctic Sea Ice Has Shrunk To Almost Historic Levels

From the bridge of the Arctic Sunrise, an old ice-breaking fishing trawler turned research vessel now plying the polar waters between Greenland and northern Norway, Laura Meller has an unparalleled view of our planet’s future. It is both ...

The Debate About Reopening Schools Is A Preview Of Climate-Related Disruption To Come

The list of guidelines to allow students to go to school safely is long and complicated: new classroom designs to protect students, flexible school calendars to prepare for the unpredictable and additional teachers standing by in the event that a ...

Kenya Is Trying To End Child Marriage. But Climate Change Is Putting More Young Girls At Risk

Reporting for this article was supported by a grant from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. In a small hut in the village of Bubisa, a young bride named Tunne sits alone on a makeshift pallet bed. Smoke from a smoldering indoor cook fire ...

Record Number Of Environmental Activists Killed In 2019

A record 212 environmental activists were killed in 2019 — an average of more than four deaths per week — according to a new report from the environmental NGO Global Witness . Most killings went unpunished. With 2019 already the ...

2020 Is Our Last, Best Chance To Save The Planet

From our vantage point today, 2020 looks like the year when an unknown virus spun out of control, killed hundreds of thousands and altered the way we live day to day. In the future, we may look back at 2020 as the year we decided to keep driving off ...

Why The Larger Climate Movement Is Finally Embracing The Fight Against Environmental Racism

The 2019 fire at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery started with a simple failure: one leaky elbow pipe in a 1,400-acre facility covered with pipes, tanks and industrial towers. Within a few hours last June, enough gaseous propane had seeped ...

Why This Year Is Our Last, Best Chance For Saving The Oceans

For Mick Baron, the giant kelp forests of Tasmania were a playground, a school and a church. The former marine biologist runs a scuba-diving center on the Australian island’s east coast, and rhapsodizes about the wonders of the seaweed’s ...

Scientists Alarmed About Siberia’S Record Breaking Winter And Spring Temperatures

Scientists say that Siberia’s unusually warm weather through winter and spring is “an alarming sign” — illustrating some of the most notable effects of global climate change as the world warms. In May, surface temperatures ...

Clean Energy Capacity Grew At A Record Pace In 2019, U.N. Report Finds. But It Needs To Grow Even Faster

The world’s renewable power capacity grew at a faster rate last year than ever before, while the cost of adding new capacity fell to a record low, says a U.N. Environment Program report released June 10. Researchers found that in 2019, ...

The U.K. Records Its Sunniest Spring Ever Amid Worrying Climate Change Trends

The U.K. has recorded its sunniest spring, with May being its sunniest calendar month, since records began over 90 years ago, according to data published by the Met Office—the U.K.’s national weather service—on June 1 . For many ...

As The Rest Of The World Plans A Green Recovery, America Is Once Again Falling Behind

As attention around the world shifts from the immediate health crisis provoked by the coronavirus pandemic, countries are contending with an array of considerations necessary to reopen their economies. Industries will be pumped with money, ...

Arctic Science Mission Faces Challenges As Pandemic And Seasonal Ice Melt Causes Delays

(BERLIN) — They prepared for icy cold and trained to be on the watch for polar bears, but a pandemic just wasn’t part of the program. Now dozens of scientists are waiting in quarantine for the all-clear to join a year-long Arctic ...

The Bee Whisperers Of Slovenia Have A Plan To Save Colonies From Climate Change

When Peter Kozmus stepped off his plane from New York at Ljubljana airport in Slovenia in 2017, he expected to quietly grab his suitcase at the baggage carousel and make his way home. Instead, when he walked into the arrival terminal, he was greeted ...