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Science

Avoiding ocean mass extinction from climate warming

By Justin L. Penn and Curtis Deutsch 04/28/22

Climate change brings with it the increasing risk of extinction across species and systems. Marine species face particular risks related to water warming and oxygen depletion. Penn and Deutsch looked at extinction risk for marine species across climate warming and as related to ecophysiological limits (see the Perspective by Pinsky…

Apr 28 2022

Inside Climate News

The Current Rate of Ocean Warming Could Bring the Greatest Extinction of Sealife in 250 Million Years

By Bob Berwyn Photo: Christophe Simon/Getty Images

A new study suggests that warming, oxygen-starved seas could lead marine species to vanish at a rate matching the planet’s biggest extinction event on record. If greenhouse gas pollution remains unchecked, global warming could trigger the most catastrophic extinction of ocean species since the end of the Permian age, about…

Apr 28 2022

USA Today

Climate change could cause mass extinction of marine life in Earth’s oceans, study says

By Doyle Rice Photo: Evan Davis

Unless climate change is curbed, Earth's oceans could see a mass extinction of marine life unlike anything the planet has seen for millions of years. "If carbon dioxide emissions accelerate unchecked over the next century, this would lead to extreme warming, driving extinctions in the ocean rivaling the mass extinctions…

Apr 28 2022

The New York Times

Warning on Mass Extinction of Sea Life: ‘An Oh My God Moment’

By Catrin Einhorn Photo: Chris & Monique Fallows/Alamy

At first, the scientists chose a straightforward title for their research: “Marine Extinction Risk From Climate Warming.” But as publication approached, something nagged at them. Their findings illustrated two drastically different outcomes for ocean life over the next three centuries depending on whether greenhouse gas emissions were sharply curbed or…

Apr 28 2022

The Washington Post

Ocean animals face a mass extinction from climate change, study finds

By Sarah Kaplan Photo: Caleb Jones/AP Photo

Not since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs — along with at least half of all other beings on Earth — has life in the ocean been so at risk. Warming waters are cooking creatures in their own habitats. Many species are slowly suffocating as oxygen leaches out of the…

NATURE 4/28/22

NATURE

Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk

By Colin J. Carlson, Gregory F. Albery and Others 04/28/22

At least 10,000 virus species have the capacity to infect humans, but at present, the vast majority are circulating silently in wild mammals. However, climate and land use change will produce novel opportunities for viral sharing among previously geographically-isolated species of wildlife...

Apr 28 2022

AP News

Increased infectious disease risk likely from climate change

By Drew Costley Photo: Seth Pincus/AP Photo

Climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spread among animal species by 2070 — and that’s likely to increase the risk of emerging infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans, according to a new study. This is especially true for Africa and Asia, continents that have been hotspots…

Apr 28 2022

The Hill

Climate change could spark next pandemic, study finds

By Sharon Udasin Photo: Silvia Izquierdo/AP Photo

As the global climate continues to warm, wild animals may be forced to relocate to areas with large human populations — increasing the likelihood of a “viral jump” that could cause the next pandemic, a new study has found. Different mammals will encounter one another for the first time during…

Apr 28 2022

The New York Times

Climate change will accelerate viral spillovers, study finds

By Carl Zimmer Photo: Adam Dean

Over the next 50 years, climate change will drive thousands of viruses to jump from one species of mammal to another, according to a study published in Nature on Thursday. The shuffling of viruses among animals may increase the risk that one will jump into humans and cause a new…

ALA 4/21/22

ALA

What’s the State of YOUR Air

04/04/22

For 23 years, the American Lung Association has analyzed data from official air quality monitors to compile the State of the Air report. The more you learn about the air you breathe, the more you can protect your health and take steps to make the air cleaner and healthier.

Apr 22 2022

ABC7

LA ranks No. 1 in ozone pollution, new report finds

By Jaysha Patel

1 in ozone pollution, new report finds. The report conducted by the American Lung Association found that the greater Los Angeles area had the worst ozone pollution out of more than 200 areas

Apr 22 2022

WABI5

American Lung Association’s “State of the Air” reports on Maine’s air quality

By WABI News Desk

This year’s “State of the Air” report, released by the American Lung Association, finds Maine still has some of the cleanest air in the country. However, some areas saw mixed progress for some of the most harmful and widespread types of air pollution. Cumberland, Hancock, Knox, and Washington counties all…

Apr 22 2022

ABC7

Chicago gets failing grade for ozone air pollution from American Lung Association

By Stacey Baca

A new report from the American Lung Association gives the Chicago area a failing grade when it comes to some types of air pollution. Officials from the organization said the city ranks in their top 25 most polluted cities.

Apr 21 2022

Gothamist

American Lung Association: NYC’s air quality is improving, but still gets a failing grade

By Rosemary Misdary Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

More than 22.5 million people are breathing bad air across New York City, Newark and its surrounding areas – and just over half are people of color. These conclusions come from the 23rd annual State of the Air report released Thursday morning by the American Lung Association. It assesses human…

Apr 21 2022

The Hill

137 million in US live with unhealthy levels of air pollution: American Lung Association

By Sharon Udasin Photo: Getty Images

More than 40 percent of the U.S. population — or 137 million people — are living in areas with unhealthy levels of particle pollution or ozone, according to the American Lung Association’s newest “State of the Air” report card.

Apr 21 2022

NPR

More than 137 million Americans live in areas with poor air quality, report finds

By Dustin Jones Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Despite decades of environmental efforts, over 40% of Americans — more than 137 million people — live in cities and states with poor air quality, a new report says. And, in addition to cars and factories, wildfires are increasingly contributing to unhealthy air.

NLC 4/21/22

NLC

What Cities Should Know About Climate Change and Populations on the Move

By Anna Marandi and Kelly Leilani 04/21/22

Americans have historically been some of the most mobile people in the world, continually seeking better housing and job opportunities. However, in recent years, mobility — particularly among young Americans — has slowed, due largely to dramatic increases in housing prices and housing-related debt among American families since the Great…

Apr 21 2022

NLC

The Next American Migration: What Cities Should Know About Climate Change and Populations on the Move

Climate change is no longer just a problem for future generations – it is here now, with storms, wildfires, droughts and extreme temperatures becoming more prevalent in our cities, towns and villages. As these impacts intensify, more Americans are being forced out of their homes or are voluntarily relocating in…

RF 4/20/22

Reclaim Finance

The Asset Managers Fueling Climate Chaos

By Lara Cuvelier 04/20/22

We surveyed 30 major asset managers, mostly headquartered in Europe (25) and in the US (5) and among the biggest institutions worldwide in terms of assets under management. We analyzed their investment practices regarding climate change, focusing on the fossil fuel sector as the priority sector to tackle. The first…

Apr 20 2022

CNBC

Giant global asset managers have $82 billion in coal projects, $468 billion in oil and gas

By Catherine Clifford Photo: Erin Scott/Reuters

Reclaim Finance found that collectively 30 asset managers have $82 billion in companies developing new coal projects and $468 billion in 12 major oil and gas companies. In a ranking of the asset managers, six received the worst possible score — zero out of 30. Because of its size and…

NATURE 4/19/22

NATURE

Methane emissions from US low production oil and natural gas well sites

By Mark Omara, Daniel Zavala-Araiza and Others 04/19/22

Mitigation of methane (CH4) emissions, a powerful greenhouse gas with >80× the 20-year warming potential of carbon dioxide is widely recognized as strategically integral to the attainment of the climate-neutrality goals of Paris Agreement. In the United States, official estimates from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) indicate nearly one-third…

Apr 21 2022

REUTERS

Low-producing U.S. oil wells account for half of methane emissions, report says

By Valerie Volcovici Photo: Andrew Kelly

Low-producing oil and gas wells that account for just 6% of total U.S. production account for half of the methane emitted from all U.S. well sites. The study, published in Nature Communications, is the first to take a comprehensive look at the over 560,000 active "marginal" oil and gas wells…

Apr 21 2022

E&E NEWS

Study: Low-producing oil wells cause 50% of methane emissions

By Carlos Anchondo Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Low-producing oil and gas wells are to blame for roughly half of the methane emitted from all U.S. well sites, despite making up 6 percent of the country’s total production, according to new research published this week. The study, published in Nature Communications, is the first comprehensive look at low-production…

NATURE 4/12/22

NATURE

Attribution of 2020 hurricane season extreme rainfall to human-induced climate change

By Kevin A. Reed, Michael F. Wehner and Colin M. Zarzycki 04/12/22

Hurricanes are among the most costly and deadly geophysical extremes on Earth. Hurricane damage is caused by extreme wind speeds and flooding due to storm surge and heavy amounts of rainfall over relatively short periods of times. The recent 2020 North Atlantic hurricane season was a clear example of the…

Apr 12 2022

The New York Times

Most Active Hurricane Season Was Also Wetter Because of Climate Change

By Maggie Astor Photo: Tamir Kalifa

Climate change contributed significantly to the severity of the ferocious 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, increasing both rainfall rates and rainfall totals, according to a study published on Tuesday. The most extreme three-hour rainfall rates were 10 percent higher than they would have been without climate change, and the most extreme…

Apr 12 2022

CNN

The climate crisis is supercharging rainfall in hurricanes, scientists report

By Rachel Ramirez

The rainfall from hurricanes during the deadly, record-breaking 2020 season was as much as 11% higher because of the human-caused climate crisis, scientists reported Tuesday. The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, found global warming supercharged hourly rainfall rates in tropical storms and hurricanes by 5 to 10%. When…

Apr 12 2022

The Washington Post

Climate change fueled historic 2020 hurricane season’s rainfall, study shows

By Kasha Patel

Over the course of six months, hurricane activity in 2020 churned as never observed before in the Atlantic. The season marked the most named storms on record and the most storms to make landfall in the continental United States, and it chalked up more than $40 billion dollars in damage.…

IPCC 4/4/22

IPCC

Global Warming of 1.5 ºC

04/04/22

An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty...

Apr 07 2022

Time

We Have the Technology to Solve Climate Change. What We Need Is Political Will

By Alejandro de la Garza

Decades ago, the state of California tried to strike a major blow against climate change, and failed. The state passed an ambitious rule in 1990 mandating car companies slowly begin replacing their offerings with electric vehicles (EVs). But in 2002, the state backed off the policy.

Apr 05 2022

Forbes

Climate Critical: 5 Big Takeaways From The IPCC Mitigation Report, According To Experts

By David Vetter Photo: Nur photo Via Getty Images

The world is running out of time to prevent runaway climate collapse, but greenhouse gas emissions can still be halved by 2030 if nations dramatically improve energy efficiency, protect nature and continue to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy, experts representing 195 countries have agreed.

Apr 05 2022

PBS News Hour

UN climate report warns governments are falling short on lowering planet’s temperature

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change laid out its latest report Monday stressing the critical need to implement dramatic cuts in greenhouse gasses to head off the worst impacts of climate change. Dave Roberts writes a newsletter and hosts a podcast called “Volts,” which covers clean energy and…

Apr 05 2022

nbcnews.com

U.N. report outlines possible solutions for climate change and its societal impact

By Evan Bush

From wildfires to sea level rise and heat waves, climate change is having a dramatic impact on the environment and people’s health and well-being. So what can the world do about it? That’s the focus of the third and final report — released Monday — from a recent cycle of…

Apr 05 2022

Carbon Brief

In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment on how to tackle climate change

Instead, emissions have continued to rise – albeit at a slowing rate – and it will be “impossible” to stay below 1.5C with “no or limited overshoot” without stronger climate action this decade, says the new document, which forms part of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report (AR6).

Apr 05 2022

AP NEWS

UN warns Earth ‘firmly on track toward an unlivable world’

By Frank Jordans and Seth Borenstein Photo: Michael Probst/AP Photo

Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists said Monday, warning of the consequences of inaction but also noting hopeful signs of progress.

Apr 04 2022

The Washington Post

The world is running out of options to hit climate goals, U.N. report shows

By Sarah Kaplan and Brady Dennis Photo: Miguel Riopa/AFP/Getty Images

With the world on track to blaze past its climate goals, only immediate, sweeping societal transformation can stave off catastrophic warming. The world is on track to blaze past a crucial climate target within eight years, some of the planet’s top researchers, economists and social scientists said in a sober…

Apr 04 2022

BBC NEWS

Climate change: Scientists race to finish key IPCC report

By Matt McGrath Photo: Reuters

UN scientists have worked through the weekend to complete a key report on how to restrict the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet. Members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are likely to advise a rapid shift from fossil fuels over the next 8 years. They will also…

Apr 04 2022

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Renewables Are Key to Cutting Emissions Over Next Decade, U.N. Panel Says

By Nidhi Subbaraman Photo: Theo Stroomer

Countries must make major, rapid shifts away from fossil fuels and to renewable energy to meet the goals in the 2015 Paris agreement, climate experts tapped by the United Nations said in a report...

Apr 04 2022

USA TODAY

‘It’s now or never’: UN climate report shows globe is on ‘track toward an unlivable world’

By Doyle Rice and Dinah Voyles Pulver Photo: Michael Probst/AP Photo

The time for talk has passed and the time to act is now, according to a new United Nations report on how to curb the worst consequences of climate change. Rapid mitigation measures – reductions in fossil fuels and better building practices – are needed to avoid unsustainable global warming,…

Apr 04 2022

The Crucial Years

IPCC talks go down to the wire

By Bill McKibben

Burning coal, gas and oil have put us in this existential bind, and we now have the wit and technology to use sun and wind instead. But there are, obviously, nations (and companies larger than nations) who can’t imagine a world where you didn’t dig stuff up and set it…

Apr 04 2022

IPCC

The evidence is clear: the time for action is now. We can halve emissions by 2030

In 2010-2019 average annual global greenhouse gas emissions were at their highest levels in human history, but the rate of growth has slowed. Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, limiting global warming to 1.5°C is beyond reach. However, there is increasing evidence of climate action, said scientists…

Apr 04 2022

POPULAR SCIENCE

Climate action is a ‘now or never’ situation, IPCC warns

By Sara Kiley Watson Photo: Dan Meyers/Unsplash

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the third chapter of the Sixth Assessment Report covering climate mitigation. And its findings are grim. United Nations secretary general António Guterres called it a “litany of broken climate promises” and a “file of shame cataloging the empty pledges that put us…

Apr 04 2022

PBS

We have the tools to save the planet from climate change. Politics is getting in the way, new IPCC report says

By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas

We have the knowledge, money, technology and affordable clean energy that we need to cut our carbon emissions in half by 2030. That’s the good news from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group III report. What’s standing in the way is lack of political will and sufficient funding…

Apr 04 2022

E&E NEWS

IPCC: For climate goals, it’s ‘now or never’

By Chelsea Harvey Photo: Jes Aznar/Getty Images

For decades, the key to halting climate change has been clear: The world must reduce net greenhouse gas emissions down to zero. Now, a comprehensive new U.N. climate report summarizes years of studies from climate scientists, social scientists, economists, energy experts, policy specialists and others on how to make that…

Apr 04 2022

THE HILL

UN calls for ‘substantial reduction’ in fossil fuels to limit climate change

By Rachel Frazin Photo: Martin Meissner/AP Photo

The United Nations’ climate change panel is calling for a “substantial reduction” in the global use of fossil fuels in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Warning there is limited time to act, the latest report from the panel says that by 2030, greenhouse gas emissions need…

Apr 04 2022

GRIST

‘We are at a crossroads’: New IPCC report says it’s fossil fuels or our future

By Lina Tran and Joseph Winters Photo: Federico Gambarini/Getty Images

Nations have moved too slowly to curb climate change, and now must take swift and aggressive steps if they hope to avoid the worst impacts of global warming, the world’s top scientists warned on Monday. Greenhouse gas emissions must peak within the next three years, and in the next eight,…

Apr 04 2022

Yale Environment 360

New UN Climate Report Outlines Failure of Existing Policies, Need for Rapid Emissions Cuts

The world must make immediate and drastic cuts to carbon emissions to keep warming to under 1.5 degrees C, according to a new report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Existing policies and economic growth would allow warming to reach 3.2 degrees C, or nearly 6 degrees…

Apr 04 2022

GIZMODO

‘It’s Now Or Never’: We Have 3 Years to Reverse Course, Major Climate Report Finds

By Molly Taft Photo: Michael Probst/AP Photo

In order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the world needs to make a serious U-turn over the next three years to curb our emissions, a stark new report finds. It’s possible to do so, concludes the report, released Monday from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—but only…

Apr 04 2022

The Boston Globe

‘A file of shame’: Major UN climate report shows world is on track for catastrophic levels of warming

By Dharna Noor Photo: Mike Eliason/Associated Press

The world is on track to usher in a devastating level of global warming, warns a major report from the world’s leading climate scientists. “It is a file of shame, cataloguing the empty pledges that put us firmly on track towards an unlivable world,” UN Secretary General António Guterres said…

ALA 2022

American Lung Association

Zeroing in on Healthy Air

03/30/22

Zeroing in on Healthy Air finds that a widespread transition to zero-emission cars, trucks, buses and other vehicles, coupled with non-combustion, renewable energy resources would yield tremendous air quality, public health and climate benefits across the United States. To illustrate the potential benefits, a transition to 100 percent sales of…

Mar 30 2022

Bloomberg Law

EV Shift Would Spur Trillions in Health Benefits, Report Says

By Jennifer Hijazi

Widespread transition to zero-emission vehicles would yield more than $1 trillion in public health benefits, according to research from the American Lung Association. A nationwide switch to electric cars and other vehicles would save 110,000 lives and 13 million workdays over the next thirty years—the equivalent of $1.2 trillion in…

Mar 30 2022

Yahoo News

Report: Switch to electric vehicles will save lives, money

By Shawne Wickham

The transition to electric vehicles and clean electricity production could generate an estimated $3.9 billion in public health benefits — and prevent 356 premature deaths — in New Hampshire by 2050, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.

Mar 30 2022

Grist

Switching to zero-emission cars and trucks could save more than 100,000 lives over the next three decades

By Julia Kane Photo: Grist/Getty Images

More than 100,000 lives could be saved over the next 30 years if the United States switches to zero-emission vehicles powered by a zero-emission grid, according to a new report by the American Lung Association. Not just lives would be saved. The report also estimates that more than $1.2 trillion…

Mar 30 2022

Forbes

Switching To Electric Vehicles Could Save More Than 100,000 Lives, Study Finds

By Jamie Hailstone Photo: Smith Collection/Getty Images

Moving to zero-emission vehicles and energy could help prevent up to 110,000 deaths in the United States, according to a new report. The Zeroing in on Healthy Air report by the American Lung Foundation claims a nationwide transition to clean transport and energy could also generate $1.2 trillion in public…

Mar 30 2022

The Guardian

US transition to electric vehicles would save over 100,000 lives by 2050 – study

By Nina Lakhani Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

A speedy nationwide transition to electric vehicles powered by renewable energy would save more than 100,000 American lives and $1.2tn in public health costs over the next three decades, according to a new report. Analysis by the American Lung Association highlights the public health damage caused by the world’s dependence…

IEA 3/1/22

IEA

Global Energy Review: CO2 Emissions in 2021

03/01/22

The global CO2 emissions and energy demand numbers are based on the IEA’s detailed region-by-region and fuel-by-fuel analysis, drawing on the latest official national data and publicly available energy, economic and weather data. Combined with the methane emissions estimates published by the IEA and estimates of nitrous oxide and flaring…

Mar 09 2022

AXIOS

Carbon dioxide emissions hit record high last year

By Andrew Freedman Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

The world's energy-related CO2 emissions reached an all-time high in 2021, according to new data released by the International Energy Agency. The emissions rebound after the COVID-related economic downturn is another sign that the global economic recovery has not been a "green" or sustainable one.

Mar 09 2022

CNBC

Coal helped drive energy-related CO2 emissions to a record high last year, research says

By Anmar Frangoul Photo: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images

Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose to their highest level in history last year, according to the International Energy Agency, as economies rebounded from the coronavirus pandemic with a heavy reliance on coal. The IEA found energy-related global CO2 emissions increased by 6% in 2021 to reach a record high of 36.3…

Mar 08 2022

USA Today

Global carbon dioxide emissions reach highest level in history

By Doyle Rice Photo: Shutterstock

Emissions of carbon dioxide rose by 6% in 2021 to 36.3 billion metric tons. COVID-19 restrictions in 2020 caused a massive plunge in fossil fuel use. Coal accounted for over 40% of the overall growth in global CO2 emissions in 2021.

Mar 08 2022

Reuters

Global energy-related CO2 emissions rose to record high in 2021-IEA

By Susanna Twidale and Nina Chestney Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

Global energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide rose to their highest ever level last year as economies recovered from the coronavirus pandemic and coal use increased, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said. Global emissions from energy rose 6% in 2021 to a record 36.3 billion tonnes, IEA analysis showed. "The world…

IPCC 2/27/22

Volts

Podcast: Paulina Jaramillo on the IPCC’s new climate-solutions report

By David Roberts Photo: Paulina Jaramillo 04/13/22

Anyone who’s followed climate change for a while has become accustomed to the cycle of reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — the dire warnings, the brief flurry of press coverage, and the rapid return to normal. It’s easy for them to blur together.

The Conversation

Revolutionary changes in transportation could slow global warming

By Alan Jenn Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images 04/04/22

Around the world, revolutionary changes are under way in transportation. More electric vehicles are on the road, people are taking advantage of sharing mobility services such as Uber and Lyft, and the rise in telework during the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the way people think about commuting.

Forbes

Emissions must peak in 3 years to avoid worst climate change impacts

By Nicholas Reimann Photo: ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP via Getty Images 04/04/22

The United Nations called on governments Monday to drastically reduce fossil fuel emissions and ramp up investment in renewable energy in what it framed as a last-ditch plan to stave off the most extreme effects of climate change, warning that a goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius…

Apr 13 2022

Volts

Podcast: Paulina Jaramillo on the IPCC’s new climate-solutions report

By David Roberts Photo: Paulina Jaramillo

Apr 08 2022

The Washington Post

In the race to slow warming, the chorus for cutting methane grows louder

By Brady Dennis Photo: Matthew Brown/AP

According to the IPCC, methane emissions linked to energy supply, particularly “fugitive” emissions that escape from the production and transport of fossil fuels, accounted for as much as 8 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas pollution in 2019.

Apr 04 2022

TIME

The new IPCC report was delayed as scientists debated carbon capture

By Ciara Nugent Photo: Getty Images—Abstract Aerial Art

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions to prevent the worst of climate change would be relatively cheap and technologically feasible, but governments and financial bodies are failing to do so as they continue to prop up the fossil fuel industry. That’s the conclusion of a landmark report published Monday by the United…

Apr 04 2022

National Geographic

‘It’s now or never’: UN climate report’s 4 urgent takeaways

By Kieran Mulvaney Photo: David Guttenfelder, Nat Geo Image Collection

To limit warming to manageable levels, the world has only a few years to stop using fossil fuels completely.

Mar 07 2022

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: U.N. finally calls out misinformation blocking climate action

By the Times Editorial Board Photo: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

A landmark U.N. climate report on the escalating effects of global warming broke new ground by finally highlighting the role of misinformation in obstructing climate action. It was the first time one of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s exhaustive assessments has called out the ways in which fossil fuel…

Feb 28 2022

The Washington Post

Postcards from Earth’s climate futures

By Aaron Steckelberg and others

Our world is undergoing a radical transformation. This is the unmistakable message of the latest report on Monday from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Unchecked greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from burning fossil fuels, are warming the planet and altering the environment at a pace unmatched in…

Feb 28 2022

The Independent

IPCC report: 10 key findings from major global climate assessment

By Louise Boyle and Harry Cockburn

The world’s leading authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has published the second chapter of its most sweeping assessment in seven years. The report describes how the climate crisis is a threat to human wellbeing and the health of the planet, and calls for…

Feb 28 2022

PBS News Hour

How climate change is hurting living things on Earth right now, according to a new report

By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas Photo: Joaquin Meabe/Getty Images

Rising temperatures around the globe are increasingly killing humans and trees, have forced half of all species on the planet to relocate, caused more water-borne and respiratory illnesses in people and threatened food and water security for millions, says a major new climate report released Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel…

Feb 28 2022

NBC NEWS

Global health has improved for decades. Climate change could change that.

By Evan Bush Photo: Muhammad Reza / Getty Images

As temperatures warm, the health risks of climate change are expected to intensify in the U.S. and worldwide. The effects of climate change have already left millions of people hungry, caused deaths during heat waves and strained some people’s mental health as they are forced to leave their homes because…

Feb 28 2022

The Hill

New UN report warns of deadly climate change consequences

By Rachel Frazin

A new report from a United Nations climate panel is warning of the deadly effects of climate change both now and in the future — and finding that they are currently worse than scientists had believed they would be.

Feb 28 2022

USA Today

UN panel’s grim climate change report: ‘Parts of the planet will become uninhabitable’

By Dinah Voyles Pulver and Doyle Rice Photo: Scott Clause

Life in some locations on the planet is rapidly reaching the point where it will be too hot for the species that live there to survive, international climate experts said in a report Monday.

Feb 28 2022

The New York Times

Climate Change Is Harming the Planet Faster Than We Can Adapt, U.N. Warns

By Brad Plumer and Raymond Zhong Photo: Chang W. Lee/The New York Times

The dangers of climate change are mounting so rapidly that they could soon overwhelm the ability of both nature and humanity to adapt unless greenhouse gas emissions are quickly reduced, according to a major new scientific report released on Monday.

Feb 28 2022

The Boston Globe

The effects of climate change are worse than we thought, an unflinching new UN report finds

By Dharna Noor Photo: Jae C. Hong/Associated Press

Climate change is changing our world more quickly than anticipated, and its effects are even more widespread and horrific than previously thought, according to an urgent new report from the world’s top climate scientists.

Feb 28 2022

NPR

Climate change is killing people, but there’s still time to reverse the damage

By Rebecca Hersher Photo: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

Billions of people on every continent are suffering because of climate change, according to a major new United Nations report released on Monday. And governments must do a better job of protecting the most vulnerable communities while also rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Feb 28 2022

AP News

UN climate report: ‘Atlas of human suffering’ worse, bigger

By Seth Borenstein

Deadly with extreme weather now, climate change is about to get so much worse. It is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer, gloomier and way more dangerous in the next 18 years with an “unavoidable” increase in risks, a new United Nations science report says.

Feb 28 2022

The Washington Post

Humanity has a ‘brief and rapidly closing window’ to avoid a hotter, deadly future, U.N. climate report says

By Sarah Kaplan and Brady Dennis Photo: Melina Mara

In the hotter and more hellish world humans are creating, parts of the planet could become unbearable in the not-so-distant future, a panel of the world’s foremost scientists warned Monday in an exhaustive report on the escalating toll of climate change.

Feb 28 2022

Carbon Brief

In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment on how climate change impacts the world

By Aruna Chandrasekhar, Daisy Dunne and Others Photo: Mamunur Rashid/Alamy Stock Photo

The threat that climate change poses to human well-being and the health of the planet is “unequivocal”, says the latest report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...

Feb 28 2022

WWF

WWF Statement on UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report

The IPCC’s report on the impacts of climate change paints a dire picture. We have now reached 1.1° C of warming, and we’re already seeing enormous harm and damage to our cities, economy, human health, food and water security, and natural ecosystems. Climate impacts, like extreme weather events, sea-level rise,…

Feb 28 2022

IPCC

Video message by UN Secretary General at the WGII AR6 press conference

The IPCC provides regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation...

ENERGY 2/24/22

energy.gov

America’s Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition

By Igogo and Tsisilile 02/24/22

This document, “America’s Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition,” lays out the challenges and opportunities faced by the United States in the energy supply chain as well as the Federal Government plans to address these challenges and opportunities. It is accompanied by several issue-specific…

Feb 24 2022

energy.gov

DOE Releases First-Ever Comprehensive Strategy to Secure America’s Clean Energy Supply Chain

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released America’s first comprehensive plan to ensure security and increase our energy independence. The sweeping report, “America’s Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition,” lays out dozens of critical strategies to build a secure, resilient, and diverse domestic…

NATURE 2/16/22

NATURE

Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire

By Jennifer K. Balch, John T. Abatzoglou and Others 02/16/22

Night-time provides a critical window for slowing or extinguishing fires owing to the lower temperature and the lower vapour pressure deficit (VPD). However, fire danger is most often assessed based on daytime conditions, capturing what promotes fire spread rather than what impedes fire...

Apr 28 2022

The Washington Post

Massive wildfires helped fuel global forest losses in 2021

By John Muyskens, Naema Ahmed and Brady Dennis

Around the globe, 2021 brought more devastating losses for the world’s forests, according to a satellite-based survey by the University of Maryland and Global Forest Watch. Earth saw more than 97,500 square miles of tree cover vanish last year, an area roughly the size of Oregon.

Feb 16 2022

CNN

Wildfires used to ease in intensity at night. A study says it’s not the case anymore

By Jennifer Gray

The West is burning out of control. Warmer temperatures and historically dry conditions are leading to longer and more devastating wildfire seasons than we have ever seen before. And now a new study suggests fires are becoming bigger and stronger at night, the time when firefighters used to be able…

Feb 16 2022

The Washington Post

Wildfires are becoming more intense at night and lasting longer, study finds

By Kasha Patel Photo: Bethany Baker/AP

In recent decades, wildfires have become more intense and longer lasting amid rising temperatures linked to human-caused climate change. A key influence on their growing duration? Their increasing ability to survive the night, when temperatures typically dip and humidity rises.

Feb 16 2022

THE HILL

Nighttime wildfires growing in frequency, intensity: study

By Sharon Udasin Photo: David Zalubowski/Associated Press

Nocturnal blazes have grown more intense and frequent in recent decades as hot, arid nighttime weather becomes the norm across the western U.S., a new study has found. While such “flammable nights” were a rarity just 40 years ago — with cool, moist nights offering firefighters some respite — the…

UNKOCH 2022

UNKOCH

Updated Model Funding Policies for Higher Education

02/01/22

The Charles Koch Foundation has an insidious history of using its “philanthropy” to colleges and universities to shape local, state, and federal policies in ways that serve his free-market agenda while stripping power from the people. With growing awareness of the ways in which CKF buys influence over hiring, research,…

Mar 24 2022

DAILY KOS

Koch et al Spend Over $50 Million on Climate Disinfo Organizations Between 2014-2020

Alex Kotch at the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) published the latest count of climate disinfo funding, tallying up over $50 million in “donations” to climate denial groups, straight from industry profits, billionaire ideologues fortunes, and everything in between.

Mar 21 2022

EXPOSED BY CMD

The Dirty Dozen: The Biggest Nonprofit Funders of Climate Denial

By Alex Kotch

In its recently released report on climate impacts and adaptation, a working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change points out the very real danger of climate misinformation—for the first time since its annual assessments began in 2017.

NOAA 1/13/22

NOAA

2021 was the sixth-warmest year on record for the globe

Photo: Getty Images 01/13/22

The global surface temperature for 2021 was the sixth highest since record keeping began in 1880, according to NOAA scientists. In a separate analysis of global temperature data, also released today, NASA has 2021 tying with 2018 as the sixth-warmest year on record. December’s global surface temperature tied with 2016…

Feb 19 2022

MSNBC

Velshi: We need to prioritize environmental justice in our efforts to fight climate change

By Ali Velshi

Natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires – all made worse by the climate crisis – have something in common: they disproportionately cripple poor, Black and minority communities. Dozens of studies demonstrate how climate-aggravated natural disasters and pollution hurt minority communities in ways that barely touch wealthy white communities. There’s…

Feb 17 2022

REUTERS

U.S. sea level to rise by 2050 as much as in past century, NOAA says

By Steve Gorman Photo: Rick Wilking / Reuters

Sea levels around the United States will rise up to a foot over the next 30 years due to climate change, as much as they have risen in the previous century, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) projected in a report on Tuesday.

Feb 16 2022

THE CONVERSATION

What drives sea level rise? US report warns of 1-foot rise within three decades and more frequent flooding

By Jianjun Yin Photo: Matt McClain / Getty Images

A new report led by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warns that the U.S. should prepare for 10-12 inches of relative sea level rise on average in the next 30 years. The rise is due to both sinking land and global warming. And given the greenhouse emissions…

Jan 13 2022

NOAA

2021 was world’s 6th-warmest year on record

Photo: istock

After two consecutive years (2019 and 2020) that ranked among the top three warmest on record, Earth was a slightly cooler planet in 2021. But not by much. According to an analysis by scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), 2021 ranked sixth on the list of warmest…

Jan 13 2022

The Washington Post

The past seven years have been the hottest in recorded history, new data shows

By Sarah Kaplan and John Muyskens Photo: Jon Gambrell/AP

In the middle of a historically sweltering summer, a NASA researcher stood before Congress and declared the unvarnished, undeniable scientific truth: “The greenhouse effect has been detected,” James Hansen said. “And it is changing our climate now.”

2022 REPORTS AND PAPERS

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