New climate models reveal faster and larger increases in Arctic precipitation than previously projected
By Michelle R. McCrystall, Julienne Stroeve and Others
2021 REPORTS AND PAPERS
REPORTS AND PAPERS
Already by the beginning of June, there were dozens of reports on subjects from air quality to conserving and restoring America’s lands and waters, from melting ice to gas emission inventories, from health consequences to economic consequences.
At the end of May, Michael Svoboda at Yale Climate Connections, published a piece outlining 12 reports “on what the U.S. may make possible on climate.” Perhaps Net Zero by 2050: A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector released by the International Energy Agency, on May 1, is the one you should read first. It is both demanding and optimistic.
On August 9, a landmark U.N. report from the IPCC “issued its latest and most dire assessment about the state of the planet, detailing how humans have altered the environment at an “unprecedented” pace and cautioning that the world risks increasingly catastrophic impacts in the absence of rapid greenhouse gas reductions.” As reported in the Washington Post, “the landmark report, compiled by 234 authors relying on more than 14,000 studies from around the globe, bluntly lays out for policymakers and the public the most up-to-date understanding of the physical science on climate change. Released amid a summer of deadly fires, floods and heat waves, it arrives less than three months before a critical summit this November in Scotland, where world leaders face mounting pressure to move more urgently to slow the Earth’s warming.
Monday’s sprawling assessment states that there is no remaining scientific doubt that humans are fueling climate change. That much is “unequivocal.” The only real uncertainty that remains, its authors say, is whether the world can muster the will to stave off a darker future than the one it already has carved in stone.”
2021 REPORTS & PAPERS
nature communications - 11/30/21
The Arctic could get more rain and less snow sooner than projected. Here’s why that matters.
By Brady Dennis and Kasha Patel
The planet’s warming is transforming the sprawling and fragile Arctic, moving it toward a future that can be summed up in four words: more rain,…
The Washington Post - 11/30/21
Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum
By Matthew B. Osman, Jessica E. Tierney and Others
NATURE - 11/10/21
Video: What the Hockey Stick missed about climate change
By Simon Clark
The infamous hockey stick figure was published in 1999. A new paper just blew it out of the water with an INCREDIBLE reconstruction. Learn how…
Simon Clark - 12/10/21
Global temperatures over last 24,000 years show today’s warming ‘unprecedented’
An effort to reconstruct Earth's climate since the last ice age, about 24,000 years ago, highlights the main drivers of climate change and how far…
Science Daily - 11/10/21
Facebook failing to flag harmful climate misinformation, new research finds
CCDH researchers have now used the social analytics tool NewsWhip to assess 184 articles featuring climate denial content published by the Toxic Ten. Articles in…
CENTER FOR COUNTERING DIGITAL HATE - 02/23/22
The White House Report on Climate Migration, Explained
By Erol Yayboke, Catherine Nzuki and Sierra Ballard
The Biden-Harris administration released a major report on climate migration on Thursday, October 21, 2021. Strategically timed to coincide with final preparations for the UN…
CSIS - 11/05/21
Unprecedented threats to cities from multi-century sea level rise
By Benjamin H. Strauss
IOP - 10/11/21
Picturing Our Future
Climate and energy choices this decade will influence how high sea levels rise for hundreds of years. Which future will we choose?
Climate Central - 10/11/21
UN warns of “catastrophic” climate change failure without more emissions cuts
By Matt Lavietes
A United Nations report released Friday warned that the planet will likely warm by more than 2.7 degrees Celsius by the end of the century…
AXIOS - 09/17/21
Climate change is bad for your health. And plans to boost economies may make it worse
By Nathan Rott
It may seem obvious: Heat kills. Wildfires burn. Flooding drowns. But the sprawling health effects of a rapidly warming world can also be subtle. Heat…
NPR - 10/20/21
Climate Change Is The Greatest Threat To Public Health, Top Medical Journals Warn
By Lauren Sommer
The rapidly warming climate is the "greatest threat" to global public health, more than 200 medical journals are warning in an unprecedented joint statement that…
NPR - 09/07/21
Hundreds Are Believed To Have Died During The Pacific Northwest Heat Wave
Many of the dead were found alone, in homes without air conditioning or fans. Some were elderly — one as old as 97. The body…
NPR - 07/02/21
How Warming Winters Are Affecting Everything
By Lauren Sommer, Mose Buchele and Others.
Winters are warming faster than other seasons across much of the United States. While that may sound like a welcome change for those bundled in…
NPR - 02/18/20
gcrmn.net - 10/05/21
Climate change killed 14% of the world’s coral reefs in a decade, study finds
By Ellen Francis
Climate change is wiping out coral reefs and will kill more if oceans keep getting warmer, researchers warned on Tuesday in a new study that…
The Washington Post - 10/05/21
The Climate and Plastic
Plastic pollution is one of the biggest environmental threats to this planet, and according to a report by the advocacy group Beyond Plastics, greenhouse gas…
Living on Earth - 08/26/22
Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods
By Xiaoming Xu, Prateek Sharma and Others
Nature Food - 09/30/21
Here’s How Much Food Contributes to Climate Change
By Andrea Thompson
As with most things related to people, the food we eat comes with a carbon cost. Soil tillage, crop and livestock transportation, manure management and…
Scientific American - 09/13/21
Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production, study finds
By Oliver Milman
The global production of food is responsible for a third of all planet-heating gases emitted by human activity, with the use of animals for meat…
The Guardian - 09/13/21
Friends of Earth Issues White Paper Entitled ‘Truth and Lies: Four Days of Texas-Sized Disinformation’
Friends of the Earth issued a 12-page white paper in August 2021 entitled "Truth and Lies: Four Days of Texas-Sized Disinformation - Social Media Companies…
Targeted News Service - 09/24/21
Linking Arctic variability and change with extreme winter weather in the United States
By Judah Cohen, Laurie Agel and Others
science.org - 09/03/21
Study: Warmer Arctic led to killer cold in Texas, much of US
Warming of the Arctic caused by climate change has increased the number of polar vortex outbreaks, when frigid air from the far north bathes the…
The Independent - 09/03/21
Climate change: Arctic warming linked to colder winters
By Matt McGrath
A new study shows that increases in extreme winter weather in parts of the US are linked to accelerated warming of the Arctic. The scientists…
BBC - 09/03/21
How Melting Arctic Sea Ice Caused $90 Billion Texas Freeze
By Laura Millan Lombrana
The rapid melting of sea ice in some parts of the Arctic could unleash phenomena that result in extraordinary North American cold spells, scientists have found…
Bloomberg Green - 09/02/21
Study: Warmer Arctic Led to Killer Cold in Texas, Much of US
By Associated Press
Warming of the Arctic caused by climate change has increased the number of polar vortex outbreaks, when frigid air from the far north bathes the…
U.S.NEWS - 09/02/21
One in three trees face extinction in wild, says new report
By Helen Briggs
For a healthy world, we need tree species diversity, added Sara Oldfield, co-chair of the Global Tree Specialist Group of the International Union for the…
BBC - 09/01/21
Siberian Fires Now Larger Than All Others Combined
By Amy Lupica, ODP Staff Writer
According to NASA, the “airpocalypse” caused by Siberia’s record-breaking wildfires has reached the geographic North Pole for the first time in history. The region’s blazes…
Our Daily Planet - 08/12/21
Cartoonists’ ‘Code Red’ caricatures of new IPCC report
By Michael Svoboda
The first part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report, described by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres as “code red for humanity,”…
Yale Climate Connections - 08/24/21
Climate change a ‘code red for humanity’ — and the Great Lakes
By The Editorial Board
A recent report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a 4,000-page document viewed as the most comprehensive look at climate ever…
Chicago Tribune - 08/17/21
Climate scientists have a message for the world: Don’t give up
By Chelsea Harvey
Climate change is real, it’s happening now, and it’s wreaking havoc across the world. So said a much-anticipated report released Monday by the U.N. Intergovernmental…
CLIMATE WIRE - 08/13/21
How IPCC went from ‘not proven’ that we cause climate change in 1990 to ‘we are guilty’ in 2021
By Ben Santer
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) advises the world’s governments on climate change science, impacts and response strategies, and recently released their latest report…
THE HILL - 08/12/21
‘Code Red’ Climate Activism Art Around the World
By Kathleen Rellihan
"Engaging with art can make the world felt. And this feeling spurs thinking, connection and even action," says Olafur Eliasson, the Danish-Icelandic climate-focused artist, about the…
Newsweek Magazine - 08/12/21
The new IPCC Report includes – get this, good news
By Dana Nuccitelli
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Sixth Assessment Report, summarized nicely on these pages by Bob Henson, much of the associated…
YALE Climate Connections - 08/12/21
The U.N. Climate Panel Tries to Cut Through the Smog
By Bill McKibben
We all live in two worlds: a physical one and a social one. The new report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was…
The New Yorker - 08/11/21
‘Code red’: UN scientists warn of worsening global warming
By Seth Borenstein
Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to…
AP NEWS - 08/10/21
The Language Of Climate Change Just Changed in a Major Way
By Elijah Wolfson
In so many ways, not much has changed since the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—perhaps the premiere climate science-and-policy organization in the…
Time - 08/09/21
IPCC climate report: Profound changes are underway in Earth’s oceans and ice – a lead author explains what the warnings mean
By Robert Kopp
Humans are unequivocally warming the planet, and that’s triggering rapid changes in the atmosphere, oceans and polar regions, and increasing extreme weather around the world,…
THE CONVERSATION - 08/09/21
The UN Climate Report: All Is Not Well—but All Is Not Lost
By Matt Simon
Today the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released an alarming new report on the state of the climate: 14,000 pieces of scientific literature…
Wired - 08/09/21
The devastating new UN report on climate change, explained
By Umair Irfan and Rebecca Leber
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations’ climate science research group, concluded in a major report that it is “unequivocal” that humans…
Vox - 08/09/21
Global Climate Panel’s Report: No Part of the Planet Will be Spared
By Bob Berwyn
A new IPCC science assessment, coming before COP26 in November, called for immediate action and showed that this summer’s extremes are only a mild preview…
Inside Climate News - 08/09/21
In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment report on climate science
By Alisa Singer
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published the first part of its sixth assessment report (AR6), which will form the cornerstone…
Carbon Brief - 08/09/21
Earth Is Warmer Than It’s Been in 125,000 Years
By Jeff Tollefson
Modern society’s continued dependence on fossil fuels is warming the world at a pace that is unprecedented in the past 2,000 years—and its effects are…
Scientific American - 08/09/21
It’s Grim
By Robinson Meyer
A new United Nations–led report from hundreds of climate scientists around the world makes it clear: The human-driven climate crisis is now well under way.…
The Atlantic - 08/09/21
5 Big Takeaways From the New UN Climate Report
By Dharna Noor
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s massive new report, published early Monday morning, makes it absolutely clear that the climate crisis isn’t waiting for us…
GIZMODO - 08/09/21
Five takeaways from the IPCC’s 2021 climate science report
By Isabelle Gerretsen
The UN’s climate science body has published a major report on the physical changes happening and projected to occur as a result of human activity,…
CLIMATE HOME NEWS - 08/09/21
Climate crisis ‘unequivocally’ caused by human activities, says IPCC report
By Damian Carrington
“It is unequivocal.” Those stark three words are the first in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s new report. The climate crisis is unequivocally caused…
The Guardian - 08/09/21
IPCC report: Greta Thunberg says world ‘must be brave’ to overcome climate emergency
By Rory Sullivan
The world must be “brave” in confronting the climate emergency, Greta Thunberg has said after the publication of a comprehensive new UN report. The environmental…
Independent - 08/09/21
Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
By Niklas Boers
Nature - 08/05/21
Study warns of ‘irreversible transition’ in ocean currents that could rapidly freeze parts of North America
By Doyle Rice
A large system of ocean currents in the Atlantic – which includes the Gulf Stream – has been disrupted due to human-caused climate change, scientists…
USA TODAY - 08/05/21
A Crucial System of Ocean Currents Is Faltering, Research Suggests
By Heather Murphy
The water in the Atlantic is constantly circulating in a complex pattern that influences weather on several continents. And climate scientists have been asking a…
The New York Times - 08/05/21
A critical ocean system may be heading for collapse due to climate change, study finds
By Sarah Kaplan
Human-caused warming has led to an “almost complete loss of stability” in the system that drives Atlantic Ocean currents, a new study has found —…
The Washington Post - 08/05/21
State Of The Climate in 2020
By Jessica Blunden and Tim Boyer
ametsoc.net - 08/01/21
Greenhouse Gases Hit Highest Level in 800,000 Years
By Natasha Lasky and Amy Lupica, ODP Staff Writers
Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations are the highest concentration ever recorded. CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere…
Our Daily Planet - 08/29/21
iopscience - 08/04/21
Just 5% of power plants are responsible for 73% of electricity emissions
By Adele Peters
Each year, a sprawling coal power plant in Rogowiec, Poland, emits more CO2 than many countries—in 2018, roughly 38 million metric tons. It’s the most…
fastcompany - 08/02/21
New Study Finds 5% of World’s Power Plants Cause 73% of Power Sector’s Emissions
By Natasha Lasky and Odp Staff Writer
A new study has found a mere 5% of the world’s power plants are responsible for 73% of emissions released from energy generation. A group of…
Our Daily Planet - 08/02/21
Just 5 Percent of Electric Plants Responsible for 73 percent of Power Sector Emissions
By Don Grant
Just 5 percent of all power plants globally — all of them coal-fired — are responsible for 73 percent of electricity-sector carbon emissions, according to…
e360.yale.edu - 07/28/21
Which power companies are the worst polluters?
By Sammy Roth
America’s climate change pollution comes from many sources: cars and trucks, power plants, farming operations, home-heating systems and even trees that burn in wildfires. But…
latimes - 06/26/19
Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes
By E. M. Fischer, S. Sippel and R. Knutti
nature.com - 07/26/21
‘Record-shattering’ heatwaves to become far more likely without urgent climate action, research warns
By Daisy Dunne
“Record-shattering” events similar to North America’s recent deadly heatwave could become far more likely in the coming years if little is done to tackle rapidly…
INDEPENDENT - 07/27/21
Climate change will drive rise in ‘record-shattering’ heat extremes
By Ayesha Tandon
“Record-shattering” extremes – which break weather records by large margins – will become more likely as a result of climate change, a new study finds.…
Carbon Brief - 07/26/21
Study: Get ready for many more record-shattering heatwaves
By Andrew Freedman
The recent deadly heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, during which all-time temperature records were shattered by several degrees, is a prologue to what is…
AXIOS - 07/26/21
The world can expect more record-shattering heat waves, research shows.
By Henry Fountain
The ferocious heat wave that hit the Pacific Northwest in late June stunned some climate scientists because it was so much more extreme than anything…
The New York Times - 07/26/21
‘Record-shattering’ heat becoming much more likely, says climate study
By Damian Carrington
“Record-shattering” heatwaves, even worse than the one that recently hit north-west America, are set to become much more likely in future, according to research. The…
The Guardian - 07/26/21
Billions more needed to address climate infrastructure needs of US cities: report
By Jason Plautz
A new report from the nonprofit CDP identified more than 300 sustainable infrastructure projects across 97 U.S. cities, with a collective funding and financing gap…
utilitydive - 07/20/21
Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change
By Luciana V.Gatti, Luana S.Basso and more
nature - 07/14/21
Parts Of The Amazon Rainforest Are Now Releasing More Carbon Than They Absorb
By Sharon Pruitt-Young
Portions of the Amazon rainforest are now releasing more carbon dioxide than they absorb, disrupting an important balancing act that signals a worsening of the…
www.npr.org - 07/15/21
Brazil’s Amazon is now a carbon source, unprecedented study reveals
By Liz Kimbrough
According to a study published July 14 in Nature, the Brazilian Amazon is emitting more carbon than it captures. This study is the first to…
mongabay - 07/14/21
Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes
By Stephen F. Jane and Gretchen J. A. Hansen
Nature - 06/02/21
Climate crisis is suffocating the world’s lakes, study finds
By Damian Carrington
The climate crisis is causing a widespread fall in oxygen levels in lakes across the world, suffocating wildlife and threatening drinking water supplies. Falling levels…
The Guardian - 06/02/21
U.S. Climate Litigation in the Age of Trump: Full Term
By Korey Silverman-Roati
Climate Law Columbia - 06/01/21
The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change
By A. M. Vicedo-Cabrera, N. Scovronick and A. Gasparrini
Nature - 05/31/21
Effort to Reframe Climate Change as a Health Crisis Gains Steam
By Winston Choi-Schagrin
For the first time at a major United Nations climate conference, human health is emerging as a leading issue, a reframing that brings climate change’s…
The New York Times - 11/04/21
More Than a Third of Heat Deaths Are Tied to Climate Change, Study Says
By John Schwartz
More than a third of heat-related deaths in many parts of the world can be attributed to the extra warming associated with climate change, according…
The New York Times - 05/31/21
New climate predictions increase likelihood of temporarily reaching 1.5 °C in next 5 years
There is about a 40% chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level in at least one of the…
World Meteorological Organization - 05/27/21
Air quality – related health damages of food
By Nina G. G. Domingo, Srinidhi Balasubramanian and Others
PNAS - 05/15/21
It’s not just methane—meat production fills the air with noxious particulate matter too
By Shaena Montanari
Feeding the world is a necessity, but the process doesn’t come without health risks—even in the form of air pollution. Fossil fuel combustion in cars…
www.popsci.com - 05/13/21
AGRICULTURE LINKED TO ONE-FIFTH OF U.S. AIR POLLUTION DEATHS
By Chuck Abbott
Air pollution is the largest environmental mortality risk in the United States, responsible for 100,000 premature deaths annually, and one-fifth of those deaths are linked…
www.agriculture.com - 05/11/21
Air pollution from farms leads to 17,900 U.S. deaths per year, study finds
By Sarah Kaplan
The smell of hog feces was overwhelming, Elsie Herring said. The breezes that wafted from the hog farm next to her mother’s Duplin County, N.C.,…
The Washington Post - 05/10/21
A narrow path for Biden’s ambitious land conservation plan
By Sarah Kaplan and Juliet Eilperin
Months after President Biden set a goal of conserving 30 percent of the nation’s land and waters by 2030, the administration Thursday laid out broad principles —…
www.washingtonpost.com - 05/07/21
Biden’s plan would boost conservation of US lands, waters
By MATTHEW DALY
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday detailed steps to achieve an ambitious goal to conserve nearly one-third of America’s lands and waters by…
apnews.com - 05/07/21
Biden Administration Releases America The Beautiful plan to Reach 30×30
By Amy Lupica, ODP Staff Writer
On Thursday, the Biden administration announced detailed steps to protect 30% of America's lands and waters by 2030. The report, titled "Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful," calls for…
mailchi.mp - 05/07/21
450 State and Local Officials Support Biden on #30×30 Executive Order
By Amy Lupica, ODP Staff Writer
In an open letter, 450 elected officials from all around the U.S. support President Biden’s Executive Order action this week to protect 30% of U.S. lands and waters…
www.ourdailyplanet.com - 01/29/21
Projected land ice contributions to twenty-first-century sea level rise
By Tamsin L. Edwards, Sophie Nowicki
www.nature.com - 05/05/21
Limiting warming to 1.5C would ‘halve’ land-ice contribution to sea level rise by 2100
By Ayesha Tandon
The Nature study, which brings together 84 authors from 62 institutions, projects future sea level rise using the latest models and future pathways. It estimates that, if…
www.carbonbrief.org - 05/05/21
Hitting Paris climate goal could cut sea level rise in half by 2100
By Adam Vaughan
The amount of sea level rise facing coastal cities as a result of ice melt could be roughly halved if the world meets the Paris…
www.newscientist.com - 05/05/21
Meeting climate goals would ‘halve’ sea level rise from melting ice, study says
By Daisy Dunne
Limiting global heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels could halve the amount of sea level rise from melting land ice this century, when compared to a scenario…
www.independent.co.uk - 05/05/21
Limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius could reduce sea level rise by 50 percent: research
By John Bowden
The world can avoid the worst effects of rising sea levels if the world's countries are able to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a study released…
thehill.com - 05/05/21
Acting rapidly to deploy readily available methane mitigation measures by sector can immediately slow global warming
By Ilissa B Ocko1, Tianyi Sun
iopscience.iop.org - 05/04/21
Swift action to cut methane emissions could slow Earth’s warming by 30 percent, study finds
By Brady Dennis and Steven Mufson
Moving quickly to cut emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas produced by everything from livestock farming to fossil fuel extraction, could slow the rate…
Click to Climate: EPA’s Data Tracker is Back
By Ashira Morris, ODP Staff Writer
After a four-year hiatus under the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Change Indicators website is back in action. The public portal includes data on 54 indicators…
www.ourdailyplanet.com - 05/14/21
U.S. has entered unprecedented climate territory, EPA warns
By Dino Grandoni and Brady Dennis
For years, President Donald Trump and his deputies played down the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels and delayed the release of…
www.washingtonpost.com - 05/13/21
U.S. sees escalating climate change impacts, EPA report finds
By Shawna Chen
The Environmental Protection Agency released a report on Wednesday warning of disturbing changes across the United States caused at least partially by global warming. Why it matters: The…
www.axios.com - 05/12/21
IEA - 05/01/21
12 reports on what the U.S. may make possible on climate
By Michael Svoboda
The practical challenges increasingly made clear as the U.S. moves to address climate change; researchers address options for what they think may be possible.
Yale Climate Connections - 05/27/21
Opinion: A new study shows getting to net-zero emissions is doable. Here’s how
By Editorial Board
SCIENTISTS WARN that humanity must eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or risk devastating consequences. The International Energy Agency (IEA), a reputable international outfit of…
www.washingtonpost.com - 05/23/21
The International Energy Agency Issues a Landmark Statement About Fossil Fuels
By Bill McKibben
The crucial turning points of the climate era can be found in a series of sentences, some of them pretty opaque, but all of them…
THE NEW YORKER - 05/18/21
Climate change and the 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals
By Rebecca Lindsey
climate.gov - 04/19/21
Your Average Temperature Could Change Soon Thanks to Climate Change
By Chris Dolce
Climate averages for temperature and precipitation where you live could change next month and are influenced by climate change. The changes will come as a…
weather.com - 04/21/21
Climate change clearly visible as NOAA prepares to release new ‘normals’
By Monica Garrett, CNN Meteorologist
As weather experts and climatologists discussed the new climate normals being released next month, they came to a conclusion: "Climate change is clearly seen in…
www.msn.com - 04/21/21
U.S. Global Change Research Program Should Shift Focus to Preparing for and Avoiding Worst Potential Consequences of Climate Change, Says New Report
Global Change Research Needs and Opportunities for 2022-2031 recommends USGCRP accelerate research on the multidirectional relationships among human and natural systems to advance our understanding…
nationalacademies.org - 03/16/21
EPA Publishes 28th Annual U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory
The GHG Inventory covers seven key greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, sulfur hexafluoride, and nitrogen trifluoride. In addition to tracking U.S.…
EPA - 04/14/21
Fair Shares Nationally Determined Contribution: United States of America
By Oscar Reyes et al.
Friends of the Earth - 04/08/21
TRIVIUM PACKAGING - 04/01/21
Sustainable Snacking is on the Rise, According to a New Report
By Ellen R. Delisio
Not too long ago, a snack meant milk and cookies after school, but snacking has exploded in popularity and variety, to the point where it’s…
TRIPLE PUNDIT - 03/11/22
The Gassing Of Satartia
By Dan Zegart
HuffPost - 08/26/21
Fossil Fuel Air Pollution Kills One in Five People
By Clara Chaisson.
If the consequences of burning fossil fuels—like melting glaciers, rising seas, and increasing global temperature averages—feel too far-flung or abstract, consider the fundamental act of…
NRDC - 02/19/21
Fossil Fuel Air Pollution Kills Twice As Many As Previously Thought, Study Finds
By Scott Carpenter.
Several years ago, when a study involving thousands of researchers concluded that outdoor particulate matter had caused more than 7 percent of total global deaths…
Forbes - 02/10/21
Fossil fuel pollution is killing 8.7 million people a year, study says
By Scott Tong.
Diesel trucks, gasoline cars, coal-fired power plants and other sources of fossil fuel air pollution cause an estimated 8.7 million deaths worldwide in 2018, a…
MARKETPLACE - 02/09/21
Halfway to Zero: Progress Towards a Carbon-Free Power Sector
By Ryan H Wiser, Dev Millstein and Others.
ELECTRICITY MARKETS & POLICY - 04/01/21
How protecting the ocean can save species and fight climate change
By Sarah Kaplan
Humanity has no better friend on this planet than the ocean. It provides more than half the oxygen we need to breathe. It supplies food…
www.washingtonpost.com - 03/18/21
Trawling ocean floor for fish has carbon footprint equivalent to global aviation
By Louise Boyle
Commercial fishing vessels which drag the ocean floor produce carbon emissions on a level with global aviation, according to a groundbreaking study, which has calculated for the first…
www.independent.co.uk - 03/18/21
Scientists push to add “huge” fish trawling emissions to national inventories
By Joe Lo
A group of scientists and economists are pushing for bottom-trawling fishing emissions to be added to nations’ greenhouse gas inventories, as a study reveals the…
www.climatechangenews.com - 03/17/21
How Industrial Fishing Creates More CO2 Emissions Than Air Travel
By Aryn Baker
It’s been well established by now that the agricultural systems producing our food contribute at least one fifth of global anthropogenic carbon emissions—and up to a…
time.com - 03/17/21
Bottom trawling releases as much carbon as air travel, landmark study finds
Fishing boats that trawl the ocean floor release as much carbon dioxide as the entire aviation industry, according to a groundbreaking study. Bottom trawling, a widespread…
www.theguardian.com - 03/17/21
Recapturing U.S. Leadership on Climate: Setting an Ambitious and Credible Nationally Determined Contribution
By Nathaniel Keohane et al.
EDF - 03/03/21
Gauging Economic Consensus on Climate Change
By Peter Howard and Derek Sylvan.
Institute for Policy Integrity - 03/01/21
Drought Is Consuming the Western U.S., but Water Technologies Offer Lifelines
By Kate Zerrenner.
Parts of Texas have yet to recover from the deadly winter storm two months ago while now facing an onslaught of hot, dry days punctuated…
TRIPLE PUNDIT - 04/13/21
Gauging Economic Consensus on Climate Change – Issue Brief
By Peter Howard and Derek Sylvan.
We conducted a large-sample global survey on climate economics, which we sent to all economists who have published climate-related research in the field’s highest-ranked academic…
Institute for Policy Integrity - 03/30/21
U.S. Warns Climate Poses ‘Emerging Threat’ to Financial System
By Alan Rappeport and Christopher Flavelle
The New York Times - 10/21/21
A new UN report urges a radical shift in the way we think about nature
By Caitlin Hu
New York (CNN)The United Nations released a report Thursday on the health of the planet that proposes a radical shift in the way mankind thinks…
edition.cnn.com - 02/19/21
Human destruction of nature is ‘senseless and suicidal’, warns UN chief
By Damian Carrington
Humanity is waging a “senseless and suicidal” war on nature that is causing human suffering and enormous economic losses while accelerating the destruction of life…
www.theguardian.com - 02/18/21
Making Peace With Nature
By Stuart Braun
A new UN blueprint offers an integrated 'peace plan' to tackle three interlinked environmental emergencies — the climate crisis, biodiversity loss and pollution — that…
www.dw.com - 02/18/21
Climate Impacts of COVID‐19 Induced Emission Changes
By A. Gettelman and others
Advancing Earth and Space Science - 12/29/20
COVID-19 LOCKDOWNS TEMPORARILY RAISED GLOBAL TEMPERATURES
BY DAVID HOSANSKY
The lockdowns and reduced societal activity related to the COVID-19 pandemic affected emissions of pollutants in ways that slightly warmed the planet for several months…
NEWS.UCAR.EDU - 02/02/21
Under-reporting of greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. cities
By Kevin Robert Gurney
www.nature.com - 02/02/21
U.S. cities underestimating their carbon emissions – study
By Reuters Staff
U.S. cities are underestimating their carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 18%, according to a study released on Tuesday, potentially hindering their efforts to…
www.reuters.com - 02/02/21
California’s climate challenge: Move fast, don’t break things
By Sammy Roth
It’s easy to change the world when you don’t care who gets hurt. Which is why what California is trying to do on the electric…
Los Angeles Times - 03/25/21
www.thelancet.com - 02/01/21
Guest post: Health benefits of Paris climate goals could save millions of lives by 2040
By Dr Alice McGushin
On World Health Day in 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that “protecting human health is the ‘bottom line’ of climate change strategies”. The WHO went on to…
www.carbonbrief.org - 02/17/21
Healthy Planet, Healthy People. How Slowing Climate Change Saves Lives
By Aryn Baker
Just because the United States has re-joined the Paris Agreement doesn’t mean that the world is on a path to a better climate future. The 2015 agreement,…
time.com - 02/09/21
New U.N. Report Highlights Need to Step Up Climate Change Adaptation
By Earth Institute
news.climate.columbia.edu - 01/21/21
Ron DeSantis has tried to tackle climate disasters, not carbon emissions
By Vanessa Montalbano
Good morning and welcome to The Climate 202! This is Vanessa Montalbano, your Climate 202 researcher, taking over the top of the newsletter today. We…
The Washington Post - 06/05/23
A win for nature at the One Planet Summit – but this is just the start
While newly announced funding for Nature-based Solutions is greatly welcomed, governments must ensure it does not come at the expense of other climate, conservation and…
wwf.panda.org - 01/14/21
Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
By Zhu Liu, Philippe Ciais and more
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication - 01/14/21
Most Democrats and Republicans think the government should make climate change a priority
By Jariel Arvin
A new survey finds broad support among American voters for doing more on climate change. A new study has found widespread support for climate-friendly energy policies…
vox.com - 01/15/21
Survey Finds Majority of Voters Support Initiatives to Fight Climate Change
By John Schwartz
A survey carried out after the November election found that 66 percent of respondents said that developing sources of clean energy should be a high…
The New York Times - 01/15/21
Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
By Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Paul R. Ehrlich and more
frontiersin.org - 01/19/21
The World Needs to Wake Up: At Risk the Survival of Humanity
By Claude Forthomme - Senior Editor
At a time when the world, battered by COVID-19, is watching with dismay the rocky transition from Trump to President-Elect Biden, a group of 17…
impakter.com - 01/13/21