Written by Diplomats and leaders from around the world are gathering for annual climate negotiations. Here’s what they’re all about and what Donald Trump’s victory means for the meeting. Source link
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The new report also says that global warming has hit a threshold, at least temporarily, that countries had pledged to avoid. Source link
New research led by the University of California, Riverside, suggests that a slowdown in a significant ocean current may help reduce Arctic warming projections by up to 2 degrees Celsius by the century’s end. The study was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, investigating how a slowing Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) […]
Three Mile Island Is at the Center of Efforts to Expand Nuclear Capacity to Meet Rising Power Demand
The Pennsylvania plant, site of the worst U.S. nuclear energy accident, is at the forefront of efforts to expand nuclear capacity to meet rising electricity demand. Source link
A climate science denier who claims he advised Tony Abbott now says regions such as North America were warmer about a century ago. Steve Bishop checks his claim. NOTORIOUS CLIMATE SCIENCE denier Viscount Christopher Monckton couldn’t help himself. While boasting on a climate science denying website that a lecture he gave at Oxford University had been […]
“Tree islands” deep in a sea of grass once helped Native Americans elude capture by U.S. troops. A tour of these refuges reveals a rich culture and a new risk: rising water. Source link
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One month has passed since record-breaking rains hit the Noto Peninsula region in Ishikawa Prefecture. Fourteen people died in the frequent floods and landslides that followed, and others are still missing. In addition, around 400 people are still living in evacuation shelters. And the road to recovery and reconstruction will be a difficult one. Unfortunately, […]
Scientists in Japan are mining DNA to try to make the country’s famous Koshihikari rice resistant to heat, after a broiling summer ravaged the crop. Source link