PRESS RELEASE: Close to $1 billion approved for environment and climate action at GEF meetings
Governments have approved programmes and projects worth almost $1 billion to tackle growing threats to the natural world - and to help...
Let’s secure Africa’s soils to tackle climate change and hunger
Soils hold 70 percent of the planet’s land-based carbon — three times the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Not only is...
Israel is joining forces with Arab states to save coral from climate change destruction
Scientists from Israel and neighbouring Arab countries are joining forces to save Red Sea coral reefs from the threat of climate change....
EPA rolls back Obama-era plan limiting coal-fired power plant emissions
The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said states can set their own carbon emissions standards for coal-fired power plants --...
Blue States Roll Out Aggressive Climate Strategies. Red States Keep to the Sidelines.
At a time when the country is already deeply fractured along partisan lines, individual states are starting to pursue vastly different...
California Takes Big Step to Require Solar on New Homes
California took a major step Wednesday toward becoming the first state to require solar panels on nearly all new homes, the latest sign...
Global warming has changed the Great Barrier Reef ‘forever,’ scientists say
Two years after a long-lasting undersea heat wave scalded large sections of the Great Barrier Reef, scientists have found that because so...
Climate Change Or Global Warming? Three Reasons Not To Be Distracted By The Name Game
Social media is an interesting landscape of opinions, confirmation bias (consuming information that supports your beliefs), and...
Climate Lawsuits, Once Limited to the Coasts, Jump Inland
Until recently, communities suing fossil fuel companies over the costs of climate change have been located on the coasts: cities and...
Glacier loss is accelerating because of global warming
With global warming, we can make predictions and then take measurements to test those predictions. One prediction (a pretty obvious one)...