Colorado’s Suburban Firestorm Shows the Threat of Climate-Driven Wildfires is Moving Into Unusual Seasons and Landscapes
The Marshall Fire continues to burn out of control on Dec. 30, 2021 in Broomfield, Colorado. Credit: RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images When he saw smoke in the air around Boulder, Colorado on Dec. 30, Tom Veblen walked up a trail near his home to check it out.
Trockenheit Hitze USA Wald- & BuschbrändeConocoPhillips’ Plan for Extracting Half-a-Billion Barrels of Crude in Alaska’s Fragile Arctic Presents a Defining Moment for Joe Biden
The shadow of a bush plane falls on the landscape of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The reserve includes the proposed Willow project. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images
Arktis & Antarktis fossile Energie USAA for targets, D for action: Joe Biden’s first year on climate, graded
On 20 January 2021, Joe Biden took to a stage that had only recently been vacated by rioters, declared that the world faces “a climate in crisis” and asked: “Are we going to step up?” So has he? We asked Climate Home News readers and politicians from around the world how they rated the US pr
USAThe U.S. Military Emits More Carbon Dioxide Into the Atmosphere Than Entire Countries Like Denmark or Portugal
U.S. servicemen stand on humvees as they take part in a military drill in western Ukraine on July 22, 2015. Credit: Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP via Getty Images This story originally appeared on the War Horse.
Konflikte THG-Emissionen USASale of North Dakota’s Largest Coal Plant Is Almost Complete. Then Will Come the Hard Part
Water vapor streams away from the Coal Creek electric power plant at the Falkirk Mining Company in North Dakota on Jan. 9, 2010. Credit: Karen Bleier/AFP via Getty Images A plan to sell, rather than close, the largest coal-fired power plant in North Dakota is nearly final.
Kohle USAAmid Delayed Action and White House Staff Resignations, Activists Wonder What’s Next for Biden’s Environmental Agenda
President Joe Biden speaks to the press after attending a meeting with the Senate Democratic Caucus on Capitol Hill, on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
USAHow Exxon is leveraging Texas courts to silence its climate critics
ExxonMobil is attempting to use an unusual Texas law to target and intimidate its critics, claiming that lawsuits against the company over its long history of downplaying and denying the climate crisis violate the US constitution’s guarantees of free speech.
Big Oil & Gas USAA Vivid View of Extreme Weather: Temperature Records in the U.S. in 2021
Temperatures in the United States last year set more all-time heat and cold records than any other year since 1994, according to a New York Times analysis of Global Historical Climatology Network data. Heat waves made up most of these records. All-time heat records were set last year at 8.
USA ExtremwetterClimate Change an ‘Emerging Threat’ to U.S. Financial Stability, Regulators Say
The Financial Stability Oversight Council issued a formal warning on the economic damage that global warming could inflict. WASHINGTON — Federal regulators warned for the first time in an annual report to Congress on Friday that climate change was an “emerging threat” to the U.S.
Kosten der Klimaerwärm. USAThe father of environmental justice, on whether we’re all doomed
Robert Bullard joined Vox Conversations to discuss the global struggle to keep this world safe to live in, and how racism gets in the way. Robert Bullard has been trying to explain to us for more than 40 years that the word “racism” isn’t so easily defined.
USAJohn Kerry: US supports a coal phaseout but cannot commit
John Kerry is the first United States special presidential envoy for climate, appointed under the Biden administration in January 2021. He spoke to Euractiv’s energy and environment editor, Frédéric Simon.
Kohle fossile Energie USA Ende der FossilenergieBiden Promised to Stop Oil Drilling on Public Lands. Is His Failure to Do So a Betrayal or a Smart Political Move?
A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background on December 28, 2017 in Loveland, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images
USAHouse Narrowly Passes Biden’s Social Safety Net and Climate Bill
The vote was months in the making for the roughly $2 trillion measure, one of the most consequential bills in decades. Now it faces a difficult path in the Senate. WASHINGTON — The House narrowly passed the centerpiece of President Biden’s domestic agenda on Friday, approving $2.
USAAfrican nations settled for ‘moral pact’ with US on adaptation finance at Cop26
African nations accepted a “moral commitment” that the US will deliver increased finance for developing countries to cope with intensifying climate impacts in exchange for backing the Cop26 deal in Glasgow.
Afrika Klimafinanzierung COP26 USAHow bad is the Pacific north-west flooding and what caused it?
What is happening?A huge storm has dumped record rainfall across swathes of British Columbia in Canada and Washington State in the US.Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes, others have been trapped on cut-off roads, and several towns have been completely cut off.
Amerikas Extremwetter USAFormer President of the United States Barack Obama at #COP26 (Full Speech)
Remarks by Former President of the United States Barack Obama at COP26. This UN High-Level Climate Champions Event 'Destination 2030', convened in partnership with the COP26 Presidency, will take a stocktake of what has been achieved at COP26 to date and explore what’s necessary, what’s possibl
COP26 USAPlans To Dig the Biggest Lithium Mine in the US Face Mounting Opposition
People dance together at the protest camp at Thacker Pass, Nevada on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. Earlier in the day People of Red Mountain organized a remembrance of a massacre of Indigenous people nearby on the same date in 1865. Credit: Spenser Heaps
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