Climate

Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Killed More Than One Billion Sea Creatures

Scientific American: More than 1 billion sea creatures along the Vancouver coast were cooked to death during a record-breaking heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, according to preliminary data. The maritime massacre surprised even the experts. Christopher Harley, a professor at…

Will Russia’s Forests Be an Asset or an Obstacle in Climate Fight?

Yale Environment 360: It is the world’s largest forest, and it has been soaking up carbon dioxide from the air at an unprecedented rate. So why are climate campaigners growing anxious about it? Stretching across eleven time zones, Russia has the largest…

U.K. To End All Coal Power In 2024, Accelerating Emissions Goal

Forbes: The U.K. will cease all coal-fired electricity generation in October 2024, bringing forward the end date for the fuel by a year, in a bid to boost the country’s climate credentials ahead of an all-important climate summit in November….

In Push to Find Methane Leaks, Satellites Gear Up for the Hunt

Yale Environment 360: The threat was invisible to the eye: tons of methane billowing skyward, blown out by natural gas pipelines snaking across Siberia. In the past, those plumes of potent greenhouse gas released by Russian petroleum operations last year might have…