A dried cracked lake bed at Lake Oroville during a drought in Oroville, California, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 11, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The megadrought gripping the American W...
Tag: climate change
Nuclear Power’s Future Is Looking Brighter
Atomic plant Vogtle, is a 2-unit nuclear power plant located in Burke County, near Waynesboro, … [+] Georgia in USA. Each unit has a Westinghouse pressurized water reactor (PWR), with a General ...
European nuclear fusion experiment announces ‘record-breaking’ results
Nuclear fusion powers the Sun. Pierre Longnus | The Image Bank | Getty Images Researchers working on a project centered around fusion energy — the process that powers stars — have hailed “record...
Biden rolls out $5 billion to states for electric vehicle chargers
President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, in Detroit. Evan Vucci | AP The Biden administration this week r...
Army’s climate plan will slash emissions, build electric vehicle fleet
Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth testifies before the House Armed Services Committee about the FY2022 defense budget request in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, June 29, 2021 ...
Number of rainy days and intense rainfall can affect economy: Study
A man walks through the floods towards destroyed houses in Schuld near Bad Neuenahr, western Germany, on July 15, 2021. Bernd Lauter | AFP | Getty Images Climate affects the “economic growth sto...
USDA to spend $1 billion on agriculture projects tackling climate change
A wind farm shares space with corn fields in Latimer, Iowa, U.S. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend $1 billion on projects for farmers, ranchers, and forest landown...
Siemens Gamesa sees revenue drop, lowers guidance
A Siemens Gamesa blade factory on the banks of the River Humber in Hull, England on October 11, 2021. PAUL ELLIS | AFP | Getty Images Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has cut its guidance for the comin...
Biden urges against USPS plan to spend billions on gas vehicles
A postal worker loads a delivery truck on October 01, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images The Biden administration on Wednesday attempted to halt the U.S. Postal Service’s plan...
Extreme heat driven by climate change is new normal for oceans
A diver checks the coral reefs of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. on May 9, 2019 in Moorea, French Polynesia. Alexis Rosenfeld | Getty Images More than half of the world’s ocean surface...
Biden helping states plug orphan oil gas wells, cut methane emissions
Oil pumpjacks operate in the Inglewood Oil Field on January 28, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images The Biden administration on Monday announced it will send $1.15 billion to st...
Judge Tosses Out Offshore Oil Leases Signed By Biden Administration
Topline A federal judge rescinded oil and gas leases for a wide swath of the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, arguing the government failed to consider their impact on climate change before they were aucti...
California in transformational moment to fight climate change
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday said the state’s in a “transformational moment” to shift away from fossil fuels, as climate change continues to fuel devastating wildfire...
Los Angeles bans new oil and gas wells, will phase out old ones
A view of the Marathon Petroleum Corp’s Los Angeles Refinery in Carson, California, April 25, 2020. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday voted to ban new oil...
Why I Won’t Watch That Video ‘Debunking’ Climate Change
It happens pretty frequently. I get tagged on social media by someone pointing out a You Tube video that I should watch (thank goodness for Mute features). It is usually some conspiracy theory or pseu...
Plans for floating wind energy projects off U.K.’s coastline get funding boost
This image, from 2018, shows a floating wind turbine in waters off the coast of France. SEBASTIEN SALOM GOMIS | AFP | Getty Images Eleven projects centered around floating wind technology are a step c...
McKinsey calculates capital spending required to reach net-zero by 2050
A wind farm shares space with corn fields in Latimer, Iowa, U.S. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters As the world grapples with a worsening climate change crisis, governments and companies are pledging to achiev...
FERC And The Connecticut Governor Lamont’s Shortsighted Decision To Block A Natural Gas Plant
Earlier this month the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, acquiesced to protests by activists and government officials and officially terminated a contract involving a natural gas plant sl...
The dust has settled on COP26. Now the hard work begins
The COP26 climate summit, held in the Scottish city of Glasgow last year, made headlines around the world. After days of painstaking and at times fraught negotiations, countries agreed upon a deal whi...
Judge blasts PG&E as ‘continuing menace’ over wildfires
People take part in an event to hand-deliver 100,000 public comments from Californians throughout the state calling on Governor Newsom to reject proposals that penalize consumers for putting solar pan...
Biden administration announces plan to confront worsening wildfires
US President Joe Biden (C) and First Lady Jill Biden (R) tour a neighborhood destroyed by the Marshall Fire alongside Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle (L) in Louisville, Colorado, January 7, 2022. Sau...
Could Living Wages Help Solve Fashion’s Climate Crisis? New Research Says Yes
TOPSHOT – A demonstrator holds a banner as models present creations by Louis Vuitton during Paris … [+] Fashion Week at the Louvre in Paris, on October 5, 2021. (Photo by Christophe ARCHAM...
How the U.S. fell way behind in lithium, ‘white gold’ for EVs
The United States has a lithium supply problem. Nearly every major automaker has announced a transition to electric vehicles, Tesla delivered almost one million cars in 2021, and a handful of new elec...
U.S. Natural Disasters Cost $145 Billion In 2021 — 3rd-Costliest Year On Record
Topline Hurricanes, wildfires, droughts and deep freezes made 2021 one of the costliest — and deadliest — years for natural disasters in recent U.S. history, a federal report found Monday, as scientis...
2021 ranks as fifth hottest year as carbon, methane emissions rise
A Cal Fire firefighter from the Lassen-Modoc Unit watches as an air tanker makes a fire retardant drop on the Dixie Fire as trees burn on a hillside on August 18, 2021 near Janesville, California. Pat...
California finds PG&E equipment responsible for massive Dixie Fire
Cal Fire firefighters try to contain the fire from spotting across Highway 395 during the Dixie Fire on August 17, 2021 near Milford, California. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Pacific Gas &am...