As billions continue to breathe polluted air that causes more than 4.5 million premature deaths every year, UN climate experts on Friday highlighted how damaging microscopic smoke particles from wildfires play their part, travelling halfway across the world.Continue Reading
UN Secretary‑General António Guterres declared the world has “passed the point of no return” on the shift to renewables and implored governments to file sweeping new climate plans before November’s COP30 climate summit in Brazil, saying the fossil fuel era is nearing its end.Continue Reading
The iceberg, known as A23a, has been on a journey following the current into warmer waters for months. Now, it has begun the predicted and natural process of breaking apart, and eventually melting. (Image credit: UK MOD Crown Copyright)Continue Reading
After skipping Parliament’s return from recess this week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has flown back from Washington DC to kick off his party’s annual conference today in Birmingham. DeSmog has been banned from the event, which will be packed full of climate science deniers, anti-vaccine activists, and dark moneyContinue Reading
The city’s mayoral race has justifiably been about housing and affordability. But flood protection, building decarbonization and air pollution will still be challenges for New York’s next mayor. By Lauren Dalban The city’s precarious position in the face of multiple climate change-related pressures, such as coastal or rainfall flooding andContinue Reading
New research reveals that carbon made it possible for Earth’s molten core to freeze into a solid heart, stabilizing the magnetic field that protects our planet. Without it, Earth’s deep interior — and life above — might look very different., Read MoreContinue Reading
Narsiso Martinez aims to dignify farmworkers through his artwork The post Acknowledging the hands that feed us appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
Los Angeles landlords may soon be required to keep rental units cool — or at least make it possible for tenants to do so.Continue Reading
As the death toll from the Afghanistan earthquake disaster jumped to more than 2,200 on Thursday, UN agencies continued to help, while calling for funding to help build sturdier housing to withstand future shocks.Continue Reading
From the Himalayas to rural Texas, deadly floods this month have killed hundreds and exposed dangerous gaps in early warning systems, the UN’s weather agency warned, linking the devastation to rapid urbanization, land-use change and a warming climate that traps more moisture in the atmosphere.Continue Reading
Protesters gathered outside the headquarters of APS on Thursday to criticize the utility’s decision to walk back its clean energy commitments, build new gas pipelines and raise its customers’ electricity rates. By Wyatt Myskow PHOENIX—Despite a summer in which nearly 600 people are suspected to have died in the increasingContinue Reading
Climate.gov went dark after cuts from the The Traitor administration. Now, a group of former employees are trying to revive it under a new domain.Continue Reading
A Japanese research team successfully harnessed E. coli to produce PDCA, a strong, biodegradable plastic alternative. Their method avoids toxic byproducts and achieves record production levels, overcoming key roadblocks with creative fixes., Read MoreContinue Reading