Biden administration recommends major Alaska oil project
The move — which isn’t final — drew immediate anger from environmentalists who saw it as a betrayal of the president’s pledges to reduce carbon emissions.
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Scientists set Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than ever before
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists warned that humanity is facing a time of “unprecedented danger.”
The Great Salt Lake is at risk of ecological collapse. Lawmakers are scrambling to buy more time.
The shrinking Great Salt Lake is facing ecological collapse as salinity levels rise. State leaders hope a hearty snowpack and a surplus in the state budget can save the lake — or at least buy them time.
Residents of Arizona community sue the city of Scottsdale over loss of water services
Two residents of rural Rio Verde Foothills have sued the nearby city of Scottsdale for stopping their water deliveries.
Mexico cracks down on solar geoengineering, forcing startup to pause operations
The government said last week that it plans to “prohibit and, where appropriate, stop experimentation practices with solar geoengineering in the country.”
Moving species emerges as last resort as climate warms
Concerns persist that the novel practice could cause unintended harm the same way invasive plants and animals have wreaked havoc on native species.
E.U. outlines plan for clean tech future boosted by subsidies
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presented the outlines for her “Green Deal Industrial Plan,” which would make it much easier to push through subsidies for green industries and pool E.U.-wide projects boosted with major funding.
Greta Thunberg joins protest against coal mine expansion in German village
The Climate activist joined 6,000 protesters demonstrating against the expansion of an opencast lignite mine in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
NASA and NOAA find 2022 was one of the hottest years on record
Though the two agencies differed slightly in their rankings, both analyses painted the same broad and alarming picture of persistent warming amid Earth’s changing climate.
Exxon Mobil accurately predicted warming since 1970s, study finds
The study in the journal Science looked at Exxon-funded research that used more than a dozen different computer models that forecast the coming warming with precision equal to or better that of than government and academic scientists.
Surging rivers highlight a big dam problem for California
Much of the infrastructure to help alleviate California’s too-wet/too-dry cycles — its extensive reservoir system — was designed long before it was recognized that climate change could intensify droughts and storms.
Extreme weather caused $165 billion in damage last year, NOAA says
It was the third-costliest year on record, highlighting the enormous economic and societal toll of extreme events that are expected to intensify because of climate change.
