Climate Change News

California Faces Summer Blackouts from Climate Extremes

Scientific American | June 5, 2022

California's energy planners are struggling to increase the grid's reliability to prevent blackouts in the middle of droughts, wildfires and heat waves. Will they succeed in keeping the power on despite extreme heat and wildfires caused by climate change?

Climate Scientists Warn of a "Global Wildfire Crisis"

NY Times | June 5, 2022

Increasing heat and droughts may lead to a 50 percent jump in in wildfires around the globe, according to a recent United Nations report.

10 devastating signs of climate change satellites can see from space

Space.com | June 5, 2022

Climate change is ravaging our Earth so savagely, its dreadful effects can be seen all the way from space.

Monkeypox: Why the climate and biodiversity crises mean we can expect more viruses like it

Independent.co.uk | June 5, 2022

"It’s having ramifications, sometimes predictable, sometimes not predictable," said one scientist about climate change. Is climate change to blame for the sudden increase in outbreaks and pandemics?

Record number of polluters set CO2 emissions targets

BBC News | June 5, 2022

A record number of massive polluters are committing to cutting their CO2 emissions, according to a UN report.

Climate change to make droughts longer, more common

United Nations | June 5, 2022

The UN Desertification Agency warns that the frequency and duration of droughts will continue to rise due to human-caused climate change, with water scarcity already harming billions of people across the world according to a report on Wednesday.

France’s unprecedented drought shows climate change is ‘spiralling out of control’

France24 | June 5, 2022

As global warming accelerates, the of drought haunts France’s once green farmland. Even now, before the start of summer, 15 administrative departments had to restrict water use while farmers warn that the current situation will devastate crop yields.

Every heatwave enhanced by climate change: experts

Phys.org | June 5, 2022

All heatwaves bear the unmistakable fingerprint of global warming, top experts warn on Wednesday.

‘My competition is climate change’: Carbon Clean raises $150M led by Chevron

TechCrunch | June 5, 2022

Carbon Clean, a startup focused on capturing harmful factory emissions, has received a massive $150 million series C round led by Chevron.

Emission reduction remains public’s preferred approach to climate change

Brookings | June 5, 2022

America continues to prefer greenhouse gas emissions reductions as their favorite way to fend off the worst impacts of climate change, according to a new public opinion poll.

California unveils new climate change blueprint packed with strategies tackling fossil fuels

Cal Matters | June 5, 2022

California’s clean-air regulators on Tuesday released a much anticipated roadmap packed with tactics for tackling the climate change crisis.

Climate Changes Your Everyday Life — Here Are 5 Ways

Food and Water Watch | June 5, 2022

Fortunately, for most of us, climate crises feel far away. We may be lucky to avoid the worst impacts, but climate change will still drastically impact our lives.

There's a 50:50 chance the planet will pass the 1.5C warming threshold in the next 5 years

CNN | June 5, 2022

Now there is a 50/50 chance that our planet will exceed a critical threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming within the next five years, according to a new World Meteorological Organization report. It warns of a drastic temperature that could have harmful effects on systems such as coral reefs and Arctic ice.

Revealed: the ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown

The Guardian | June 5, 2022

Big oil companies are rushing to develop new oil fields as soon as they can get government approval. That threatens to destroy our 1.5C climate target. If we don't act, these companies will ring the cash register as our world burns.