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SWEDEN CRITICISES US CLIMATE STANCE AS IT REVEALS AMBITIOUS CARBON EMISSIONS LAW


The European Union as a whole has set a target of an 80-95 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050... READ MORE

3rd February, 2017 64048

GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC CO2 LEVELS HIT RECORD HIGH


The new report has raised alarm among scientists and prompted calls for nations to consider more drastic emissions reductions at the upcoming climate negotiations in Bonn... READ MORE

30th October, 2017 23732

EPA WIPES ITS CLIMATE CHANGE SITE DAY BEFORE MARCH ON WASHINGTON


Previously, the website housed data on greenhouse gas emissions from large polluters and reports on the effects of climate change and its impact on human health... READ MORE

29th April, 2017 20072

HUMANS ON THE VERGE OF CAUSING EARTH'S FASTEST CLIMATE CHANGE IN 50M YEARS


A new study published in Nature Communications looks at changes in solar activity and carbon dioxide levels over the past 420 million years... READ MORE

17th April, 2017 11934

GERMAN COALITION AGREES TO CUT CARBON EMISSIONS UP TO 95% BY 2050


Germany's environment minister Barbara Hendricks first presented a list of ambitious CO2 reduction targets for various economic sectors in 2015... READ MORE

11th November, 2016 11443

'POLITICAL WATERSHED' AS 19 COUNTRIES PLEDGE TO PHASE OUT COAL


A new alliance of 19 nations committed to quickly phasing out coal has been launched at the UN climate summit in Bonn, Germany... READ MORE

16th November, 2017 9908

LIBERALS PRESENT PLAN TO PHASE OUT COAL-POWERED ELECTRICITY BY 2030


Liberals present plan to phase out coal-powered energy by 2030... READ MORE

22nd November, 2016 7772

3C OF WARMING WILL LEAVE WORLD CITIES BELOW SEA LEVEL


The energy secretary, Rick Perry, and Environmental Protection Agency chief, Scott Pruitt, have said carbon dioxide is not the primary contributor to global warming... READ MORE

4th November, 2017 7577

US SCIENTISTS FIND NEW WAY TO CONVERT CO2 TO GREEN FUEL


Unexpected discovery that produces ethanol could be a building block towards creating a low-carbon energy system... READ MORE

22nd October, 2016 6909

ENVIRONMENTAL RECORDS SHATTERED AS CLIMATE CHANGE 'PLAYS OUT BEFORE US'


Temperatures, sea levels and carbon dioxide all hit milestones amid extreme weather in 2015, major international 'state of the climate' report finds... READ MORE

2nd August, 2016 5827

'NEW ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE REALITY' AS EMISSIONS HIT SYMBOLIC THRESHOLD


Around two-thirds of the warming effect, known as radiative forcing, by long-lived greenhouse gases comes from carbon dioxide... READ MORE

24th October, 2016 5711

WE ARE WASTING THE BEAUTIFUL WORLD WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN


Restoring forests could also help, by locking up carbon dioxide that would otherwise escape into the air... READ MORE

28th April, 2017 5571

SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE SHOULD PREPARE FOR 50-DEGREE DAYS, CLIMATE RESEARCHERS WARN


ANU co-author Dr Sophie Lewis said a certain amount of global warming was already locked in, and Australia would need to take steps to prepare... READ MORE

5th October, 2017 4828

CLIMATE FIGHT WON'T WAIT FOR PARIS


Because the fossil fuel industry faces a closing pincers... READ MORE

9th March, 2015 3559

'THE WAR ON COAL IS OVER'


For Pruitt, getting rid of the Clean Power Plan will mark the culmination of a long fight he began as the elected attorney general of Oklahoma... READ MORE

9th October, 2017 3270

WORLD WILL NEED 'CARBON SUCKING' TECHNOLOGY BY 2030S, SCIENTISTS WARN


I don't think we can have confidence that anything else can do this, the Berlin-based chief executive told a London climate change conference... READ MORE

11th October, 2017 3024

'CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL': COMPANIES CHALLENGE TRUMP'S REVERSAL OF POLICY


Trump, for his part, has called climate change a hoax ... READ MORE

30th March, 2017 2897

MARCH TEMPERATURE SMASHES 100-YEAR GLOBAL RECORD


This means that there is a high risk of record global temperatures over the next few months, Scaife said... READ MORE

16th April, 2016 2527

TRUMP WANTS TO STEER UN CLIMATE CASH TO BUILDING COAL PLANTS


Board members include representatives from France, Sweden and other countries that are eager to combat climate change... READ MORE

14th July, 2017 2481

WORLD'S CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATION TEETERING ON THE POINT OF NO RETURN


Meanwhile another station in the northern hemisphere may have gone above the 400ppm line for the last time, never to dip below it again... READ MORE

11th May, 2016 2372

TRUMP TO BEGIN REVERSING OBAMA-ERA CUTBACKS IN CARBON DIOXIDE


Still, utilities have already shed coal-fired electricity and added natural gas and renewable power, partly in a bid to satisfy the looming requirements... READ MORE

26th March, 2017 2306

FOR TONY ABBOTT, IT'S FULL STEAM AHEAD ON COAL, 'THE FOUNDATION OF PROSPERITY'


Australia's insistence on locking itself into fossil fuels while distancing itself from ambitious efforts to combat climate change has not gone unnoticed overseas... READ MORE

18th July, 2015 2189

WEAK SUN COULD OFFSET SOME GLOBAL WARMING IN EUROPE AND US STUDY


Regional impact of a weaker solar cycle likely to be larger than global effect, with only minimal impact on worldwide temperature rises caused by climate change... READ MORE

23rd June, 2015 1914

FOSSIL FUEL LOBBY GOES ON THE ATTACK AGAINST DIVESTMENT MOVEMENT


Yet the fossil fuel industry spent 670bn in 2013 exploring for more coal, oil and gas reserves that will be worthless if climate change is tackled... READ MORE

11th February, 2015 1655

THE WORLD IS RACING TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE WITH TEMPERATURE GOALS BUT THE MATH DOESNT ADD UP


These scenarios often have the world removing net amounts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere after 2050, rather than putting more there... READ MORE

3rd November, 2016 1525

FAILING NUCLEAR POWER IS GOOD FOR COAL, BAD FOR EARTH


This third option calls for a quadrupling of 2015 U.S. nuclear power production... READ MORE

6th August, 2017 1423

CAMERON, CLEGG AND MILIBAND SIGN JOINT CLIMATE PLEDGE


Three party leaders make cross-party declaration to tackle climate change in a rare show of unity in the runup to the general election... READ MORE

14th February, 2015 1408

EUROPEAN HEATWAVE DEATHS COULD SKYROCKET: CLIMATE STUDY


Climate change is responsible for 90 percent of the additional weather-related deaths forecast for Europe, said the team... READ MORE

5th August, 2017 1328

HEALTH SECTOR SHOULD DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS, MEDICAL GROUPS SAY


This report shows why, in 2015, fossil fuels can no longer be considered an ethical investment... READ MORE

4th February, 2015 1220

HEATHROW AIMS TO MAKE THIRD RUNWAY CARBON NEUTRAL


The huge growth in flights from Heathrow's planned new runway could be carbon neutral, according to an ambition revealed by the airport... READ MORE

28th February, 2017 1187


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