The Environment

Apr 06, 2015 at 16:17 | Darrell Delamaide

The move by California to require mandatory cuts in water use for the first time in its history has highlighted the world’s looming water crisis and…

Mar 31, 2015 at 16:17 | Kurt Cobb

Last week we learned that maybe, just maybe, global carbon emissions were flat in 2014 even though the global economy supposedly grew by 3 percent.…

Mar 13, 2015 at 18:16 | Nick Cunningham

China is in the midst of a historic transformation, and the surprising progress the country has made at energy efficiency has raised hopes that the world…

Mar 04, 2015 at 17:10 | Nick Cunningham

A new study concludes that climate change played a role in sparking the civil war in Syria, adding to the body of research showing a climate…

Feb 27, 2015 at 15:06 | Nick Cunningham

A report from the National Academy of Sciences concluded that experiments in blotting out the sun in order to reduce the amount of the sun’s…

Feb 04, 2015 at 15:59 | Climate Progress

A man wearing a mask walks past trees shrouded with pollution haze in Beijing, China Thursday, March 27, 2014.  Credit:…

Jan 08, 2015 at 15:50 | Michael Klare

Carbon Counterattack:  How Big Oil Is Responding to the Anti-Carbon Moment Around the world, carbon-based fuels are under attack. Increasingly grim economic pressures, growing…

Dec 31, 2014 at 10:36 | Roger Andrews

Many people, including more than a few prominent politicians, accept that global warming must be limited to no more than two degrees C above the pre-industrial mean, or a little…

Dec 16, 2014 at 14:11 | Roger Andrews

The Lima climate talks have just ended. Predictably, no substantive agreement was reached. The nations of the world agreed for the umpteenth time that climate change needs to be fixed…

Dec 10, 2014 at 15:02 | Andrew Topf

This week, the world's leaders are gathering in Lima, Peru for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, where they hope to put together a plan for cutting global emissions…

Dec 05, 2014 at 16:03 | Roger Andrews

Working Group 2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released the final version of its contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and…

Nov 19, 2014 at 16:26 | Taras Berezowsky

Which contributes more GHG to the atmosphere, red or white? Image credit: Greg Baker for the…

Nov 12, 2014 at 16:38 | Climate Progress

Credit: AP Photo / Andy WongU.S. President Barack Obama, right, with Chinese President Xi Jinping, during a…

Nov 05, 2014 at 17:13 | Colin Chilcoat

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their synthesis report Sunday, Nov. 2nd. The report combines the Panel’s past work and reiterates the near unanimity in the scientific community…

Oct 27, 2014 at 17:49 | Nick Cunningham

European Union leaders have agreed to a landmark deal to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next 15 years. The agreement, reached Oct. 24, calls for…

Oct 13, 2014 at 16:46 | Andy Tully

From 2002 to 2012, European satellite data consistently showed a “hotspot” of methane being emitted in the U.S. Southwest, but the amount was so large that scientists thought it was…

Sep 26, 2014 at 17:26 | Chris Dalby

The last few months have not exactly been kind to climate change deniers. In May, a U.S. television show with one of the fastest growing audiences around took aim at…

Sep 23, 2014 at 17:47 | Nick Cunningham

The largest ever gathering for climate action took place in New York on Sept. 21, just two days ahead of a major negotiations on a climate treaty between global leaders…

Sep 22, 2014 at 17:29 | Andy Tully

The movement against investing in fossil fuels has reached a critical mass, with more than 800 individuals and institutions promising to rid their portfolios of $50 billion worth of investments…

Sep 10, 2014 at 16:46 | Futurity

People who fish recreationally in the Gulf of Mexico may be entitled to up $585 million in compensation due to lost fishing opportunities following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.