GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

In the 1960s, scientists who worked for General Motors and Ford discovered that the exhaust from their cars was very likely changing the climate. We’ll talk to Maxine Joselow, the journalist who reported the story for E&E News over many months. E&E News : GM, Ford Knew About Climate Change 50 Years Ago.

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Grist

MARCH 8, 2024

Today, around 30 lawsuits have been filed around the country as cities, states, and Indigenous tribes seek to make the industry pay for the costs of climate change. All the while, the effects of climate change — the heat waves, the blazes, the wildfire smoke — have only grown more obvious, and more costly.

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Grist

MARCH 14, 2024

This coverage is made possible through a partnership with WABE and Grist , a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Human actions — including climate change — are killing them. One of the whales killed by a boat was a calf just a few months old.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

A senior figure at the influential Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) think tank contributed to a new documentary that spread numerous myths about climate change. In the documentary, Davies claims that climate activists want to impose an “austere” life on ordinary people.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

A new study published by legendary climate scientist James Hansen and a global team of researchers has found that the planet might breach the 1.5 The group’s findings were published in the journal Oxford Open Climate Change on Thursday and garnered various responses from the climate community. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Grist

APRIL 6, 2021

If you’re under the impression that climate change drove ancient civilizations to their demise, you probably haven’t heard the full story. Though droughts certainly caused hardship, and cities were abandoned, more than 7 million Maya still live throughout Mexico and Central America. It’s just not the whole story.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2021

The textile companies creating material change. Globally, with both the COP26 on Climate Change and COP15 on Biological Diversity happening this year, the urgency couldn’t be more clear. Globally, with both the COP26 on Climate Change and COP15 on Biological Diversity happening this year, the urgency couldn’t be more clear.

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Michael Grossman

AUGUST 22, 2023

Focus Is About The People You Serve Ask an climate tech engineer or scientist what the focus of their start up company is, and you’re likely to hear a statement beginning with the words, “we make…” That shouldn’t be surprising because scientists and engineers invent things. Me: What’s Your Focus?

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

What will it take for the world to finally rally around rapid, sustained climate action? Fisher answers this critical question in her new book, Saving Ourselves: Climate Shocks to Climate Action. Michaela Herrmann: One of the core things you talked about in the book is a “climate shock.” Professor Dana R.

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Grist

JUNE 1, 2021

A new study suggests that climate change was responsible for many of those deaths. The paper, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, scrutinized summertime deaths in 43 countries between 1991 and 2018 — the largest collection of heat mortality data ever assembled.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2023

The world’s oceans have reached their warmest levels in modern history, outpacing climate forecasts and alarming scientists. Climate Change Institute / University of Maine “The oceans are enormous, so they don’t warm very quickly ordinarily,” Robert Rohde, a physicist at the environmental data science nonprofit Berkeley Earth, told Grist.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Insect populations worldwide are in sharp decline as they battle against climate change, habitat loss and pesticides. We were surprised by what we found. Ground-dwelling insects suffered too, with exposure to these pollutants causing their numbers to decrease by as much as 36%. Thus, flowers serve a dual purpose.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This creates a tricky paradox, which renowned climate scientist James Hansen has called a “Faustian bargain.” Now, new research shows that the interaction between aerosols and greenhouse gasses also has implications for flooding, which is one of the costliest climate disasters. 05 degrees Celsius.

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Grist

MARCH 4, 2021

A new report shows how differently people talk about climate change from how they did 10 years ago. Climate change began to outpace global warming around 2015 , and the newly popular climate crisis might someday catch up if current trends continue. Researchers at BayWa r.e.,

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. The endophyte is what makes the fescue robust against drought and overgrazing, but it’s also what makes it toxic. But the fescue these cows are eating is toxic. The animals lose hooves.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

But, in part because of the treasured objects they house, museums often have outsize carbon footprints — and they are also uniquely vulnerable to climate impacts. The spotlight There are more museums in the U.S. than there are Starbucks and McDonald’s combined.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“We’re hurtling toward these major climate deadlines,” Hu said. “And I think there’s this deep sense of disconnect between what we say we’re going to do about climate change and what’s actually happening. . percent of people,” Hu said. And people are indeed unhappy.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

A former chief scientist for the oil and gas producer BP claims that journalists specializing in climate change reporting are spreading false claims about extreme weather — an accusation that a major climate media organization deems “factually careless and ideologically driven.” The media are indeed a big factor in that.”

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

This story originally appeared in The Revelator and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Your answer could say a lot about your views on climate change, explains Genevieve Guenther. I did Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project.

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Grist

MARCH 20, 2023

Current and future risks from climate change are far worse than previously estimated, but urgent action is still possible to “secure a liveable future for all.” The release is from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, a United Nations body of leading climate experts from around the world.

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Grist

AUGUST 12, 2021

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report , released on Monday, contained some of the group’s strongest language yet affirming the link between human activity and global warming. The plaintiffs said the erosion had been exacerbated by climate change. ExxonMobil Corp.,

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Grist

JULY 6, 2021

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), as this event is known, is “the best geologic analog” for modern anthropogenic climate change, said University of Wyoming paleobotanist Ellen Currano.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We expected that climate change was going to make the winds of the most intense storms stronger,” said Michael Wehner, a coauthor of the paper and an extreme weather researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. What we’ve demonstrated here is that, yeah, it’s already happening. But some U.S.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a stark warning that time is running out to adapt to climate change. Global warming doesn’t only affect humans by changing the weather and melting the ice caps, the report warns. degrees Celsius (1.96

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2022

This story is part of Grist’s Coming to our Senses series, a weeklong exploration of how climate change is reshaping the way we see, hear, smell, touch, and taste the world around us. I leaped out of bed and ran into my parents’ bedroom, like, ‘What is that?’” A common loon calls out over the water.

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Grist

MAY 6, 2022

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Even if the magnitude of species loss is not the same level as this, the mechanism of the species loss would be the same,” said Justin Penn, a climate scientist at Princeton University who co-authored the new research.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2021

The noxious, rash-causing weed grows in rocky outcroppings, open fields, and at the edge of forests — it generally loves to take over disturbed areas. No one knows why the ubiquitous plant causes an allergic reaction in human beings and some apes. Poison ivy is a fixture of the landscape in eastern North America and parts of Asia.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. a prominent theory for its sudden explosion has emerged: climate change.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

After decades of intense public debate and misinformation campaigns, nearly three-quarters of Americans now accept that climate change is happening ; not only that, more than half understand it is caused by human activity. But science education advocates aren’t too worried about the impact of the materials.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

But the scorch factor of recent years was actually tempered by a climate pattern that slightly cools the globe, “La Niña.” It might also push the world past a threshold that scientists have been warning about, giving people a temporary glimpse of what it’s like to live on a planet that’s 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer (2.7

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2023

Conversations about climate change can be difficult, whether in a business, social or family setting. I thought a lot of what I've been learning would make sense to business folk as well. It's picking up, but most of us still don't talk about climate change much in our lives.

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Grist

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is how climate change is throwing one of the United States’ most critical sources of water out of whack. Climate change is making that situation more likely, increasing the odds of a lesser-known type of drought called a snow drought. California experienced what’s known as a dry snow drought.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 29, 2023

Bernhard has sustainability integrated at its core and works with their clients to create an energy-efficient, low-carbon world, and in this Green Business Bureau member story, we discuss how. Bernhard’s technical solutions improve clients’ energy efficiency and cut emissions.

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Grist

AUGUST 1, 2023

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. What we can say is they were risk multipliers.” Read more here.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 14, 2023

As the sun set on Explore 2023, I walked away in awe of the countless stories I heard, detailing how Planet data has continued to shine a bright light on our rapidly changing planet. This is revealing complex political and environmental issues around the world and giving people the knowledge and platform to affect positive change.

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Grist

OCTOBER 17, 2022

But unfolding alongside the “macroplastic” pollution crisis is another threat caused by much smaller particles: microplastics. But scientists are increasingly worried about their potential impact on the global climate system. It helps the mitigation of climate change.”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Documents seen by DeSmog and the Guardian show that the meat industry is poised to “tell its story and tell it well” in the lead up and during the Dubai conference, which comes on the heels of the world’s hottest ever year. rise in temperature that risks tipping the world into irreversible climate breakdown.

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