The Pentagon’s New Climate Change Report Is Missing Some Important Details
Waves slam the Oceana Pier & Pier House Restaurant in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, as Hurricane Florence approaches the area. Travis Long/The News & Observer/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Less than two months after President Donald Trump said he did not believe a federal report outlining the existential threat of…
EPA Nominee Andrew Wheeler Wasn’t Ready for the Senate’s Questions on Climate Change
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was clear about halfway through Andrew Wheeler’s confirmation hearing to lead the Environmental Protection Agency that he wasn’t prepared for the number of questions he was getting on climate change. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) asked Wheeler on Wednesday whether he…
Trump’s Climate Plan Is a “Free Pass for Carbon Pollution”
Getty/VanderWolf-Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by The Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration’s replacement for the linchpin Obama-era plan to combat climate change would increase greenhouse gas emissions in much of the US more than doing nothing at all, according…
It Was a Bad Year for Carbon Emissions—Even in California
Paul Harris/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Carbon emissions are rising in the the United States, and it looks like the golden green state of California is part of the problem. Despite putting up acres of…
The Shutdown Has Halted Important Scientific Research
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In Southern Utah, there is a patch of desert heated by infrared lamps. The lamps hang just above the plants and soil crusts commonly found in this desert surrounding Moab.…
California’s Camp Fire Was the World’s Costliest Natural Disaster in 2018
This story was originally published by HuffPost. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Camp fire, which killed 86 people and burned the Northern California town of Paradise to the ground in November, was last year’s most expensive natural disaster worldwide, according to a report from German-based global reinsurance company Munich Re. The fire, which…