Floating Gas Plant Plan ‘A Loop Of Irony’
A major Louisiana utility company wants to build a floating methane gas-fired power plant to supply electricity to oil and gas infrastructure. Entergy Louisiana says it is necessary to make those operations
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Premium Wine Threatened By Climate Change
A much as 70% of the world's wine-growing regions, from Spain, Italy, and Greece to southern California, will become potentially or completely incapable of producing high-end wine if global temperatures rise more
Food Prices Increased by Climate Change
Your chocolate Easter bunnies aren't the only foods getting more expensive due to climate change. Global "weather and climate shocks" will drive up food prices by as much as 1.8 percentage points
Oil and gas companies deride transition
Oil executives enjoying massive profits derided efforts to transition away from the fossil fuels pushing the climate crisis to record-smashing levels as "visibly failing" and a "fantasy" at the CERAWeek conference in
Insurers Invest in Fossil Fuels at Homeowners’ Expense
W hen Florida resident Scott Maynard, 67, opened his home insurance bill this year, he got a nasty surprise. The premium on his family’s four-bedroom home in Miami-Dade County had jumped from
New Orleans Urban Farmers Prep for Overlapping Climate Disasters
Whenever a disaster strikes in Louisiana, Sprout NOLA springs to life to offer technical assistance to farmers, helping them navigate a wide range of challenges. The nimble group of New Orleans urban
There’s Petroleum Hidden in Your Jeans
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of its famous 501 jeans, Levi’s announced the release of a new plant-based 501 Jean. If you’re slightly confused by this, you’re not alone. After all, a
Can We Dig Our Way Out of the Waste Crisis?
In August 2019, the sprawling Kpone landfill, 25 miles from the center of Accra, Ghana, burst into flames. As the city’s only engineered landfill, Kpone had been collecting cast-off clothing from the
Is Fast Fashion Making Us Sick?
On a recent spring afternoon, journalist Alden Wicker was examining a neon orange purse at H&M. The price tag read $14.99, but instead of listing materials, it simply said “vegan.” She raised
Trafficking Follows Climate Disasters
Repeated climate-fueled disasters in the Indian state of West Bengal have left a wake of destitution and vulnerability among the population, leading to an increase in human trafficking, forced sex work, and
UN Report Finds Global Temperature Increase Getting Closer To 1.5C
Planet Earth will likely experience a significant global warming milestone in the coming years, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The WMO — The United Nations’ weather agency — says there’s a
Record-Breaking Year of Climate Chaos in ’22
Last year's climate-fueled disasters really were that bad, the UN World Meteorological Organization confirmed this morning. The concurrent droughts, flooding, heat, and wildfires and the knock-on effects they cause, all represent the
Ice Sheet and Glacier Melt has Global Impacts
Rapidly melting ice sheets at the Earth's poles and atop its mountain ranges has drastic local and far-flung impacts — all exacerbated by climate change — an interactive NPR series illustrates. Feedback
Ice Sheets Can Melt Way Faster
New research shows an ice sheet over what is now Norway melted as much as 2,000 feet in one day about 15,000 years ago — far faster than scientists had ever previously
Storms Hitting California Could Get Worse
As California's parade of storms comes to an end, the recovery from its devastation and reckoning with future, likely more extreme, deluges begins. President Biden surveyed the devastation on Thursday after expanding
Yields For US Farmers Hit By Climate Impacts
The U.S. is not immune to the devastation wrought by floods, droughts, and other climate-fueled disasters on agricultural production, the Guardian reports. Crop damage and devastation worldwide, exacerbated by Russia's war in
Miami Beach Condo Evacuated
A 14-story oceanfront condo building on the same Miami Beach avenue where the Champlain Towers condo collapsed in June 2021 was abruptly evacuated late last week over concerns about the building's structural
Tipping Points Loom Due To Failure To Cut Climate Pollution
The continued failure to sufficiently slash greenhouse gas pollution will set off irreversible "tipping point" events including four — the irreversible collapse of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, thawing of
Heat Index Will Be More Dangerous More Often
Dangerously hot days will occur at least three times more frequently as climate change drives up temperatures, a study published in Communications Earth & Environment finds. Earth's mid-latitudes will see a three-
In the Pacific Northwest, Salmon Declines Upend a Way of Life
Every spring and fall, Chinook salmon make their way from the Pacific Ocean into the Klamath River, in Northern California. Historically, their black-speckled bodies would swim upstream, around the Cascade and Klamath