Climate, Energy & Conservation
The Great Simplification #228 with John Churchill
There is a highly influential lobbying group in Europe, founded and based in The Hague, which you have never heard of: the European Climate Foundation. With an annual budget of hundreds of millions of...
BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada — On a sunny Thursday in May, Kent Kebe had to scrape yet another bighorn sheep carcass off Highway 93/95 running through Radium, British Columbia. The necropsy confirmed what...
A recent post at Phys.org, “Climate change makes extreme West Africa rainfall five times likelier, study finds,” relies on a weather attribution study to assert that recent heavy rainfall and subseque...
By Ganapathy Shanmugam, Ph.D. The prevailing climate narrative is that the frequency of dust storms (Fig. 1) tends to increase with global warming (Fig. 2). But the empirical datasets from the Sahara-...
Tropical Storm Bertha is lashing the northern Gulf Coast with tropical-storm-force winds from parts of the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana ahead of its expected landfall in southeastern Louisiana on We...
* On February 13 this year, the federal EPA rescinded one of its regulatory actions known as the “Endangerment Finding.” (EF). * The EF, originally adopted in 2009 early in the Obama admini...
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/general-motors-gm-earnings-q2-2026.html By Michael Wayland CNBC Excerpt: DETROIT — General Motors raised several key 2026 earnings forecasts Tuesday after beating Wall ...
Oregon and Washington joined a broader legal challenge to the Trump administration’s pause on new wind energy approvals, arguing the freeze threatens planned projects, grid reliability and state clean...
Decades of unchecked deforestation for coffee production has devastated Vietnam’s Central Highland forests, according to a new investigation by the Berlin-headquartered watchdog group Coffee Watch. Vi...
Several communities in West Virginia are left reeling after catastrophic flooding slammed the area on Tuesday night.
Thankfully I have numbers rather than opinions. The average number of days per year in the U.S. reaching 95°F was ~18% lower during the 60-year period 1961 to 2020 compared to 1901 to 1960. The number...
Climate policy should demote futile, wasteful mitigation policies to promote adaptation, which requires energy affordability, reliability, and availability. This is most needed in the EU, “another exa...
A beekeeping initiative is enabling women in India’s Western Ghats, a biodiversity hotspot that runs parallel to India’s west coast, to strengthen their livelihoods with more reliable honey harvests. ...
A group of whale watchers was met by a once-in-a-lifetime surprise as a group of orcas hunted a pod of dolphins over the weekend in California.
Dalila grew up in the Tunisian coastal city of Gabès and is accustomed to the heavy, acrid smell from the state-owned phosphate processing plant about a 10-minute walk from her home. On days when noxi...
On this week’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast, I speak with travel writer Noo Saro-Wiwa. She has documented the violence and natural destruction that the presence of oil companies have brought to th...
"... Failing to win the support of Queensland could be a deal breaker, according to the Climate Council ..."The postQueensland Defies Aussie Data Center Green Energy Mandateappeared first onWatts Up W...
The newly launched company, PriorityEvac, is selling an evacuation membership program that guarantees members a seat on a contracted airbus out of Florida when a major hurricane threatens their area.
As hurricanes threaten the U.S. coastline each year, barrier islands play an important role in helping protect coastal communities and environments.