Climate, Energy & Conservation
Few of these scary claims are supported by the facts: in reality, the outlook is quite favorable for our region if a "Super El Niño" continues to develop.The post“Super” El Nino Misinformationappeared...
Guest post by David Wojick, originally posted by CFACT. A database of Green Climate Fund (GCF) “projects” reveals that almost none are actual projects. Most are just specialized junior funds. Each ha...
Health officials in North Carolina are warning residents who had contact with baby goats at a mobile petting zoo to contact their local health department after three of the animals tested positive for...
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the forests around Pemaluan in East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo...
A (free) CliffsNotes rundown of the books and articles I’ve been reading.
“Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” — Marie CurieThe postWeekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #704appeared f...
Tragedy has unfolded in Oklahoma after a federal wildlife officer died while helping combat the flames of the Railroad South Fire.
CAPE TOWN — When scientist Loyiso Dunga began mapping the Great African Seaforest in 2016, he decided to go snorkeling. The South African section of the kelp forest stretches around 800 miles or 1,300...
The administration should use appropriate diplomatic and legal channels to defend American judgments and make the resilience of U.S. energy infrastructure part of the transatlantic security conversati...
Bad news for concertgoers planning on attending the Bonnaroo Music Festival next year, as recent severe storm impacts have forced the owners of the land to cancel events for 2027 to recover.
Researchers have a population of an extremely rare plant species, last recorded in Sri Lanka in 1855, growing in a lowland forest fragment along the Sitawaka Ganga River. Documenting the finding in ...
Video of Dr David Deming's statement to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works on December 6, 2006. Dr Deming reveals that in 1995 a leading scientist emailed him saying "We have to g...
At a September 2021 public hearing in Manaus, Philip Fearnside read from a prepared statement laying out his case against repaving BR-319, the highway between Manaus and Porto Velho, two cities in the...
To wit, in early August the NAS announced it was pulling the climate chapter from its website and initiating a formal investigation into the process by which it was written. The NAS’s news release ann...
It is fundamental to the Committee’s legislative purposes to understand the sources of bias, to include any potential conflicts of interest, within NAS studies intended to assist in or influence the d...
September brings plenty of reasons to look to the skies. From a meteor shower and bright Venus to the official change of seasons and the year's Harvest Moon, an impressive lineup awaits stargazers thi...
The Gulf Coast is bracing for a stormy stretch as Invest 97L churns across the region, bringing a cluster of thunderstorms and heavy rain through Wednesday.
Another round of nasty weather is targeting millions in the Northeast starting midweek, as the odds for severe weather have increased.
Heavy rain and thunderstorms continue to impact the Southeast, with a flood threat expected to last through Tuesday. This comes as a broad area of low pressure, along with an almost stationary front, ...
A jet skier has died after being struck by lightning near Fort De Soto, Florida, as ongoing storms continue to bring severe weather threats to the Southeast.