Climate, Energy & Conservation
How does kinetic temperature compare to thermodynamic temperature? More on the definition of temperature.The postKinetic Temperatureappeared first onWatts Up With That?.
On April 20, Jafet Potenzo Lopes was surveying the south coast of Manatuto municipality, in Timor-Leste, when he recorded something he had not seen in years: three Timor green pigeons, alive, in a loc...
https://nypost.com/2026/08/12/business/wall-streets-net-zero-climate-push-collapses-as-us-banks-flee-do-gooder-alliances-report/ By Ariel Zilber Excerpt: Wall Street’s support of “net zero” climate in...
By Ronald Stein and Mike Ariza Russian transportation fuel shortages are caused by Ukraine drone attacks, while California shortages are directly related to political over regulations Worldwide econom...
A magnitude 3.8 earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay Area at 8:30 a.m. local time Thursday. The quake's epicenter was just 3.2 miles below the surface about 2.5 miles south of San Leandro, accordin...
Michael Bloomberg is giving climate groups $1 billion to "end global coal power." They haven't been to Delhi. Or Jakarta. Or Saigon. Or Beijing.
Guest post by Melanie Collette The UN’s climate funds spent a July dialogue asking for more money. The best thing America did was stop sending it. On July 14, the UN’s Adaptation Committee put fund ma...
In “Here There Was Cerrado” — the Second-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — Natascha Otoya shows how industrial farms are plowing up the Brazilian savanna, changing the flow ...
The study highlights the climate’s “albedo governance,” suggesting a 1% shift in Earth’s albedo corresponds to a 1°C surface temperature change.The postAnother New Study Links Modern and Past Global W...
One and a half years after the collapse of a large tailings dam in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province, the environmental and human impacts of the toxic spill continue to affect residents, civil society memb...
Tropical Storm Lala has formed in the Central Pacific and is taking aim at the Hawaiian Islands, where heavy rain, strong winds and dangerous surf are expected by late Friday.
The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT is a US-based nonprofit organization founded in 1985 that advocates for free-market solutions to environmental issues.The postWhy The Climate Realist Mo...
BREJÃO DOS NEGROS, Brazil — It’s hard to tell where one ends and the other starts. Here on Brazil’s Atlantic coast, where the São Francisco River meets the sea, waves ripple across the crystal-clear w...
El Niño conditions have strengthened significantly in the Central Pacific, now with a 69% chance of reaching historic strength between October and December 2026, according to NOAA.
JAKARTA — Haze from fires in Indonesian Borneo has drifted across the border into the Malaysian portion of the island, pushing air pollution there to “very unhealthy levels” and causing school closure...
Companies can, in theory, appear to cut the carbon footprint of their supply chains in half simply by changing how they calculate emissions, according to a new paper. Researchers found that difference...
Researchers have found the first genetic evidence of bat-borne viruses within commercially sold bat guano fertilizer in Thailand. However, the viral strains the team detected are not known to infect h...
In a significant milestone, the Siraya people of Taiwan have won legal recognition from the government as the island’s 17th officially designated Indigenous group. In late July, the Siraya were the fi...
CARAMURU/PARAGUASSU INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — Looking at the landscape of dry and cleared mountains around her house, Marta Xavier de Oliveira remembered when it was a forest. “When we got sick, ...
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted once again at 3:30 p.m. local time Thursday, according to USGS. Kilauea is one of the world's most active volcanoes and this is its 53rd eruptive episode since Decembe...