Published by the Environmental News Service LONDON, UK, January 25, 2020 (ENS) – The global oil and gas industry is facing the twin threats of the loss of profitability and the loss of social acceptability as the climate crisis continues to worsen. The industry is not adequately responding to either of those threats, according to […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The agency is allowing cities to delay or otherwise change federally imposed fixes to their sewer systems. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/climate/epa-sewage-rivers.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Ms. Thunberg, who has been rebuking world leaders for inaction on climate change, said she was not deterred by critics who called her concerns overblown. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/world/europe/greta-thunberg-davos-protest.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment On England’s southwestern coast, a community built by the Duchy of Cornwall is attracting residents who have bought into Prince Charles’s housing philosophy. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/business/prince-charles-duchy-cornwall-nansledan.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment For wealthy Davos men and women, as well as people from less rarefied air, targeted investing is one way to force change on carbon-emitting companies. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/business/green-investments-climate-change.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment In Davos, business leaders were newly vocal about the danger, though they gave few details about how they would reform their practices. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/business/corporate-climate-davos.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment As the head of Sunrun, Lynn Jurich won’t rest until the photovoltaic cell module is as common as the fireplace. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/business/lynn-jurich-sunrun.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment At a Swiss economic forum, Mr. Mnuchin dismissed criticisms by Ms. Thunberg, the teenage environmental activist. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/climate/greta-thunberg-steve-mnuchin.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The E.C.B., which meets Thursday, is among central banks trying to prepare for what a report warns could be a coming economic upheaval. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/business/climate-change-central-banks.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Students in Cambridge, Mass., and Ramallah have created an app to track road quality. It turns out the roads around Cambridge are worse. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/business/potholes-app.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Trump administration has finished a new rule that rolls back environmental controls on many wetlands and intermittent streams, delivering a win to rural landowners. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/climate/trump-environment-water.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Also this week, strange scenes at the Davos economic forum Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/climate/nytimes-newsletter-climate-change.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The editor, Philip Jacobson, who works for the environmental website Mongabay, was detained last month after attending a public meeting on Borneo island. He was traveling on a business visa. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/world/asia/indonesia-journalist-philip-jacobson.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service DAVOS, Switzerland, January 21, 2020 (ENS) – After a year of floods and droughts, when wildfires devastated Australia and the Amazon, and Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, the latest World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks Report finds for the first […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Scroll through the Facebook page of Craig Kelly, a conservative politician, and you’ll see why the country has not taken strong action on global warming. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/world/australia/fires-craig-kelly-climate-denial.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Some school districts are replacing diesel buses with electric models to benefit students and the environment. But the change is expensive so utilities like Dominion Energy are helping offset the cost. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/business/energy-environment/electric-school-buses.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment President Trump and Greta Thunberg dominated the first full day of the annual gathering of the rich and powerful in the Swiss Alps. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/climate/greta-thunberg-trump-davos.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service EUGENE, Oregon, January 21, 2020 (ENS) – A divided three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has “reluctantly” concluded that the youth plaintiffs’ case in Juliana v. United States must be made to Congress, the President, or to the electorate at large. The decision finds federal courts […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The cataclysm, which occurred roughly 2.2 billion years ago, might have catapulted the planet out of an ice age. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/science/oldest-asteroid-impact-australia.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment President Trump made his first appearance on the international stage since the House sent impeachment articles to the Senate, on the day his trial is set to begin in earnest. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/business/trump-davos.html?emc=rss&partner=rss