Climate change

Every April, activists around the world come together to protest environmental crises. The Fight For Our Future rally, taking place this Saturday in ...

Cities are on the front lines of climate impacts and must be on the front lines of their solutions. We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. Nearly 1 in 3 Americans were impacted by a weather disaster last summer, with many of these extreme events exacerbated by climate change. We need bottom-up climate solutions for every town. But with this new report, we now know the scope of vulnerability to the streets of the cities we’ll be marching through. D.C.’s increased flooding and extreme heat are just two versions of a story now shared by every city and state across the country. Yes, we need federal climate legislation. No town, Democrat or Republican, urban or rural, rich or poor, is ready for the climate changes we are already seeing. This risk is imminent enough that a flood barrier has already been installed capable of holding back up to 19 feet of water from destroying some of DC’s most iconic buildings. How can we expect the government to save us from disaster when nearly half the country can’t see how climate change personally affects them in their communities? Current adaptation is unable to resolve risks to current climate change associated hazards.” For the first time, this global climate report, released by the United Nations roughly twice per decade, has quantified how unprepared we are in the places we live.

Mangroves, salt marsh, and seagrass beds, known collectively as “blue carbon” ecosystems, are especially efficient at removing carbon dioxide from the air and ...

The protection and restoration of coastal wetlands such as salt marsh present an opportunity for incorporating nature-based solutions on the state and national levels. Protecting and restoring salt marshes, as well as creating space for them to move inland away from rising seas, are ways that countries and states can ensure that salt marsh persists in the face of climate change. Like U.S. states, countries around the globe can also look to their salt marsh habitats to bolster coastlines against the effects of climate change. However, the report notes that to be most effective, these ecosystems need sufficient space to expand, or migrate, inland and warns that as sea levels rise, coastal wetlands such as salt marsh are at risk of being inundated and converted to open water. To survive, wetlands must have enough space, free from barriers such as roads and seawalls, to migrate and avoid being overtaken by the ocean. The report, drafted by more than 270 leading experts from 67 countries, analyzes the feasibility of various climate adaptation measures and highlights coastal wetlands’ ability to protect against coastal erosion and flooding.

From plastic pollution to biodiversity collapse, extreme weather events and still-rising emissions, there's a dizzying array of subjects to keep up-to-date on.

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. C) Atlanta C) 49.6 C (121.3 F) C) BP B) Amazon Since last Earth Day, climate scientists have released more urgent warnings that humanity is running out of time to meet net-zero targets and avert catastrophe.

We'll have to do this to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, namely extreme weather like more frequent hurricanes and wildfires. Pew research center says ...

Climate change, cost of living and the economy are the most important issues to Australians this election, but there's a large split along voting lines, ...

Only 3 per cent of voters said it was most important to them in 2016, and 4 per cent in 2019, but it is now ranked as the most important issue by 13 per cent of Australians. Only 7 per cent of Labor voters and 4 per cent of Greens voters said the economy was the most important issue to them at the ballot box. And it has also shot ahead as a topic of concern in recent years, jumping from 5 per cent of Australians saying it was their most important issue in 2016 to 27 per cent in 2019 and 29 per cent in 2022. Greens voters were most worried about climate change, then the environment (14 per cent), cost of living (10 per cent) and government accountability (7 per cent). Among Labor voters, climate change was followed by government accountability (17 per cent), cost of living (14 per cent) and health care (10 per cent). For Liberal-National Party voters, climate change ranked well behind economy and finance, which was listed as the most important issue by 34 per cent of people, followed by cost of living (13 per cent), then defence and public security (12 per cent).

There will be an interactive presentation, information tables from local organizations, a full body board game where you learn some of the basic concepts of ...

Carbon dioxide emissions tend to acidify oceans making aquatic species and marine habitats more vulnerable to declines and damage. This ocean acidification ...

The goal is to adopt proper implementation of global strategies that can ensure marine and coastal protection and the conservation of the global oceans in general. The WMO in particular also collaborates with the Food and Agriculture Organisation to understand the impacts of climate change on marine productivity and fisheries. More than hundred countries across the globe responsible for a majority of these emissions, have made national climate commitments and pledges to curb their impacts on the environment. With the Paris Agreement, the recent COP26 summit in Glasgow among others, we can definitely say that we are off to a good start. While 30% of the land on Earth is classified as areas of particular importance for biodiversity protection, in order to reverse the extinction crisis, there needs to be an additional 20% of land that needs to be conserved. To surmise, greenhouse warming has complex and perhaps, severe impacts on the ocean than on land. Countries have also started developing policies and implementing sustainable practices which can conserve the oceans and protect fisheries and marine habitats. On the other hand, La Niña events have also seen a build-up in recent years, and tend to have complex impacts on weather patterns particularly in the Pacific Ocean. Both El Niño and La Niña events are part of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), where the former brings warming effects while the latter brings significant cooling or changes in winter seasons in the Pacific regions. The cumulative impacts of deforestation, agricultural runoff, overexploitation of marine resources, overfishing and more also weaken marine ecosystems of the world. Oceans are known to absorb most of the solar energy reaching the Earth, and warming of the oceans is generally slower than the atmosphere, resulting in moderate coastal weather with few hot and cold extremes. While oceans tend to influence regional and weather conditions around the world, changes in the climate can also have profound impacts on the oceans. Oceans absorb almost 90% of the extra energy from greenhouse gas effects, and this has resulted in ocean warming at depths of 1,000 metres.

Increased food prices, the loss of beach culture, competition for water; this are only some of the effects ...

"When the species didn't arrive, one of the species that really suffered was the mountain pygmy possum," Professor Hughes said. "When the species didn't arrive, one of the species that really suffered was the mountain pygmy possum," Professor Hughes said. And snow, ironically, keeps them warm. It also protects them from predation. "There was a real crash in the population due to drought in Queensland," she said. "And there is good modelling to suggest that by the middle of this century, if we keep going the way we are going, we will get hundreds of people dying from effects of extreme heat." "That's just one example how the impact of climate change on one species, even a long way away — a drought in Queensland — then impacted enough species a state away. That's likely to continue. In terms of wildlife, one often overlooked species serves as a "canary in the coal mine", Professor Hughes said. "The need to hibernate in winter. "Similarly with water, we've already seen very substantial reduction in river flows in the south-east and the south-west of the country and those are likely to continue, increasing the competition for water." - The Great Barrier Reef in Queensland

Global warming is occurring at different rates at different places on Earth. This is due to geophysics and the complexity of Earth's climate systems.

Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that differences in ocean and atmospheric warming are not explained by climate change science. This is also why surface air temperatures over land are warming more quickly than surface air temperatures over the ocean, he said. "There is no single value of temperature change expected for the oceans and atmosphere. While they warm at different rates, both the atmosphere and ocean are warming due to human activity. "If scientists were all correct then rises in ocean temperature and all atmospheric datasets would all be the same – but they are not." According to NASA, 90% of global warming is occurring in Earth's oceans.

Climate change impacts the most vulnerable first and worst and that's why Oxfam is making sure that climate action is central to our fight against ...

3. Black and Indigenous people face the worst impacts of climate change, which causes heat waves, storms, and other disasters. For example, due to the effects of climate change an estimated 13 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia have been displaced in search of water and pasture, just in the first quarter of 2022, despite having done little to cause the climate crisis. It is time that our elected officials give it the urgency, attention, and investment that is necessary.

Across its 17 chapters, it examines climate change mitigation efforts in use (or pledged for use) in everything from agriculture and transport, to energy supply ...

Climate change is a direct result of more than a century of ignored warnings and and unsustainable approaches to using precious resources. Researchers at ETH’s Future Cities Laboratory believe that part of the answer to this is to enable a circular loop within the urban landscape. The authors say that it could “transform cityscapes from their current status as net sources of GHG emissions into large-scale, human-made carbon sinks.” A paper referenced in the report suggests that constructing timber buildings for 2.3 billion urban dwellers (between 2020 and 2050) could store between 0.01 and 0.68 Gt CO2 per year, depending on a number of factors, including the average floor area per capita. This has prompted many to begin a drastic rethink of the materials supply chain, and of the construction, operation, and demolition cycle. A particularly good example of this is the dominance of private cars seen in many urban areas. More than half of the global human population now live in these areas, and that proportion is forecasted to increase to nearly 70% by 2050. The materials most associated with mid- and high-rise urban construction – namely, concrete, steel, aluminum, and glass – all come with significant carbon (and environmental) cost, despite steady improvements in their production efficiency. Smart (and distributed) electric grids are also enabling a more sustainable approach to electricity supply and demand. There is arguably a fourth strategy too – behavioral change – though, this often follows on from the successful implementation of the other three. The huge range of approaches reflects the fact that the causes of climate change are numerous – though, it should be said, we humans are to blame for all of them – and tackling it will take a multi-pronged approach. Across its 17 chapters, it examines climate change mitigation efforts in use (or pledged for use) in everything from agriculture and transport, to energy supply and manufacturing. We are living in a climate crisis, and the time for action is now.

For Earth Day 2022 we listed seven books and podcasts for engineers to deepen their knowledge on one of our world's most pressing issue — climate change.

TED Climate mines a long list of pertinent topics such as decarbonisation, transport electrification, food production and even how the use of language affects our ability to tackle climate change. Another entry for the ears, this time with a focus on clean energy. Over the 150+ episodes, there’s plenty for climate-conscious electronics aficionados to sink their minds into. Koonin’s book is often cited as the foremost authority on the science behind climate change. Engineering experts Allwood and Cullen dive deep into why our relationship with materials needs to change (even more so than it already has), if we are going to continue to enjoy the innovations that enhance our lifestyles. He provides a systematic breakdown on how we can harness electricity by transforming infrastructure, updating our grids and adapting our households.

The retired head of the ADF has thrown his support behind independents, citing the need for government to act on climate change.

“If you’re not being upfront with the electorate now and telling them which party you’re going to support, I think you’re being dishonest with them. Sharma said he has one government-supplied car and a 125cc Vespa; Spender said that she has a hybrid car, not an EV, because she doesn’t have a garage in which to put the charger. I think you owe it to the public to tell them,” he snapped. Another good question came from a woman named Michelle, who pointed out that with two competent, moderate candidates, it was a shame that only one of them would be getting into Parliament. She’s right — in so many electorates, we have a Hobson’s choice between 1) Union Official and Friend of Bill’s and 2) Party Hack Who Has Never Had a Real Job — you just vote for the least offensive. The forum, in which both candidates took questions from a hand-picked audience of “undecided voters”, was fascinating. Also speaking at the conference, Allegra Spender, the independent candidate for Sydney’s Wentworth, said that because 90% of Australia’s fuel was imported, we had only “a handful of days’” supply of fuel.

Earth Day 2022 Google Doodle: Throughout the day, the doodle images will change to represent different locations of the earth and the impact of global ...

Several events and campaigns are being held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. Earth Day is an international event celebrated around the world to pledge support for environmental protection. Each image will remain on the homepage for several hours at a time.

Can you solve drought by piping water across the country? Is the weather becoming more extreme than scientists predicted? What kind of trees are best to plant ...

NASA scientists, among others, have calculated that any cooling effect would be overwhelmed by the warming effect of all the greenhouse gases we have pumped, and continue to pump, into the atmosphere. The reality is not that clear cut: If the presence of those cryptominers disincentivizes oil and gas companies from piping away that gas to be used elsewhere, any savings effect is blunted. That keeps the number of batteries, and the weight, down. To measure temperatures at the sea’s surface, for instance, the most common method before about 1940 was to toss a bucket overboard a ship, haul it back up with a rope and read the temperature of the water inside. Some researchers put the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave in that category, and are working to figure out whether they need to re-evaluate some of their assumptions. How can we possibly have reliable measures of global temperatures from back then, keeping in mind that oceans cover about 70 percent of the globe and that a large majority of land has never been populated by humans to any significant degree? Given “unexpected” extreme events like the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave and extreme heat in Antarctica that appear to shock scientists, it’s difficult for me to trust the I.P.C.C.’s framing that we haven’t run out of time. The idea of taking water from one community and giving it to another has some basis in American history. And some 2,500 chemical sites are in areas at risk of flooding, which could cause those chemicals to leach into the groundwater. And research “suggests these disruptions to the vortex are happening more often in connection with a rapidly warming, melting Arctic, which we know is a clear symptom of climate change,” said Jennifer A. Francis, a senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center. Where the extreme cold occurs depends on the nature of the disruption to the polar vortex. The connection between climate change and extreme cold weather involves the polar jet stream in the Northern Hemisphere, strong winds that blow around the globe from west to east at an altitude of 5 to 9 miles.

President Joe Biden's ambitions to finally put the U.S. on the path to confront climate change are crashing into an election-year scramble to lower gas ...

Last month, Biden announced he would release 1 million barrels of oil a day from the country’s strategic reserve, one of several steps to cut gas prices soon. And as the White House tries to starve Moscow of the funds it needs to wage its war in Ukraine, Biden is pushing countries to stop buying Russian oil and gas. They pointed out that Interior Secretary Deb Haaland had used her discretion to significantly cut the amount of land being offered and raise the royalty rate companies must pay. The White House recently greenlighted exporting more U.S. gas to Europe, a step that requires building costly new export terminals that are likely to stay in use for years — even if the current crisis ends. Biden’s newfound focus on lowering gas prices in the near term has opened up rare divisions between his administration and environmental groups, who largely cheered his efforts in his first year to recommit the U.S. on climate change. But the spending proposal died, taking more than half a billion dollars in climate funding with it, denying Democrats what would have been their biggest legislative achievement to run on ahead of the midterms. But there have been no signs of serious, advanced negotiations — including with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a must-have vote — and time is quickly running out before the campaign season makes legislating in Congress nearly impossible. Yet some energy analysts have questioned that logic, arguing that building mammoth new solar and wind farms is not a viable solution to bring down energy costs immediately. “The problem they have is the energy reality we face just doesn’t square with the quick transition that they would like to sell. But that means increasing global production of gasoline, just when Biden is trying to wean the U.S. off fossil fuels. Yet this week, Biden reinstated rules requiring big infrastructure projects to undergo complex reviews for environmental and climate effects before they can get started, a step that could cause significant delays. “It’ll ensure we’re no longer reliant on petrostate autocrats,” Sittenfeld said.

With the federal election campaign underway, many are seeking answers on what policies each party has for one of the most pressing issues of our time. And with ...

The reason? The Coalition has committed to net zero emissions by 2050. How does it plan to do this?

Earth Day is recognised across the planet as a chance to raise awareness of the environmental crisis we all face.

“Now is the time for the unstoppable courage to preserve and protect our health, our families, our livelihoods.” “This is the moment to change it all – the business climate, the political climate, and how we take action on climate,” the Earth Day website states. The theme of Earth Day 2022 is “Invest in Our Planet”.

Since the last election, climate change has accelerated and the economy, industry and public attitudes have shifted.

In 2019, the Business Council of Australia in 2019 described Labor’s 45 per cent emission reduction pledge as “ economy wrecking”. Now it supports an even-greater 50 per cent emissions reduction by 2030 to avoid a “costly and damaging” game of climate catch-up. What is the “fair share” of this emissions budget for Australia? Replicating the same methodology that the federal government’s Climate Change Authority used in its advice ahead of the Paris conference, two recent University of Melbourne reports determined that if Australia is to stay within its 1.5 degree budget it would require a 75 per cent emissions reduction on 2005 levels by 2030, with net zero by 2035. The 43 per cent figure has been forged through the process of political expediency, but will not reduce emissions quickly enough, according to the scientific evidence. As for Labor, it promises to set an emissions reduction target of 43 per cent by 2030 and increase the share of renewables in the national electricity market to 82 per cent. The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change says global emissions must be halved by 2030 to have any hope of limiting global warming to, or close to, 1.5 degrees. From the fierce black summer bushfires two years ago to the recent bleaching – again – of the world heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef, it’s clear that catastrophic climate change is underway and harming Australians here and now.

Time-lapse satellite images show glacial retreat at Mount Kilimanjaro, Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching, deforestation in Germany and Greenland glacial ...

The company used 15.5 terawatt hours of electricity in 2020, mostly to power its data centres. What has been a boon for archaeologists is also a symptom of the catastrophic threat caused by climate change. They show glacial retreat at the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania between December 1986 and 2020 and glacial melt in Sermersooq, Greenland, between December 2000 and 2020.

Mount Kilimanjaro, Sermersooq, Great Barrier Reef, Harz Forests featured in the doodle.

The southwest monsoon contributes 74.9 per cent to the annual rainfall in India and irrigates over half of India’s agricultural land. Selected comments may also be used in the ‘Letters’ section of the Down To Earth print edition. “Quantitatively, the monsoon seasonal (June to September) rainfall is likely to be 99 per cent of the LPA with a model error of ± 5 per cent. It noted that currently, the southwest monsoon is passing through a ‘dry epoch’ which started in the decade of 1971-80. You can further help us by making a donation. Google, which records over 8 billion searches every day, has dedicated its daily doodle to Earth Day several times since the feature was rolled out in 1998. We are a voice to you; you have been a support to us. Scientists have attributed the loss to global warming as well as change in land-use, mostly deforestation. Rising temperatures and severe drought are responsible for this loss of green cover. The images were gathered from The Ocean Agency, an international non-profit that works on marine conservation. You can further help us by making a donation. We are a voice to you; you have been a support to us.

The Earth's average temperature has increased by more than 1C during the 20th and 21st century.

Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. “Earth’s climate record, preserved in tree rings, ice cores, and coral reefs, shows that the global average temperature is stable over long periods of time. The Met Office defines a heatwave as at least three consecutive days of temperatures above a certain level. The threshold for a heatwave is 25ºC for most of the country. In March, the Met Office changed the definition of a heatwave to reflect how climate change is already affecting the UK. Climate change is already having a significant effect on our planet, and the importance of taking action is highlighted on Earth Day.

The consensus among scientists is that we are in an era of global heating and extreme weather events, primarily due to the devastating effects of human ...

“[B]y increasing communication from the health system, by promoting healthier lifestyles, we on the one hand promote behavior shifts that determine low-carbon transitions and facilitate those low-carbon transitions. But […] the response to climate change, and commensurate investment, remains inadequate,” it concludes. That alters hydrological cycles and generates other impacts on the climate [and] on our environment that add to the whole combo that we call ‘climate change’.” “One of the most cited examples of how infectious diseases are changing [is] in so-called arthropod-borne diseases. For example, a study that appeared in PNAS in 2019 looked at how efficiently the immune systems of mice reacted to influenza viruses under different temperature conditions. “[Pandemics are] going to happen more and a key driver of this is climate change. “So what happens [as a result] is that, as heat from the Sun reaches the Earth, they act like a blanket, they trap the heat inside the Earth’s atmosphere, and that makes the temperatures go up. “[G]reenhouse gases that have been accumulating in the atmosphere due to human activity are gases like carbon dioxide [and] methane. As climates change animals will change their distribution; they’ll probably group together more allowing viruses to jump more easily between them. So that also is posing limits on […] food productivity,” stressed Dr. Romanello. In our latest installment of the In Conversation podcast, we discuss these aspects at length with two key experts. Why are researchers concerned, and what are the implications for health?

The four featured time-lapse animations shows the retreating glacier on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, drought impacts on the Harz Forests in Germany, coral ...

Within the next 25 years, the entire ice could be gone as a result of climate change. The image database will be updated every year. According to an official statement, "using real time-lapse imagery from Google Earth Timelapse and other sources, the Doodle shows the impact of climate change across four different locales around our planet.

To mark the nation's 52nd Earth Day, Robert Feder, MD, outlines how climate change will exacerbate mental health challenges and the importance of global ...

The first is the direct impact of changes in climate on mental health. Concerns about climate change are now showing up in therapists’ offices.6 Despite accumulating knowledge about how to help with these problems,7 the number of “climate informed” therapists remains low. 7. Feder R. A brief guide to individual therapy for climate-related mental distress. 1. Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaption, and vulnerability. In addition, rising ambient temperatures are associated with higher suicide rates3 and growing emergency room mental health visits.4 The New York Times. Published February 6, 2022. Climate change escalates mental health issues in 2 ways. In addition, there will be a large loss of human habitat through rising sea levels and temperature increases. 6. Barry E. Climate change enters the therapy room. Improved access to mental health services, an increase in the number of mental health providers, and a reduction in the use of fossil fuels will all be necessary to meet this challenge. Approximately 37% of American people currently live in areas that have serious problems with access to mental health care.8 This is likely to get significantly worse in the coming decade as global temperatures warm and climate change creates increasing demand for mental health services. This results in significant psychiatric morbidity with new incidences of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety, as well as exacerbation of pre-existing mental disorders.

Could we save Earth if we treated it like a child? We are in crisis and need to heal the planet. Climate work is not about diluted commitments coldly discussed ...

Zelda Keller is executive director of the Institute for Climate and Peace. She also works with organizations to develop peacebuilding initiatives throughout the Pacific Asia region. We liken the climate crisis to the doldrums. Even the quietest, distant of cries can awaken a mother from a deep sleep, and we must establish similarly visceral bonds for effective and just climate action. It is a feeling, location and knowingness at the same time. During doldrums, the boat might be moving very quickly in the storm while the crew is unable to see the way to safety. Despite the demonstrated successes of locally based efforts like these, governments and philanthropies invest most climate finance in top-down and technology-centric approaches. Positive peaceful climate solutions present the greatest opportunity to build social cohesion, create lasting commitments that survive beyond partisanship, and are sustained beyond each of us. The communities and lands where these projects are based are now stronger, healthier, more connected and better prepared to face climate impacts with resilience. Central to our climate justice work is helping to frame the conversation about what peace is. We are in crisis and need to heal the planet. Their nerves express concern to you with quiet messages designed to tug at your unique receptivity – a tight squeeze, a shifted foot, a tear in the corner of the eye. As mothers, we have often felt engulfed by the gnawing worry of climate change, the jagged feeling akin to that moment when you, as a mother, drop off your child in the care of someone who hasn't yet earned your trust.

Instead of buying sustainable products or putting the climate crisis out of your mind, do something about climate change by giving your time.

This can be seen as shifting the blame to the individual rather than the system, but cities aren’t going to start reconfiguring themselves to be more pedestrian and bike friendly or invest in electric buses if no one is walking, biking or taking the bus. This doesn’t mean you need to, starting this very moment, call yourself a climate activist and glue yourself to the front of a fossil fuel-funding bank. These are all individual actions, yes, but those that have the potential to snowball in your community. The best place to start: 350.org, an international group focused on climate action that has outposts in cities across the globe, and likely one near you. (You can do that another time.) Instead, give the one thing that’s going to make the most difference in the fight against the climate crisis: your time. Better yet, you should join said protesters in your community, whether it’s a general march for climate action or an event about expanding fossil-fuel infrastructure in your community. Volunteering with a climate group near you is also the easiest way to stay up to date on the legislation in your state, because they’re likely keeping track of it. But in the fight for a liveable future, time is not money. The default course of action for many is to buy our way into a sense of safety — whether through a planet-friendly Patagonia hoodie or a donation to an environmental nonprofit — or to simply ignore the problem all together. The time you can devote is much, much more important. We’ve heard the alarm bells sounded by scientists, including in the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which included a plea from co-chair Hans-Otto Pörtner that “any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future.” We’ve championed many companies engaged in the admittedly tough process of decreasing their environmental impact, but today, we’ve got a different message for you: Don’t buy from them.

Twitter is banning advertisements that promote climate change denial in an effort to curb the reach of groups seeking to downplay the extent of the ...

Google similarly announced a move to ban advertisements that contradict scientists’ understanding about the existence and causes of climate change. In recent years, tech companies have been introducing new labels and information hubs to elevate accurate information about the environment while taking steps to limit the spread of falsehoods. “We recognize that misleading information about climate change can undermine efforts to protect the planet.”

Climate change is contributing to rising losses from natural disasters, including increased damage to physical assets and disruption to business operations.

Models can also be used to sensitivity test the implemented protection measures against future climate conditions and a comprehensive range of high impact scenarios. When we think about the damage from recent natural disasters, it is important to place climate change in the wider context of what is contributing to rising losses. This includes the Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders, a global network of business leaders from various industries developing cost-effective solutions to transitioning to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy. Many of the dangerous and costly manifestations of climate change are already here. But for other perils — tornadoes, hurricanes, and other windstorms— the impact is less clear. Climate science is a fast-evolving field of study, and while projections of future environmental outcomes remain uncertain, the need for investments in long-term resilience strategies has never been clearer.

Twitter announced a new policy on Earth Day: it now bans ads pushing climate denial. The company says conversations about sustainability and climate change ...

Google told The Verge at the time that it reviewed the content and decided to take “appropriate enforcement actions.” Facebook has also come under fire for failing to label climate misinformation despite its policy on flagging such content. Talk about “sustainability” on the platform has grown by over 150 percent since 2021, Twitter says. Twitter also said that it will soon share more details about how it plans to “add reliable, authoritative context” about climate change on its platform.

As the effects of the earth's changing climate have become more pronounced over the past few years, with natural disasters such as wildfires, hurricanes, ...

Cities of the Northeast and Northwest could see their populations rise by roughly ten percent as Americans flee overly hot, flooded, or otherwise dangerous regions. In fact, the global south is the predominant host of all categories of forcibly displaced people worldwide, be they refugees or climate migrants: roughly 85% of refugees are displaced from and hosted within global south settings. Importantly, however, the report noted that most climate migration will take place within a country’s own borders rather than internationally.

This Earth Day, we don't need more speeches or demonstrations or waiting.

We need President Biden to get back to work pushing for these overdue investments to expand clean energy and address the costs of climate change. We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. Sitting in the Senate today is budget reconciliation legislation that would invest about $500 billion over 10 years into building a cleaner economy, in part by giving consumers and businesses tax credits to build and buy more clean energy and clean vehicles. To blunt the future economic costs of climate change, however, we need to move much, much faster. Thanks to federal investments a decade ago, solar and wind today is the cheapest power available in most parts of the country. But climate change is now levying a hidden tax on every American, every day of the year.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — As climate change bakes the planet, dozens of nations and many local governments are putting a price tag on greenhouse gas emissions ...

The IPCC's latest climate report discusses how colonialism has shaped climate, a breakthrough for the climate justice movement.

What is already clear is that the links between climate change and colonialism are legion, and involve confronting an uncomfortable range of legacies. There has also been a steadily growing body of literature demonstrating the connections between climate change and colonialism since the IPCC completed its fifth report in 2014. It’s a message that also acknowledges how the climate justice movement has long campaigned for the recognition of the unequal effects of climate change on different groups of people. Researchers have shown, for example, that the scale of bushfires in Australia today – including the catastrophic fires of 2019-20 – is not being exacerbated by climate change alone. Colonialism, the report asserts, has exacerbated the effects of climate change. For the first time in the institution’s history, the IPCC has included the term “colonialism” in its report’s summary.

To mark the occasion, here's a look at what recent Pew Research Center surveys have found about Americans' views on climate change and renewable energy sources.

A smaller share (36%) says collective action globally will likely be enough to avoid the worst impacts from climate change, while another 10% say they don’t view climate change impacts as a problem. About six-in-ten liberal Democrats (63%) say the U.S. should phase out fossil fuels completely, compared with 36% who prefer the country use a mix of fossil fuels and renewables. Around six-in-ten U.S. adults (59%) say the U.S. does not have this responsibility, while 39% say it does. About a quarter of Americans (24%) say the burning of fossil fuels and other human activity contributes not too much or not at all to climate change. About a quarter of Americans (24%) oppose this. Larger shares of Republicans say human activity contributes some to climate change (39%) or that it contributes not too much or not at all (44%). Among moderate and conservative Democrats, by comparison, 37% support the U.S. phasing out fossil fuels completely, compared with 61% who prefer a mix of fossil fuels and renewables. In the GOP, for example, a third of conservative Republicans and GOP leaners favor the U.S. taking steps to become carbon neutral, while 64% oppose it. The vast majority of Democrats (90%) favor the U.S. taking steps to become carbon neutral by 2050. A large majority of Democrats say human activity contributes a great deal to climate change (71%), while just 17% of Republicans say the same. Three-quarters of Americans say that human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels, contributes to climate change at least some, with 46% saying it contributes a great deal, a separate January 2022 Center survey found. About four-in-ten U.S. adults (42%) say that dealing with climate change should be a top priority for President Joe Biden and Congress to address this year, according to a Center survey conducted in January 2022.

For Earth Day 2022, we highlight the immense impact trees can have in the continuing fight against climate change - from planting to mapping them.

“It’s time to put nature on the balance sheet,” says founder and CEO Marco Albani. As well as greening city centres, PopUp Forest aims to mobilize civic support for the creation of urban wild spaces through education and community engagement. All the profits go to the investor and three new trees are planted for every one that is cut down. When the tree is no longer able to capture carbon it is felled and the timber sold. But on this year’s Earth Day, it’s important to remember that nature is not only the victim of rising temperatures, it also has a critical role to play in tackling climate change. Based on IPCC data, NASA says that 950 million hectares of new forests will be needed to help arrest climate change.

Companies use AWS services in creative ways to build local and global innovations designed to address the climate.

Retailers can replace products, change colors and configurations, and swap entire item sets with the click of a button. Climate change is a key ESG issue, and retailers are actively looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprints and reach net-zero emissions targets in the next few years. Creating and selling a product involves a long chain of transactions, with each one contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. Hexa is an AWS Partner and 3D commerce and augmented reality (AR) expert. ArcGIS StoryMaps is a story-authoring, web-based application that allows users to share their maps in the context of narrative text and other multimedia content. Although Costa Rica accounts for only 0.03% of the Earth’s surface, it’s home to nearly 6% of the world’s biodiversity. According to The Nature Conservancy, 83.6% of people live in urban areas. Pairing robust EO datasets with modeling leads to more accurate and relevant predictions of how ecosystems behave and might evolve. Climate Next featured The Nature Conservancy’s work to reduce tree disparity in Los Angeles. They built MOIA using AWS services, including Internet of Things (IoT) that powers the vans’ sensors and let MOIA collect data and continually improve performance. One of the greatest counterforces to climate change is nature. The app’s user interface (UI) includes pick-up and overall trip times, stops en route, walking duration needed to complete the journey, and vehicle number.