E.P.A. Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas

Oil and gas firms were supposed to start reducing methane, a powerful driver of climate change. The agency is giving them ...
Scientific American

5 Charts Show Climate Progress as Paris Agreement Turns 10

The 2015 Paris Agreement forged a path for the world to stave off the worst climate change scenarios. Here’s where we stand ...
American Lung AssociationOpinion

Ignoring Greenhouse Gases Emissions Endangers Us All

EPA’s leadership wants to eliminate the Endangerment Finding, a decision that would put our lungs, health, and future in ...

What do we know about climate change? How do we know it? And where are we headed?

Cimate scientists are more certain than ever that humans are changing the climate – but there are signs of hope on the ...

3 massive changes you'll see as the climate careens toward tipping points

Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In ...

Climate negotiations have started. Here's how far countries need to go

Nations have begun climate negotiations at the COP30 summit in Brazil. Studies show the world is not on track to avoid the ...

COP30: Africa needs funding to adapt to the climate crisis—what negotiators need to do to secure it

Since it was set up in 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has focused mainly on mitigation.

The U.N. Has Now Held 30 Climate Change Conferences That Have Accomplished Almost Nothing

The United Nations' 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ...
CBS 6

The Greenhouse Effect and How Humans Enhance It

Our atmosphere is made up of a mix of gases that sustain life by absorbing some solar radiation to heat the planet, allow livings things to breathe, and by transporting water. Nitrogen (78%) and ...
C&EN

‘Climate change is already bad, but we can still fix this problem’

Climate change is scary. But Stanford University climate scientist Rob Jackson says this should motivate us to take action. In his new book, Into the Clear Blue Sky, Jackson takes readers on a world ...

Tiny fee on Minneapolis carbon pollution won't do much for the climate, warns expert

When Minneapolis City Council Member Robin Wonsley began pursuing a carbon fee in 2022, she saw it as a promising way to cut ...
Weather Underground

Greenhouse Emissions of Agriculture

In the last blog there was a comment by peregrinepickle on the emissions from agriculture. It started: “It sounds like they may be putting the cart before the workhorse with this study. A 2010 survey ...