Startup Raises $60 Million to Artificially Cool the Planet
Not everybody's convinced of its plans. The post Startup Raises $60 Million to Artificially Cool the Planet appeared first on Futurism.| Futurism
Rapidly rising ocean temperatures has wreaked havoc on warm water coral reefs, which shelter about one quarter of marine life The post Earth has already reached a tipping point: warm-water coral reefs are dying appeared first on Corporate Knights.| Corporate Knights
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The world's top writers, designers, scientists, and entrepreneurs explore how we can create a sustainable Human Age we actually want to live in.| Anthropocene
Review by Simon Pirani of More, More and More: an all-consuming history of energy, by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Allen Lane, 2024) We really are in climate trouble now. The intergovernmental climate agreements, for whatever they were worth, are in peril. The target of limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees is effectively lost. A more chaotic global […]| People and Nature
September 2025 Monthly Report Press Briefing – Thursday, October 23 at 8:00 AM PDT Berkeley Earth invites you to our September 2025 Monthly Press Briefing, where our science team will present the latest global temperature data and share emerging insights into evolving climate trends. This month’s session is taking place slightly later than usual due […]| Berkeley Earth
You definitely don't want to hear anything about this new report. The post The Latest Climate News Is So Bad That You Should Probably Not Click This and Just Bury Your Head in the Sand appeared first on Futurism.| Futurism
Recent research finds large swathes of the Amazon are releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than they are absorbing, in a worrying sign that the planet's greatest carbon sink could turn into a carbon producer, hindering efforts to slow global warming.| www.abc.net.au
The Earth Anomaly – climate change, global warming, and ecological and environmental (E&E) degradation of land – presents a complex existential crisis for mankind. Based on field studies in tropical [...] Read More... from Peatlogy in tropical peatland: A new transdisciplinary science The post <strong>Peatlogy in tropical peatland:</strong> A new transdisciplinary science appeared first on Research Outreach.| Research Outreach
What the oil industry won’t tell you: fossil fuel smog is killing almost 100,000 Americans a year. In the UK mortality estimates range from 29,000 to 43,000. From UCL and University of Birmingham, Dr. Karn Vohra on the real cost of gas and oil in the USA. Few of us could name the third biggest greenhouse gas. The ins-and-outs of ozone and global warming with Professor Bill Collins from University of Reading. Plus: the hot state of Pakistan with Adil Najam and a new climate song “Hot Night...| RADIO ECOSHOCK
August 2025 was the 3rd warmest August on record behind 2023/2024. 2025 is likely to become the 3rd warmest year on record. ENSO trends towards La Niña.| Berkeley Earth
Water loss on land adds to rising seas: global drying with gravity satellite expert Jay Famiglietti. Is this planet actually a living cooperative? Explore with science journalist Ferris Jabr. Expect abrupt shifts in big systems, from ocean currents to ice – new science led by Sjoerd Terpstra. Three interviews – let’s get busy.| RADIO ECOSHOCK
By Les Levidow. Reposted with thanks from the Ecologist A basic contradiction runs through UK climate policy. The government accepts that oil and gas extraction will increase, and that domestic uses will increase. It even promotes more airports and roads, thus intensifying climate vandalism. And yet ministers claim that their policy favours clean energy for […]| People and Nature
August 2025 Monthly Report Press Briefing – Wednesday, September 17 at 8:00 AM PDT After a brief summer pause, Berkeley Earth resumes its Monthly Press Briefing Series with the latest global temperature analysis and climate insights from our August 2025 Temperature Update. Each month, our science team presents independent, open-access climate data to help contextualize […]| Berkeley Earth
A coat of white paint, combined with a few other simple design strategies, could help keep Britain’s homes cooler, cheaper to run and better prepared for the climate changes and high energy prices expected in the decades ahead.| Study Finds
New study warns Arctic and Antarctic geoengineering projects would fail to stop ice loss, carrying huge costs and dangerous unintended consequences.| Study Finds
An aging Earth, like an aging body, is increasingly vulnerable to heat’s fatal accidents.| The MIT Press Reader
Politicians have an agenda when they bring up forestry management or a Jewish space laser. They're trying to change the subject from fossil-fuel-driven climate change.| Los Angeles Times
In the largest study of its kind, scientists have accurately documented the massive change in animal morphology over the last 1,000 years, with domesticated animals growing larger across the board and their wild relatives becoming smaller. It underlines the true impact of one species in particular…| New Atlas
Two Tasmanian experts with strange and shocking discoveries on the new emerging Continent, down at the bottom of the world. Dr. Edward Doddridge reports on impacts of abrupt Antarctic sea ice loss. Dr. Matt King, Director at the Australian Centre for Excellence in …| RADIO ECOSHOCK
As we extend into screen life, we build a digital body. What is this techno-hybrid being you have become? French intellectual Paul Virilio, author of “The Information Bomb” and “The Administration of Fear” is our witness, along with guest John David Ebert. With …| RADIO ECOSHOCK
One of America’s most eminent climate scientists, Dr. Michael MacCracken says: don’t close your ears to Geoengineering. Mike speaks with UK videographer and climate journalist Nick Breeze, in a May 2025 YouTube interview. With Nick’s permission, hear it now. At the end, find other points of view – plus a new song from Radio Ecoshock: “Too Late Times”.| RADIO ECOSHOCK
Young people experience high rates of climate anxiety. Some channel their worries into action, often through advocacy work.| Los Angeles Times
“Fossil fuels — BAD! Green energy — GOOD!” This is the sum total of left-wing ideas on the subject, no matter how much “science” they claim to justify their prej…| The Other McCain
July 2025 was the 3rd warmest July on record behind 2023 and 2024. 2025 is likely to become the third warmest year on record. ENSO neutral persists.| Berkeley Earth
Eight pending California clean air rules were expected to prevent 11,000 premature deaths and provide $116 billion in health benefits over three decades.| Los Angeles Times
Temperature – Like most locations globally, New Jersey has seen increases in annual and seasonal temperatures in recent decades. New Jersey’s annual temperatures have risen by approximately 4 °F since 1900, roughly twice the global (over land and ocean surface) average and about 1.1 times the global over land average. This warming trend is expected to continue with further climate change, leading to increased heat-stress-related health conditions, especially among vulnerable populations;...| Center for Urban Policy Research - CUPR
Hundreds of millions of people suffer as wildfire smoke fills cities. New science reveals what is in that smoke, from heavy metals to exotic chemicals – leading to brain damage and early death. Toxic smoke: analysis and interviews with experts in this special …| RADIO ECOSHOCK
Extreme heat and heavy rains amplify one another: a new conversation with “Earth systems nerd” Jan Umsonst in Germany. Jan explains why – with new science. Alex covers breaking science on extremes happening now: fires, flash floods and record smashing heat around the world, with audio from David Spratt, John Betts, and Jonathan Gourley.| RADIO ECOSHOCK
‘While outside of Lahaul, you may hear about what global warming is, in Lahaul, you can see its impacts.’| Scroll.in
Review by Simon Pirani of Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change, by Friederike Otto (Greystone Books, 2025). Republished, with thanks, from the Ecologis…| People and Nature
Agricultural workers are toiling in the state's worst heat wave this year, amid questions about the state's commitment to ensure their safety.| Los Angeles Times
With little public debate, state lawmakers passed a complex energy bill that upended how most Californians are billed for electricity.| Los Angeles Times
Outbreaks from ocean pathogens that can be deadly to marine life and even threaten humans are more frequent in overheated waters.| Inside Climate News
395 volunteers met with 51 lawmakers or their representatives in 26 states last week, pushing for greater legislative efforts to address climate change| eJewishPhilanthropy
The Climate Council has the details of The Australian’s latest attempt to delude its readers. The Australian is back at it, skewing the facts and publishing harmful misinformation on climate change. We’ve previously debunked their claims of a “pause in warming” here. Their latest claim, that Arctic seas ice melt has stabilised, is flat out […]| Science or not?
At Open Mind, Tamino has a masterful post in which he shows quite clearly that there has been no “pause” or “hiatus” in the rate of global temperature increase since at least the 1970s: It’s the Trend, Stupid Posted on January 20, 2015| Both NASA and NOAA report 2014 as the hottest year on record. Despite the […]| Science or not?
Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.| www.nytimes.com
Until the state bridges the gap between climate goals and equitable policy, California's lofty environmental vision will continue to rest on the shoulders of the most vulnerable.| Los Angeles Times
The AMOC may collapse by mid-century—and we may be seeing the first signs now. What happens next could reshape our civilisation.| Age of Transformation
May 2025 was the 2nd warmest May on record behind 2024. The chance of record warmth in 2025 has declined to 5%. An ENSO neutral condition persists and is expected to continue throughout the summer. The post June 2025 Temperature Update appeared first on Berkeley Earth.| Berkeley Earth
June 2025 Monthly Report Press Briefing – Thursday, July 10 at 8:00 AM PDT Berkeley Earth continues its Monthly Press Briefing Series with a new session offering the most recent global temperature data and climate insights from June 2025. In our continued commitment to monthly climate reporting, Berkeley Earth’s science team returns with the latest […]| Berkeley Earth
Why are so many California EV charging stations broken? Lax state oversight of state subsidies is one big reason.| Los Angeles Times
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This is very badly done. It is hard to know where to start in critiquing it. The author, Andy Haverly, is said to be at the Rochester Institute of Technology, although another source puts him at Mi…| Nuclear Diner
May 2025 was the 2nd warmest May on record behind 2024. The chance of record warmth in 2025 has declined to 5%. An ENSO neutral condition continues.| Berkeley Earth
During 2021 & 2022, but not as yet planned for this year, one Saturday in the first half of November, a ‘Climate Emergency’ rally has been held in Pump Room Gardens, Leamington Spa, with speakers and banners on the bandstand. Matt Western, the local Labour MP, who likes to show off his green credentials, is … Continue reading "Year Zero"| Warwick Vegan
Cover Image: Researcher Gonzalo Bravo working on photo-quadrats in Argentina’s kelp forest. Image: Mariano Rodriguez. The Mission Blue Kelp Initiative is a partnership with The Plum Foundation to support the conservation and protection of kelp forests in Hope Spots around the world. Given the ecological significance of kelp forests, this partnership prioritizes the protection of [...]Read More...| Mission Blue
The House took a trio of votes this week targeting California’s decades-old authority to enforce its own environmental standards, setting the stage for a significant standoff in the U.S. Senate.| Los Angeles Times
California's Imperial Irrigation District is preparing to pay growers to temporarily stop watering hay crops to ease strains on the Colorado River.| Los Angeles Times
State lawmakers implored community members to hasten Aliso Canyon's closure by consuming less gas and turning to electric appliances.| Los Angeles Times
California climate scientist and Weather West blogger Daniel Swain covers the latest U.S. purge of weather and climate science. But first, a new public health study about your body. How much heat before lasting damage kicks in? From the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard Dr. Robert Meade on how heat kills.| RADIO ECOSHOCK
President Trump's administration, with help from the Republican-led Congress, may pull the state's ability to set its own fuel-efficiency rules.| Los Angeles Times
At least on social media, it’s become common to see ChatGPT and other large-language model writing tools* described as “the plagiarism tool that’s burning down the planet”. This is, I have to admit…| Scientist Sees Squirrel
2023 saw record high temperatures and record low sea ice extent. It's clear that climate change is accelerating.| Collapse Musings
Newsom energy package sparks tug of war in final hours of California legislative session.| Los Angeles Times
About 19 positions will be cut, including those in offices focused on technology policy and diversity, equity and inclusion.| www.nytimes.com
Climate change is behind the windfall gains, and growers are worried about whether they can adapt.| www.nytimes.com
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Supreme Court dismisses a red-state constitutional claim that targeted California's power to fight air pollution.| Los Angeles Times
Frédérik Saltré, Flinders University; Karen A Stockin, Massey University, and Katharina J. Peters, University of Canterbury The world’s oceans are absorbing more than 90% of the excess heat and energy generated by rising greenhouse gas emissions. But, as the oceans keep warming, rising sea temperatures generate unprecedented cascading effects that include the melting of polarContinue reading "Warming oceans might force New Zealand’s sperm and blue whales to shift to cooler southern wa...| Global Ecology @ Flinders
Introduction Last time, I blogged on the recent court case where Meta was caught training their AIs on pirated copyrighted material downloaded from pirate torrent sites. Since then, there was another copyright case judgement against an AI company, a major international political AI conference, discussions of AIs contribution to global warming and I received feedback […]| Stephen Smith's Blog
2024 was warmest year on Earth since direct observations began. In Berkeley Earth's analysis 2024 was 1.62 °C above our 1850-1900 average, making it the second year above 1.5 °C.| Berkeley Earth
Renewable energy sources are growing in popularity and usage. Let IEEE help inform your understanding of climate change and green engineering.| IEEE Innovation at Work
It's ineffective at shaping behavior, and it primarily benefits the wealthy while needlessly adding to the deficit. EVs aren't even good at curbing climate change, and the credit could be stifling better alternatives.| Los Angeles Times
Berkeley Earth is dedicated to advancing the field of climate science by providing open-source, high-resolution datasets that enhance the understanding of local climate dynamics and risks. In keeping with this ethos, today we introduce our forthcoming Climate Model Synthesis project, which aims to address critical gaps in existing climate models by applying bias correction and […]| Berkeley Earth
An article about Intergenerational Foundation research investigating how the cost of spending on essentials falls hardest on the young.| Intergenerational Foundation
On the trail of a my next film.| Vagabond Journey – Around The World Travel
The holiday season provides a visible and tangible surge in trash, including food, wrapping paper, aluminum and shipping boxes.| Los Angeles Times
The Biden administration added to the Southern California monument that was established by President Obama in 2014, and also expanded the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument in Northern California.| Los Angeles Times
Like it or not we are all part of our great big beautiful planet! Unfortunately, the topic of global warming …Continue reading →| Powder Room Diaries
Image is from Pexels It might just be me, but during the summer season, you get less of an appetite, and I feel that’s one of the reasons for food waste in Maltese households. In food production, w…| Mybookworld24
We need to stop arguing and start working together on a crucial climate solution.| Los Angeles Times
Our climate is changing rapidly, but not for the first time. There may be lessons we can learn from the last period of rapid change, known as the Younger Dryas.| Historic Mysteries
Climate change is increasing eczema prevalence worldwide. What natural disasters are causing this? Science has the answers.| Scienceline
It’s the end of the world as we know it - but no one. it seems, has told Al Gore. “Politics has futurism coiled within its rhetoric – the politician generally promises a better, brighter future, so long as you vote for him or her. It is rare that a politician will say, ‘Don’t bother to vote, it’s all doomed, just go home and wait for the end.’ Yet a politician can sometimes afford to be a qualified eschatologist, and such optimistic pessimism can even take them a long way – as...| Arcfinity
A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times and other institutional media proclaimed that “tree rings” (sometimes “ancient tree rings”) had “shown” that 2023 was t…| Climate Audit
I have to admit, part of me was pleased when I saw I won a national award in the portrait division of the American Society of Media Photographers annual contest. But I was a little reluctant to celebrate the award, as it is a bit unsettling getting an award for a disaster photo. The […]| View Nola Blog
The weather has been so weirdly warm this month that I never got around to a Friday Notes for February, so I’m extending the month. Call it a leap year “plus one”. Truth is, IR…| Logos con carne
My final post in 2023 was about growth curves. It focused on the difference between geometric growth versus exponential growth — which turns out to be not much — and compared them to polynomial gro…| Logos con carne
It's understandable to feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of the climate crisis, but fear not – there are plenty of actionable steps you can take to make a positive impact.| MarineBio Conservation Society
Before you start reading, open worldometers.info and take a screenshot (this will give you the world population right now; we’ll come back to it later). Our world is facing enormous environmental c…| The Logic of Science
Scientists are already busy trying to understand whether 2023’s off-the-charts heat is a sign that global warming is accelerating.| www.nytimes.com
The Wall Street Journal’s Saturday Essay by Steven E. Koonin, titled Climate Science is Not Settled follows WSJ’s standard playbook. Have a so-called expert either deny the science or a…| Global Warming: Man or Myth?
Saturday night I sent the Tweet you see below because, once again, there are people who are criticizing Dr. Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” research that shows today’s climate…| Global Warming: Man or Myth?
J.P. Abraham, J. Cook, J. T. Fasullo, P. H. Jacobs, S. A. Mandia, and D. A Nuccitelli, Review of the Consensus and Asymmetric Quality of Research on Human-Induced Climate Change, Cosmopolis, Vol. 2…| Global Warming: Man or Myth?
Everything is connected, and everything is changing By Kate Marvel on December 30, 2019A state of emergency was declared on November 11, 2019 and residents in the Sydney area were warned of “…| The Spiral Turns
California is set to approve regulations for transforming wastewater into pure drinking water. Experts say the highly treated water isn’t 'toilet-to-tap.'| Los Angeles Times
It is an indisputable scientific fact that the average global sea level is increasing. Nevertheless, numerous memes and posts on the internet claim to have photographic proof that sea level rise (a…| The Logic of Science
This is going to be a relatively short post because I only have one simple point that I want to make. Namely, “balance” does not mean presenting conspiracy theories and nonsense alongside facts as …| The Logic of Science
The headline: The ENSO year2019–2020 was the second hottest year on record. The ENSO cycle typically does not follow a calendar year, with El Niño and La Niña cycles often starting around late spri…| Charted Territory
The only thing that seems unchanging is how the experts get climate change wrong, do we feel lucky?| HikingArtist.com by Frits Ahlefeldt
Calculations from the World Meteorological Organization suggest that July was the hottest month on record. Throughout the month, heat records were broken across…| FiveThirtyEight
