A proposal to reduce the 28-country bloc’s net carbon emissions to zero by 2050 failed when eastern countries that are heavily dependent on coal raised objections.
Tag: Carbon Dioxide
Soaring Temperatures Speed Up Spring Thaw on Greenland’s Ice Sheet
Temperatures in Greenland have been as much as 40 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, helping fuel a pulse of melting across much of the ice sheet surface.
What Biden’s Climate Plan Shows About the Democratic Field
Also this week, leisure travel on a warming planet.
Copenhagen Wants to Show How Cities Can Fight Climate Change
The Danish capital wants to be carbon neutral six years from now. Its plan involves wind, recycling and a very innovative ski hill.
U.S. Midwest Freezes, Australia Burns: This Is the Age of Weather Extremes
Numbing cold hit parts of the United States as wildfires raged in Australia’s record-breaking heat. Here’s the climate change connection.
New Diet Guidelines to Benefit People and the Planet: More Greens for All, Less Meat for Some
A report in the medical journal The Lancet recommends cutting food waste and consumption of red meat, especially among people who eat a lot of it.
Warming in Arctic Raises Fears of a ‘Rapid Unraveling’ of the Region
The Arctic has been warmer in the last five years than at any time since records began in 1900, a report from a United States scientific agency found.
Trump Team Pushes Fossil Fuels at Climate Talks. Protests Erupt, but Allies Emerge, Too.
While the official United States stance brought scorn from environmentalists, there are signs that the administration is picking up some powerful allies.
Matter: The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything.
In some ways, the planet’s worst mass extinction — 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period — may parallel climate change today.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accelerate Like a ‘Speeding Freight Train’ in 2018
Accelerating emissions are putting the world on track to face some of the most severe consequences of global warming sooner than expected, scientists said.