Color-coded map which displays global temperature anomaly data from 2014. Photo credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Center. On Friday the US government bodies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics […]
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Color-coded map which displays global temperature anomaly data from 2014. Photo credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Center. On Friday the US government bodies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics […]
Pope Francis. Photo credit: Korean Culture and Information Service. By guest contributor Malee Oot Since being elected to the position of Supreme Pontiff in March, 2013, Argentine-born Pope Francis has shaken things […]
The Crescent Dunes concentrated solar project in Nevada, US. Photo credit: Matt Hintsa via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen After two years of declining investment, 2014 became the year when renewables kicked back and […]
Photo credit: John Rushing / Al Jazeera America. An Al Jazeera America documentary premiering in the US tomorrow will highlight the safety issues for the workers at the Bakken Shale formation located […]
An ice stupa under construction; up to five stupas will be built this winter but villagers hope eventually to have 80. Photo credit: Ice Stupa Artificial Glacier Project. By Joydeep Gupta, China […]
Photo credit: Gerry Machen – via Flickr. By Anders Lorenzen As the UK government desperately tries to attract shale gas companies to the country by offering them generous tax breaks, David Cameron […]
Extreme weather events across the planet became one of the dominating news stories of 2014. Photo credit: Reuters / China Daily. 2014 literally started with a storm. ‘Dreadful’, ‘heartbreaking’ and ‘devastating’ were […]
It’s been quite a year for environmental news. While you wait for the new year to kick in here is a list of the 12 most important stories we have reported this […]
Photo credit: Adam Kamran via Flickr. By guest contributor Matt Owens This is a counter argument by Matt Owens from Fairfax Climate Change to the opinion article: Is the falling oil price […]
By Dr. James Hansen In the “Lima Accord”, adopted a week ago in reasonably congenial negotiations in Peru, nearly 200 nations agreed to reduce their fossil fuel emissions from burning of coal, […]