by Naseem S. Miller, The Journalist’s Resource Dr. Renee Salas sees the effects of climate change in the patients she treats in the emergency department at Massachusetts General Hospital. “Asthma flares, heart attacks, heatstroke, mental health crises; I can put a Band-Aid on these problems but then I send my patients back out
World Wildlife Fund is exposing the environmental impact behind our favorite foods. How much do the supply chains for beef, coffee and paper each contribute to the climate crisis? The World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Market Institute is attempting to answer that question with a collection of reports on 10 globally traded commodities, detailing
A dramatic new offer from the plenary floor at COP 27, in which rich countries would immediately set up a loss and damage fund in exchange for a pledge to peak greenhouse gas emissions before 2025 and phase down oil and gas as well as coal, may have changed the tone and salvaged
Lane V. Erickson/Shutterstock Mathieu Blondeel, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick The burning of fossil fuels caused 86% of all CO₂ emissions during the past ten years. Despite being the primary culprits of global heating, coal, oil and gas were barely mentioned in the official texts of previous UN climate change summits. That
Oil and gas demand has levelled off, renewable energy costs are falling, and electric vehicles can dominate major markets by 2030, but countries will still need “unprecedented” emission reductions this decade to keep the worst of climate change under control, according to reports by three international agencies released yesterday and today. “The world
Historically, carbon dioxide emissions from transport have been a globally discussed and analyzed problem. The adoption of flex fuel vehicles designed to run ethanol–gasoline blends is important to mitigate these emissions. The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of the ethanol–gasoline price ratio on different vehicle models, and discuss
New research from Florida tracks carbon dioxide and methane emissions from human-created waterways. With sand and muck trickling out of her equipment and ferocious Floridian Sun scorching her canoe, Audrey Goeckner was about ready to give up on her research project and possibly even her University of Florida Ph.D. The freshwater ecosystem ecologist
New climate change minister Sherry Rehman has given her assurance that Pakistan will remain serious about conservation Wajahat Shah, 32, is a labourer at a government-run tree plantation, spread over 3,000 hectares of army land in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. “Ten days after the government announced the lockdown due to coronavirus, I had
The federal cabinet administered what one critic called a “slap in the face” to climate science with a decision today to approve the massive Bay du Nord oil and gas megaproject off the Newfoundland coast. The $9.4-billion project led by Norwegian state fossil Equinor is expected to extract 300 million to one billion
Canada’s success will depend on how — and how quickly — the government puts those climate policies in place Dave Sawyer is the principal economist at the Canadian Climate Institute. Dale Beugin is the vice-president of research at the Canadian Climate Institute. Canada’s new 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP) is a comprehensive, ambitious