Latest Climate change News
Climate activist Greta Thunberg won't be school striking after graduation but vows to still protest
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg said Friday she will no longer be able to skip classes as a way to draw attention to climate change because she is graduating from high school. Thunberg, 20, started staging Friday protests outside the Swedish...
Editorial Roundup: Kentucky
Ashland Daily Independent. June 3, 2023. Editorial: New climate change study alarming Despite the amount of evidence showing how much danger we are in from climate change, it seems it’s difficult to get moving on a solution. We hope the most recent...
Virginia regulators advance Youngkin plan to leave climate initiative he calls ineffective
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia regulators voted on Wednesday to advance Gov. Glenn Youngkin's plan to withdraw from a multistate carbon cap-and-trade program. Virginia spent years under Democratic administrations moving toward participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative,...
Climate activists deflate tires of more than 100 SUVs in Denmark's capital
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A group of climate activists claimed responsibility on Wednesday for deflating the tires of sport utility vehicles in Denmark's capital. More than 100 vehicles were vandalized, police said. The Tyre Extinguishers said on its website that “we are...
UAE defends Big Oil's role at UN climate summit it will host
BERLIN (AP) — A senior United Arab Emirates official says the Gulf nation wants the U.N. climate summit it's hosting later this year to deliver “game-changing results” for international efforts to curb global warming, but doing so will require having the fossil fuel industry at the table. ...
Biden orders 20-year ban on oil, gas drilling to protect tribal sites outside New Mexico's Chaco
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Hundreds of square miles in New Mexico will be withdrawn from further oil and gas production for the next 20 years on the outskirts of Chaco Culture National Historical Park that tribal communities consider sacred, the Biden administration ordered Friday. The...
Brazil's Congress weakens pro-environment ministries in a rejection of Lula
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Congress has stripped powers away from the country's new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples and Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, both led by women environmentalists. It's a rejection of the priorities of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who took...
Government body warns of increased health threats from climate change in Germany
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's disease control agency warned Thursday that rising temperatures due to global warming will increase the likelihood of heat stroke, vector-borne illnesses and other health risks in the country. The Robert Koch Institute said lung diseases from forest fires...
Earth is 'really quite sick now' and in danger zone in nearly all ecological ways, study says
Earth has pushed past seven out of eight scientifically established safety limits and into “the danger zone,” not just for an overheating planet that's losing its natural areas, but for the well-being of people living on it, according to a new study. The study looks not just at...
Triple-whammy of cyclones, a 1-in-200-year event, drove Italy's deadly flooding, scientists say
ROME (AP) — A rare, triple-whammy of cyclones drove the deadly flooding that devastated much of northern Italy this month, but scientists said Wednesday that climate change doesn't seem to be to blame for the intense rainfall. Using computer simulations and past observations, a...
