In the UK, a dangerous escalation in the criminalization of climate protests
Last week, record prison sentences were handed down to five British climate activists for organizing a multi-day protest on the M25, the motorway that goes around London. Four of them received sentences of four years each. The fifth, Roger Hallam, got a five-year sentence. These sentences are an alarming escalation…
More than 47,000 people died in Europe last year due to heat, report says
More than 47,000 people died in Europe due to scorching temperatures in 2023, with countries in the region’s south hit the hardest, according to a report by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) published on Monday.
Evacuations ordered near Athens as Greek authorities try to contain wildfires
A deadly and fast-spreading wildfire tore through several neighborhoods close to the Greek capital of Athens on Monday, triggering a multi-pronged rescue effort coordinated with European allies. Emergency crews were extinguishing smaller hotspots amid an “improving” situation, the national fire service reported Tuesday, after the main blaze began Sunday afternoon near the…
Urban Heat Hot Spots in 65 Cities
More than half of the global population and about 80% of the U.S. population lives in cities — and faces higher heat risks. The entire planet is warming due to human-caused climate change, but the built environment further amplifies both average temperatures and extreme heat in cities.
Heat wave in West incinerates temperature records across region, killing dozens
A weeklong heat wave in the West smashed over 50 all-time temperature records. See some of the most notable ones, including 124 degrees in Palm Springs
How record-breaking Hurricane Beryl is a sign of a warming world
Hurricane Beryl has wreaked havoc in parts of the Caribbean – and put the role of climate change under the spotlight.
Youth activists win ‘unprecedented’ climate settlement in Hawaii
State’s transport department given a 2045 deadline to fully decarbonize and achieve zero emissions under agreement
New research on Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier could reshape sea-level rise predictionsGLA
A team of scientists say seawater flowing underneath and into gaps in the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is contributing to the melting of the massive ice formation — a potentially ominous sign of the coming effects of human-driven climate change from the world’s widest glacier. These areas of the glacier…
June 2024 update: La Niña likely by late summer
After a year of dominance, El Niño released its hold on the tropical Pacific in May 2024, according to NOAA’s latest update. El Niño—the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), our planet’s single largest natural source of year-to-year variations in seasonal climate—has been disrupting climate in the tropics…
In the Arctic, Beavers Are Climate Winners. Should We Let Them Take Over?
The voracious builders are reshaping the tundra, and generating controversy about whether their presence is cause for concern—or hope—in a warming world.
