New Study Projects Climate-Driven Flooding for Thousands of New Jersey Homes
Inside Climate News
APRIL 3, 2025
Sea-level rise threatens coastal communities even if global emissions drop.
Arctic Report Card 2024: How Did the Region Fare? Ask the Caribou
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 11, 2024
Shrinking Greenland ice sheet and mountain glaciers also contribute to accelerating sea level rise. Mountain glacier and ice sheet contributions to global sea level rise has been a growing proportion with each passing decade. in Arc2024 ).
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Yes, Virginia, There ARE Federal Climate Laws.
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Congress also found that these processescould contribute to significant global warming, altering world climate patterns and increase global sea levels. For instance, naval bases are generally located at sea level, and thus structures are at risk from sea level rise.)
DEP Releases 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update; 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 25, 2025
Shapiro's 'Lightning' Energy Plan To Lower Energy Costs, Create Jobs, Protect Pennsylvania From Global Energy Instability [PaEN] -- PUC Hearing On Data Center Growth Impacts Finds 30-40% Of Utility Demand Could Be From Data Centers; Concerns About Stranded Costs; Major Commitments To Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Energy Use [PaEN] -- Gov.
The Infuriating Story Told by the Corporate and National Carbon Emissions Data
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 18, 2025
The Carbon Majors database includes emissions traced to investor-owned companies like ExxonMobil, BP, and Peabody; state-owned entities like SaudiAramco and Gazprom; and a handful of nation-states with dedicated fossil fuel and cement production, presently or historically, like China, Former Soviet Union.
These Climate Policy Rollbacks Just Made Our Financial Future a Lot Riskier
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 17, 2025
These can manifest as decreased demand for products like gasoline, or policy changes that limit the amount of carbon emissions a company can emit, to give just two examples. The third is transition risk, or losses to fossil fuel-intensive industries resulting from the worlds transition to renewable energy sources.
Planned EV Battery Plant Threatens Uncontacted Tribe in Indonesia
Yale E360
JUNE 26, 2025
Wind Turbines: New Research Aims to Prevent Deaths FORESTS Cambodian Forest Defenders at Risk for Exposing Illegal Logging OPINION The ‘Green’ Aviation Fuel That Would Increase Carbon Emissions CONSERVATION Out of the Wild: How A.I. Push on Seabed Mining End Global Consensus on Oceans?
Why Congress Must Block a Liability Waiver for the Fossil Fuel Industry
Union of Concerned Scientists
APRIL 21, 2025
1) People are feeling the impacts of climate change and footing the bill The impending arrival of Danger Season is a stark reminder that climate change impacts are already devastating communities worldwide, intensifying many kinds of extreme weather events, driving sea level rise, and harming human health.
City Lights Extend Growing Season for Urban Trees
Yale E360
JUNE 27, 2025
Wind Turbines: New Research Aims to Prevent Deaths FORESTS Cambodian Forest Defenders at Risk for Exposing Illegal Logging OPINION The ‘Green’ Aviation Fuel That Would Increase Carbon Emissions CONSERVATION Out of the Wild: How A.I. Push on Seabed Mining End Global Consensus on Oceans?
Discarded U.K. Clothing Dumped in Protected Wetlands in Ghana
Yale E360
JUNE 18, 2025
Wind Turbines: New Research Aims to Prevent Deaths FORESTS Cambodian Forest Defenders at Risk for Exposing Illegal Logging OPINION The ‘Green’ Aviation Fuel That Would Increase Carbon Emissions CONSERVATION Out of the Wild: How A.I. Push on Seabed Mining End Global Consensus on Oceans?
126 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 9, 2025
Million In Solar For All Funding From Self-Imposed Freeze [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front/WPSU: Solar Power Supporters In PA Say Outlook Is Positive, Even As Policies Could Change Under President -- City Of Reading Begins Energy Efficiency, Solar Energy Project To Save $13.3
Day After Earth Day, the Climate Pope, and the 89%
Legal Planet
APRIL 23, 2025
One such survey involved 130,000 people in 125 countries, which account for 96% of the worlds carbon emissions, and was published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Crucially, however, they thought only a minority of other people 43% would be willing to do the same.
Amid Devastation in Gaza, a Deepening Environmental Wound
Yale E360
JUNE 6, 2025
Wind Turbines: New Research Aims to Prevent Deaths FORESTS Cambodian Forest Defenders at Risk for Exposing Illegal Logging OPINION The ‘Green’ Aviation Fuel That Would Increase Carbon Emissions CONSERVATION Out of the Wild: How A.I. Push on Seabed Mining End Global Consensus on Oceans?
Investors Need to Know the Full Scope of Corporate Carbon Emissions
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 23, 2023
They’re called Scope 3 emissions, and they are key to understanding the big picture of a company’s impact on the environment. First, let me explain the three “scopes” of carbon emissions. Scope 1 emissions come from power plants, oil rigs and other sources directly owned or controlled by a company.
From Research to Action: The Growing Impact of Attribution Science
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 7, 2023
By comparing these two data sets, scientists can determine the probability that human activities are responsible for observed changes in temperature, precipitation patterns, sea level rise, and other climate change indicators. Climate source attribution studies can inform strategies to reduce carbon emissions.
Climate Adaptation Moves Toward Center Stage
Legal Planet
JULY 28, 2022
billion to help communities deal with risks from heat waves, sea-level rise, and flooding. There’s always been concern that talking about climate adaptation might mislead people into thinking that cutting carbon emissions isn’t urgent. The bill includes $1.5 billion for forest and wildfire resilience; $5.2
Big Oil’s Denial and Delay Is Endangering Our Future
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 16, 2023
In the 1960s and 1970s , oil companies such as ExxonMobil and Shell conducted research on the potential risks of climate change, including the potential for rising sea levels and increased global temperatures. 1) It starts with tracking emissions. We need strong disclosure processes for tracking and reporting carbon emissions.
Climate Policy in India
Legal Planet
JUNE 13, 2022
That’s understandable in terms of India’s current carbon emissions, which are now only a quarter of China’s. But given the growth of the economy, carbon emissions were projected to continuing growing steadily through 2030. Mumbai is on a peninsula and faces severe risks from sea level rise.
Cultural Heritage is a Human Right. Climate Change is Fast Eroding It.
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
By recognizing and documenting the threat of climate change to cultural heritage, we add one more important layer of rights-based obligations to hold nations accountable for reducing carbon emissions. Cultural heritage is under immediate and urgent threat from climate change worldwide.
Whales and Lobstermen Have a Common Enemy
Union of Concerned Scientists
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine. Sea levels are rising. The Gulf of Maine Research Institute climate dashboard clearly indicates sea surface temperature anomalies.
Environmentalism and the Supreme Court
Legal Planet
AUGUST 26, 2021
In an opinion by Justice Stevens, the Court held that the threat of sea level rise gave a state government standing to bring the suit. This gave EPA the power to impose limits on carbon emissions by vehicles and industry. UARG involved a regulation that required industry to cut carbon emissions for new facilities.
Building Climate Resilience: The Urgency of Updating the Growth Management Act
Washington Nature
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
As we continue to reduce carbon emissions, we also must ensure we’re supporting building communities that are prepared to face our new climate reality. For instance, transportation accounts for 40 percent of Washington state greenhouse gas emissions. Today, Washington state faces a different landscape than it did 30 years ago.
The Stream, November 5, 2021: List of Contaminants in U.S. Drinking Water Continues to Grow
Circle of Blue
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Rising sea levels in Bangladesh are inundating farmland and contaminating water supplies. “My Al Jazeera reports that Khatun, the villager in Gabura, spends most of her income on medicines for skin diseases many residents suffer from due to water and land contamination from rising sea levels. IN RECENT WATER NEWS.
Arctic Futures: White Shield or Blue Economy
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Total loss of the Greenland ice sheet, for example, would raise sea levels globally by more than 20 feet. The paper sets out an agenda for research into ways to limit glacial ice-sheet deterioration and associated sea level rise. These impacts particularly disrupt the lives and livelihoods of Arctic Indigenous Peoples.
The Electricity Distribution System Can Stay Resilient in Extreme Weather
Union of Concerned Scientists
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Flooding/Sea Level Rise/Storm Surge: Water can physically damage and corrode infrastructure, particularly distribution poles and substations. Wildfires: Fires can damage lines and poles , decreasing capacity of the lines or shutting them down. What is next?
What is the IPCC?
Ocean Conservancy
MARCH 1, 2022
Over the years, these reports have analyzed the research to confirm that global warming is occurring, that humans are the cause and that we need to reduce carbon emissions to address it. The IPCC provides critical insights that can help communities adapt to predicted changes and develop new tools to reduce or sequester carbon.
Building a More Resilient, Just City
Academy of Natural Sciences
JULY 30, 2021
As extreme storms become more ubiquitous, Philadelphia is among numerous cities grappling with flooding issues against the backdrop of aging infrastructure, rising sea levels and more extreme precipitation events. Their work is an important part of the City’s long term commitment to reduce citywide carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
Future costs of emissions three times higher than assumed finds study
A Greener Life
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
The US puts a dollar figure on the damage caused by carbon emissions, but new research finds it’s too low, meaning the benefits of reducing emissions are being underestimated. Effectively, SCC indicates what price society should be willing to pay now to avoid the future damage of today’s carbon emissions.
On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare
Environmental Progress
JUNE 29, 2020
Here are some facts few people know: Humans are not causing a “sixth mass extinction” The Amazon is not “the lungs of the world” Climate change is not making natural disasters worse Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003 The amount of land we use for meat — humankind’s biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska (..)
20 New Stories - Real Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 5, 2021
Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4
How Does Carbon Pollution Impact Our Ocean
Ocean Conservancy
MARCH 27, 2023
Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use and land development have heated the atmosphere and ocean, leading to sea level rise, stronger storms, fisheries’ moving poleward, and widespread loss of sea ice and glaciers. We’ve heard so much about the effects of climate change on our ocean.
3 Questions to Ask After the New IPCC Climate Report
Ocean Conservancy
MARCH 2, 2022
Do you live in a coastal community at risk from sea level rise? You can also look at how your own workplace contributes to climate change and advocate for changes that reduce carbon emissions. This is an opportunity to tell your story about why climate change is important to you as their constituent. 3) What can I do?
Analysis: Leading scientist accuse Guardian of misinformation as Danish researchers highlight concerns over potential collapse of the AMOC current system
A Greener Life
JULY 30, 2023
The AMOC plays a crucial role in regulating global climate patterns and has a significant impact on weather conditions and sea levels along the Atlantic coastlines. Furthermore, sea levels along the coasts might rise due to the altered ocean circulation patterns, posing a threat to vulnerable coastal communities.
Stranded Assets v. the Social Cost of Carbon: The Tortured Economics of Climate Change
Vermont Law
OCTOBER 3, 2016
What they mean is that much like the housing crisis, where investment firms purposefully overlooked the poor quality of their investments which lead to collapse, fossil fuel based industry is purposefully overlooking the need to reduce carbon emissions. This theory is called the “Social Cost of Carbon” or SCC. [4].
The Future is : Gender Inclusion in Climate Crisis Solutions
Vermont Law
APRIL 7, 2022
Countless research has warned of the climate catastrophe that will happen if anthropogenic carbon emissions continue to rise: sea-level rise will accelerate, tropical storms will occur in greater number with greater severity, and droughts will grow harsher and longer. (1)
Has the 10th Circuit Paved the Way for More Clean Air Act Mobile Source Citizen Suits?
Environment Next
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
auto sector carbon emissions) was to address the less-direct causal chain between atmospheric greenhouse gases and sea level rise in Massachusetts. It did not apply to UPHE’s claims that tailpipe emissions harmed its members’ health. .
The limits of adaptation
Science Blogs
AUGUST 29, 2017
This embryonic sector is less interested in mitigating global warming, a certain degree of which is now baked into our ecosystem over the next few decades regardless of what we do about our carbon emissions, than in helping communities and corporations anticipate the effects of that warming and minimize the consequences.
Climatology: The Science of Global Weather Systems over the Long Term
Environmental Science
JULY 22, 2018
It describes fluctuations between the sea level atmospheric pressure from the areas known as the Azores High and the Icelandic Low although these are not set in stone (8). Cutting down tree canopies without replacing it passively increases climate change by the simple fact that trees and other vegetation are carbon sinks (15).
Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean
HumanNature
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Most SIDS have made a very small contribution to the overall global emissions that cause climate change, contributing less than 1% of global carbon emissions (Mead, 2021) yet are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
Ivy Protocol x UNDO: An Ancient Solution to Modern Climate Crisis?—?Enhanced Rock Weathering
Ivy Protocol
AUGUST 23, 2023
For example, Mangrove ecosystems (current Ivy’s focus) rely on a balance of atmospheric and oceanic carbon to sequester carbon effectively. Thus, the effectiveness of mangrove (re)establishment hinges on the success of CDR strategies, highlighting their interconnected relationship.
No Word on Climate from Presidential Candidates Stumping in New Hampshire Amid Record Global Heat
Union of Concerned Scientists
JULY 20, 2023
When I met former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, I asked about his clean energy solutions and explained that his predecessor Governor Mike Huckabee spoke at a New Hampshire climate conference I organized in 2007, where he affirmed his support for mandatory limits on carbon emissions.
Climate Change in 2022: Multiple Billion-Dollar Disasters and Unbearable Human Costs
Union of Concerned Scientists
JANUARY 10, 2023
But the science is clear : human-caused global warming is definitely and significantly increasing the odds of severe and once-rare extreme events , alongside driving slow-onset disasters—like sea level rise and the loss of major ice sheets and glaciers —and raising the risk of major tipping points. It’s an emergency !’ (You
Anticipating the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s ESG Disclosure Rules and Guidelines: How to Stay Ahead of the Game
Law and Environment
AUGUST 17, 2023
The proposal requires companies to report information related to “Scope 1” direct carbon emissions (think fuel use and greenhouse gases), “Scope 2” indirect carbon emissions (e.g., purchased energy and electricity), and for some companies to report on information related to “Scope 3” carbon emissions (i.e.,
Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching. We are already seeing the depletion of the ice caps and rising sea levels.
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