Trump Megabill Unravels Previous Climate Gains and Threatens U.S. Green Manufacturing Jobs
Amidst the unprecedented cuts to Medicare, SNAP food assistance, and tax cuts for the wealthy that is expected to add over $4 trillion to the national debt, President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) also eliminates financial incentives for green energy projects at all levels—both industrial and consumer—threatening to not only undo the […]
‘Vigorous Melting’ has been Discovered Deep Beneath Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’
Detailed satellite scans of a key glacier in West Antarctica have renewed warnings that a combination of meltwater and seawater flowing deep underneath the ice is causing “vigorous melting” at the base of the Thwaites Glacier—nicknamed the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ because of its potential to raise sea levels by ten feet if it were to fail entirely—at a […]
This Scale Goes up to Six: The Case for Revising Hurricane Categories
A proposal to amend the current five-level scale used to measure the severity of hurricanes to include a sixth category for the most powerful of tropical cyclones has been put forward, as a method of improving the classification—and thus the communication of—the destructiveness of a given storm, especially as we face the rise of increasingly […]
Half of the World’s Economies Started Seeing Declines in Fossil Fuel Use at Least Five Years Ago
Half of the world’s economies are at least five years past their peak fossil fuel usage for power generation, according to a new study, with 107 of the countries surveyed burning less coal, oil and gas to produce electricity than they were between five and 23 years ago, resulting in a 20 percent decline in […]